Resource List

Books:

• Ijeoma Oluo, So you want to talk about race. New York, NY: Seal Press, 2018.

  • Click here for excerpts.  

• Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele, When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir.  New York, NY: St. Martin’s Publishing Group, 2017.

  • Click here for excerpt. 

• Ibram X. Kendi, How to be an Antiracist New York: One World, 2019.

  • Click here for excerpt. 

Videos/Film:

• Heather McGhee, “Racism has a Cost for Everyone,” TED Talk 

• Mark Charles, “We the People: the three most misunderstood words in U.S. history” TEDx Talk

• 13th, a Netflix documentary by Ava DuVernay

Articles:

• Shenali Pilapitiya, “Actually, Anti-Blackness Has Everything to Do with Us,” for Groundviews

• Viet Thanh Nguyen, “Asian Americans Are Still Caught in the Trap of the ‘Model Minority’ Stereotype. And It Creates Inequality for All,” for TIME magazine

• Sammy Westfall, “The George Floyd Protests: A Guide to Practicing Anti-Racism as an Asian Ally,” for VICE 

• Eric Deggans, “‘Not Racist’ is Not Enough: Putting in the Work to be Anti-Racist” for NPR 

• Asian Americans x Black Lives Matter, “An Asian American Guide to Racism”

• Thenmozhi Soundararajan and Sharmin Hossain, “South Asians For Black Lives:  A Call for Action, Accountability, and Introspection,” for Wear Your Voice