Anti-Racist Allyship & Being an Active Bystander
To better understand the issues before us, we are going to have to take the initiative to learn new things. Reject the desire to ask Black people, Indigenous people, or People of Color (BIPOC) to explain racism for you–find resources created by BIPOC to help educate yourself. Some non-exhaustive educational resources are listed below.
RISD Specific Resources:
- Responding & Referring Students to Equity & Compliance
- Content & Trigger Warnings Guide
- Anti-Racism Resources Shared by and for RISD Faculty
- Decolonisation Resources
- Trans 101: Education & Advocacy Handout
- RISD TLAD Guidelines on the Use of Racial Epithets, Slurs, and Other Offensive Material in the Classroom
Supporting BIPOC Communities:
- Why Are Asian Americans Being Attacked and What Can You Do About It?
- Equal Justice Initiative
- Hispanic Federation: Take Action
- Help Combat Anti-Indigenous Racism By Becoming An Ally
- Stand Against Hatred
- The BIPOC Project
- 14 Organizations and People Working to Support BIPOC Mental Health During the Coronavirus Crisis
- Resources to Support BIPOC Communities
- 10 Ways to Help the Black Community Right Now
Learn how to be actively Anti-Racist for BIPOC Communities:
- Bystander Intervention
- Check Your Own Bias
- Racial Equity Tools
- How to Avoid Picking Up Prejudice from the Media
- Eight Ways to Stand Up to Hate
- Anti Racism Project
- Resources to talk about Racism
- 6 ways to be antiracist, because being ‘not racist’ isn’t enough
- Standing Up to Anti-Asian Racism
- Unmasking ‘Racial Microaggressions’
- How to Respond to Microaggressions
- Why anti-Indigenous racism impacts all of us, and what you can do
- Anti-Indigenous Racism Resources
- What is Environmental Racism & How Can We Fight It?
- Anti-Racism Resources
- Stop AAPI Hate Organization
- Zinn Education Project
- Racial Equity Tools
- Interaction Institute for Social Change Trainings
- Google’s “Unbiasing” Guide
- VIDEO Tedx: How to overcome our biases? Walk boldly toward them
- Respectability’s Equity & Inclusion Resources
- Five Activities to Promote Diversity in the Classroom
FAITH-BASED RESOURCES
For the Christian community:
- The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism (Jemar Tisby)
- Dear Church: A Love Letter from a Black Preacher to the Whitest Denomination in the U.S. (Lenny Duncan)
- Disunity in Christ (Christena Cleveland)
- The Cross and the Lynching Tree (James Cone)
- Reconciliation Blues (Edward Gilbreath)
- Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America (Michael Eric Dyson)
- Trouble I’ve Seen (Drew G. I. Hart)
- I Bring the Voices of My People: A Womanist Vision for Racial Reconciliation (Chanequa Walker-Barnes)
- Dear White Christians (Jennifer Harvey)
- Divided by Faith (Michael Emerson and Christian Smith)
For the Jewish community:
For the Islamic community:
- Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative
- Race & Racism (Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative)
- Anti-Racism Guide for White Muslims
For the Buddhist community:
FOR EDUCATORS
- Anti-Racist Educator Self-Questionnaire and Rubric
- Anti-Racist Student Self-Questionnaire
- “Collectors, Nightlights, and Allies, Oh My!” (Marisela Martinez-Cola, JD/PhD)