Equity in Action
RACIAL JUSTICE AND MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES
“How Racism, Trauma and Mental Health Are Linked” (interview, 4 minutes)
Sharé Smith from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Interview by Christine Herman, NPR
https://www.wglt.org/post/how-racism-trauma-and-mental-health-are-linked-0#stream/0
“Families of Color Face Challenges when Seeking Treatment for Mental Illness” (article, 4
minute read)
Real Talk: WOC & Allies, Medium
“Part II: How We Talk About Mental Health Is Racist” (article, 5 minute read)
Real Talk: WOC & Allies, Medium
“Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Mental Health Care: Evidence and Policy Implications”
(research article)
Thomas G. McGuire and Jeanne Miranda
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3928067/
“The Effects of Racism on Mental Health: How to Cope” (webinar, 90 minutes)
Dr. Karen G. Martínez, MD, MSc and Dr. Jessica Graham-LoPresti
Anxiety and Depression Association of America
https://adaa.org/webinar/consumer/effects-racism-mental-health-how-cope
“The Link Between Experiences of Racism and Stress and Anxiety for Black Americans”
Tahirah Abdullah, PhD and Jess Graham, PhD
Anxiety and Depression Association of America
“Racism Lingers in Mental Health System” (news article)
Aaron Levin
American Psychiatric Association
https://psychnews.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.pn.2013.11b16
“Suicide isn’t just a ‘white people thing’”
Kimya N. Dennis
The Conversation
INTERSECTIONALITY
"Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of
Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics"
Kimberlé Crenshaw
University of Chicago Legal Forum, 1989
“Intersectionality 101: Why ‘we’re focusing on women’ doesn’t work for Diversity &
Inclusion” (article, 6 minute read)
Jennifer Kim, Medium
ALLYSHIP RESOURCES
“Curriculum for White Americans to Educate Themselves on Race and Racism–from
Ferguson to Charleston” (resource list)
Jon Greenberg
Citizenship & Social Justice
“11-Step Guide to Understanding Race, Racism, and White Privilege” (longer article)
Jon Greenberg
Citizenship & Social Justice
“‘We need co-conspirators, not allies’: how white Americans can fight racism” (article)
Rose Hackman
The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/26/how-white-americans-can-fight-racism
“11 Things White People Can Do to Become Real Anti-Racist Allies” (article)
Kali Holloway
AlterNet
https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/11-things-white-people-can-do-be-real-anti-racist-allies
“What Is Whiteness?” (opinion article)
Nell Irvin Painter
New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/21/opinion/sunday/what-is-whiteness.html?referrer=&_r=0
“5 Tips For Being An Ally” (video, 4 minutes)
Chescaleigh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dg86g-QlM0
“Accomplices Not Allies: Abolishing the Ally Industrial Complex”
Indigenous Action
http://www.indigenousaction.org/accomplices-not-allies-abolishing-the-ally-industrial-complex/
RESOURCES FOR SELF-CARE FOR PEOPLE OF COLOR DOING RACIAL JUSTICE WORK
Self care Readings and Resources
POC Online Classroom
http://www.poconlineclassroom.com/self-care
“Love as Political Resistance: Lessons from Audre Lorde and Octavia Butler” (article)
Adrienne Maree Brown
Bitchmedia
“Self Care for People of Color After Psychological Trauma” (blog post)
Just Jasmine
“Filling our Cups: 4 Ways People of Color can Foster Mental Health and Practice Restorative
Healing” (article, 7 minute read)
Threads of Solidarity: WOC Against Racism
Medium
“Self-Care Strategies for Survival: Sustaining Oneself in Social Justice Movements” (article)
Lauren Lofton
CompassPoint
Racial and Cultural Trauma: Self and Community Care Resources
https://www.mtholyoke.edu/counseling/racial-and-cultural-trauma-self-and-community-care-resources
Family Care, Community-Care and Self-Care Tool Kit: Healing in the Face of Cultural
Trauma (PDF, 27 pages)
Community Healing Network and The Association of Black Psychologists, Inc.
http://www.abpsi.org/pdf/FamilyCommunitySelfCareToolKit.pdf
“The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action” (essay)
Audre Lorde
COMBATTING AVERSIVE RACISM
“‘You’re calling me a racist?’ The Moral and Emotional Regulation of Antiracism and
Feminism” (journal article)
Sarita Srivastava, Department of Sociology at Queen’s University, Ontario
Journal of Women in Culture and Society
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/432738?journalCode=signs&
“Your Calls For Unity Are Divisive As F*ck” (article, 7 minute read)
DiDi Delgado
Black Lives Matter Global Network, Medium
https://medium.com/the-establishment/your-calls-for-unity-are-divisive-as-f-ck-3d6584bca72f
“Be Less Racist: 12 Tips for White Dudes, by A White Dude” (article)
Dan Zanes
The Mash-Up Americans
http://www.mashupamericans.com/issues/be-less-racist-12-tips-for-white-dudes-by-a-white-dude/
UNDERSTANDING WHITE PRIVILEGE
“What Is White Privilege, Really?” (article)
Cory Collins
Teaching Tolerance
https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/fall-2018/what-is-white-privilege-really
10 White Privileges You Don’t Know You Have
Grace Goodwin
http://whiteprivilege.org/10-privileges-you-dont-know-you-have/
10 Things White Privilege Has Done for Me in 10 Days (article)
Olivia A. Cole
Huffington Post
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/10-things-white-privilege_b_5658049
White Privilege Checklist (PDF)
Peggy McIntosh
http://crc-global.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/white-privilege.pdf
BYSTANDER INTERVENTION
“How to intervene when you see street harassment: an illustrated guide” (article)
Soo Oh
Vox
https://www.vox.com/identities/2016/12/28/13799756/bystander-intervention-deescalation
Intervention & Deescalation Resources, including Anti-Harassment 101 (resource list)
http://deescalationandintervention.weebly.com/resources.html
“A Practical Web Tutorial to Bystander Intervention and De-escalation Tactics” (article)
Jes Skolnik
Watt
https://watt.cashmusic.org/writing/deescalation
Bystander Intervention Resources from the American Friends Service Committee:
“Bystander Intervention Do’s and Don’ts”
https://www.afsc.org/bystanderintervention#
Recap: Bystander Intervention Training (webinar)
https://www.afsc.org/story/recap-bystander-intervention-training
“Don’t be Just a Bystander: 6 Tips for Responding to Racist Attacks” (video)
https://www.afsc.org/video/dont-be-just-bystander-6-tips-responding-to-racist-attacks
Do’s and Don’ts for Bystander Intervention
OCA-GLA
http://oca-gla.org/programs/dos-and-donts-for-bystander-intervention/
RESOURCES ON THE ENDURING TRAUMA OF SYSTEMIC RACISM IN COMMUNITIES OF COLOR
“Slavery to Mass Incarceration” (video)
Equal Justice Initiative
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4e_djVSag4
“Racism in the Criminal Justice System” (infographic)
Arrest Records.com
http://www.arrestrecords.com/infographic-racism-in-the-criminal-justice-system/
“America’s Original Sin: Slavery and the Legacy of White Supremacy” (article)
Annette Gordon-Reed
Foreign Affairs
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2017-12-12/americas-original-sin
“There Is No Middle Ground Between Racism and Justice” (article)
Ijeoma Oluo
The Establishment
https://theestablishment.co/there-is-no-middle-ground-between-racism-and-justice-8838f14e46a3/
“Police Killings Have Harmed Mental Health in Black Communities, Study Finds” (article)
John Eligon
New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/21/us/police-shootings-black-mental-health.html
RESOURCES ON HOW SYSTEMIC RACISM PERPETUATES ITSELF AND HOW TO DISMANTLE IT
“Cycle of Socialization,” Harro et al. 2000
“Cycle of Liberation,” Harro et al. 2000
“Leadership Matters: How Hidden Biases Perpetuate Institutional Racism in Organizations”
Walter et al. Human Service Organization; Management Leadership and Governance (2017)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23303131.2016.1249584
TRAININGS
Re-Center
The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond
Human In Common
Truth School
BOOKS
Dear Universe by Yolo Akili
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and
Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
When Affirmative Action Was White by Ira Katznelson
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree Brown
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by Adrienne Maree Brown
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS FOCUSED ON DIRECT SERVICES
Gandara Center, West Springfield, Massachusetts
Lowell Community Health Center, Lowell, Massachusetts
Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma
Cambridge Health Alliance Multicultural Mental Health Programs: Latino, Asian, Haitian,
Portuguese https://www.challiance.org/cha-services/specialty-services
La Alianza Hispana
Casa Esperanza
https://www.casaesperanza.org/
Codman Square Health Center, Dorchester, Massachusetts
http://www.codman.org/services/behavioral_health.html
COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS FOCUSED ON EDUCATION AND ADVOCACY
DeeDee's Cry
https://www.facebook.com/DeeDees-Cry-1968152186789308/
Asian Women For Health
http://www.asianwomenforhealth.org
North American Indian Center of Boston
Arredondo Family Foundation
https://arredondofoundation.org
The Transformation Center