Session 1: Why Are We Here?
Experience of being white
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- Cracking the Codes: Unconscious Bias {video}
- The Whiteness Project {video}
- How ‘white fragility’ reinforces racism – Robin DiAngelo {video}
- Robin DiAngelo on “White Fragility” | Amanpour and Company {video}
- A Conversation With White People On Race | Op-Docs | The New York Times {video}
- Not Somewhere Else, But Here by Rev. Dr. Rebecca Parker {reading}
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Experience of being black
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- How Can We Win Kimberly Jones Video Full Length {video}
- Amber Ruffin’s Experience with the Police: Skipping in Chicago – Late Night With Seth Meyers {video}
- A Conversation With My Black Son | Op-Docs | The New York Times {video}
- A Conversation About Growing Up Black | Op-Docs | The New York Times {video}
- Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man – Episode 1 Basic questions answered {video}
- Is It Time To Get Over Slavery? Black Liberals vs Black Conservatives {video}
- Van Jones on racial justice {video}
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Dharma teaching:
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- Taking Stock of Oneself by Bhikkhu Bodhi {reading}
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Session 2: Historical Racism
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- The Invention of Whiteness with john a. powell {video}
- The Origin of Race In the USA {video}
- An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 {video}
- What is Juneteenth? {video}
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- 1619 Project {reading}
- The Freedman’s Story – The Atlantic {reading}
- History of Racism and Immigration Time Line {reading}
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Session 3: Structural Racism
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- A Case for Reparations by Ta Nehisi Coates {reading}
- Talking About Whiteness – Eula Biss being interviewed by Krista Tippett {podcast}
- Resilience in the face of a pandemic: COVID weighs unevenly across racial lines {reading}
- Is there a racial ‘care gap’ in medical treatment? {video}
- Too Many African American Children Are Born in Shackles – Common Dreams by Jesse Jackson {reading}
- Farm Groups See Racism in Agriculture and Promise to Seek Change {reading}
- Structural Racism Influences {diagram} This sketch was created by members of the WAIC UP curriculum development team as a starting point for us all to explore structural racism.
- Criminalizing Poverty, Bill Berkowitz, Truth-Out {reading}
- This American Life:: Planting the seeds of hierarchy – Is This Working? 4:20 – 23:16 {podcast}
- This American Life: Facing contemporary housing discrimination – House Rules 0:00 – 16:30 {podcast}
- Is Racism Over Yet? {video}
- “Other” A Brief History of American Xenophobia {video}
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Session 4: Institutional Racism
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- How to Talk About #NoDAPL: A Native Perspective {reading}
- 13th {movie – 1 hour 40 minutes}
- Bryan Stevenson interview. Charlie Rose. {video}
- Climate Activists: Here’s Why Your Work Depends on Ending Police Violence {reading}
- The Poor Get Prison: The Alarming Spread of the Criminalization of Poverty, International Policy Institute. {reading}
- Criminal justice and families: The Black Family in the Age of Incarceration by Ta-Nehisi Coates | The Atlantic Magazine {reading}
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Session 5: Using Buddhist Practice to Decolonize Our Minds
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- White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh {reading}
- Making the Invisible Visible: Healing Racism in our Buddhist Communities {reading}
- The Sugar Coated Language of White Fragility {reading}
- The Decolonize Issue | Yes Magazine {magazine}
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Session 6: Developing a Practice of Seeing Racism In the World Around and Within
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- White Savior: The Movie Trailer {video – 6 minutes}
- Excerpts from Between the World and Me by Ta-nehisi Coates {reading}
- Dear White People/Queridos Gringos: You Want Our Culture But You Don’t Want Us – Stop Colonizing The Day Of The Dead by Aya de Leon {reading}
- Immigrant workers at Michigan greenhouse: We were cheated, tricked into deportation | USA Today {reading}
- It Starts With Me: Understanding Racial Micro-Aggressions {reading}
- Racial Healing Handbook: Practical Activities to Help You Challenge Privilege, Confront Systemic Racism, and Engage in Collective Healing by Anneliese A. Singh, PhD, LPC {reading}
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Session 7: Racism In Our Organizations
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- Disparities in Funding for Leaders of Color Leave Impact on the Table – Racial Equity and Philanthropy By Cheryl Dorsey, Jeff Bradach, and Peter Kim {reading}
- US Leaders Must take Meaningful Action Against Racism {reading}
- On Diversity: Access Ain’t Inclusion | Anthony Jack | TEDxCambridge {video}
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Racism in the Workplace
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- Restructure Your Organization to Actually Advance Racial Justice by Evelyn R. Carter {reading}
- Confronting Racial Bias At Work {video}
- How racial affinity groups saved my life {reading}
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Micro-Aggressions
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- Microaggressions in Everyday Life {video}
- Little Lesson on Microaggressions {video}
- If Microaggressions Happened to White People | Decoded | MTV News {video}
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Session 8: Applying Our Spiritual Practice
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- Beyond Apartheid of the Heart by Thanissara {podcast} Consider listening to this talk as a guided meditation, staying closely aware of the body and any emotions that arise.
- Ven Pannavati: the Buddhist view on greed, hatred & delusion, and how it relates to the BLM movement
- Race, Reclamation and the Resilience Revolution | Lion’s Roar {reading}
- SOJOURNERS- For Our White Friends Desiring to be Allies– Courtney Ariel {reading}
- White Anti-Racism Must Be Based in Solidarity, Not Altruism | The Nation {reading}
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Additional Resources
Meditations and Other Practices
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- Lama Rod Owens meditation on compassion {video}
- Meditation in Times of Crisis — Rev. angel Kyodo williams {video}
- How to Have a Voice and Lean Into Conversations About Race | Amanda Kemp | TEDxWilmington {video}
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Dharma Talks on Racism
How Children Learn About Race
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- What I am learning from my white grandchildren — truths about race | Anthony Peterson | {video}
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Compiled Resources
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- Dismantling Racism (2106 Workbook)
- 21 Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge
- Anti-Racist Allyship Starter Pack
- White Awake – Resources
- New York Times book list – (behind paywall)
- Anti-Racism Resources – Document compiled by Sarah Sophie Flicker, Alyssa Klein in May 2020
- How Did We Get Here? – 163 years of The Atlantic’s writing on race and racism in America
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Books
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- Things that Make White People Uncomfortable – Michael Bennet
- White Fragility – Robin DiAngelo
- Waking Up White – Debbie Irving
- The New Jim Crow – Michelle Alexander
- Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome – Joy DeGruey
- Just Mercy – Bryan Stevenson
- The Inner Work of Racial Justice – Rhonda Magee
- The Racial Healing Handbook – Anneliese A. Singh
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