New Resources below: For you and your team's antiracist journey.
Deep Denial: The Persistence of White Supremacy in United States History and Life
Author David Billings
Publisher Crandall, Dostie & Douglass Books, Inc.
Deep Denial: Interview With David Billings on His New Book's Relevance to Social Workers
This interview is not just about social work. This interview is for anyone who works, loves or knows human beings ... please read this interview. Sandy Bernabei , LCSW
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Newly released Book inspired by First Monday Collective - by Alma Carten, Alan Siskind, Mary Pender Greene
Strategies for Deconstructing Racism in the Health and Human Services by Alma Carten, Alan Siskind, Mary Pender Greene
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This is Why I do this work: Mary
Mary: thank you for this. Your words strongly influenced my statement in front of the camera at the Peekskill Black Lives Matter demonstration today. It also gave me the encouragement to communicate with my boss, the President, and the rest of the executive staff at my office about the need to acknowledge the vastly disproportionate pain and suffering these videotaped police killings have on our black friends and peers and patients. I challenged my work mates to consider racism in all that we do. We can start by talking openly about this atrocity and all the lesser atrocities (from a thousand cuts or one bullet).
I treasure this learning and especially appreciate your including me in the discussion. It is often overwhelming?.but I cannot sit back and just be overwhelmed. Ron Chisoolm told me to stay the course, to organize, to speak out for justice, to demand justice. I was born with the unearned privilege of my white ancestry. I cannot tolerate the resulting inferior status that is the undeniable by product of my privilege. I have a lot of work to do with my predominantly white friends, congregation, work associates and others.
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Past Resources
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Awesome ..Must See 21 Racial Microaggressions You Hear On A Daily Basis
A photographer at Fordham asked her peers to write down the microaggressions they’ve encountered. Here is what they had to say:
How microaggressions are like mosquito bites ? Same Difference
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDd3bzA7450&sns=em
Microaggressions through Hollywood movies?.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjzWENcW6NQ
Powerful Video on Restorative Justice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N3LihLvfa0
Consent for Tea ?Awesome video about Sexual Consent---esppecially useful for teens and young adult men
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQbei5JGiT8&sns=em
Oppression Olympics, the Games we should not be playing
Definition: Oppression Olympics is a term used when two or more groups compete to prove themselves more oppressed than each other. Contestants may include:
Women. People of color. People with disabilities. LGBTQ people
The Oppression Olympics are an one-upmanship dynamic that can arise within debates amongst people who adhere to the ideological values of identity politics, intersectionality and social privilege. They have been described as "verbal banter between different, marginalized, groups who are trying to determine the weight of their many intersectionalities of oppression (race, gender, socioeconomic status, disability) to determine who has it the worst. We as a antiracist organizers must recognize that using the Oppression Olympics to determine who is truly oppressed contributes towards the maintenance of structures that prevent us from collectively working together to create a world where we can all flourish, it only serves to build walls between us when we should be tearing them down.
We must direct our frustration towards structural racism and focus our rage on dismantling oppression systems so that we can all experience what it is like to be free truly in America
Scholarly Work on Oppression Olympics:
In her work Dialogical Epistemology - An Intersectional Resistance To The "Oppression Olympics", Nira Yuval-Davis addresses the issue of Oppression Olympics and argues that categorical intersectionality provides a solution to this problem.
In her work Solidarity Politics for Millenials: A Guide to Ending the Oppression Olympics,Ange-Marie Hancock argues that the core causes for Oppression Olympics are the desire to one-up other professional victims, and blindness to t
Must See --Awesome Poem about White Privilege by..8th Grader---Hope for the future
Talking to Kids about Racism and Justice - Oakland Library --
Listen, Learn, Participate: a #BlackLivesMatter Resource Series
Talking to Kids About Racism and Justice: a list for parents, caregivers & educators
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