ANTI-RACISM RESOURCES

 

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The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and The Chicago Police Department Murdered a Black Panther (Updated Edition) - Jeffrey Haas - Well Worth Reading!
  https://www.georgemarx.org/2025/08/the-assassination-of-fred-hampton.html

At the Dark End of the Street – Danielle McGuire 
  https://www.georgemarx.org/2025/08/at-dark-end-of-street-danielle-mcguire.html

Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom - Derecka Purnell
  https://www.georgemarx.org/2025/08/becoming-abolitionists-wonderful-in-way.html

Being White Today: A Roadmap for a Positive Antiracist Life - Shelly Tochluk and Christine Saxman - https://www.georgemarx.org/2025/08/being-white-today-tremendous-book.html

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America - Richard Rothstein - https://www.georgemarx.org/2025/08/the-color-of-law-richard-rothstein.html 

Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism & Wrecked the Middle Class - Ian Haney Lopez - https://www.georgemarx.org/2025/10/dog-whistle-politics.html

Emotional Justice:   Roadmap for Racial Healing - Esther A Armah
https://www.georgemarx.org/2024/06/emotional-justice-esther-armah-amazing.html

Florynce "Flor" Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical - Sherie M Randolph
https://www.georgemarx.org/2025/08/florynce-flor-kennedy-life-of-black.html

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store - James McBride - INCREDIBLE!
  https://www.georgemarx.org/2025/08/the-heaven-earth-grocery-store.html

How to Argue With a Racist: What Our Genes Do (and Don't) Say About Human Difference - Adam Rutherford - https://www.georgemarx.org/2025/08/how-to-argue-with-racist.html

How to be an Anti-Racist - Ibram X Kendi - 
  https://www.georgemarx.org/2025/08/how-to-be-antiracist.html

JUST ACTION: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under The Color of Law - Leah and Richard Rothstein - https://www.georgemarx.org/2025/09/just-action-excellent-book.html

KILLING THE BLACK BODY: Race, Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty - 
Dorothy Roberts
https://www.georgemarx.org/2025/08/killing-black-body-race-reproduction.html

LOVING: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy - 
Sheryll Cashing - https://www.georgemarx.org/2025/08/loving-interracial-intimacy-interesting.html

MARSE: A Psychological Portrait Of The Southern Slavemaster And His Legacy Of White Supremacy  - H,D. Kirkpatrick
- https://www.georgemarx.org/2025/08/marse-how-racism-is-alive-in-many-of.html

MEDIOCRE: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America - Ijeoma Oluo - Excellent
- https://www.georgemarx.org/2025/10/mediocre-dangerous-legacy-of-white-male.html

The Message - Ta-Nehisi Coates 
- https://www.georgemarx.org/2025/08/the-message-important-words-december-14.html


My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies - Resma Menakem 
- https://www.georgemarx.org/2025/08/my-grandmothers-hands-classic.html

The New Jim Crow:  Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness - Michelle Alexander - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gln1JwDUI64

NOBODY: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond - Marc Lamont Hill
https://www.georgemarx.org/2025/08/nobody-casualties-of-americas-war-on.html

THE PURPOSE OF POWER: How We Come Together When We Fall  Apart - Alicia Garza - A Must Read!

RAISE A FIST, TAKE A KNEE: Race and the Illusion of Progress in Modern Sports - John Feinstein - Incredible!

Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America – 
Jennifer Harvey

Say Their Names:  How Black Lives Came to Matter in America - Curtis Bunn, Michael H Cottman, Patrice Gaines, Nick Charles, Keith Harriston

So You Want to Talk About Race – Ijeoma Oluo - great "starter book"

The State Must Provide: Why America's Colleges Have Always Been Unequal - And How To Set Them Right - Adam Harris

Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South - Catherine Fosl

The Sum or US: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together - Heather McGhee - a Must read!

Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism– James W Loewen - A book that totally made me aware of how little I know and understand.  This book added greatly to my understanding of the history of horrific racism outside of the South as well as one reason why big city ghettos developed with few black people in smaller cities and towns in the North.   I had never heard of "Sundown Towns" before I read this book (since then made visible in he movie Green Book - see below).





White Fragility – Robin DiAngelo - 

A White Guy Confronting Racism: An Invitation to Reflect and Act - Jared Karol

White Like Her: My Family’s Story of Race and Racial Passing – Gail Lukasik - the story of a woman finding out that her mother has "passed" as white for many years - very, very good!
Beverly Daniel Tatum, PH.D

Witnessing Whiteness: The Journey into Racial Awareness and AntiRacist Action (3rd Edition- Shelly Tochluk - a MUST read for white people

----    BLOG WRITINGS

Being a White Man - https://www.georgemarx.org/2025/10/being-white-man.html

* Can I Believe - Regarding White Fragility -  - Irony galore -  a poem - the creator of this blog brought up "White Fragility" at a gathering he organized where three other (white) members of his high school class - responded to his suggestion that they see the video White Fragility - very disheartening (proving some of the points Robin DiAngelo made in the video)

Equity and Justice - Is it Primarily Class? - Part I
https://www.georgemarx.org/2023/07/newer-partial-table-of-contents-more.html

https://www.georgemarx.org/2023/07/table-of-contents-plus-07142023.html

Gaza-Slavery-Fear-Accountability - https://www.georgemarx.org/2025/08/gaza-slavery-fear-accountability.html

- https://www.georgemarx.org/2025/10/4-tips-for-black-people-attending-their.html

Genocide = Genocide + - https://www.georgemarx.org/2023/11/the-genocide-continues-and-guess-whos.html

https://www.georgemarx.org/2025/10/i-am-white-and-what-does-that-mean.html

Joe Stuntz and Leonard Peltier - https://www.georgemarx.org/2025/09/joe-stuntz-and-leonard-peltier.html

Message to White Allies from A Black Anti-Racism Expert: You're Doing It Wrong - The Dalai Lama shows us a better way. - https://medium.com/progressively-speaking/message-to-white-allies-from-a-black-racial-dialogue-expert-youre-doing-it-wrong-39c09b3908a5

https://www.georgemarx.org/2025/10/my-experiences-being-in-relationship.html

No It Wasn't Racism - https://www.georgemarx.org/2025/10/no-it-wasnt-racism.html

https://www.georgemarx.org/2025/08/racism-proximity-can-be-dangerous.html


RACISTS ANONYMOUS - https://www.georgemarx.org/2025/09/racists-anonymous.html

Reparations for Black People - https://www.georgemarx.org/2025/10/reparations-for-black-people.html

https://www.georgemarx.org/2025/10/a-white-mans-perspective-on-racism.html

https://www.georgemarx.org/2024/09/wmrj-white-men-for-racial-justice.html

Working With White Men - https://www.georgemarx.org/2025/10/working-with-white-men.html


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The Hate U Give - I don't like to say one "must" see a movie, however this is a movie - that ALL - white people, who profess to care about racism issues at all - should definitely see!   The movie is intense, sad, deep and also uplifting - wonderful - shows how black and white people often see things very differently

Green Book - Oscar winner - has been justly criticized, but is still helpful for white people, particularly

Queen and Slim - https://www.georgemarx.org/2025/10/queen-and-slim.html

Till - later 2022 - excellent movie - showing of the murder of Emmett Till - from the perspective of his mother

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THE BIAS DETECTIVE:  Psychologist Jennifer Eberhardt explores the roots of unconscious bias- and its tragic consequences for U.S. society - an incredible researcher on bias's effects supporting racism



(divorcing) White Supremacy Culture - https://www.whitesupremacyculture.info/ - Tema Okun's huge, tremendous set of resources

Showing Up For Racial Justice  (SURJ) - SURJ is a national network of groups and individuals working to undermine white supremacy and to work toward racial justice. Through community organizing, mobilizing, and education, SURJ moves white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for justice with passion and accountability.

We work to connect people across the country while supporting and collaborating with local and national racial justice organizing efforts. SURJ provides a space to build relationships, skills and political analysis to act for change.

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