Extension is fully committed to engaging in anti-racism work. The Office of Access, Inclusion, and Compliance has compiled a list of resources for Extension professionals.
Books (organized by category)
- Overview on Race
- “So You Want to Talk About Race” by Ijeoma Oluo
- Direct Anti-Racism Work
- “How to be an anti-racist” by Ibram X. Kendi
- Biology
- “Fatal intervention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century” by Dorothy Roberts
- Caste
- “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent” by Isabel Wilkerson
- Culture
- “Their eyes were watching God” by Zora Neale Hurston
- Colorism
- “The Blacker the Berry” BY Wallace Thurman
- Education
- “No Bs (Bad Stats): Black People Need People Who Believe in Black People Enough Not to Believe Every Bad Thing They Hear about Black People” by Ivory A Toldson
- “Understanding Minority Serving Institutions” by Baez Gasman
- Ethnicity
- “West Indian Immigrants: A Black Success Story?” by Suzanne Model
- History
- “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration” by Isabel Wilkerson
- “The condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America ” by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
- Whiteness
- “Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland” by Jonathan M. Metzl
- Blackness
- “Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America” by James Forman Jr.
- Gender
- “How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective” by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
- “Well-read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves” by Glory Edim
- Housing
- “High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing” by Ben Austen
- “How to Kill a City” by P.E. Moskowitz
- “The Color of Law” by Richard Rothstein
- “Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership” by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
- “Evicted” by Matthew Desmond
- Systemic Racism
- “White Rage” by Carol Anderson
- White Privilege
- “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism” by Robin DiAngelo
- “Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor” by Layla F. Saad
- “White Kids: Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America (Critical Perspectives on Youth)” by Margaret Al Hagerman
Articles
- How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Reach Change
- Articles on structural racism in America
- National Council on Family Relations https://www.ncfr.org/news/resources-address-racism-and-racial-violence
- Ta-Nehisi Coates is a national correspondent for the Atlantic where he writes about culture, politics, and social issues. https://www.theatlantic.com/author/ta-nehisi-coates/
- America’s Racial Contract is Killing Us by Adam Serwer
- Who Get’s to Be Afraid in America? by Ibram X. Kendi
- 1619 Project
- White Privilege Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh
- The Intersectionality Wars by Jane Coaston
- The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groups
- Agricultural Extension and the Campaign to Assimilate the Native Americans of Wisconsin by Angela Firkus
Lessons and training
- Competencies Framework for Civil Dialogue around Race Relations
- https://civildialogue.extension.org/competencies-framework/
- Political education on race, whiteness, and class
- The anti-racism starter kit
- Facilitating with a Trauma Informed Lens
Videos
Podcasts
- “Your Body Being Used” CodeSwitch Podcast from NPR ~ 6 min
- “When Civility is Used as a Cudgel Against People of Color” CodeSwitch Podcast NPR ~ 6 min
- “The Power of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Anger” CodeSwitch Podcast NPR ~ 5 min
- “Opinion: My Father Stood for the National Anthem for the Same Reason Colin Kaepernick Sits” CodeSwitch Podcast NPR ~ 4 minutes
- “When Calling the Po-Po is a No-No” CodeSwitch NPR ~ 4 min
- A Forgotten History of How the US Government Segregated America- NPR
Peer-reviewed articles
- History of Race and Racism in LandGrant System.Reading List
- Comprehensive list on whiteness, white emotionality, and education
- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TLWAYPwqm1GLzea1hNGZY0RRDFThUlI88TVqvTVnc-M/mobilebasic
- Selections on Decolonizing Research Practices
- Annotated-Bibliography Culturally Relevant Pedagogies
External databases
Anti-racism resources for all ages
https://dei.extension.org/extension-resources/
A detailed list of anti-racism resources
Resources for white people to learn and talk about race and racism
75 things White people can do for racial justice
138 Resources to Help You and Your Students Reflect on Anti-Black Racism and Take Action