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This challenge was created by Dr. Eddie Moore, America & Moore, LLC. Image credit to Westminster Presbyterian Church.


About the 21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge 

  • For 21 days, do one action to further your understanding of power, privilege, supremacy, oppression, and equity 
  • Plan includes suggestions for readings, podcasts, videos, observations, and ways to form and deepen community connections. 

Staff can use a downloadable Google sheet for logging activities: Habit Building Tracking Tool

Below are resource options for participation by categories. The category name links to America & Moore resources and DUL staff curated links.


Read

Books

Begin with LibGuide for Anti-Racism and Black Liberation - Heather Martin created this guide with contributions from Arianne Hartsell-Gundy, Dee McCullough, and Danette Pachtner.

Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Cane by Jean Toomer - link is to a review of Toomer's  book and its ability to articulate the necessity of code-switching in a way that feels modern and intensely relevant right now.

So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Critical Pedagogy for Library Instruction 

Waiting ‘Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America by Peniel E. Joseph

West Indian Immigrants: A Black Success Story? by Suzanne Model

White Men Challenging Racism: 35 Personal Stories by James W. Loewen

On Being Included: racism and diversity in institutional life by Sara Ahmed

The Three-Cornered War by Megan Kate Nelson

Emergent strategy: shaping change, changing worlds by Adrienne Maree Brown

Where are all the librarians of color? : the experiences of people of color in academia coedited by Rebecca Hankins, CA, MLS; and Miguel Juárez, MLS, MA.

The Color of Law : A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein

When and Where I Enter : The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America by Paula J. Giddings

Eloquent Rage : A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper

The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

Superior : The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini

Voyages : the trans-Atlantic slave trade database - DUL subscription to comprehensive source of data currently available on the trans-Atlantic slave trade

How to Be Less Stupid About Race : On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide by Crystal Marie Fleming

Well-Read Black Girl : Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves by Glory Edim

Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Joy DeGruy

Race for Profit - How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership By Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Decolonizing methodologies : research and indigenous peoples by Linda Tuhiwai Smith

BREAKING SCHOOLS' RULES: A Statewide Study of How School Discipline Relates to Students’ Success and Juvenile Justice Involvement - This report was prepared by the Council of State Governments Justice Center in partnership with the Public Policy Research Institute at Texas A&M University. The research and report were made possible with the generous support of the Atlantic Philanthropies and Open Society Foundations.


Articles

The 1619 Project - NYT project reexamining slavery timed for 400th anniversary of Africans arriving in Virginia.

75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice by Corinne Shutack. Note 1: This article is continually updated to ensure each item is accurate and needed today. Note 2: Achieving racial justice is a marathon, not a sprint. Our work to fix what we broke and left broken isn’t done until Black folks tell us it’s done.

Antiracism and America - A collaboration between The Guardian and American University’s Antiracist Research and Policy Center, this is an ongoing series that sheds light on the structures at the root of racial inequities.

The Real Reasons the U.S. Became Less Racist Towards Asian American - As historian Ellen Wu explains in her book, “The Color of Success,” the model minority stereotype has a fascinating origin story, one that’s tangled up in geopolitics, the Cold War and the civil rights movement. 

For Our White Friends Desiring to be Allies by Courtney Ariel. Author's Note: I'm writing this in hopes that it can be used to lighten the load of marginalized folks, keeping in mind that not all marginalized people want to engage in the ally conversation, and that is perfect as well. For those who do, my prayer is that when someone asks you the question, “how can I be a stronger ally?” you might choose to save your breath/energy and send this in its place.

Here’s how to teach Black Lives Matter by Nadia E. Brown, Ray Block, Jr. and Christopher Stout. Protests demanding racial justice in the wake of the recent deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Tony McDade, among others, have left Americans trying to make sense of racial violence by the police, and energized to end brutality against black bodies. We believe this is an opportunity to share research on the Black Lives Matter movement with anyone interested in learning more.

How NOT to be an Ally – Part 1 “Centering the Privileged” by Kim A. Case, Ph.D.

How NOT to be an Ally – Part 2 “He-peat, Re-white, and Amplification” by Kim A. Case, Ph.D.

How NOT to be an Ally – Part 3 “Spoken-Language Microaggressions” by Kim A. Case, Ph.D.

How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change by Barack Obama. As millions of people across the country take to the streets and raise their voices in response to the killing of George Floyd and the ongoing problem of unequal justice, many people have reached out asking how we can sustain momentum to bring about real change. Ultimately, it’s going to be up to a new generation of activists to shape strategies that best fit the times. But I believe there are some basic lessons to draw from past efforts that are worth remembering.

Understanding Our New Racial Reality Starts with the Unconscious. Egalitarian goals can be undermined by deeply rooted implicit biases, says John a. powell. To address racial discrimination, we need to look inward.

White Anti-Racism: Living the Legacy from Teaching Tolerance. What does "white anti-racist" mean? How can guilt get in the way? And what's all this talk about being "colorblind"? Teaching Tolerance asked community activists to share their thoughts on these questions, and others. Their answers shine light on the concepts of comfort, power, privilege and identity.

White Librarianship in Blackface: Diversity Initiatives in LIS by April Hathcock. Whiteness—an ideological practice that can extend beyond notions of racial supremacy to other areas of dominance—has permeated every aspect of librarianship, extending even to the initiatives we claim are committed to increasing diversity. This state of affairs, however, need not remain. This article examines the ways in which whiteness controls diversity initiatives in LIS, particularly in light of the application requirements set upon candidates. 

Are Asians Black?: The Asian-American Civil Rights Agenda and the Contemporary Significance of the Black/White Paradigm, Janine Young Kim, The Yale Law Journal

Damage Limitation by Sara Ahmed, discusses how diversity often takes institutional form as damage limitation.

How White People Got Made, by Quinn Norton, exploring where the term “white people” comes from and which ethnic groups have and have not been able to become “white” through US history.

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack and other essays, Groundbreaking 1989 essay by Peggy McIntosh who lists the ways she’s beginning to recognize the way white privilege operates in her life.

Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person, Gina Crosley-Corcoran, raised “the kind of poor that people don’t want to believe still exists in this country,” explores where race and class do and don’t intersect and how she’s come to understand her own white privilege.

The Injustice of This Moment Is not an ‘Aberration,’ Michelle Alexander contextualizes the US’s 2020 state of racism/white supremacy as an inevitable outcome of a collective narrative steeped in denial.

White Fragility, Groundbreaking 2011 article by Robin DiAngelo, which  led to a 2018 book of the same title, exploring why it can be so hard for white people to talk about race, and how the resulting silence and defensiveness functions to hold racial dynamics and racial oppression in place.

Understanding the Racial Wealth Gap, 2017 study by Amy Traub, Laura Sullivan, Tatjana Mescheded, & Tom Shapiro analyzing the racial wealth gap that exists between white, black, and Latino households.

White mom to racists: ‘Don’t use my child to further your hate-filled ignorance,’ Rev. Edith Love models allyship in an article written in response to online racial abuse arising from her white teen son’s recent attack by a group of young teens who are black.

White Fragility in Students, A call to action by Teaching While White founders Jenna Chandler-Ward and Elizabeth Denevi who share their experience in school after school where white students and adults lack the knowledge or skill to navigate racism and conversations about it and how that white deficit impacts students of color.

21 Racial Microaggressions You Hear on a Daily Basis, Using a series of photographs by photographer Kiyum Kim, Heben Nigatu, elaborates on the term “microagression.” Note that Ibram X. Kendi, in his recent book How To Be An Anti Racist, calls us to consider using the term “racist abuse” as a more descriptive alternative.

Guide to Allyship, Created by Amélie Lamont this site strives to be an ever-evolving and growing open source guide meant to provide you with the resources for becoming a more effective ally.

From Alt-Right to Groyper, White Nationalists Rebrand For 2020 And Beyond, Report authored by the Institute For Research And Education On Human Rights (IREHR) on white nationalist marketing strategy known as “groyper.”

People of colour have to ‘code-switch’ to fit in with white norms, from a longer series taking an in-depth look at racism in the UK in 2020 this article focuses on the double bind of code-switching. What is it? What toll does it take? What is the cost of not code-switching? 

Even Preschoolers Face Racial Bias, Study Finds. Both white and black preschool teachers are biased against black boys.

George Floyd Could Have Been My Brother by Rita Omokha for Elle. “It’s exhausting. How many hashtags will it take for all of America to see Black people as more than their skin color?” 

Liberal, progressive, - and racist? The Sierra Club faces its white-supremacist history - Washington Post article by Darryl Fears and Steven Mufson

How Do We Change America? The quest to transform this country cannot be limited to challenging its brutal police. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Everyone’s an Antiracist. Now What? Recognizing that Black people deserve dignity isn’t progress. Erin Aubry Kaplan

The Black Power Movement and The Asian American Movement by By Evelyn Chen 

Black Women With Natural Hairstyles Less Likely To Get Job Interviews, Study Reveals - Huffpost article by Nadine White


Listen

Teaching Hard History - Podcast series brought to you by Teaching Tolerance and hosted by Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries. What we don’t know about American history hurts us all. Teaching Hard History begins with the long legacy of slavery and reaches through the civil rights movement to the present day. 

What Do Asian-Americans Owe The Civil Rights Movement? - As the US prepares to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the March on Washington, guest host Celeste Headlee speaks to Scot Nakagawa. He recently wrote an article called "Three Things Asian-Americans Owe to the Civil Rights Movement." 

Teaching While White, hosted by longtime educators Jenna Chandler-Ward and Elizabeth Denevi, TWW’s podcast focuses on how whiteness shows up in the education sector and what anti-racist educators are doing to challenge that. Episodes feature different ntaionally renowned anti-racist educator guests. (any episode – times vary)

All My Relations, hosted by Matika Wilbur (Swinomish and Tulalip) and Adrienne Keene (Cherokee Nation) this podcast “explores indigeneity in all its complexity.” Episodes focus on issues such as DNA identity, appropriation, feminism, food sovereignty, gender, sexuality, and more while “keeping it real, playing games, laughing a lot, and even crying sometimes.” (any episode – one-ish hour each)

Code Switch, hosted by journalists Gene Demby and Shereen Marisol Meraji, both people of color, this podcast is curated by a team of NPC journalists of color who navigate the complexities of race, both professionally and personally, daily. Episodes focus on a wide range of issues overlapping race, ethnicity, and culture.  (any episode – times vary)

Breakdances with Wolves Podcast, hosted by Gyasi Ross, Wesley (“Snipes Type”) Roach, and Minty LongEarth, “a few Natives with opinions and a platform.” Episodes report on current events through an indigenous perspective.(any episode – one-ish hour each)

Black Like Me, host Dr. Alex Gee “invites you to experience the world through the perspective of one Black man, one conversation, one story, or even one rant at a time.” (any episode – times vary)

Scene on Radio – Seeing White Series, host John Biewen and collaborator Chenjerai Kumanyika explore Whiteness over the course of 14 episodes. Where does it come from? What does it mean? Why does it exist? (Episode S2 E1: Turning the Lens – 16 minutes)

On Point Radio – Oklahoma To Incorporate 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Into Statewide School Curriculum host David Folkenflik interviews Tulsans about the 1921 “Black Wall Street” race massacre and recent efforts to integrate it into the Oklahoma education system. (46 minutes)

TED Radio Hour – Mary Bassett: How Does Racism Affect Your Health? host Guy Raz speaks with Dr. Mary T. Bassett, Director of the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University about how and why race affects the medical attention you receive, your baby’s chances of living, and even life expectancy. (12 minutes)

Here & Now – Without Slavery, Would The U.S. Be The Leading Economic Power? host Jeremy Hobson explores with Edward Baptist, author of The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism, how slavery established the United States as a world economic power. (15 minutes)

NPR Morning Edition – You Cannot Divorce Race From Immigration journalist Rachel Martin talks to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas for a response to a story in The Atlantic, written by David Frum, proposing the U.S. cut legal immigration by half. (6 minutes)

BBC Radio 5 live – The Sista Collective – Created and hosted by BBC producer Jessie Aru-Phillips, each season showcases the depth of Black British talent. (any episode – one-ish hour each)


Watch

When Antiracist Reading Lists Aren't Enough - ALA/LLAMA Webinar by Nicole Cooke, the Augusta Baker Endowed Chair and an Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina.

Say It Loud YouTube channel (15 videos all under 20 minutes)

Living While Black Symposium - June 16, 2020 Duke community event (NetID required)

Everything you need to know about the anti-racism movement happening now - BBC story on BLM protests

Reframing the Legacy of Slavery with "The 1619 Project" Nikole Hannah-Jones - The Daily Show with Trevor Noah clip

Baldwin-Buckley race debate still resonates 55 years on - PBS Newhour clip

Rebuilding the house that anti-Blackness built during our COVID response - Economic Policy Institute

Algorithmic Bias and Fairness: Crash Course AI - discusses five common types of algorithmic bias

Stone Ghosts: A Journey Through The Confederate South, From Charlottesville To Selma - NBC News clip on Confederate Civil War monuments

How Southern socialites rewrote Civil War history - Vox clip

The US medical system is still haunted by slavery - Vox clip

Disturbing History of the Suburbs - Adam Ruins Everything clip

5 Tips for Being an Ally

Back to Natural - 75-minute documentary film that takes a look at the intersection of hair, politics, and identity in Black communities.

Exploring the Emotions of White Racism and Antiracism

Taking a Stance Against Racism and Discrimination

Digital Blackness in the Archive:  Supporting Research

Digital Blackness in the Archive: Collecting for the Culture

1898 Wilmington coup - Vox clip featuring Prof. Darity

The Ferguson Effect on Local Activism and Community Memory - digital activism

TED Talks to Help You Understand Racism in America

The Thirteenth Amendment and Civil Rights

"Testifying While Black" In An American Courtroom Can Cost You - Vice News clip

Slavery After Freedom - Vice clip with genealogist Antoinette Harrell

White Like Me: Race, Racism & White Privilege in America

The Great Migration and the power of a single decision | Isabel Wilkerson TedTalk

Everyday Inclusion Begins with Me: Diversity and Intergroup Communication in the Workplace - ACRL workshop

How to deconstruct racism, one headline at a time - TedTalk by Baratunde Thurston

Race and Cultural Diversity in American Life and History  - Coursera offered by Illinois

Shifting the Center: Transforming Academic Libraries Through Generous Accountability - ACRL President's Program presentation by anti-oppression researcher, facilitator McKensie Mack

The true story behind "Just Mercy" - 60 Minutes Archives

What is Racial Passing? - Origins of Everything video

Why are Black & White Funerals STILL Separate? - Ask a Mortician with Caitlin Doughty

These Divers Search For Slave Shipwrecks and Discover Their Ancestors | National Geographic

Cultural Criticism & Transformation - bell hooks

How Racism Harms White Americans - John H. Bracey

Cultural Criticism & Transformation

Notice

Begin by watching this “What is privilege” video.

Then, take this Buzzfeed privilege test.

Once you start to learn about white privilege and racism, you may ask yourself, “Why didn’t I see this sooner?” It’s easy to overlook what you’re not looking for, or what doesn’t directly affect you. Once you start to understand by selectively noticing racism, continue by asking yourself the following questions:

  1. Who is and is not represented in ads?
  2. Who are your ten closest friends? What is the racial mix in this group?
  3. As you move through the day, what’s the racial composition of the people around you? On your commute? At the grocery store? At the gym? At your workplace? In your children’s sport teams?
  4. What percentage of the day are you able to be with people of your own racial identity?
  5. Notice how much of your day you are speaking about racism. Who are you engaging with on these issues? Who are you not? Why do you think this is?
  6. What are the last five books you read? What is the racial mix of the authors?
  7. What is the racial mix of the main characters in your favorite TV shows? Movies?
  8. What is the racial mix of people pictured in the photos and artwork in your home? In your friend, family, and colleagues’ homes?
  9. Who is filling what kinds of jobs/social roles in your world? (e.g. Who’s the store manager and who’s stocking the shelves? Who’s waiting on tables and who’s busing the food?) Can you correlate any of this to racial identity?
  10. Who do you notice on magazine covers? What roles are people of color filling in these images?
  11. If you’re traveling by car, train, or air, do you notice housing patterns? How is housing arranged? Who lives near the downtown commerce area and who does not? Who lives near the waterfront and who does not? Who lives in industrial areas and who does not? What is the density of a given neighborhood? Can you correlate any of this to racial identity?


Connect

Follow Racial Justice activists, educators, and organizations on social media. Here are some ideas to get you started. A good way to widen your circle of who you follow is to check out who these organizations follow, quote, repost, and retweet.

Teaching Tolerance
Colours of Us
Anti-Defamation League
Define American
Privilege to Progress
Black Minds Matter
Teaching While White
White Nonsense Roundup
Conversations with White People: Talking about race (Facebook Group)
Race Forward
Racial Equity Tools
White Awake

So many more you’ll discover!

Google who’s who in your area by typing in ‘Racial Justice” or “Anti-Racist/m” + name of city/town, organization, or sector. A few website visits, emails, and phone calls later, you’ll likely have an idea of how to get on the mailing of one or more organizations in your area who are addressing issues of power and privilege. Once you connect to one, it’s easy to connect to many!

Join your Showing Up For Racial Justice (SURJ) organization if there’s one in your area.

Research racial justice speakers and see who might be coming to your local university, church, community center, or speaker series.

Take a course or workshop. Community Colleges and Adult Education Centers are a great place to find a course about social justice issues.


Engage

This can be the hardest part for people new to racial justice work. Engaging in racially mixed settings can trigger age-old power and privilege dynamics. The goal is to be a learner more than a knower, exactly the opposite of what dominant U.S. culture teaches us to be.

Here are some Engagement Tips to guide you:

  • Enter the process to learn and bridge knowledge gaps.
  • Enter the process to practice mindful social habits like the ones below.
  • Stay engaged even when your mind and body start sending you signals to shrink or walk away.
  • Ask clarifying questions.
  • Acknowledge what you don’t know.
  • Validate others by listening closely and believing the truth and importance of what they are sharing.
  • Share airtime so that multiple perspectives are shared.
  • Step Up Step Back. If you are generally quiet, step up and practice speaking more. If you are generally a talker, practice stepping back and listening more.
  • Notice your biases and judgments as they arise. These are gold for you to excavate your subconscious!
  • Notice when you are uncomfortable. Reflect on why you’re uncomfortable and think about what you can do to build more emotional stamina in this area.
  • Honor confidentiality. Though you can share what you are learning in general terms, do not repeat stories in a way that can be traced back to the person who shared it.
  • Find a mentor within your own racial group to support and guide your growth.

Act

Go to https://blackartconservators.com/ and ACKNOWLEDGE, ADDRESS, ENACT, INVEST, CALL, BUILD, ENGAGE and REVIEW.

Though many people want to jump to action sooner instead of later, action without a vigorous self-education and self-reflection practice can unexpectedly reproduce the very power and privilege dynamics we seek to interrupt in this work. Here are a few actions that you might consider:

  • Invite friend(s), family, and/or colleagues to do the 21-Day Challenge with you.
  • Prepare yourself to interrupt racial jokes. Click HERE for some advice about how.
  • Interrupt the pattern of white silence by speaking openly with family, friends, and colleagues about what you’re doing and learning in the 21-Day Challenge.
  • Invite friend(s), family, and/or colleagues to join you for one or more of your daily “to-do’s” for a low-threshold invitation into the work and introduction to the 21-Day Challenge.
  • Find out if your school, workplace, or faith group has an Equity Committee. What can you learn from them? Are they open to new members? Join if you can. Support in other ways if you can’t.
  • Find organizations such as The Privilege Institute, your local YWCA, and other non-profits doing racial justice work and support them through donating your time, money, and other resources.
  • When the status quo is racist, disrupt it. No matter how big or small put yourself out there to create change. No need to wait until you are comfortable disrupting; it may never get comfortable, though you will get better at managing discomfort! Examples from participants include:
  • Requiring administration to change the name of a dodgeball team from “The Cottonpickers”
  • Improving the representation of books in the library by raising funds and purchasing hundreds of new books
  • Conducting an equity audit within the organization
  • Creating learning communities to set goals, objectives, and action plans
  • Disrupting inappropriate language by offering alternative language you yourself are learning
  • Speaking, emailing, and posting about articles, blogs, movies, and this 21-Day Challenge that you find impactful. Let people know you are not neutral!

Reflect

Reflecting and Journaling is a crucial piece of the challenge. Plan to take time everyday to reflect on what you choose to do, what you’re learning, and how you are feeling. Difficult emotions such as shame and anger, though uncomfortable to feel, can guide you to deeper self-awareness about how power and privilege impacts you and the people in your life. At the very least, use the “Reflect” space on the tracking tool.


Extras: Expressions of Black Joy and Creativity

In addition to all of the other readings, documentaries, and action, there should also be space for the viewing of artistic or joyful or creative Black expression. Should you be inclined, please stream/peruse these at your leisure:


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