Self-Study: Readings and Media
Investigating Whiteness
Readings and Media
- “Whiteness”: The origins and evolution of “whiteness” in the West
- The Social Construction of Whiteness: Racism by Intent, Racism by Consequence
- Waking Up To Race by White Awake
- There is Honor in The Work: SONG on the Role of White People in The Movement at This Time by Southerners On New Ground
- We Need Solidarity, Not White Guilt, to Fight Racism
- Settler Fragility: Why Settler Privilege is So Hard to Talk About
- White Supremacy Culture Characteristics by Tema Okun
- White Supremacy Culture in Organizations by Tema Okun
- The Social Construction of Whiteness: Racism by Intent, Racism by Consequence
- Ghosted by Allies: Why BIPOC Still Can't Trust White People With Social Justice
- 103 Things White People Can Do For Racial Justice
- 28 Racist Attitudes and Behaviors
- Third World and the Myth of Underdevelopment
-
How Can We Win? Kimberly Jones video
National organizations with more resources on their websites
- Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) National Website
- The Catalyst Project
- AORTA
- Southern Crossroads
- White Noise Collective's list of readings on "Challenging Racism and White Supremacy"
- White Awake
- Citizenship and Social Justice Curriculum
- Syllabus for White People to Educate Themselves
- Crossroads Anti-racism Organizing and Training
- The Injustice Boycott
- Immigrant Enforcement Basic Rights
Indigenous Sovereignty
Organizations in this Region
- Three Sisters Collective
- HOPE (Honor Our Pueblos Existence)
- Tewa Women United
- Pueblo Action Alliance
- The Red Nation
- Indigenous Ways
Readings and Media
- Unsettled (podcast series) by SFAI - "Unsettles what we think we know about Santa Fe and New Mexico's past to help envision a more just future."
- Why New Mexico’s 1680 Pueblo Revolt Is Echoing in 2020 Protests - NY Times
- Native Liberation: The Way Forward by Nick Estes
- When Is An Obelisk Not Just An Obelisk? by Elena Ortiz
- Toppling Monuments to One-Sided History (podcast) - Native America Calling
- Kit Carson: An Indigenous Perspective (webinar)
- White Shell Water Place (book)
Abolition of Police & Prisons
Organizations in this Region
- People Over Private Prisons
- Fight for Our Lives
- Millions for Prisoners NM
- Stop Calling The Police: A Guide for the 505
Readings and Media
General Abolition
- What is Abolition, and Why Do We Need It?
- Is Prison Necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore Might Change Your Mind
- Reimagining Prison
- The Countries Closing their Prisons
- Beyond Reform: Abolishing Prisons (Video)
- Where Incarceration Isn’t the Answer
- Three Reasons Advocates Must Move Beyond Demanding Release for "Non-violent" Offenders
- If Social Distancing is Impossible in Prisons, People Should Be Freed
- Mutual Aid Justice (video)
- Ruth Wilson Gilmore on COVID-19, Decarceration, and Abolition (video)
- Locking People Up Won't Help Combat Sexual Violence
Defunding the Police
- American Police (Podcast)
- The racist roots of American policing: From slave patrols to traffic stops
- 6 reasons why it’s time to defund the police
- Defund the police? Here’s what that really means
- ‘A Fireable Offense.’ Law Enforcement Agencies Grapple With Police Officers’ Involvement in U.S. Capitol Riots
Alternatives to Policing
- American Friends Service Committee, How to talk about community safety beyond policing. (Webinar video)
- Black Parents Explain How to Deal with the Police (Video)
- Reimagining Public Safety | Robert Reich (Video)
- Alternatives to Calling the Police for Domestic Violence Survivors
- There’s Already an Alternative to Calling the Police
- ·These posters can help you picture alternatives to policing
Books
- 1491 by Charles C. Mann
- A People's History of American Empire by Howard Zinn
- Accountability and White Anti-racist Organizing: Stories from our Work by Bonnie Berman Cushing et al.
- An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
- Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism and and the Rise of Racist Nationalism by Harsha Walia
- Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
- How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
- No More Heroes: Grassroots Challenges to the Savior Mentality by Jordan Flaherty
- Not A Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- ¡Presente! Latin@ Immigrant Voices in the Struggle for Racial Justice edited by Cristina Tzintzun, Carlos Perez de Alejo, Armulfo Manriquez
- The Pueblo Revolt by David Roberts
- The Red New Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth by The Red Nation
- The Revolution Will Not Be Funded by Incite! Collective
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- We Do This Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice by Mariame Kaba
- White Fragility by Robin Diangelo
- White Like Me by Tim Wise
- White Shell Water Place edited by F. Richard Sanchez