White Fragility Mixtape
The White fragility mixtape is made up of 30+ hours of music, podcasts, comedy, speeches, & interviews. This playlist is intended to serve as a resource to white people and/or anyone interested in deepening their own anti-racist work. If you haven’t engaged in anti-racism work in the past, allow this playlist to help you start now!
READY FOR MORE? HERE IS A GREAT LIST OF readings TO GET YOU STARTED
If you would like to purchase hard copies of these books, please consider making your purchase through an independent black-owned bookstore: Mahogany Books, Harrietts Bookshop, The Lit Bar, and Semicolon Bookstore. Books listed below are linking to many of these stores.
Open access google drive linked here : fREE PDF COPIES OF BOOKS LISTED BELOW sourced from library genesis
This list will continue to be updated — can’t find what you are looking for? Send us an email request at youvegotdirt@gmail.com
bOOKS
Algorithms of Oppression
Safiya Noble
Black Skin, White Masks
Frantz Fanon
Citizen: an American Lyric
Claudia Rankine
Colorblind: Barack Obama, Post-Racial Liberalism and the Retreat from Racial equity.
Tim J. Wise
Emergent Strategy
Adrienne Maree Brown
How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi
How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide
Crystal Marie Fleming
How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance
Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
Layla F Saad
* Free Unlimited Epub copies available via DC Public Library
Minor Feelings
Cathy Park Hong
Playing in the Dark
Toni Morrison
So You Want to Talk About Race
Ijeoma Oluo
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander
The History of White People
Nell Irvin Painter
Women, Race & Class
Angela Davis
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Reni Eddo-Lodge
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race
Beverly Daniel Tatum
White Fragility
Robin DiAngelo
* Free Unlimited Epub copies available via DC Public Library
What White Looks Like: African-American Philosophers on the Whiteness Question.
George Yancy
White Self-Criticality Beyond Anti-Racism: How Does It Feel to be a White Problem?
Edited by George Yancy
White Lies: Race and the Myths of Whiteness
Maurice Berger
White: Essays on Race and Culture
Richard Dyer
ARTICLES
A phenomenology of whiteness
Sara Ahmed
Are Art Museums Racist?
Maurice Berger
Dear White Women
A letter reminding modern white feminist of their relationship with black women throughout history
Rachel Cargle
Fraught Empathy: Privilege & White Guilt in Contemporary Portraiture
Dirt Editors
Good White Liberals
Shannon Sullivan
Letter from a Region in My Mind
James Baldwin
Malcom and Martin
James Baldwin
No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear
Toni Morrison
Passing for White, Passing for Black
Adrian Piper
Toward a Bibliography of Critical Whiteness Studies
Tim Engles
The Identity Artist and The Identity Critic
Hannah Black
We Tolerate You
Kim Nguyen
What’s White…?
Thelma Golden
MORE RESOURCES
2020 FRONTLINE RESOURCES
Organizations to uplift, bail funds to donate to, and accounts to follow for more information.
Anti-Racism Resource Guide
A resource guide for white people and parents to deepen anti-racism work
BLACK HISTORY MONTH LIBRARY
Open Access Google Drive
FANTASY WORLD MASTER LIST OF RESOURCES ON HOW TO DISMANTLE SYSTEMIC RACISM
Incredibly comprehensive list of resources compiled by Patia Borja of Patia's Fantasy World
How to Support Protesters in Every City
Find ways to help out in every city.
MASSIVE ONLINE READING LIST
EVEN MORE ACCESS TO FREE COPIES OF RADICAL POLITICAL TEXTS FROM MARXIST FEMINISM TO BALDWIN AND MORRISON
Scaffolded Anti-Racist Resources
This is a working document for scaffolding anti-racism resources. The goal is to facilitate growth for white folks to become allies, and eventually accomplices for anti-racist work.
NomuNomu Resource
Events calendar, volunteer opportunities, activist resources, mutual aid, rent strike information, and visual artist resources
DONATE HERE
Homeless Black Trans Women Fund
Free Them All for Public Health, which aims to free incarcerated people amid the coronavirus pandemic, is raising money for people who have been arrested during New York City protests over the weekend. What doesn’t go toward local bail will reportedly be sent to other cities, and COVID Bailout NYC.
National Bail Fund: shares a directory of local community bail funds to support.