Individual and Interpersonal Anti-Racist Work
Get educated by reading anti-racist books and watching and listening to anti-racist videos, movies, and podcasts.
Join one or more of the following PACEs Connection communities: PACEs & African Americans, Indigenous Nations & Peoples, and PACEs and Latinx Communities.
Take an Implicit Association Test (IAT).
10 things White People Can Do to Work Towards Racial Justice by Oren Jay Sofer
44 Mental Health Resources for Black People Trying to Survive in This Country
ACEs teach us why racism is a health equity Issue: Dr. Flojaune Cofer (Part One) on PACEs Connection
Grief is a direct impact of racism: Eight ways to support yourself by Roberta K. Timothy
Healing the Hidden Wounds of Racial Trauma by Kenneth V. Hardy
How I Can Offer Reparations in Direct Proportion to My White Privilege by Chris Moore-Backman
How Racism Can Affect Child Development by the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University
Power & Privilege in Canada Graphic and Tool by Amy Tan, MD
Surviving Oppression; Healing Oppression by Tarakali Education
Organizational Anti-Racist Work
Assessing Organizational Racism by Dismantling Racism Project at the Western States Center is a tool for predominantly white organizations and multi-racial organizations of white people and people of color.
Being Anti-Racist is Central to Trauma-Informed Care: Principles of an Anti-Racist, Trauma-Informed Organization by The National Child Traumatic Stress Network offers actionable principles and strategies that organizations can implement to shift beyond performative action toward becoming antiracist and trauma-informed.
Beyond Diversity and Multiculturalism: Towards the Development of Anti-Racist Institutions and Leaders by Journal for Non-Profit Management describes the agency’s journey from diversity and multiculturalism toward antiracism in its leadership, management and supervision.
Building a Multi-Ethnic, Inclusive & Antiracist Organization: Tools for Liberation Packet and Anti-Racist Activists, Allies, & Critical Thinkers by Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence (SPAN)
Demos’ Racial Equity Transformation: Key Components, Process & Lessons shares how Demos works every day to operationalize within their organization the racial equity and inclusion that they seek to advance in the United States.
Equity and Justice from the Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) shares resources, technical assistance, and tools that CSSP offers to better understand their equity journey and how they works to apply an anti-racist intersectional frame to all they do. As part of their internal equity journey, CSSP developed a list of 10 core competencies that they believe are core to all staff knowledge and learning.
Continuum on Becoming an Anti-Racist Multicultural Organization by Crossroads Ministry is a 1-page handout.
Heal Historical Trauma provides training for organizations with the goal of non-biased, inclusivity and cultural sensitivity.
Paying Attention to White Culture and Privilege: A Missing Link to Advancing Racial Equity Results by Gita Gulati-Partee, M.B.A., OpenSource Leadership Strategies, and Maggie Potapchuk, M.Ed., MP Associates shares challenges to engaging foundations in exploring white privilege and white culture in internal and external racial equity work and tools for tackling those challenges.
Racial Equity Tools offers tools, research, tips, curricula, and ideas for people who want to increase their understanding and to help those working for racial justice at every level – in systems, organizations, communities, and the culture at large.
Race Equity and Inclusion Action Guide: Embracing Equity: 7 Steps to Advance and Embed Race Equity and Inclusion Within Your Organization by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. This guide demonstrates how a race equity lens can be adopted by foundations or other organizations that work directly with systems, technical assistance providers and communities.
Community and System Anti-Racist Work
Adverse Community Experiences and Resilience: A Framework for Addressing and Preventing Community Trauma by Rachel Davis, Howard Pinderhughes, Myesha Williams at The Prevention Institute
Black Quotidian explores everyday lives of African Americans in the twentieth century. Drawing on an archive of digitized African-American newspapers, Matthew F. Delmont guides readers through a wealth of primary resources that reveal how the Black press popularized African-American history and valued the lives of both famous and ordinary Black people.
The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates: “Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.”
The Civil Rights Project at UCLA has links to civil rights and advocacy organizations.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Style Guide by National College Attainment Network (NCAN) shares terms they generally use (and don’t use) when mentioning race/ethnicity, economic status, and other identities or characteristics of a person or group.
Healing in Action: A Toolkit for Black Lives Matter Healing Justice and Direct Action by Black Lives Matter (BLM) was created to collate, condense and share the lessons learned in ensuring that BLM direct actions are centered on healing justice.
Healing Justice Toolkit: Dignity and Power Now! Healing Justice Responders provides information about healing/justice, trauma, and street rapid response.
How Racism Can Affect Child Development by the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University explains in basic terms how racism in particular gets “under the skin” and affects learning, behavior, and lifelong health.
An Indigenous Abolitionist Study Guide by Toronto Abolitionist Convergence provided this guide for Prisoners Justice
Day.
Institutional Racism and the Social Work Profession: A Call to Action by National Association of Social Workers provides definitions of institutional/structural racism, clarifies how it is relevant to the social work profession, details how it is manifested in the social systems within which social workers engage, and offers a vision for how the social work profession can address structural racism.
Interacting Layers of Trauma & Healing infographic by the RYSE Center details examples of Dehumanization and Distress as well as Liberation and Healing at four different layers of society: individual and interpersonal; community and place; systems and institutions; and history, legacy, and structure.
Racial Equity Impact Assessment by Race Forward. A Racial Equity Impact Assessment (REIA) is a systematic examination of how different racial and ethnic groups will likely be affected by a proposed action or decision.
Racial Equity Tools offers tools, research, tips, curricula, and ideas for people who want to increase their understanding and to help those working for racial justice at every level – in systems, organizations, communities, and the culture at large.
Racial Justice is Essential to Trauma-Informed Advocacy PowerPoint by VA Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance addresses trauma, privilege and oppression (specifically racism and white privilege), current disparities, and provides examples from Action Alliance.
Shifting Power from the Inside Out by Mujeres Unidas y Activas (MUA) and RoadMap, offers a new framework for community-based organizations on the evolution from membership-based to member-led organizational structure, culture, and practice.
State Policy Can Reduce Systemic Racism in Public Health (February 24, 2022) by Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) covers some of the policy efforts in 2020 and 2021 that states took to address racism and health inequity.
Systemically Neglected: How Racism Structures Public Systems to Produce Child Neglect by the Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) outlines the history of how child protective services developed to surveil families of color, examines how policy pushes families of color into the child welfare system today, and concludes with some recommendations for adequately supporting children and families of color and keeping families together in the future.
Talking about Racism and Early Childhood Development: Evidence-Based Strategies for Science Communication (2022) from Frameworks draws on empirical investigations into how people in the United States think about race and racism—and how to communicate in ways that recognize racism as a key influence on early childhood development.
Teaching Hard History: American Slavery by Southern Poverty Law Center shows that American schools are failing to teach the hard history of African enslavement. We surveyed U.S. high school seniors and social studies teachers, analyzed a selection of state content standards, and reviewed 10 popular U.S. history textbooks.