Resources

Learn and Act for Racial Justice, a two-page list of next-step possibilities for those wanting to work against racism. Updated by Breaking White Silence Northwest in September 2021.

Learn and Act for Racial Justice: Supplemental Resources. A more extensive resource list. Updated by Breaking White Silence Northwest in September 2021.

Robin DiAngelo’s website has links to a number of useful articles:

https://www.robindiangelo.com/resources/

Dr. Robin DiAngelo’s Discusses White Fragility at the Seattle Public Library, June, 2018

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Thirty books suggested by staff librarians several years ago on the topic of “Interrupting Whiteness” (all available through the Seattle Public Library)

https://seattle.bibliocommons.com/list/share/117997230/959184017

Ijeoma Oluo. So You Want to Talk About Race. New York: Seal Press. 2018. https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/so-you-want-to-talk-about-race_readers-guide.pdf

Robin DiAngelo. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism. Boston: Beacon Press. 2018

Related essay in The New Yorker: Katy Waldman. “A Sociologist Examines the ‘White Fragility’ that Prevents White Americans from Confronting Racism. The New Yorker. July 23, 2018. https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-sociologist-examines-the-white-fragility-that-prevents-white-americans-from-confronting-racism

Robin DiAngelo. Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm. Boston. Beacon Press. 2021.

Robin DiAngelo. The Facilitator’s Guide for White Affinity Groups: Strategies for Leading White People in Anti-racist Practice. Boston: Beacon Press. 2022. http://www.beacon.org/The-Facilitators-Guide-for-White-Affinity-Groups-P1823.aspx

Kendi, Ibram X. Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Race in America. New York: Bold Type Books. 2016.

Kendi, Ibram X. How to Be an Antiracist. New York: One World/Random House, 2019.

Wilkerson, Isabel. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. New York: Random House. 2020.

2015 Seattle Race Conference keynote address by Letitia Nieto, “Awakening to What Works: Practical Approaches to Deep Social Change” http://www.seattlechannel.org/videos?videoid=x59621

Shelly Tochluk. Witnessing Whiteness: The Need to Talk About Race and How to Do It, Second Edition. Lanham, MD: R&L Education. 2010

http://witnessingwhiteness.com/workshop-series/