Self-awareness and Reflection

Self-Awareness and Reflection ARTICLES

Talking About Race | National Museum of African American History and Culture A conversation on what anti-racism is from the NMAAHC Smithsonian. This page includes many links to other resources including the National Equity Project Implicit Bias PDF.

How to Overcome Our Biases? Walk Boldly Toward Them Verná Myers, VP of Inclusion Strategy at Netflix, discusses how to boldly walk into your biases.

Internalized Racism Inventory | Cultural Bridges to Justice A set of questions that are helpful in individual and group settings to unearth subconscious forms of racism.

BOOKS

My Grandmother’s Hands | Resmaa Menakem Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of body-centered psychology. He argues this destruction will continue until Americans learn to heal the generational anguish of white supremacy, which is deeply embedded in all our bodies. My Grandmother’s Hands is a call to action for all of us to recognize that racism is not about the head, but about the body, and introduces an alternative view of what we can do to grow beyond our entrenched racialized divide.

Dare to Lead | Brené Brown Brené Brown has taught us what it means to dare greatly, rise strong, and brave the wilderness. Now, based on new research conducted with leaders, change makers, and culture shifters, she’s showing us how to put those ideas into practice so we can step up and lead.

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together | Heather McGhee The Sum of Us is a brilliant analysis of how we arrived here: divided and self-destructing, materially rich but spiritually starved and vastly unequal. McGhee marshals economic and sociological research to paint an irrefutable story of racism’s costs, but at the heart of the book are the humble stories of people yearning to be part of a better America, including white supremacy’s collateral victims: white people themselves.

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 | Edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain Four Hundred Souls is a unique one-volume “community” history of African Americans. The editors, Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain, have assembled 90 brilliant writers, each of whom takes on a five-year period of that 400-year span. They approach history from various perspectives: through the eyes of towering historical icons or the untold stories of ordinary people; through places, laws, and objects.