LibGuides: Anti-Racism Guide: Resources for Education and Action: Doing the Work : How to Be an Ally

Getting Started: Guides and Learning Communities

To be an ally is to: take on the struggle as your own, stand up, transfer the benefits of your privilege to those who lack it, acknowledge the conversation is not about you, be willing to own your mistakes and de-center yourself, your education is up to you.

Read this: Guide to Allyship. An open source starter guide to help you become a less performative and more effective ally. It is provided as a shareable (open source) resource for you to use, meaning that anyone can contribute.

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Black Lives Matter
Resources, toolkits, reading lists, and events.
Movement For Black Lives
Rachel E. Cargle Lecture Series
Rachel Cargle is a public academic, writer, and lecturer. Her activism and academic work are rooted in providing intellectual discourse, tools, and resources that explore the intersection of race and womanhood. You can support her work and subscribe, links at her page.
Showing Up For Racial Justice
Find your Local Chapter
Talking about Race
National Museum of African American History and Culture: Topics, Audiences, Resources
What is White. Supremacy Culture?

See the Research Guides section on the Anti-Racism Curricula, Syllabi, and Pedagogy: Teach page for resources for students and faculty in higher education. The guides on this page are intended to support actionable allyship.

Save the Tears: White Woman's Guide
If you're a white woman who is watching the world burn because of police murder against Black people, and you don't know what to do, Tatiana Mac wrote you a guide.
Salem State Libguide. Educating Ourselves about Whiteness and Anti-Black Racism
What White People Can Do For Racial Justice
"Achieving racial justice is a marathon, not a sprint. Our work to fix what we broke and left broken isn’t done until Black folks tell us it’s done."
Racial Equity Tools
"Designed to support individuals and groups working to achieve racial equity. This site offers tools, research, tips, curricula and ideas for people who want to increase their own understanding and to help those working toward justice at every level"
White Allyship 101: Resources to Get to Work
The Dismantle Collective desires to be a starting point for white allies to do the work and engage in analysis, education, and action on anti-racism.
Becoming an Ally
UNLV Libguide on becoming an ally, with resources, links to articles and videos and more.
10 Steps To Non-Optical Allyship
"Mireille Cassandra Harper took to Twitter to share “10 Steps To Non-Optical Allyship”, a simple and elegant distillation of the principles outlined in key anti-racist works such as Me And White Supremacy by Layla Saad and How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi." It is reproduced here.
When black people are in pain, white people just join book clubs
"...When things get real — really murderous, really tragic, really violent or aggressive — my white, liberal, educated friends already know what to do. What they do is read. And talk about their reading. What they do is listen. And talk about how they listened. What they do is never enough."
Toolkits for Equity
Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications (C4DISC)
* Antiracism Toolkit for Allies
* Toolkits for Equity Project Leaders
10 Simple Rules to Building an Antiracist lab
Chaudhary, B., & Berhe, A. A. (2020, June 18). Ten simple rules for building an anti-racist lab.

LEAD Fellows are campus champions who engage and lead crucial conversations around improving organizational learning and campus climate.

LEAD Fellows support and advance UC San Diego’s Strategic Plan goal of “Cultivating a diverse and inclusive university community that encourages respectful open dialogue, and challenges itself to take bold actions that will ensure learning is accessible and affordable for all.” Fellows receive extensive training to facilitate conversations, provide leadership, and to promote diversity and excellence across campus.

How Can White People Be Better Allies To People Of Color?
16 min. video by Travis Jones.
White Academia: Do Better
10-15 min. reading by Jasmine Robert.
10 Ways For Non-Black Academics to Value Black Lives
10-15 min. reading by Stacey Chimimba Ault

General Readings: useful for those beginning, or continuing to learn - for topical connections, see the Systemic Racism page

How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
ISBN: 9780525509288
Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America -- but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other.
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
ISBN: 9781728209807
This eye-opening book challenges you to do the essential work of unpacking your biases, and helps white people take action and dismantle the privilege within themselves so that you can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of color, and in turn, help other white people do better, too.
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
ISBN: 9781595585301
In this incisive critique, former litigator-turned-legal-scholar Michelle Alexander provocatively argues that we have not ended racial caste in America: we have simply redesigned it. Alexander shows that, by targeting black men and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control, even as it formally adheres to the principle of color blindness. The New Jim Crow challenges the civil rights community—and all of us—to place mass incarceration at the forefront of a new movement for racial justice in America.
So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo
ISBN: 9781580056786
"A current, constructive, and actionable exploration of today's racial landscape, offering straightforward clarity that readers of all races need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divide. In So You Want to Talk About Race, Editor at Large of The Establishment, Ijeoma Oluo offers a contemporary, accessible take on the racial landscape in America, addressing head-on such issues as privilege, police brutality, intersectionality, micro-aggressions, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the "N" word. " - Provided by publisher
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
ISBN: 9780807047422
Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including argumentation and silence. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent any meaningful cross-racial dialogue. In this in-depth exploration, antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo explores how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively.
Women, Race, and Class by Angela Davis
ISBN: 9780307798497
A powerful study of the women's movement in the U.S. from abolitionist days to the present that demonstrates how it has always been hampered by the racist and classist biases of its leaders.
Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy by Darryl Pinckney
ISBN: 9781590177693
"Darryl Pinckney's meditation on a century and a half of Black participation in US electoral politics. In this combination of memoir, historical narrative, and contemporary political and social analysis, he investigates the struggle for Black voting rights from Reconstruction through the civil rights movement, leading up to the election of Barack Obama as president. " - provided by publisher
Racism without Racists by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
ISBN: 9781442220560
A provocative challenge to color-blind thinking in America. The fourth edition of Eduardo Bonilla-Silva's acclaimed book adds a chapter on what he calls ""the new racism"" to provide students with the essential foundation to explore race in more depth. This edition also updates Bonilla-Silva's assessment on race in America after President Barack Obama's re-election.

Anti-Racism Guide: Resources for Education and Action

How to be an Ally page

Rule #1 Don't Ask Others to Educate You

Institutional DEI Statements and Codes of Conduct

Getting Started: Guides and Learning Communities

General Readings: useful for those beginning, or continuing to learn - for topical connections, see the Systemic Racism page