A Great Anti-Racism Reading List
Weekly Shares - August 4, 2024
One of the best resources I subscribe to is Sharon Hurley Hall’s Anti-Racism Newsletter. At the end of each month, she sends out a phenomenal reading list of relevant articles and book recommendations that delve into current affairs and examine the historical context and role of racism. Here is a link to the July reading list.
A couple that I found particularly interesting were:
White People Don’t Think About This from Robin Divine’s Poverty Sucks Substack - Honestly, anytime I have the chance to learn about the endless list of things I take for granted as a white man, I feel grateful. At the same time, I try to spend some time thinking about the following quote from IJeoma Oluo:
“If your anti-racism work prioritizes the ‘growth’ and ‘enlightenment’ of white America over the safety, dignity and humanity of people of color – it’s not anti-racism work. It’s white supremacy.”
Can Slur Words Ever Be Reclaimed - This is from Sadia Siddiqui’s The LanguageMatters Memo on Substack, it’s an interview with Sharon Hurley Hall on slurs with a focus on the question, “Can slurs ever be reclaimed?”
Current Affairs
There was a lot of news about a former President’s comments about Vice President Harris’ racial identity. Rather than editorializing too much on these horrific remarks, I wanted to share some thoughts from others with lived experience dealing with the limited understanding of the majority of white Americans:
What Donald Trump Doesn’t Understand About Race in America - Teresa Wiltz
When Safe Spaces Are Violated - Jemar Tisby
The last resource I wanted to share for this week
Annotated BibliographyWhiteness: Framed, De-framed and Counter-Framedfrom the Black Holocaust Museum . This an extensive list of books, articles, and videos. Here’s a sample below from the list, a video from Tim Wise on White America’s Inability to Talk About Race: