Becoming an anti-racist doesn’t happen overnight.
Below is a list of selected resources we have found helpful in our journeys as anti-racists. There is no perfect place to start. We encourage you to pick any of them to explore yourself or with your family or friends.
READ
How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
The Next American Revolution by Grace Lee Boggs
So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
The Color Of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority by Ellen Wu
My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem
The Making of Asian America: A History by Erika Lee
Stamped by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
Passing It On by Yuri Kochiyama
Black & Asian Feminist Solidarities
We Need Diverse Books reading lists for children
WATCH
13th (Netflix)
Don’t Be A Bystander Barnard Center for Research on Women
I Am Not Your Negro (Netflix)
We are Not a Stereotype video series
Fruitvale Station (Netflix)
The Racism Virus by NBC news
Whose Streets? (Netflix or Kanopy)
Deported 5-part documentary from NBC News
Sesame Street Town Hall on Racism (CNN)
How to Outsmart Your Unconscious Bias by Valerie Alexander
10 movies by Asian American directors to watch!
We All Have Implicit Biases, so what can we do about it? by Dushaw Hockett
LISTEN
The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones
Self Evident: Asian America’s Stories host Cathy Erway
Seeing White by Scene On Radio
Asian Enough? from LA Times
Code Switch from NPR
Dear Asian Americans host Jerry Won
Unlocking Us with Brene Brown - Episodes on AntiRacism: