Racial Justice & Equity Resources
As we bear witness to the pain, anger, loss, and frustration expressed by so many in cities across the country, including our own, the stain of systemic racism continues to reach out from the depths of our country’s history to shake us awake in this present moment. JCRC will help our community actively listen to the voices of our neighbors, colleagues, friends, and family members from the Black community. On this Racial Justice & Equity page, JCRC will post resources that can help advance critically important and difficult conversations around race, equity, and justice. Resilient listening, active learning, and intentional conversations are the necessary first steps to being an effective ally in the call for – and collective march toward – justice.
Podcasts
- 1619 (New York Times)
- About Race
- Code Switch (NPR)
- Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw
- Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
- Seeing White
Films and TV
- 13th (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix
- Dear White People (Justin Simien) — Netflix
- If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) — Hulu
- Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton) — Available to rent
- Selma (Ava DuVernay) — Available to rent
- The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.) — Hulu with Cinemax
- When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix
- Whose Street? — Hulu
Books
- America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America by Jim Wallis
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women by Brittney C. Cooper
- Colorblind Racism by Meghan Burke
- Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
- How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
- My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
- The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States by Walter Johnson
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (and Study Guide and Call to Action)
- This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga (Editor), Gloria Anzaldúa (Editor)
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo,
- White Rage The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
- Witnessing Whiteness: The Need to Talk About race and do it by Shelly Tochluk
General Resources