Resources

If you’re interested in learning more about the analysis and organizing approach that drives CARW’s work, we recommend the following readings. These resources prioritize writings from people of color as well as perspectives on the importance of white organizing in support of racial justice. 
 

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Core readings that inform how we show up as white folks:

• Framing Deep Change: Essays on Transformative Social Change 

• Of Soul and White Folks

• White Supremacy Culture

 

Thematically Oriented Racial Justice Syllabi that inform our analysis:

• BlackLivesMatter Syllabus (Fall 2016)

• Towards the Other America: Anti-Racist Resources for White People Taking Action for Black Lives

• Curriculum for White Americans to Educate Themselves on Race and Racism--From Ferguson to Charleston 

• Standing Rock Syllabus

• Trump 3.0 Syllabus

• Syllabus for White People to Educate Themselves

 

Readings for emerging organizers:

• Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Maree Brown

• Stir it Up by Rinku Sen 

• We Make the Road by Walking by Myles Horton and Paulo Freire 

• Towards Collective Liberation by Chris Crass

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Resources to stay tuned on current events: 

• ColorLines Magazine
  Multiracial magazine on race, culture, and organizing
   

• Democracy Now 
  Independent, daily news that amplifies stories of resistance and activism within the US and around the world.
   

• Indian Country Today Media Network
  A national platform for Native voices and issues.

 

Resources from other (POC-led and white anti-racist) organizations to check out:

• School of Unity and Liberation
  A movement building organization in the Bay Area for people of color, especially youth, women, queer and trans folks, and people who are low-income. 
   

• Southerners on New Ground (SONG)
  SONG is a multi-issue, multi-racial, cross class Queer Liberation Organization led by LGBTQ-identified people in the south. 
   

• Grassroots Global Justice Alliance (GGJ)
  GGJ is a national alliance of US-based grassroots organizing groups organizing to build an agenda for power for working and poor people and communities of color.
   

• The Movement for Black Lives
  The Movement for Black Lives is a collective of more than 50 black-led organizations representing thousands of Black people across the United States that have come together with renewed energy and purpose to articulate a common vision and agenda for Black Liberation.
   

• Mijente
  A new political home for Latinx and Chicanx organizing.
   

• LeftRoots
  LeftRoots is a national formation of Left social movement organizers and activists who want to connect grassroots struggles to a strategy to win liberation for all people and the planet.
   

• Challenging White Supremacy
  Workshops to train principled and effective grassroots anti-racist organizers.
   

• Showing Up For Racial Justice (SURJ)
  A national call to action and a growing network of white people working to counter racism.
   

• The Catalyst Project
  A center for political education and movement building based in the San Francisco Bay Area, committed to anti-racist work in majority white sections of left social movements with the goal of deepening anti-racist commitment in white communities and building multiracial left movements for liberation