To those requesting for support in creating your own learning space around Racism
Windrush Scandal - Group Compiled Resources
In case you’re interested, the homework from our previous sessions is below:
Week 11
Please look at the White Accomplices website and the list of actions by clicking on the images below the table.
Read the list of White Supremacy Characteristics and identify which characteristics you relate to.
Week 10
Watch 17 minutes of this 101 Webinar on Abolition by Community Action on Prison Expansion - Lola Olufemi’s section which starts at 57 minutes in and lasts until 1 hour 14. (All of the webinar is great though, so if you have time, watch the whole thing!)
Read this short Guardian article by Adam Elliott-Cooper on Defunding the Police.
Week 9
Self-directed homework researching Windrush/ the Windrush scandal in the UK, check out the google doc of all the resources that attendees provided in the session here
Week 8
Watch these two videos:
Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners - The Price of Freedom - BBC 2 (59 minutes)
Kimberly Jones - How Can We Win? - (7 minutes)
Week 7
White Women Drive Me Crazy - Aisha Mirza
The Uses of Anger - Audre Lorde
Week 6
Holiday Philips - Performative Allyship is Deadly (Here’s What to Do Instead)
Week 5
Watch these videos (24 minutes watching total):
Toni Morrison on being asked about writing for/about white people in 1998 (7 and a half minutes long)
James Baldwin on the centrality of the image of the black man in the white American imagination (8 minutes)
(If you are unfamiliar with James Baldwin, you can learn more about his life here)
Toni Morrison on the white neurosis of racism - from minute 36 to minute 44 (8 minutes)
(If you are unfamiliar with Toni Morrison, you can learn more about her life here)
Grada Kilomba section on pages 43-45 entitled Everyday Racism
Week 4
Reni Eddo-Lodge's podcast About Race - White Women Crying is Racist
Article by Robin DiAngelo - White Women’s Tears and the Men Who Love Them
Amy Cooper video
Week 3
Chapter 1 - The Mask, and ‘Everyday Racism’ across pages 43, 44 and 45 in Plantation Memories: Episodes of Everyday Racism by Grada Kilomba.
3-minute video on “the other/otherness” “splitting” and “projection”
A 4-minute interview with Grada Kilomba about her work
Reading through this glossary, which is a terminology sheet on race and racism.
Week 2
Jennifer Loubriel - Four ways white people can process their emotions without bringing the white tears
Week 1
Reni Eddo-Lodge - Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race
Robin DiAngelo - Why It’s So Hard to Talk to White People about Racism