Listen to Jen breaking down racism in organizational culture, specifically how white folks internalize the myth of white superiority

Bethaney Wilkinson of The Diversity Gap Podcast interviews Jen Willsea in January 2020.

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Where to get trained up (online)

​Personal Approach to Change and Equity with VISIONS Inc.
Racial Equity and Liberation Series with Move to End Violence faculty Monica Dennis and Rachael Ibrahim
Racial Equity Institute (for structural and historical dimensions of racism)
Whiteness at Work with The Adaway Group
​Freedom School with The Adaway Group
​Healing from Toxic Whiteness with Sandra Kim
Antiracist Three Day Intensive (for white people) with Victoria Santos and Carlin Quinn
Half Day Workshops with Resmaa Menakem and/or Robin DiAngelo

Reading

Solo, self-paced workbooks:

• The Racial Healing Handbook by Anneliese Singh
• Turning Towards Each Other: A Conflict Workbook by Jovida Ross and Weyam Ghadbian

Organizational change resources:

• Awake to Woke to Work: Building a Race Equity Culture by Equity in the Center
• The Power Manual: How to Master Complex Power Dynamics by Cyndi Suarez
• White Dominant Culture & Something Else worksheet

Understanding Native erasure, antiBlackness and anti-Semitism:

• Decolonization is Not a Metaphor by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang
• Call it What it is: AntiBlackness by kihana miraya ross
• ​What is Owed by Nikole Hannah-Jones
• Understanding Anti-Semitism by Jews for Racial and Economic Justice

On Whiteness:

• White Women Doing White Supremacy in Nonprofit Culture by Heather Laine Talley
• Here's why White Allies Can Get So Overwhelmed and Confused about What to do Next about Racism by Sandra Kim
• What is White Supremacy by Elizabeth 'Betita' Martinez

Books I am reading (and re-reading)

Non-fiction Books - HISTORY

• Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings
• Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
• Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America by Thomas King
• Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert
• The Legend of the Black Mecca: Politics and Class in the Making of Modern Atlanta by Maurice Hobson
• They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie Jones-Rogers
• Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy by Elizabeth Gillespie McRae
• Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy by Barbara Ehrenreich

Non-fiction Books - PRESENT AND FUTURE

• Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger by Lama Rod Owens
• The Way of Tenderness: Awakening through Race, Sexuality and Gender by Zenju Earthlyn Manuel
• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance by Edgar Villanueva
• My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
• White Fragility: Why it's so Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin DiAngelo
• Living in the Shadow of the Cross: Understanding and Resisting the Power and Privilege of Christian Hegemony by Paul Kivel
• Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America's Heartland by Jonathan Metzl
• As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
• Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love and Liberation by angel kyodo williams & Lama Rod Owens
• Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America by Jennifer Harvey
• Parable of the Sower & Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler 

Fiction and Memoirs

• Crazy Brave by Joy Harjo
• World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
• See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love by Valarie Kaur
• Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
• Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir by Cherríe Moraga
• Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
• Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
• When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Kahn-Cullors & Asha Bandele
• Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon​

Many of the books listed above can be accessed for free via the Fulton County Public Library PDF linked here.

film & tv

Exterminate All the Brutes (2021 series on HBO)
Minari (2021 film)
Asian Americans (2020 series on PBS)
​POSE (2019 TV series on FX; available now on Netflix)
Get Out (2017 film)