Racial Equity Resources
This selection of articles, books, podcasts and other resources is not meant to be a comprehensive reading list, but rather a way for interested individuals to get started in their exploration of the issues around racial equity.
Articles, books, podcasts and other resources:
- Peggy McIntosh, "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack"
- National Equity Atlas
- Racial Equity Tools
- Angela Glover Blackwell, “The Curb-Cut Effect”
- Upstander Films, First Light
- Frontline, A Class Divided
- Nell Irvin Painter, "What Is Whiteness?"
- Chenjerai Kumanyika, Uncivil podcast
- Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The Case for Reparations”
- Code Switch
- Seeing White/Scene on Radio
- Tim Wise, White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son
- Debby White, Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race
- Elizabeth Neptune, TEDxDirigo, Waponahki people: Understanding the gift of legacy
- Donna Loring, In the Shadow of the Eagle
- Allen Sockabasin, Up River Passamaquoddy
- Sally Jenkins, The Real All Americans
- James McBride, The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
- Ibram X. Kendi, How To Be an Antiracist
- Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race
- Upstander Films, Dawnland
- Beverly Daniel Tatum, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
- Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning
- Eduardo Bonilla-Silver, Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States
- Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
- bell hooks, Ain't I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism
- Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
- American Academy of Pediatricians, The Impact of Racism on Child and Adolescent Health
- bell hooks, Killing Rage: Ending Racism
- National Museum of African American History and Culture, Talking about Race
- Lelia DeAndrade, TEDxDirigo, “Believe It: Why is Racism So Hard to See?”
- Michel Martin, How White Parents Can Talk To Their Kids About Race
- Eric Liu, The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker
- Portland School System, Addressing Anti-Asian Racism: Resources
- The Try Guys, We Need to Talk about Anti-Asian Hate
- 99% Invisible, Freedom House Ambulance Service
- Race Forward
- The Management Center
- Lelia DeAndrade, "On our moment"
- Kerrien Suarez with support of Ericka Hines, "So You Want to Hire an Equity Consultant: A Guide for Leaders and Organizations"
- Equity in the Center, "Awake to Woke to Work: Building a Race Equity Culture"
Select reports on race in Maine:
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- Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Beyond the Mandate
- ACLU Maine, We Belong Here: Eliminating Inequity in Education for Immigrants and Students of Color in Maine
- Ed Cervone, What Does Racial Equity Mean in the Nation’s Whitest State? Maine Education & Workforce Coalition Is Looking to Find Out
- Coastal Enterprises, Inc., Building Maine’s Economy: How Maine Can Embrace Immigrants and Strengthen the Workforce
- Christopher Cousins, How relations between Maine and its Native American tribes have gotten so bad
- Emma Findlen Leblanc, ACLU of Maine, We Belong Here: Eliminating Inequity in Education for Immigrants and Students of Color in Maine