Allyship Resources
Racial Equity Tools
An extensive resource with in-depth descriptions of, and link to articles pertaining to, key social justice concepts, issue areas, and histories. Additionally, provides toolkits for action.
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, by Peggy McIntosh
A foundational piece describing white privilege and unearned advantage. Provides a list of examples of privilege white folks may experience in their day-to-day lives.
TheRoot.com: “Black news, opinions, politics and culture”
ColorLines.com: A daily news site where race matters, featuring award-winning investigative reporting and news analysis. Colorlines is published by Race Forward, a national organization that advances racial justice through research, media and practice.
The answer to police violence is not 'reform'. It's defunding. Here's why May 2020
75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice (continuously updated)
Dear White People, This is What We Want You to Do May 2020
Stop Asking People Of Color To Explain Racism–Pick Up One Of These Books Instead May 2020
Racism Scale March 2019
White people assume niceness is the answer to racial inequality. It's not, January 2019
- A piece examining white people’s tendency to equate being nice as the same as being “not racist.” Addresses the problematic good/bad binary view of racism and the way it absolves white folks from confronting their complicity in racist systems.
100 Ways White People Can Make Life Less Frustrating For People of Color April 2018
Why This Black Girl Will Not be Returning To The Women’s March, by S. T. Halloway, Huffington Post, January 19, 2018
The author describes her experience at the 2017 Women’s March and offers a critique of the effort’s limitations in adopting an intersectional notion of feminism.
Emboldened white nationalists? Look No Further than this liberal Oregon college town, by Noelle Crombie and Shane Dixon Kavanaugh, The Oregonian, December 29, 2017.
- Highlights followers of white supremacist thought currently residing in and near Eugene
FOR OUR WHITE FRIENDS DESIRING TO BE ALLIES August 2017
The Case for Reparations, Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic, June 2014
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
Oregon Statewide Report Card, 2016
Department of Education: Civil Rights Data Collection Data Snapshot: College and Career Readiness
Discrimination in American: Experiences and Views of African Americans
Bureau of Justice Statistics: Police-Public Contact Survey
Percentage of African-Americans in management on decline
Minority Business Ownership: Data from the 2012 Survey of Business Owners
Race in the Writer's Room: How Hollywood Whitewashes the Stories that Shape America
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