Terminology sheet on Racism

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):

  1. Toni Morrison on being asked about writing for/about white people in 1998 (7 and a half minutes long)

  2. 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)

  1. 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