Anti-Racism and Privilege Readings and Resources

A Bibliography

Here is a set of books, articles, and resources that Inside-Out practitioners have found useful to help develop activities, reflections, and practices around identity, privilege, and oppression in their classrooms. Click HERE for an additional collection of anti-racism resources for white people.

Books

Adams, M., et al. (eds). Readings for Diversity and Social Justice. Fourth Edition.  New York, NY: Routledge, 2018.

Baldwin, James. Notes of a Native Son. Boston: Beacon Press, 2012.

Davis, S., Roswell, B, eds. Turning Teaching Inside Out: A Pedagogy of Transformation for Community-Based Education. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

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

Eddo-Lodge, Reni. Why I Am No Longer Talking to White People About Race. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

Fine, M., Weis, L., Powell Pruitt, L. and Burns, A. Off White: Readings on Power, Privilege, and Resistance. New York, NY: Routledge, 2004.

Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage. USA: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1998.

Irving, Debby. Waking Up White: and Finding Myself in the Story of Race. Cambridge, MA: Elephant Room Press, 2014.

Kendi, Ibram X. How To Be An Antiracist. New York, NY: Random House, 2019.

Okun, Tema. The Emperor Has No Clothes: Teaching about Race and Racism to People Who Don’t Want to Know. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing Co., 2010.

Oluo, Ijeoma. So You Want to Talk About Race? New York: Seal Press/Hackette Book Group, 2019.

McMillam Cottom, Tressie. Thick: And Other Essays. New York, NY: The New Press, 2019.

Rankine, Claudia. Citizen: an American Lyric. London: Penguin, 2015.

Rothstein, Richard. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. New York/London: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2018.

Journal Articles

Ingram, I., and Walters, T. "A Critical Reflection Model to Teach Diversity and Social Justice".  Journal of Praxis in Multicultural Education 2, no. 1 (2007): 23-41.

Harris, Angela, and Zeus Leonardo. "Intersectionality, race-gender subordination, and education." Review of Research in Education 42, no. 1 (2018): 1-27.

Leonardo, Zeus, and Ronald K. Porter. "Pedagogy of fear: Toward a Fanonian theory of ‘safety’in race dialogue." Race Ethnicity and Education 13, no. 2 (2010): 139-157.

Leonardo, Zeus.  "The race for class: Reflections on a critical race-class theory of education." Educational Studies 48, no. 5 (2012): 427-449.19)

Mitchell, Tania D., David M. Donahue, and Courtney Young-Law. "Service-learning as a pedagogy of whiteness." Equity and Excellence in Education 45, no. 4 (2012): 612-629.

Pompa, Lori.  “One Brick at a Time: The Power and Possibility of Dialogue Across the Prison Wall.” The Prison Journal 93, no. 2 (June 2013): 127–34. 21)

Tilton, Jennifer R. "Crossing the Color Line into America's Prisons: Volunteers of Color Reflect on Race and Identity in a College Service Learning Project." In The Voluntary Sector in Prisons: Encouraging Personal and Institutional Change. Editors: Laura S. Abrams, Emma Hughes, Michelle Inderbitzin, and Rosie Meek. pp. 301-329. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.22)

Winans, Amy E. "Cultivating critical emotional literacy: Cognitive and contemplative approaches to engaging difference." College English 75, no. 2 (2012): 150-170.23)

Winans, Amy E. "Cultivating racial literacy in white, segregated settings: Emotions as site of ethical engagement and inquiry." Curriculum Inquiry 40, no. 3 (2010): 475-491.24)

Winans, Amy E. "Local pedagogies and race: Interrogating white safety in the rural college classroom." College English 67, no. 3 (2005): 253-273.

Short Pieces, Videos, Online Toolkits

Baldwin, James. “A Talk to Teachers.” In Collected Essays. New York: The Library of America, 1998.

Gay, Roxanne. “Peculiar Benefits.” The Rumpus, May 16, 2012.
https://therumpus.net/2012/05/peculiar-benefits/

McIntosh, Peggy. “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack.”
https://nationalseedproject.org/about-us/white-privilege

McIntosh, Peggy. “White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women’s Studies.” / “Some Notes for Facilitators.” https://nationalseedproject.org/Key-SEED-Texts/white-privilege-and-male-privilege

Smith, Zadie. “Fascinated to Presume: In Defense of Fiction.” New York Review of Books, October 24, 2019. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/10/24/zadie-smith-in-defense-of-fiction/?printpage=true.

Ted Talk: “What It Takes to Be Racially Literate,” 2018. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs2Fv3YiSFM

"The Color of Fear" (1994), a documentary about race relations in the United States: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0484384/

General Classroom Resources can be found at: https://www.racialequitytools.org/act/strategies/caucus-affinity-groups.