Race in America
The following is a list of resources that I have compiled with a number of teachers over the years for my 200hr Yoga Teacher Training program when I owned Yoga on High. I am happy to have conversations about any of the books or articles that I have posted, or read one of the other books together and talk about it!
I’ll start the list with this useful link: Anti-Racism Tools for White People!
And this one: 75 Things White People Can Do For Racial Justice
And another: 20 Things White People and non-Black POC can do
And check out these Black owned independent book stores!
Shannon Taylor’s Resource Recommendations
White Fragility-by Robin DeAngelo and Amy Landon
Between the World and Me by Ta-nehesi Coates
Braving the Wilderness or Daring to Lead--by Brene Brown.
Octavia Raheem: Yoga Journal @octaviaraheem
In The Future of Yoga, Octavia Raheem says the following: "We are being called to practice advanced yoga on and off our mat right now, and forward. It can be profoundly uncomfortable and will likely put some at odds with old narratives and environments that have gone unquestioned and unchallenged too long. We will ask the questions, 'Who is missing from my class or studio? Who is missing from my experience? Who holds the seat of the teacher? Who is not on this conference roster? Who is missing from this festival, who is missing from this publication? Why? What within me hasn't missed the other until now? What am I afraid to notice?'"
Dr. Chelsea Jackson Roberts: Yoga Journal
@chelsealovesyoga
CTZN podcast: http://www.ctznwell.org/ctznpodcast (transcript)
Tierra Barber’s Resource Recommendations
Books:
So you want to talk about race, by Ijeoma Oiuo
Me and White Supremacy, Layla Saad
Podcasts:
The Work: Rachel Cargle from CTZN PODCAST on Apple Podcasts.
Michele Vinbury’s Recommendations:
Books:
My Grandmother’s Hands, Resmaa Menakem
Between the World and Me, Ta-nehesi Coates
The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander
A Language Older Than Words, Derrek Jensen
How to Be an Anti-racist by Ibram X. Kendi
Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano
Hood Feminism : Notes From the Women White Feminists Forgot, Mikki Kendall
An anti-racist booklist for kids HERE
News Sources:
Website
Articles:
Peggy McIntosh White Privilege
Why Cultural Appropriation Matters
Yoga as Healing for the Black Community
How to Be A Better Ally for White Folks
What’s the Harm in Tone Policing
Definition and small group discussion ideas
Gloria Yamato 4 Types of Racism “Something about the subject makes it hard to name”
Don’t Understand the Protests?
Black Women Are Leaders in Climate Change Movement
Race and Environmental Justice
White Supremacy is the Mother of Climate Crisis
Instagram Accounts: @nicolecardoza @mama_maiz @blackwomenradicals @hajihealingsalon @lilearthgirl @rachel.cargle @seedingsovereignty @laylafsaad @ckyourprivilege @lilnativeboy @nowhitesaviors @urdoingreat @decolonizemyself @yourrightscamp @hrccolumbus @stonewallcolumbus @nationalnow @zenchangeangel @brandonkgood @thebodyisnotanapology
Recommendations from Victoria Bates Frye
”The danger of a single story”(a TED Talk) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie at TEDGlobal 2009
Books:
'Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race' by Debby Irving
”The Hidden Rules of Race”, Flynn, Holmburg, Warren, Wong
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria, Beverly Daniel Tatum
Recommendations from Dr. Elizabeth Simoneau:
So you want to talk about race, by Ijeoma Oiuo
Words of Fire: an anthology of African American Feminist Thought by Beverly Guy-Sheftall
Recommendations from Anna Sanyal
Yoga in America Often Exploits My Culture—but You May Not Even Realize It, Rina Deshpande
The Whitewashing of “#WhitePeopleDoingYoga”, Chiraag Bhakta
Yoga and the Roots of Cultural Appropriation, Shreena Gandhi and Lillie Wolff
‘I Refuse to Listen to White Women Cry’ by Rachel Cargle
Recommendations from Priya Singh
Kirtan and Cultural Appropriation Article
Other students/friends have recommended:
Becoming an Ally by Anne Bishop
House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea
When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago
Savage Inequalities, Amazing Grace, The Shame of the Nation and Fire in the Ashes all by Jonathan Kozol