We’ve compiled a long list of essential anti-racism voices and resources. Fiction and non-fiction books to read. Podcasts to listen to and social media accounts to follow. Charities to which to donate. At ECOLOOKBOOK we always try to be open, to listen, to learn and to educate ourselves. We will continue to ask the tough questions of ourselves and to do the work to understand the history of systemic racism and the context of the Black Lives Matters movement.
Some of the powerful anti-racism resources listed below we had previously read or discovered. Others we have recently found and started to follow and read. How can we do better as a society? How can we help? To quote Angela Davis: “It is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti racist.”
Voices to follow on social media
Non-fiction books for you to ‘Do The Work’
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth Of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
I Am Not Your Baby Mother by Candice Brathwaite
Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Don’t Touch My Hair by Emma Dabiri
Women, Race and Class by Angela Davis
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism by Robin Diangelo
Why I Am No Longer Talking To White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
Brit(ish): On Race, Identity And Belonging by Afua Hirsch
Natives: Race And Class In The Ruins Of Empire by Akala
Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
How To Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
Taking Up Space: The Black Girl’s Manifesto For Change by Chelsea Kwakye and Ore Ogunbiyi
A Burst Of Light: and Other Essays by Audre Lorde
So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism And You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X Kendi
Me And White Supremacy by Layla F Saad
The Good Immigrant compiled by Nikesh Shukla
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
My Name Is Why by Lemn Sissay
Slay In Your Lane by Elizabeth Uviebinene and Yomi Adegoke
Fiction and poetry to awaken your mind
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Ordinary People by Diana Evans
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi-Adichie
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid
On Beauty And White Teeth by Zadie Smith
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
The Colour Purple by Alice Walker
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
Articles to get you thinking
Why You Need To Stop Saying “All Lives Matter” by Rachel Elizabeth Cargle for Harper’s Bazaar
10 Steps to Non-Optical Allyship by Mireille Cassandra Harper for Vogue UK
An Anti-Racist Reading List by Ibram X. Kendi for The New York Times
Listen! to these podcasts
1619 podcast by The New York Times
About Race with Reni Eddo-Lodge
All My Relations hosted by Matika Wilbur and Adrienne Keene
Code Switch by NPR
Desert Island Discs with Bryan Stevenson
Good Ancestor podcast with Layla F Saad
Intersectionality Matters! by Kimberle Crenshaw
Slay in Your Lane: The Podcast by Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uviebinené
Witness Black History by BBC World Service