Anti-Racism
This is a huge subject area and there are many more excellent resources than what we have listed here. Our intent is to provide resources that cover key topics, definitions, and historical context, and those are most relevant to equity work in East King County. Please send us your suggestions for additional resources that help provide an overview and understanding about racism.
Ready to take action? Here’s some inspiration for next steps: Actions and Practices.
The New York Times Presents the 1619 Project
A Class Divided
Race - The Power of an Illusion: How the Racial Wealth Gap was Created
Segregated by Design
Birth of a White Nation
Excellent history lesson in how "white" people came to be.
Books
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
YOU ARE HERE! Field Guide for Racial Reality E-Book by Fernell Miller
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Understanding and Dismantling Racism: The Twenty-First Century Challenge to White America by Joseph Barndt
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness by Simone Browne