(here’s a way to buy books from Black-owned bookstores.)
Intersectional Environmentalism and Placemaking:
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Belonging: a Culture of Place by bell hooks
KC Panel on Race and the Food System
Intersectional Environmentalism: Why Environmental Justice is Essential for a Sustainable Future
Going Black to the Land During a Global Crisis
The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom
Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
Housing:
KC Tenants – Missouri Tenants Listening Experiment
Art World:
100 Black Artists Based in Kansas City – Compiled by River Makenzi (instagram)
Four Barriers to Change and Equity in the Visual Arts by Mel Mitchell-Jackson
Change the Museum (instagram)
An Open Letter to Arts Organizations Rampant with White Supremacy by Nana Chinara
Coronavirus, Structural Racism, Resistance and the Future We Must Create [Art World]
Decolonize the Art World (Are.na)
PDF: Black, Brown, & Beige – Surrealism
What About Activism? (book)
Anti-Racism:
For context: Washington Post: The black women who launched the original anti-racist reading list and What is an Anti-Racist Reading List For?
And a call to understand that this must go beyond reading: When black people are in pain, white people just join book clubs
How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X Kendi
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brown
Anti-racism resources for white people (google doc)
PDF handout from the Racial Healing Handbook: Practical Activities
Being Antiracist – National Museum of African American History and Culture
Systemic Racism: 64 Practical Examples of the Challenges that Face Black Americans
The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates
How Did We Get Here? 163 years of The Atlantic’s writing on race and racism in America
Ezra C Daniels: Empathy Myopia
Justice System:
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Walls Turned Sideways: Artists Confront the Justice System exhibition and book
Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration exhibition and book
The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale
PDF: Angela Davis – Are Prisons Obsolete?
NPR: How much do we need the police
Jacobin: How to be Anticapitalist by Erik Olin Wright
Faith:
Art and Faith by Makoto Fujimura
I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown
The Color of Compromise by Jemar Tisby
Divided by Faith by Emerson & Smith
White Friends Let’s Talk About Race by Nia Pycior
and A Partial Personal Account of Being Black in America
For our White Friends Desiring to be Allies by Courtney Ariel
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