Anti-Racism Webliography
Websites
American Psychological Association Public Interest Online Brochures
There are a number of useful brochures under Ethnic Minorities, particularly one entitled: Racism and Psychology: Why We Dislike, Stereotype, and Hate Other Groups and What to Do About It
AntiRacismNet
This site currently offers news that contextualizes present day racism, promotes anti-racism organizations, and highlights actions in the fight against racism.
News is categorized by social, gender, environmental and economic justice.
Center for the Study of White American Culture: A Multiracial Organization
Full-text articles on whiteness
The White Antiracism Community Action Network, an online community with discussion board and chat rooms.
Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive
Mississippi was a focal point in the struggle for civil right, and Hattiesburg, where the University of Southern Mississippi is located, had the largest and most successful Freedom Summer project in 1964. Site includes a “Civil Rights in Mississippi ” Timeline, many photographs, 150 oral histories, and eventually 7000 pages of text.
Civil Rights Movement Veterans
This site invites stories and updates for those active with CORE, NAACP, SCLC, SNCC, or other Southern Freedom Movement organization during the 1960s. This information is accessible on the “Roll Call” pages.
The “Timeline” sets a historical context beginning in 1619, then focuses on 1951 (when 16-year-old Barbara Johns led a student strike) to1968 when the movement evolved into a new phase. The Timeline is still under construction, but includes many events and narratives already. “Site Search” is a helpful tool. Includes many links.
Crossroads Ministry
Crossroads provides education, training, and organizing to dismantle racism and build anti-racist multicultural diversity.
Damascus Road Antiracism Project
DR is an Anabaptist antiracism training and skill development program, an initiative of the Mennonite Central Committee U.S. Anti-Racism Program.
Newsletters since 2002 are available online.
Debwewin: Three City Anti-Racism Initiative (Canadian)
Debwewin is the eastern Ojibwe word for "truth." The Debwewin Three-City Anti-Racism Initiative studied racism and discrimination in North Bay , Sault Ste. Marie and Timmins . It also studied the coverage of aboriginal people and issues in the local and national media. (Reports are available under “Studies and Resources” below.)
Evaluation Tools for Racial Equity
This project began with seed money from Project Change, along with the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies’ Network of Alliances Bridging Race and Ethnicity (NABRE) program.
Glossary for Racial Equity (including source of definitions)
Common Evaluation Terms (includes source of definitions)
Hope in the Cities
Hope in the Cities is an interracial, multi-faith network providing a framework for honest dialogue and collaboration among citizen groups through reconciliation among racial, ethnic and religious groups.
Community and personal stories of change.
Project Change
In 1991, Project Change began anti-racism work in 4 locations. Publications are downloadable from the web, including A Community Builder's Tool Kit that highlights efforts of 15 U.S. based anti-racism/diversity projects, and a newsletter put out jointly with Institute for Democratic Renewal (Vol. 1, Issue 1: March 2005).
Understanding Prejudice
This site was created in 2002 with funding from the National Science Foundation and McGraw-Hill Higher Education. Although this web site is intended to supplement an anthology entitled Understanding Prejudice and Discrimination, all pages and activities are freely available and can be used with other texts or on their own.
- Base-line Survey to take a snapshot of current opinions.
- Slide Tour of Prejudice to judge a series of advertisements.
- Ambivalent Sexism demonstration--and accompanying inventory.
- What's Your Native I.Q.?
- Test Yourself for Hidden Biases
- Also includes links to many online articles and book titles (stereotyping in general; racism, sexism and genocide in the U.S.; effective means of reducing prejudice) and links to many diverse organizations.
Voices of Civil Rights
This site is a joint project of AARP, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), and the Library of Congress collecting personal stories of activists from 1945-1975. The site extends beyond this time period, as an opening video invites the viewer to “join us to create the world’s largest archive of firsthand accounts of the struggle for human rights…”
Voices includes accounts of activists from many reform movements: African American, American Indian, Chicano, gay, environmental, and women.
Historical perspectives include a timeline from 1868 to the present, “Voices of Civil Rights Music Video,” as well as photos.
Civil Rights Today features stories of contemporary activists and issues.
We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement
This National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary site is produced by the National Park Service. It offers a guide to 49 historic sites in 21 states. Each site has a page with commentary and photographs, as well as contact information. Provides links to other Civil Rights Movement Resources on the Web.
WhitePrivilege.com: An Anti-Racist Resource
WP’s editorial focus analyzes and critically assesses racialized social privilege. The site includes articles from various sources and a subject index to the archived articles.
Bibliographies
Civil Rights Movement Bibliography
From home page, click on Bibliography on the left-hand menu. Many resources for all ages: music, videos and photos.
Crossroads Ministry
Bibliography
IIncludes: Racism and anti-racism: analysis and organizing; People of color history: Reality and Resistance--African & African American, Latino/a, Native American (American Indian and Alaska Native), Asian American and Pacific Islander; Whiteness studies, Biblical and theological titles.
Hope in the Cities
Recommended Reading list on race, reconciliation and responsibility.
Race, Ethnicity and Religion Project, Cornell University Library.
Books titles, with and without annotations, journals, articles.
We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement
Learn More
Includes Histories of the Civil Rights Movement; Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Biographies; Organizational Histories; Books for Young Readers; and General Reference.
