Anti-Racism Resources & An Author Special with Candice Brathwaite
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🗓️ 2 June 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This week’s episode is focused on the resources we can access to educate ourselves on racism. These lists are not exhaustive but may provide a starting point. We also interview the creator of Make Motherhood Diverse, Candice Brathwaite, about her searing new book I Am Not Your Baby Mother.
Non-Fiction
Why I Am No Longer Talking To White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
I Am Not Your Baby Mother by Candice Brathwaite
White Fragility by Robin Diangelo
Between The World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
How To Be Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
The Good Immigrant compiled by Nikesh Shukla
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Women Race and Class by Angela Davis
White Rage by Carol Anderson
Brit-ish by Afua Hirsch
My Name Is Why by Lemn Sissay
Slay In Your Lane by Elizabeth Uviebinené & Yomi Adegoke
A Burst of Light by Audre Lorde
Don’t Touch My Hair by Emma Dabiri
Taking Up Space: The Black Girls Manifesto For Change by Chelsea Kwakye & Ore Ogunbiyi
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F Saad
Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
Natives: Race & Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala
Aint I a Woman: Black Women & Feminism by bell hooks
Why You Need To Stop Saying “All Lives Matter” by Rachel Elizabeth Cargle for Harper’s Bazaar https://bit.ly/3gG8rgq
Ibram X. Kendi’s reading list for The New York Times https://nyti.ms/3gKL8lH
Fiction
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Colour Purple by Alice Walker
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi-Adichie
Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Ordinary People by Diana Evans
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
On Beauty and White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Citizen: An American Life by Claudia Rankine
Social media
@theconsciouskid
@taranaburke
@galdemzine
@tamikadmallory
@privtoprog
@blklivesmatter
Donate
George Floyd’s Memorial Fund
Black Lives Matter
Black Protest Legal Support UK
Liberty
Stop Hate UK
The Stephen Lawrence Trust
The Innocence Project
Show Racism The Red Card
Black Visions Collective
Mentorship
Routes
Girls Out Loud
Fluid
Kids resources
Raising White Kids by Jennifer Harvey
All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold
Brad Meltzer’s Ordinary People Can Change The World series on Rosa Parks & Harriet Tubman
A Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
Other links
Petition to update GCSE reading list https://bit.ly/2U6foOl
1619 podcast by The NY Times
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| 0:00.0 | Music |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome to the Highloat, the weekly conversation between Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sykes. |
| 0:21.0 | We want to go straight into the tragic event of last week, which is the death of George Floyd, |
| 0:27.0 | a black man from Minnesota who suffocated death when a white police officer named Derek Chavin |
| 0:34.0 | knelt on his neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds. |
| 0:37.0 | This has sparked a wave of protests in the US and around the world and has acted as a reminder |
| 0:44.0 | that racism continues to be an international emergency. |
| 0:47.0 | We're recording this during blackout Tuesday, a social media movement of solidarity. |
| 0:52.0 | Activism across social media has never been more fundamental and we've never seen a movement like this. |
| 0:58.0 | I don't think on Instagram, but tackling racism is about more than just reposting a meme or liking a caption. |
| 1:05.0 | The writer Zing saying tweeted today, please don't just post a black square. |
| 1:11.0 | Write to your MP now with these demands. |
| 1:14.0 | Immediate suspension of UK sales of tear gas, riot shields and rubber bullets to the US. |
| 1:20.0 | Condem Trump's use of force against his own citizens released the delayed report into the British and minority ethnic COVID deaths. |
| 1:29.0 | What we all need to try and understand is that racism is systemic and structural and in trench. |
| 1:35.0 | It is not about the singular, it is about the collective, as white women, Dolly and I exist within those structures |
| 1:41.0 | and have both knowingly and unknowingly benefited from them and that it is our collective responsibility to dismantle racism. |
| 1:49.0 | We are not apart from racism, we are part of it. |
| 1:54.0 | What we can strive to do is to become anti-racist and that starts with education. |
| 2:01.0 | It's important we educate ourselves where possible we need to give financial donation |
| 2:07.0 | and we need to be utilising our privilege and societal and structural power that we have just for being white to amplify black voices. |
| 2:16.0 | And when I say we, this is Pandora night, this is always stuff that we can be better at. |
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