Anti-Racism Resources
Excerpted from a letter from ChIME’s Board of Trustees:
Please join us as we open our hearts in the days ahead to the grace of deep listening for answers to these questions and to the humility of accepting deeper responsibility for our shared complicity, both known and unknown.
Please join us in prayer for our nation in anguish and need of restorative justice. And please pray with ChIME as we search for ways to respond adequately to the call for voice and vocation, teaching and learning that truly may bring healing.
Below you will find some of the readings, podcasts, and communities that board members, staff, students, and alumni have leaned into to further our anti-racism work within ourselves, our organization, and our wider community.
Essays
Article by Parker Palmer on 'movement mindedness'
Christians of Color are Rejecting “Colonial Christianity” and Reclaiming Ancestral Spiritualities, Deborah Jian Lee
a word for white people, in two parts, adrienne marie brown
Books
How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
My Grandmother's Hands by Resmaa Menakem
White Fragility by Robin D'Angelo
Waking up White by Debbie Irving (also: 21 Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge )
Something Happened in our Town: A Child's Story about Racial Injustice, Marianne Celano
White Privilege Unmasked, Judy Ryde
Race Matters, Cornell West
Beating the Odds, Freeman Hrabowski III
Bud not Buddy, John Paul Curtis
The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. DuBois
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Websites
Mental Health Issues Facing the Black Community “Racism is a public health crisis,” according to a May 2020 statement from the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). This means that racism — whether unintentional, unconsciously, or concealed — has affected Black Americans’ access to equal and “culturally competent” health care.
AddictionResource.net. Racial health disparities are a significant barrier to maintaining good health and quality of life for communities of color in the United States. Identifying how these disparities show up in addiction treatment settings, and how to address them, is a critical goal for helping all people with substance abuse struggles achieve recovery.
Podcasts
On Being conversations with Resmaa Menakem : notice-the-rage-notice-the-silence/ and robin-diangelo-and-resmaa-menakem-in-conversation/
Race & Resilience: Michelle C. Johnson
Supportive Community
White Awake - White Awake is an online platform and nonprofit organization focused on popular education for people who are classified as “white”. We believe this is important because white people are socialized, and awarded limited types of privilege, to align ourselves with the capitalist, ruling class at everybody’s expense. White Awake addresses the particularities of white racial socialization with tools and resources that prioritizes spiritual practice, emotional process, compassion, and curiosity alongside historical analysis and intellectual rigor. Our desire is to supplement social change work already being done – within activist networks, spiritual communities, and other social arenas – such that spiritual, educational, and cultural change is fully integrated into white people’s participation in collective liberation.
Racial Equity Institute - We are an alliance of trainers, organizers, and institutional leaders who have devoted ourselves to the work of creating racially equitable organizations and systems. We help individuals and organizations develop tools to challenge patterns of power and grow equity.
Education for Racial Equity - Education For Racial Equity is a cross-racial and inter-generational non-profit organization committed to illuminating and dismantling the system of white supremacy, globally. Guided by the principles of both Anti-Racism and Anti-Racist activism, we take a multi-faceted approach to systemic change.
