LibGuides: Anti-Racism Resources: Whiteness, White Privilege, and Allyship

Books at Centralia

Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad; Robin DiAngelo (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9781728209807
Publication Date: 2020
The New York Times and USA Today bestseller! This eye-opening book challenges you to do the essential work of unpacking your biases, and helps white people take action and dismantle the privilege within themselves so that you can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of color, and in turn, help other white people do better, too.
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo; Michael Eric Dyson (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9780807047415
Publication Date: 2018
The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.

Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence (2005) and adapted by Ellen Tuzzolo (2016)

Seeing White
Just what is going on with white people? Police shootings of unarmed African Americans. Acts of domestic terrorism by white supremacists. Scene on Radio host and producer John Biewen took a deep dive into these questions, along with an array of leading scholars and regular guest Dr. Chenjerai Kumanyika, in this fourteen-part documentary series, released between February and August 2017. The series editor is Loretta Williams.
Teaching While White
Co-created by Jenna Chandler-Ward and Elizabeth Denevi, and joined by contributors seeks to move the conversation forward on how to be consciously, intentionally, anti-racist in the classroom

The Guide to Allyship
An open source starter guide to help you become a more thoughtful and effective ally.
What is Performative Allyship?
"Being an ally means being able to engage, being able to act, and being able to listen." This is why it is so important to be more than a *performative* ally.
10 Steps to Non-Optical Allyship (Vogue)
A word for white people, in two parts by adrienne maree brown
There Is No Such Thing as a ‘White Ally’
by Catherine Pugh. Chapter 1 of the There Is No Such Thing as a “White Ally” Series.
Get involved--SURJ (Showing up for Racial Justice)
SURJ is a national network of groups and individuals working to undermine white supremacy and to work for racial justice. Through community organizing, mobilizing, and education, SURJ moves white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for justice with passion and accountability.