Racial DEI Resource Guide for White Folks

NOTE: This guide is outdated. Please visit our Resources page for up to date references and materials.

There are copious resources available to better understand race, racism, and racial dynamics today. Below we offer a very small sampling of resources as a first step to guide your educational journey. This is not an endorsement for any of these resources, nor does it mean other resources that didn’t make the list couldn’t be extremely valuable. We are simply offering a starting point if you need some help jumping in.

Articles

• Diverse Teams Feel Less Comfortable — and That’s Why They Perform Better

• Our Movement Can’t Be Effective Without Being Inclusive

• Why People of Color and White Folks Think About Race Differently

• 8 Ways People of Color are Tokenized in Nonprofits

• Whites Receiving Feedback on Racism

• The Role of Senior Leaders in Building a Race Equity Culture

• The Bias of ‘Professionalism’ Standards

• White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack

• Owning my Whiteness

• The Social Justice Sector Has An Internal Racism Problem

• “Nobody’s paying me to cry”: The causes of activist burnout in United States animal rights activists

• Trump 'Embodies Nearly Every Aspect Of A Racist,' Author Says (you can listen to the interview too)

Videos you can listen to

• Beverly Daniel Tatum: Why Are All of the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (58 minutes)

• Mellody Hobson Colorblind or Color Brave? (14 minutes)

• Vernā Myers: How to overcome our biases? Walk boldly toward them (18 minutes)

• Kathy Obear: Whites Who Are Scared They Will Be Called A Racist (38 minutes)

• Christopher Sebastian McJetters: Exploring Connections Between Black Liberation & Animal Liberation (22 minutes)

• Diversity and Inclusion: Walking the Talk self-paced webinar course (1-2 hours)

Podcasts

• Code Switch — by NPR

• Still Processing — by The New York Times

Movies

• 13th

• Race: The Power of Illusion

• Get Out

Books

• How to Be an Antiracist — by Ibram X. Kendi

• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism — by Robin DiAngelo

• The New Jim Crow — by Michelle Alexander

• My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies — by Resmaa Menakem

• Aphro-ism: Essays on Pop Culture, Feminism, and Black Veganism from Two Sisters — by Aph Ko and Syl Ko

Briefs and Reports

• Nonprofit Executives and the Racial Leadership Gap: A Race to Lead Brief

• Race to Lead: Women of Color in the Nonprofit Sector

• Beyond Diversity: A Roadmap to Building and Inclusive Organization