Toolkits for the Black Community and White Allies
BEAM – Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective
Lists of Black and Inclusive Therapists and Supportive Services for Black Adults and Kids.
This guide includes free and library resources related to the history of race and racism, whiteness and privilege, race and education, and race and criminal justice. Originally published Summer 2020 in the wake of worldwide protests following the police killing of George Floyd, this guide will be updated as resources become available. You are invited to email suggestions and recommendations to library@felician.edu.
Many people are feeling helpless, but there are many ways we can center the voices and experiences of the Black community, support the broader Black Lives Matter movement, fight against police violence, and help the cause of racial justice.
Mount, J. [@jane_mount]. (2020, May 21). Ideal bookshelf 1162: Antiracism [Illustration]. Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/p/CAdw65UHtwJ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Netflix: Black Lives Matter Collection
Learn more about racial injustice and the Black experience in America with this collection of films, series and documentaries.
Netflix Introduces a Black Lives Matter Category: A list of the 50+ films in the collection
Are you prejudiced? Take the implicit association test
Project Implicit is a non-profit organization and international collaborative network of researchers investigating implicit social cognition - thoughts and feelings that are largely outside of conscious awareness and control. Project Implicit is the product of a team of scientists whose research produced new ways of understanding attitudes, stereotypes and other hidden biases that influence perception, judgment, and action.
Visit the research or demonstration websites to try out some tests and learn more about the research and yourself!
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Toolkits for the Black Community and White Allies
BEAM – Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective
Lists of Black and Inclusive Therapists and Supportive Services for Black Adults and Kids.
Anti-Racism: Anti-racism is "the work of actively opposing racism by advocating for changes in political, economic, and social life. Anti-racism tends to be an individualized approach, and set up in opposition to individual racist behaviors and impacts." (National Education Association - Racial Justice in Education)
BIPOC: "Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. The term BIPOC is used to highlight the unique relationship to whiteness that Indigenous and Black (African Americans) people have, which shapes the experiences of and relationship to white supremacy for all people of color within a U.S. context." (BIPOC Project) We use the term BIPOC in this resource to identify opportunities that are not specifically for Black people, but Black, Indigenous, and People of Color.
Black Lives Matter: #BlackLivesMatter was founded in 2013 in response to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin’s murderer. Black Lives Matter Foundation, Inc is a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes. By combating and countering acts of violence, creating space for Black imagination and innovation, and centering Black joy, they are winning immediate improvements in their lives. (Black Lives Matter)
Racial Justice: "The systematic fair treatment of people of all races, resulting in equitable opportunities and outcomes for all. Racial justice—or racial equity—goes beyond “anti-racism.” It is not just the absence of discrimination and inequities, but also the presence of deliberate systems and supports to achieve and sustain racial equity through proactive and preventative measures." (Race Forward)
White Supremacy: White supremacy is "the belief system that rationalizes and reproduces white advantage in the political, social, and cultural institutions of society. This belief system holds that white people, white culture, and things associated with whiteness are superior to those of other racial groups." (Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice, page 138)
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by 
Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House by 
Between the World and Me by 
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Commit to doing everyday actions
