Let's Start the Conversation
In June of 2020 Mercer's Department of Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) and Counseling & Psychological Services (CAPS) began a forum to discuss racial trauma and social unrest due a series of impactful events. A list of resources were developed for staff, faculty and students as an outcome of these forum discussions.
Websites:
- Showing Up for Racial Justice
- Teaching Tolerance
- Be the Bridge
- Project Implicit at Harvard
- Live interviews with the three first African American students at Mercer: Sam Oni, Benny Stevens, and Betty Walker
Anti-racism resources to check out:
- 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
- Anti-Racism Project
- Jenna Arnold’s resources (books and people to follow)
- Rachel Ricketts’ anti-racism resources
- Resources for White People to Learn and Talk About Race and Racism
- Save the Tears: White Woman’s Guide by Tatiana Mac
- Showing Up For Racial Justice’s educational toolkits
- The [White] Shift on Instagram
- “Why is this happening?” — an introduction to police brutality from 100 Year Hoodie
- Zinn Education Project’s teaching materials
Books:
- Anti-Racism for Kids 101: http://booksforlittles.com/racial-diversity/
- The Stem of Jesse (Will D. Campbell)
- I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness (Austin Channing Brown)
- The Color of Compromise (Jemar Tisby)
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism (Robin Diangelo)
- So You Want to Talk about Race (Ijeoma Oluo)
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? (Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD)
- Be the Bridge: Pursuing God’s Heart for Racial Conciliation (Latasha Morrison)
- The Memo: What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Seat at the Table (Minda Harts)
- How to be an Antiracist (Ibram X. Kendi)
- My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies (Resmaa Menakem)
- The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Richard Rothstein)
- Stamped from the Beginning (Ibram X. Kendi)
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