Racial & Cultural Awareness Resources

Websites

• Anti-Racism Resources for All Ages

• Talking About Race from the National of African American History and Culture

• UCARE is a University of Virginia initiative whose mission is to understand and remedy the University’ legacy of slavery, segregation and discrimination within and outside of the University. To subscribe to UCARE’s weekly e-newsletter of relevant events in the Charlottesville area, click here.  

• Start with the Story C-ville is a collection of information assembled with the aim of telling the story of Charlottesville's history of race in its City's Spaces. It is a resource to learn about and connect with local institutions, projects, advocacy groups, and resources related to equality.

• Black Lives Matter - an online forum intended to build connections between Black people and allies to fight anti-Black racism, spark dialogue among Black people, and facilitate connections that encourage social action and engagement

• Buddhists for Racial Justice - is an online home for a multi-racial, cross-tradition response to racism on the part of Buddhist teachers, monastics, priests, leaders, ministers, practitioners, and clergy.

• White Awake - has a mission of building and maintaining free online resources to help individuals, organizations, and spiritual communities increase their racial awareness. The site includes a manual for groups that wish to explore white privilege and the value of racial awareness. It also includes a valuable list of resources grouped around race-related themes.

Articles

• The Many Faces of Cultural Appropriation by Chenxing Han and Trent Walker, Lions Roar, December 17, 2021

• 75 Things White People Can Do For Racial Justice - Corinne Shutack on Medium

• “Determined” - a joint Charlottesville Tomorrow-Vinegar Hill Magazine series by Sarad Davenport and Jordy Yager, exploring how Charlottesville’s history of racial injustice has left many people of color in our community particularly vulnerable to the pandemic and the economic distress in the region.

• Rhonda Magee on Her Inner Work of Racial Justice

• Feminism Lost. Now What? - Susan Chira. NY Times. Dec 2016

• Facilitating Antiracist Education in Cross-Racial Teams - Robin DiAngelo

• White Fragility - Robin DiAngelo

• Waking Up to Whiteness, Dharma and Racism Study Curriculum - Spirit Rock CDL 5

• Is America Possible? - Vincent Harding

• Where Does It Hurt? - Ruby Sales

• When Spiritual Bypassing Meets Racism Meets Gaslighting by Camille Williams  

Video and Audio Resources

• Code Switch - What's CODE SWITCH? It's the fearless conversations about race that you've been waiting for! Hosted by journalists of color, our podcast tackles the subject of race head-on. We explore how it impacts every part of society — from politics and pop culture to history, sports and everything in between. This podcast makes ALL OF US part of the conversation — because we're all part of the story.

• Seeing White -Scene on Radio host and producer John Biewen along with an array of leading scholars and regular guest Dr. Chenjerai Kumanyika,  take a deep dive into questions like: Where did the notion of “whiteness” come from? What does it mean? What is whiteness for?

• The Truth About the Confederacy  Videotaped talk by Jeffery Robinson, deputy legal director and the director of the ACLU Trone Center for Justice and Equality

• Race: The Power of an Illusion - film written by Christine Herbes-Sommers, Tracy Heather Strain, Llewellyn M. Smith

• 10 Things to Watch to Educate Yourself About Racism

• What Can I Do to Stop Hate Groups? IMCC member, teacher, and White Awake group member, Jackie Erskine, wrote in to NPR show 1A with Joshua Johnson on the topic of, "What Can I do to Stop Hate Groups" which aired on August 15. Jackie talks about her experiences in the ongoing White Awake initiative at IMCC. Her letter is read at the 25:57 mark.

Books by Buddhist authors

• America's Racial Karma - Larry Ward

• Black and Buddhist - Edited by Cheryl A. Giles and Pamela Ayo Yetunde
  Contributions by Ruth King, Lama Rod Owens and Sebene Selassie

• Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out - Ruth King

• Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love and Liberation - Rev. Angel Kyodo Williams, Lama Rod Owens, Jasmine Syedullah, PhD

• The Way of Tenderness - Zenju Earthlyn Manuel

General books:

Non fiction

Indigenous American History

• An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, RoxanneDunbar-Ortiz

• All the Real Indians Died Off – and 20 Other Myths About Native Americans, RoxanneDunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker

• Monacan Millennium: A Collaborative Archaeology and History of a Virginia Indian People, -Jeffrey L. Hantman

• Braiding Sweetgrass; Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, Robin Wall Kimmerer

African American History

• Caste - Isabel Wilkerson

• Eloquent Rage - Brittney Cooper

• The 1619 Project - Nikole Hannah-Jones

• Blood Done Sign My Name - Timothy Tyson

• Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race - Debby Irving

• The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism - Edward E. Baptist

• The Warmth of Other Suns - Isabel Wilkerson

• Just Mercy - Bryan Stevenson

• Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates

• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness - Michelle Alexander

• Slavery by Another Name - Douglas A. Blackmon

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Malcolm X and M.S. Handler

• Can We Talk About Race? - Beverly Daniel Tatum

• White Like Me - Tim Rice

• Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority - Tim Rice

• White Fragility - Robin DiAngelo

• The African American Experience: Memoirs by Women, compiled by the Jefferson Madison Regional Library

• How to be an Antiracist - Ibram X. Kendi

• Stamped From the Beginning - Ibram X. Kendi

Fiction

• My Monticello - Jocelyn Nicole Johnson

• Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi (historical fiction)