(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
Art World:
100 Black Artists Based in Kansas City – Compiled by River Makenzi (instagram)
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:
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
