UPROOTING RACISM • Ra'Shya Ghee

Unsure about where to start educating away the racism that America has ingrained into our DNA? These tools are resource rich resources that facilitate critical reflection of assumptions you probably didn’t even realize you made. They tackle criminal justice, the Black experience in America, and so much more. If you’re open to it, this literature could be the start of a beautifully evolving you. Consider, if you get the chance, LISTENING to “Between The World & Me” and “Just Mercy”! Hearing the words read by Ta-Nehisi & Bryan is SO rewarding…also those two were my favs. Between The World & Me was the first time I felt seen in literature. I invite you to message me (either here or on one of my social media platforms) with resources you think can add to this list!

The Aspiring Anti-Racist Book List:

Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
White Fragility By Robin Diangelo
Just Mercy By Bryan Stevenson
White Rage By Carol Anderson
The Color of Law By Richard Rothstein
Slavery By Another Name By Douglas Blackmon
Been In The Storm So Long By Leon Litwack
Remembering Slavery Edited By Ira Berlin, Marc Favreau, & Steven F. Miller
Talking To Strangers By Malcolm Gladwell
The New Jim Crow By Michelle Alexander
Push Out By Monique Morris
How To Be An Anti-Racist By Ibram X. Kendi
Stamped By Ibram X. Kendi
The Half Has Never Been Told By Edward Baptist
Are Prisons Obsolete? By Angela Davis
When Affirmative Action Was White By Ira Katz Nelson
In The Courts of The Conqueror By Walter R. Echo-Hawk
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together By Beverly D. Tatum
The Fire Next Time By James Baldwin
White American Youth By Christian Picciolini
Race Against Time By Jerry Mitchell
A Colony In A Nation By Chris Hayes
Doing Justice By Preet Bahara
They Were Her Property By Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
The History of White People By Nell Irvin Painter
We Were Eight Years In Power By Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Man-Not By Tommy Curry
Race Matters By Cornel West
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois
Barracoon By Zora Neale Hurston
Rights Talk By Mary Ann Glendon
The Alchemy of Race & Rights By Patricia J. Williams
Killing the Black Body By Dorothy Roberts
Fatal Invention By Dorothy Roberts
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

The Aspiring Anti-Racist Documentary List:

13th On Netflix
Slavery By Another Name on PBS
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome on Youtube
I Am Not Your Negro on Amazon Prime
The Kalief Browder Story on Netflix
Traces of The Trade
Crime and Punishment on Hulu

The Aspiring Anti-Racist Podcast List:

1. White Lies on NPR

2. Serial Season 3

3. Code Switch on NPR

4. The NYT 1619

5. Yo, Is This Racist?

6. Pod Save The People with DeRay

7. Seeing White

8. Higher Learning

9. The Breakdown

The Aspiring Anti-Racist Article List (each item is hyperlink):

1. When Slave Owners Got Reparations

2. Feminism Is White Supremacy In Heels

3. The Case for Reparations

4. The NYT 1619 Project

5. The Great Land Robbery

6. Mapping The Margins

7. When Blacks Tried to Unionize in The South

8. Not Just Racism, Anti-Blackness

9. With Racial Segregation Declining Between Neighborhoods, Segregation Now Taking New Form

10. The Long Reach of Racism in the U.S.

11. Neighborhoods and The Black-White Mobility Gap

12. You Want A Confederate Monument? My Body Is a Confederate Monument.

13. The 1968 Kerner Commission Got It Right, But Nobody Listened.

14. How Hamilton’s Production Gets Race Wrong.

15. Racism in Romancelandia

16. A History of Racism Imploded the Romance Publishing World. Can It Change?

17. The History of Racism in America’s Ice-cream Song.

18. The Dictionary Changed The Definition of Racism & It Can Help Win Cases.

19. What’s My Complicity? Talking White Fragility With Robin DiAngelo.

The Aspiring Anti-Racist Digital and Physical Spaces:

1. The Great Unlearn

2. The National Memorial for Peace and Justice

3. The Whitney Plantation

4. National Museum of African American History and Culture

5. Jim Crow Museum

6. Without Sanctuary.org

7. Ethical Reporting of Native Americans (hyperlink)

8. The African-American Policy Forum (hyperlink)

The Aspiring Anti-Racist Fiction Collection:

1. The Water Dancer

2. The Bluest Eye

3. The Deep

4. Broken Earth Trilogy

5. Marvel’s Black Panther

6. Mississippi Burning

The Aspiring Anti-Racist Short Videos:

1.Kimberle Crenshaw: Race, Gender, Inequality, and Intersectionality

2. Jody David Armour: Unconscious Bias: The Social Construction of Black Criminals

3. What to My People is The Fourth of July?

Ra'Shya is a lawyer that currently resides in Toledo, Ohio. Her expertise focuses on the relationship between race, law, culture, and history. This background coupled with her compelling oratory skills and life experiences make her a renowned lecturer and imbibes her with a worldview that is valued among her peers and colleagues.