We are deeply saddened by the deaths of countless Black Americans, Asian and Pacific Islander (API) Americans, Indigenous Americans, and other underrepresented groups, that occur from systemic oppression. These traumatic events have created a societal tipping point as our collective eyes are opened to the systemic oppression and silence that Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) Americans have faced for centuries at the hands of White Americans. Although it feels overwhelming to make a difference against this system, that is what many trauma therapists signed up to do. EMDR therapists look to see how EMDR can heal trauma, mend divides, raise awareness, and advocate for those who need it most.

Right now, BIPOC, API, and other underrepresented communities need communities with more privilege to listen and to act. We have collected some resources that may be helpful on this journey of learning, UNlearning, and growing. We want to become better listeners and active advocates as we empower each other to dismantle systems of racism and oppression. Members of the online community EMDRIA Diversity, Community & Culture started the resource lists below. Participation in our online communities is an EMDRIA member benefit. Please contact us at info@emdria.org with additional resources, or add them to the Diversity, Community & Culture library.

EMDRIA™ has made another valuable resource, the fall 2020 issue of Go With That Magazine® open access.

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Antiracism Resources for Adults
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Books

  • Carol Anderson. (2016). White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide. Compelling and dramatic in the unimpeachable history it relates, White Rage will add an important new dimension to the national conversation about race in America.
  • Maya Angelou. (1969). I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (autobiography 1 of 6). An American poet, memoirist, actress and an important figure in the Civil Rights Movement. In 2001 she was named one of the 30 most powerful women in America and this book was nominated for a National Book Award and called her magnum opus. Her poetry, Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'Fore I Die was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local "powhitetrash." At eight years old and back at her mother's side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age-and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors ("I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare") allows her to be free instead of imprisoned.
  • Grace Lee Boggs & Scott Kurashige. (2012). The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century. The pioneering Asian American labor organizer and writer's vision for intersectional and anti-racist activism.
  • Austin Channing Brown. (2018). I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness. I'm Still Here is an illuminating look at how white, middle-class, Evangelicalism has participated in an era of rising racial hostility, inviting the reader to confront apathy... and discover how blackness - if we let it - can save us all.
  • Shakil Choudhury. (2015). Deep Diversity: Overcoming Us vs Them. Reframing the debate regarding racism and discrimination.
  • Ta-Nehisi Coates. (2015). Between the World and Me. A profound work that pivots from the biggest question about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation's history and current crisis. Powerfully written in the form of a letter to his adolescent son.
  • Beverly Daniel Tatum. (2017). Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race. Beverly Daniel Tatum, a renowned authority on the psychology of racism, argues that straight talk about our racial identities is essential if we are serious about enabling communication across racial and ethnic divides. These topics have only become more urgent as the national conversation about race is increasingly acrimonious. This fully revised edition is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the dynamics of race in America.
  • Angela Y. Davis. (1981). Women, Race, & Class. A powerful study of the women's liberation movement in the U.S., from abolitionist days to the present, that demonstrates how it has always been hampered by the racist and classist biases of its leaders. From the widely revered and legendary political activist and scholar Angela Davis.
  • Robin DiAngelo. (2018). White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism. This book presents a sociological analysis of white people's emotional responses to racism which she terms "white fragility." White fragility is the result of socialized beliefs about race, racism, and white supremacy. When white people's racial comfort is challenged, they feel a range of defensive emotions, which they externalize through negative actions and behaviors.
  • Reni Eddo-Lodge. (2017). Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race. Exploring everything from eradicated black history to the political purpose of white dominance, from whitewashed feminism to the inextricable link between class and race, Eddo-Lodge offers a timely and essential new framework for how to see, acknowledge, and counter racism. This book is an essential handbook for anyone looking to understand how structural racism works.
  • Janet Helms. (2020, 3rd Ed.) A Race is a Nice Thing to Have: A Guide to Being a White Person or Understanding the White Persons in Your Life. This book is designed to help White people fully recognize and accept their racial identity, assume the proper responsibility for ending racism, and develop an understanding of how racism impacts their own racial group. This powerful text encourages positive racial adjustment and deeper levels of self-understanding. The book explores the meaning of race in society, the "color-blindness" movement, the problem of ignorance about Whiteness, the various phases of internalized racism, and other critical topics. Evocative and meaningful activities throughout the text foster reflection and increased levels of self-awareness and acceptance.
  • Nell Irvin Painter. (2010). The History of White People. Telling perhaps the most important forgotten story in American history, eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter guides us through more than two thousand years of Western civilization, illuminating not only the invention of race but also the frequent praise of "whiteness" for economic, scientific, and political ends.
  • Charisse Jones & Kumea Shorter-Gooden. (2003). Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America. With deeply moving interviews, poignantly revealed on each page, Shifting is a much-needed, clear, and comprehensive portrait of the reality of African American women's lives today.
  • Ibram X. Kendi. (2016). Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America. The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. In shedding light on this history, Stamped from the Beginning offers us the tools we need to expose racist thinking. In the process, he gives us reason to hope.
  • Ibram X. Kendi. (2019). How to be an Anti-Racist. Kendi weaves an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science with his own personal story of awakening to antiracism. This is an essential work for anyone who wants to go beyond the awareness of racism to the next step: contributing to the formation of a just and equitable society.
  • Patrisse Khan-Cullors & asha bandele. (2017). When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir. Condemned as terrorists and as a threat to America, these loving women founded a hashtag that birthed the movement to demand accountability from the authorities who continually turn a blind eye to the injustices inflicted upon people of Black and Brown skin. When They Call You a Terrorist is Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele's reflection on humanity. It is an empowering account of survival, strength and resilience and a call to action to change the culture that declares innocent Black life expendable.
  • Ruth King. (2018). Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out. Drawing on her expertise as a meditation teacher and diversity consultant, King helps readers of all backgrounds examine with fresh eyes the complexity of racial identity and the dynamics of oppression. She offers guided instructions on how to work with our own role in the story of race and shows us how to cultivate a culture of care to come to a place of greater clarity and compassion.
  • Bettina L. Love. (2019). We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom. Drawing on her life's work of teaching and researching in urban schools, Bettina Love persuasively argues that educators must teach students about racial violence, oppression, and how to make sustainable change in their communities through radical civic initiatives and movements. She argues that the US educational system is maintained by and profits from the suffering of children of color. To dismantle the educational survival complex and to achieve educational freedom-not merely reform-teachers, parents, and community leaders must approach education with the imagination, determination, boldness, and urgency of an abolitionist.
  • Ijeoma Oluo. (2018). So You Want to Talk About Race. A New York Times bestseller that offers a hard-hitting but user-friendly examination of race in America. This book guides readers of all races through subjects ranging from intersectionality and affirmative action to "model minorities" in an attempt to make the seemingly impossible possible: honest conversations about race and racism, and how they infect almost every aspect of American life. According to the National Book Review, it gives both white people and people of color the language to engage in clear, constructive, and confident dialogue with each other about how to deal with racial prejudices and biases. It is  described as generous and empathetic, yet usefully blunt for anyone who wants to be smarter and more empathetic about matters of race and engage in more productive anti-racist action.
  • Sheila Wise Rowe. (2020). Healing Racial Trauma: The Road to Resilience. As a child, Sheila Wise Rowe was bused across town to a majority white school, and she experienced the racist lie that one group is superior to all others. We experience ongoing racial trauma as this lie is perpetuated by the action or inaction of the government, media, viral videos, churches, and within families of origin.  Professional counselor Rowe exposes the symptoms of racial trauma to lead readers to a place of freedom from the past and new life for the future. In each chapter, she includes an interview with a person of color to explore how we experience and resolve racial trauma. With Rowe as a reliable guide who has both been on the journey and shown others the way forward, you will find a safe pathway to resilience.
  • Layla Saad. (2020). Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor. This book will walk you step-by-step through the work of examining:
    • Examining your own white privilege
    • What allyship really means
    • Anti-blackness, racial stereotypes, and cultural appropriation
    • Changing the way that you view and respond to race
    • How to continue the work to create social change
  • Bryan Stevenson. (2015). Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption. Just Mercy is at once an unforgettable account of an idealistic, gifted young lawyer's coming of age, a moving window into the lives of those he has defended, and an inspiring argument for compassion in the pursuit of true justice.
  • Isabel Wilkerson. (2020). Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings.

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Reports

Documentaries

  • Craig Atkinson. (2016). Do Not Resist. A stunning look at the current state of policing in America with a glimpse into the future. An urgent and powerful exploration of the rapid militarization of the police in the United States. The film takes viewers from a ride-along with a South Carolina SWAT team and inside a police training seminar that teaches the importance of "righteous violence" to the floor of a congressional hearing on the proliferation of military equipment in small-town police departments - before exploring where controversial new technologies, including predictive policing algorithms, could lead the field next.
  • Greg Barker. (2014). We Are the Giant. In We Are the Giant, ordinary citizens face the same moral questions that have defined revolutionary leaders across the ages, from Jefferson to Che to Mandela. With remarkable access, the film takes its audience inside the lives of six extraordinary people who grapple with the agonizing and universal dilemmas at the heart of all struggles for justice and freedom: whether to take up arms and fight, or to advocate change through peace and non-violence.
  • Aaron J. Christopher. (2019). White Savior: Racism in the American Church. Despite the progress many see in the US over the years, it's become increasingly clear that the deep roots of racism and white supremacy continue to run through our political, cultural, and religious institutions. White Savior explores the historic relationship between racism and American Christianity, the ongoing segregation of the church in the US, and the complexities of racial reconciliation.
  • Ava DuVernay. (2016). 13th. In this thought-provoking documentary, scholars, activists and politicians analyze the criminalization of African Americans and the U.S. prison boom.
  • Eugene Jarecki. (2012). The House I Live In. The war on drugs is not about drugs at all. For over forty years, America's "War on Drugs" has accounted for 45 million arrests, made America the world's largest jailer, and damaged poor communities at home and abroad. Yet for all that, drugs in America are cheaper, purer, and more available today than ever before. Filmed in more than twenty U.S. states, THE HOUSE I LIVE IN captures heart-wrenching stories at all levels of America's drug war - from the dealer to the grieving mother, the narcotics officer to the senator, the inmate to the federal judge. Together, these stories pose urgent questions: What caused the war? What perpetuates it? And what can be done to stop it?
  • Ian Lilley. (2018). Who Put the Klan into Ku Klux Klan. In this surprising documentary, archaeologist and historian Neil Oliver examines the links between racism today in the Deep South and the Scots who first occupied it.
  • Jonathon Olshefski. (2017). Quest. A portrait of an American family. This intimate chronicle of an African-American family in Philadelphia spans eight years, beginning at the dawn of the Obama presidency. Parents Christopher "Quest" Rainey, and Christine'a "Ma Quest" Rainey navigate the hardship and strife that grips their North Philly neighborhood as they raise their children, and cultivate a creative sanctuary for their community in their home music studio.
  • PBS. (2021). Goin' Back to T-Town. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/t-town-chapter-1/ The story of Greenwood, an extraordinary Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that prospered during the 1920s and 30s despite rampant and hostile segregation.
  • Raoul Peck. (2016). I Am Not Your Negro. The most important civil rights documentary of our time. The Oscar-nominated I Am Not Your Negro is based on Baldwin's unfinished manuscript Remember This House, a stirring, personal account of the lives and deaths of his friends and US Civil Rights Movement leaders Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Marc Silver. (2015). 3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets. When loud music turns deadly. 3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets dissects the aftermath of the murder of 17-year-old Jordan Davis and the trial of Michael Dunn who, in 2012, shot him repeatedly at a Florida gas station for playing his music too loudly.
  • Jemar Tisby. (2020). The Color of Compromise. The Color of Compromise Video Study reveals chilling connections between the church and racism throughout American history. Jemar Tisby explores ways Christians have reinforced theories of racial superiority and inferiority and outlines the kind of bold action needed to forge a future of equality and justice.

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Antiracism Resources for Talking with Children and Teens
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Books

  • Derrick Barnes & Gordon C. James. (2020). I Am Every Good Thing. The confident Black narrator of this book is proud of everything that makes him who he is.
  • Grace Byers & Keturah A. Bobo. (2018). I Am Enough. A gorgeous, lyrical ode to loving who you are, respecting others, and being kind to one another.
  • Tami Charles & Bryan Collier. (2020). All Because You Matter. Discover this poignant, timely, and emotionally stirring picture book, an ode to black and brown children everywhere that is full of hope, assurance, and love.
  • Matthew Cherry. (2019). Hair Love. Tender and empowering, Hair Love is an ode to loving your natural hair -- and a celebration of daddies and daughters everywhere.
  • Ta-Nehisi Coats. (2015). Between the World and Me. Young Adult. The author writes to his 15-year-old son, Samori, weaving his personal, historical, and intellectual development into his ruminations on how to live in a black body in America.
  • Vashti Harrison. (2017). Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History. Features 40 biographies of African American women that helped shape history. Text and illustrations bring to life both iconic and lesser-known female figures of Black history such as abolitionist Sojourner Truth, pilot Bessie Coleman, chemist Alice Ball, politician Shirley Chisholm, mathematician Katherine Johnson, poet Maya Angelou, filmmaker Julie Dash. It shines a light upon many that often go unrecognized and highlights many familiar women too like Ida B. Wells, Nina Simone and Oprah Winfrey.
  • Vashti Harrison. (2019). Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History. Among these biographies, readers will find aviators and artists, politicians and pop stars, athletes and activists. The exceptional men featured include writer James Baldwin, artist Aaron Douglas, filmmaker Oscar Devereaux Micheaux, lawman Bass Reeves, civil rights leader John Lewis, dancer Alvin Ailey, and musician Prince.
  • Jennifer Harvey. (2019). Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America. Book for parents. This New York Times best-selling book is a guide for families, educators, and communities to raise their children to be able and active anti-racist allies.
  • Steve Herman. (2019). Teach Your Dragon About Diversity.  A story appropriate for young kids that makes them aware of the differences in all beings and the need to accept and respect others, regardless of diversity.
  • Joanna Ho. (2021). Eyes the Kiss in the Corners. A young Asian girl notices that her eyes look different from her peers'. She realizes that her eyes are like her mother's, her grandmother's, and her little sister's. They have eyes that kiss in the corners and glow like warm tea, crinkle into crescent moons, and are filled with stories of the past and hope for the future. Drawing from the strength of these powerful women in her life, she recognizes her own beauty and discovers a path to self-love and empowerment. This powerful, poetic picture book will resonate with readers of all ages.
  • Ibram X. Kendi & Ashley Lukashevsky. (2020). Antiracist Baby. A board book that empowers parents and children to uproot racism in our society and in ourselves.
  • Lupita Nyong'o & Vashti Harrison. (2019). Sulwe. In this stunning debut picture book, actress Lupita Nyong'o creates a whimsical and heartwarming story to inspire children to see their own unique beauty.
  • Alexandra Penfold & Suzanne Kaufman. (2008). All Are Welcome. Discover a school where all young children have a place, have a space, and are loved and appreciated.
  • LaTashia M. Perry & Bea Jackson. (2016). Skin Like Mine. An entertaining yet creative way to address and celebrate diversity among young children.
  • Tiffany Rose. (2019). M is for Melanin: A Celebration of the Black Child. Each letter of the alphabet contains affirming, Black-positive messages, from A is for Afro, to F is for Fresh, to W is for Worthy. This book teaches children their ABCs while encouraging them to love the skin that they're in.
  • Angie Thomas. (2017). The Hate U Give. Young Adult Fiction. Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed.
  • Michael Tyler & David Lee Csicsko. (2005). The Skin You Live In. With the ease and simplicity of a nursery rhyme, this lively story delivers an important message of social acceptance to young readers.

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Coloring Books

  • Kadeesha Bryant. (2020). Anti-Racism Begins With Me.

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Resources on Black Heritage, History, and Social Justice
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  • Michelle Alexander. (2010). The New Jim Crow. An examination of the racial bias in America's criminal justice system and its impact on the African American community. As a civil rights lawyer and activist, the author draws on personal experiences to argue that our current legal system is unfairly biased against African Americans-even more so than other minorities. Taking readers from slavery through the second-class citizenship of Jim Crow with voter suppression, violence, unfair policing practices, and segregation, she shows how Jim Crow lives on today in mass incarceration, which strips black men of their freedom, voting rights, and access to government programs.
  • James Baldwin. (1985). The Evidence of Things Not Seen. Rummaging through the ruins of American race relations, Baldwin addresses all the hard-to-face issues that have brought us a moment in history where it is terrifying to to be a black child in white America, and where, too often, public officials fail to ask real questions about "justice for all." Baldwin takes a time-specific event and makes it timeless: The Evidence of Things Not Seen offers an incisive look at race in America through a lens at once disturbing and profoundly revealing.
  • Daina Ramey Berry. (2017). The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation. Groundbreaking look at slaves as commodities through every phase of life, from birth to death and beyond, in early America.
  • W. E. B. Du Bois. (2012). Black Reconstruction in America: Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880. Originally published in 1935. This classic of black history is especially pertinent today because it describes the attempt to establish black citizenship and an interracial democracy in the United States immediately after the Civil War and the abolition of slavery. This experiment in American democracy was overthrown and a rigid system of racial subordination, segregation, disfranchisement, lynching and racial violence was established in the south. It teaches us how quickly political gains can be undone and that the fight for racial equality in the United States is an ongoing one.
  • W. E. B. Du Bois (1965). The World and Africa: An Inquiry into the Part Which Africa Has Played in World History. 
  • Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2011). Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History: 1513-2008. Henry is the Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard. This book was heavily criticized by the NY Times. The text makes no direct claim to be a definitive history of black America, however, it is comprehensive. It is a glossy, chronological digest of events from the earliest known records of the Atlantic slave trade to the inauguration of Barack Obama. It assembles a brisk narrative of the Middle Passage and how the United States came to end up virtually alone among nations in perpetuating the slavery. In route to emancipation, it covers Nat Turner's rebellion, the Dred Scott decision, the Underground Railroad, Uncle Tom's Cabin, the role of black activists in the abolitionist movement and ex-slaves in the California gold rush, antebellum celebrities as vocalist Elizabeth T. Greenfield "The Black Swan," the literary triumphs of escaped slaves Frederick Douglass and William Wells Brown, and the tribulations of Anthony Burns, who escaped slavery for employment in Boston only to be arrested and tried as a fugitive. It covers the tension in African-American history between advancement and setbacks: the false spring of Reconstruction, grotesque caricatures of black faces at the turn of the 20th century, the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920's, and decades of black artistic talent across the cultural spectrum. The author waylays his blend of paradox and irony only toward the climax, when he ushers in Spike Lee, black astronauts, Prince, Toni Morrison and the incumbent president, leaving only Hurricane Katrina and (maybe) Clarence Thomas as discordant notes.
  • William H. Grier & Price M. Cobbs. (1968). Black Rage. Two black psychiatrists reveal the full dimension of the inner conflicts and the desperation of the black man's life in America. The accuracy of their thesis was clearly demonstrated by the African-American community's reaction to Professor Henry Gate's arrest on his own doorstep.
  • Marcus Rediker. (2007). The Slave Ship. Undertaking a thorough examination of all aspects, both human and material, social and political aspects it shines a light into the darkest corners of the British and American slave ships of the eighteenth century. Drawing on thirty years of research in maritime archives, court records, diaries, and first-hand accounts, it is a brutal book that gets into the gritty, unbearable details of what life and imprisonment was like on the slave ships that brought millions of Africans across the Atlantic in chains and vile conditions. He notes that we often hear about the brutality of slavery itself, but the horrors of slavery began long before the slave ships ever reached American and Caribbean shores.
  • Lothrop Stoddard. (1920). The Rising TIde of Color Against White World Supremacy. The racial divide in America is hinged upon the precarious relations between the two communities-the dominant White Americans and the marginalized Black Americans. Behind every push-back against the Blacks, even after five decades of the Civil Rights Movement, is an unshakeable belief in the idea of White Supremacy. Read this book to understand why the Black Americans are indignant, angry, and raring to dismantle the structures of epistemic racism. This book is adjusted for readability on all devices and follows the perceived threat of White Supremacists against the growing power of the "colored people." It has assumed a historic significance in understanding the White mentality and their long-held fears.

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Organizations

  • Embracing Equity. (https://embracingequity.org/). A social change agency dedicated to centering racial justice in education through racial and ethnic identity development, critical consciousness, and critical action.
  • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). (https://www.naacp.org/). The largest and most pre-eminent civil rights organization in the nation. Our mission is to secure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights in order to eliminate race-based discrimination and ensure the health and well-being of all persons.
  • Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ). (https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/about.html). SURJ is a national network of groups and individuals working to undermine white supremacy and to work toward racial justice.
  • Transform Harm. (https://transformharm.org/). TransformHarm.org is a resource hub about ending violence. It offers an introduction to transformative justice and includes articles, audio-visual resources, curricula, and more.
  • The National Museum of African American History and Culture. (https://www.si.edu/museums/african-american-museum). This museum and website provides information about the richness and diversity of the African American experience, what it means to their lives, and how it helped us shape the nation.
  • Zinn Education Project. (https://www.zinnedproject.org). The Zinn Education Project promotes and supports the teaching of people's history in classrooms across the country.

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Antiracism Resources for Mental Health Professionals

 

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  • David Archer. (2021). Anti-Racist Psychotherapy: Confronting Systemic Racism and Healing Racial Trauma. Anti-Racist Psychotherapy is an approach designed to clarify the mental health effects of racism and provide a neuroscience-informed approach to resolve racial trauma. This book will help you learn a new and unique perspective for conceptualizing racism and recovering from its effects on the nervous system. Using the approaches described in this book will reveal how we can reprocess the pain of our past, inspire hope for the future, and gain a higher level of awareness when discussing the mental health effects of systemic racism.
  • Mahzarin R. Banaji & Anthony G. Greenwald. (2013). Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People. Blindspot is the authors' metaphor for the portion of the mind that houses hidden biases. Writing with simplicity and verve, Banaji and Greenwald question the extent to which our perceptions of social groups-without our awareness or conscious control-shape our likes and dislikes and our judgments about people's character, abilities, and potential. In Blindspot, the authors reveal hidden biases based on their experience with the Implicit Association Test, a method that has revolutionized the way scientists learn about the human mind and that gives us a glimpse into what lies within the metaphoric blindspot.
  • Nancy Boyd-Franklin, Elizabeth N. Cleek, Matt Wofsy, & Brian Mundy. (2013). Therapy in the Real World: Effective Treatments for Challenging Problems. Helping beginning and experienced therapists cope with the myriad challenges of working in agencies, clinics, hospitals, and private practice, this book distills the leading theories and best practices in the field. The authors provide a clear approach to engaging diverse clients and building rapport; interweaving evidence-based techniques to meet therapeutic goals; and intervening effectively with individuals, families, groups, and larger systems. Practitioners will find tools for addressing the needs of their clients while caring for themselves and avoiding burnout; students will find a clear-headed framework for making use of the variety of approaches available in mental health practice.
  • E. J. R. David (Ed.). (2014). Internalized Oppression: The Psychology of Marginalized Groups. The oppression of various groups has taken place throughout human history. People are stereotyped, discriminated against, and treated unjustly simply because of their social group membership. But what does it look like when the oppression that people face from the outside gets under their skin? Long overdue, this is the first book to highlight the universality of internalized oppression across marginalized groups in the United States from a mental health perspective. It focuses on the psychological manifestations and mental health implications of internalized oppression for a variety of groups. The book provides insight into the ways in which internalized oppression influences the thoughts, attitudes, feelings, and behaviors of the oppressed toward themselves, other members of their group, and members of the dominant group. It also considers promising clinical and community programs that are currently addressing internalized oppression among specific groups. The book describes the implications and unique manifestations of internalized oppression among African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, American Indians and Alaska Natives, women, people with disabilities, and the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community. For each group, the text considers its demographic profile, history of oppression, contemporary oppression, common manifestations and mental and behavioral health implications, clinical and community programs, and future directions. Chapters are written by leading and emerging scholars, who share their personal experiences to provide a real-world point of view. Additionally, each chapter is co-authored by a member of a particular community group, who helps to bring academic concepts to life.
  • Joy Degruy (2017). Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury & Healing. With over thirty years of practical experience as a professional in the mental health field, Dr. DeGruy encourages African Americans to view their attitudes, assumptions, and behaviors through the lens of history and so gain a greater understanding of how centuries of slavery and oppression have impacted people of African descent in America. Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome helps to lay the necessary foundation to ensure the well-being and sustained health of future generations and provides a rare glimpse into the evolution of society's beliefs, feelings, attitudes and behavior concerning race in America.
  • Kenneth V. Hardy & Toby Bobes (Eds.). (2016). Culturally Sensitive Supervision and Training: Diverse Perspectives and Practical Applications. A comprehensive text that exposes readers to an array of culturally competent approaches to supervision and training. The book consists of contributions from a culturally and professionally diverse group of scholars and clinicians who have been on the frontline of providing culturally competent supervision and training in a variety of settings. Many of the invited contributing authors have developed innovative clinical-teaching strategies for skillfully and effectively incorporating issues of culture into both the classroom and the consulting room. A major portion of the book will provide the reader with an insider's view of these strategies as well as a plan for implementation, with one chapter devoted to experiential exercises to enhance cultural sensitivity in supervision and training. The text is intended for use in supervision courses, but trainers and supervisors will also find it essential to their work.
  • Ruth King. (2018). Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out. "Racism is a heart disease," writes Ruth King, "and it's curable." Exploring a crucial topic seldom addressed in meditation instruction, this revered teacher takes to her pen to shine a compassionate, provocative, and practical light into a deeply neglected and world-changing domain profoundly relevant to all of us. Drawing on her expertise as a meditation teacher and diversity consultant, King helps readers of all backgrounds examine with fresh eyes the complexity of racial identity and the dynamics of oppression. She offers guided instructions on how to work with our own role in the story of race and shows us how to cultivate a culture of care to come to a place of greater clarity and compassion.
  • Resmaa Menakem. (2017). My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies. Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW, is a therapist with decades of experience currently in private practice in Minneapolis, MN, specializing in trauma, body-centered psychotherapy, and violence prevention. In this groundbreaking book, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered psychology. The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the trauma inflicted by the ills that plague society. Menakem argues this destruction will continue until Americans learn to heal the generational anguish of white supremacy, which is deeply embedded in all our bodies. Our collective agony doesn't just affect African Americans. White Americans suffer their own secondary trauma as well. So do blue Americans-our police.
  • Mark Nickerson. (2017). Cultural Competence and Healing Culturally Based Trauma With EMDR Therapy: Innovative Strategies and Protocols. Underscoring the importance of cultural competence, this groundbreaking book focuses on using EMDR therapy with specific populations, particularly those groups typically stigmatized, oppressed, or otherwise marginalized in society. Drawing on social psychology research and theory as well as social justice and social work principles, it delivers general protocols for EMDR intervention for recovery from the internalized effects of cultural mistreatment. The text defines cultural competence and validates the need for a multi-culturally aware approach to psychotherapy that embraces authentic social identities and attends to the impact of socially based trauma.
    • Rajani Venkatraman Levis. Placing Culture at the Heart of EMDR Therapy. Chapter 6, pp. 97-112 of above volume.
    • Rajani Venkatraman Levis & Laura Siniego. An Integrative Approach to EMDR Therapy as an Antioppression Endeavor. Chapter 5, pp. 79-96 of above volume.
  • Erlanger A. Turner. (2019). Mental Health Among African Americans: Innovations in Research and Practice. In this text, Erlanger A. Turner presents a new theoretical framework for understanding mental health disparities that emphasizes the need for culturally sensitive clinical practices and integration of Afrocentric values in order to address the lower rates of African Americans seeking treatment in the United States. Turner traces this reluctance to the unethical scientific research practices that characterized experiments in recent history, like the well-known Tuskegee Syphilis study, and stresses the need for providers to address race-related stress.

 

Articles

Web Resources and Perspectives

Organizations

  • Asian Mental Health Collective (AMHC). (https://www.asianmhc.org/). It is the mission of AMHC to normalize and de-stigmatize mental health within the Asian community. AMHC aspires to make mental health easily available, approachable, and accessible to Asian communities worldwide.
  • Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAJC). (https://advancingjustice-aajc.org/). Asian Americans have been part of the American story since its earliest days, and are now the U.S.'s fastest-growing racial group with the potential and power to shape our nation and the policies that affect us. Our mission is to advance civil and human rights for Asian Americans and to build and promote a fair and equitable society for all.
  • Asian American Health Initiative (AAHI). (https://aahiinfo.org/). Responding to the health needs of Asian Americans. Page hosts several Mental Health toolkits in multiple languages.
  • Asian Pride Project. (http://asianprideproject.org/). Asian Pride Project celebrates the journeys, triumphs and struggles of LGBTQ individuals and our Asian and Pacific Islander (API) families and communities. We seek to capture these stories by using the arts - families and communities. We seek to capture these stories by using the arts - film, video, photography and the written word - as a medium for social justice and advocacy in the LBGTQ realm.
  • Black Emotional and Mental Health (BEAM). (https://www.beam.community/). BEAM is a training, movement-building, and grant-making organization dedicated to the healing, wellness, and liberation of Black communities. BEAM envisions a world where there are not barriers to Black Healing. Resources, graphics, and articles on Black mental health.
  • Black Mental Wellness. (https://www.blackmentalwellness.com/about-us-1). The mission of Black Mental Wellness, Corp. is to provide access to evidence-based information and resources about mental health and behavioral health topics from a Black perspective, to highlight and increase the diversity of mental health professionals, and to decrease the mental health stigma in the Black community.
  • The Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation. (https://borislhensonfoundation.org/). The Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation's vision is to eradicate the stigma around mental health issues in the African-American community. Focuses on building trust between Black people and the mental health field. Includes therapist directory and programs and support groups serving the Black community.
  • Implicit Bias. UCLA. (https://equity.ucla.edu/know/implicit-bias/). Heard the term "implicit bias" but not totally sure what it means?  Interested in reading the seminal studies?  Just like TedTalks?  Animated videos?  This is the place for you…
  • Innopsych. (https://www.innopsych.com/). A simple way to find your ideal therapist of color.
  • Institute for the Study and Promotion of Race and Culture. (https://www.bc.edu/content/bc-web/schools/lynch-school/sites/isprc.html) Director: Dr. Janet E. Helms, Ph.D. The Institute offers pragmatic information about teaching, conducting research, and applying interventions intended to promote the benefits of racial and ethnic cultural diversity and resolve related social problems.  The Institute is unique in its emphasis on addressing psychological issues related to race and ethnic culture from an interdisciplinary perspective.
  • Project Implicit. Harvard. (https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/). Take an implicit bias test to better understand yourself. A project by Harvard researchers interested in implicit social cognition - thoughts and feelings outside of conscious awareness and control. The goal of the organization is to educate the public about hidden biases.
  • Therapy for Black Girls. (https://therapyforblackgirls.com/). An online space dedicated to encouraging the mental wellness of Black women and girls. Includes therapist directory.
  • Therapy for Black Men. (https://therapyforblackmen.org/). We want to break the stigma that asking for help is a sign of weakness. Includes online directory with a focus on multiculturally-competent care for Black men.
  • Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. (http://www.trc.ca/about-us/trc-findings.html) Addressing an urgent need for reconciliation between Canadian Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples.
  • Visibility Project. (http://www.visibilityproject.org/). We seek to document the personal experiences of the Queer Asian Pacific American women and transgender community by interweaving visual art, personal narratives, and social justice onto an accessible online platform.

Reports

Advocacy/Get Involved

  • Anti-Racism Daily. (https://www.antiracismdaily.com/). Begun by Nicole Cardoza, Anti-Racism Daily is a daily newsletter with actions you can take to practice anti-racism each day, insights on the systemic and interpersonal practices that uphold white supremacy and systems of oppression, and clear and tangible resources to support your education.
  • Black Lives Matter. (https://blacklivesmatter.com/). Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, Inc. is a global organization in the US, UK, and Canada, whose mission is to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes. By combating and countering acts of violence, creating space for Black imagination and innovation, and centering Black joy, we are winning immediate improvements in our lives.
  • Color of Change. (https://colorofchange.org/). Color of Change helps you do something real about injustice. We design campaigns powerful enough to end practices that unfairly hold Black people back, and champion solutions that move us all forward. Until justice is real.
  • Embracing Equity. (https://embracingequity.org/). A social change agency dedicated to centering racial justice in education through racial and ethnic identity development, critical consciousness, and critical action.
  • National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance. (https://www.nqapia.org/wpp/). NQAPIA seeks to build the capacity of local LGBT AAPI organizations, invigorate grassroots organizing, develop leadership, and challenge homophobia, racism, and anti-immigrant bias.
  • Project Implicit. (https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/). A project by Harvard researchers interested in implicit social cognition - thoughts and feelings outside of conscious awareness and control. The goal of the organization is to educate the public about hidden biases.
  • Service Never Sleeps. (https://www.serviceneversleeps.org/) Tireless Action Toward Social Justice. Our mission is to empower individuals and communities to catalyze social justice through service and Allyship. Offers an Allyship Workshop.
  • Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ). (https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/about.html). SURJ is a national network of groups and individuals working to undermine white supremacy and to work toward racial justice.
  • The Loveland Foundation. (https://thelovelandfoundation.org/). Loveland Foundation is committed to showing up for communities of color in unique and powerful ways, with a particular focus on Black women and girls. Our resources and initiatives are collaborative and they prioritize opportunity, access, validation, and healing. We are becoming the ones we've been waiting for.
  • Transform Harm. (https://transformharm.org/). TransformHarm.org is a resource hub about ending violence. It offers an introduction to transformative justice and includes articles, audio-visual resources, curricula, and more.
  • White Awake. (https://whiteawake.org/). Waking ourselves for the benefit of all.