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

Intro to Racism for White People (and anyone else!) - A List of Resources 

Interactive Resources:

• The Racial Healing Handbook by Anneliese Singh
• 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

Key Articles:

• Is Reconciliation Possible? Lessons from Combatting 'Modern Racism' by Valerie Batts
• Decolonization is Not a Metaphor by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang
• Understanding Anti-Semitism by Jews for Racial and Economic Justice

Books I am reading (and re-reading):

Non-fiction Books - HISTORY

• 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 Ehrehreich

Non-fiction Books - PRESENT AND FUTURE

• 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
• How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
• 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
  

Fiction and Memoirs

• 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