Emotions of Racism: A Resource List

Oji Life Lab recently hosted a webinar on the Emotions of Racism. What we learned: these conversations can be hard. The even harder truth: the impacts of not talking about racism can be far worse. We are grateful for our panelists (Janet Miller Evans, David Grant and Steven J. Baines) who helped us all to listen, process, and learn to do better together. You can watch a replay here.

In our hour-long discussion, a number of participants asked for more resources on anti-racism work. Thanks to the suggestions of panelists and participants, we  collated a list to get you started:

• Apollo Neuro Device website
• The Assassination of the Black Male Image by Earl Ofari Hutchinson
• Finding Hope In Uncertain Times: 21 days of meditation with Oprah Winfrey and Deepak Chopra
• Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class by Ian Haney López
• Don’t Label Me: An Incredible Conversation for Divided Times by Irshad Manji
  How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
• Me And White Supremacy by Layla Saad
• Microaggressions in Everyday Life, 2nd Edition by Derald Wing Sue and Lisa Spanierman
• My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
• Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall B. Rosenberg
• Protect Your Energy website
• Racism without Racists: Color-blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
• Talking to Strangers by Malcom Gladwell
• Tears We Cannot Stop by Michael Eric Dyson
• Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man YouTube series by Emmanuel Acho
• Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement by John Lewis and Michael D’Orso
• Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn
• White Ally Toolkit website
• White Ally: A Guide to Cultivating a Deeply Spiritual Antiracism Practice by Sonia Roberts
• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People To Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
  
  Part II of the discussion takes place on Thursday, July 2nd. We hope you can join us. Register here.
  

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Andrea Hoban

Andrea Hoban is Co-Founder and Chief Learning Officer of Oji Life Lab. As Oji’s head of learning and program design, Andrea is reimagining the way we learn skills, such as emotional intelligence.

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