Preparation for Class 1
Waking Up to Whiteness
Start with the 16 minute Intro to the “Seeing White” podcast (we recommend listening to the entire series)
Listen to two episodes from the podcast “Intersectionality Matters”, with Kimberle Crenshaw - The Story of Us (Part 1 + 2)
Read What is White Supremacy by Betita Martinez
Watch these short, powerful youtubes:
A window into the invention of whiteness: (5 minutes)
A window into racist policies and laws in the US: (5 minutes)
Grand Midwives of Georgia teaser video (5 minutes)
Preparation for Class 2
Racism is a System and White Privilege is the Sea in which we Swim
Read Structural Racism & Community Building (Feels long, however, there are many charts)
Review Four Levels of Racism (2 pages)
Watch this 8 minute Vox film on the history of the
Treatment of Black women in American medicine
Listen to episode 2 of the podcast NATAL on The Roots of the Black Birthing Crisis (25 minutes). Listening to the intro and episode one of the podcast is also highly recommended.
Segregated by Design from Zinn Education Project
5 minute video What is Intersectionality?
Watch Deconstructing White Privilege by Dr. Robin DiAngelo video (video - 22 minutes)
Read What Is White Privilege, Really? by Cory Collins
Read White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack (2 pages) Peggy McIntosh
After reading this article, journal about 10 things you have in your knapsack.
Highly recommended: the movie 13th, by Ava DuVernay, currently on Netflix
Preparation for Class 3
Addressing White Fragility and Leveraging our White Privilege
Watch the documentary: Cracking the Codes by World Trust
Log in: alanyasnyder@gmail.com password VIMEOTWP (OR rent it yourself for $10 to support World Trust).
Read Skillful Means: Addressing Racism, White Supremacy and Privilege with other White Individuals (rooted in the work of Paul Kivel)
Read White Fragility - Why it’s so hard to talk to white people about racism Dr. Robin de Angelo
See “also recommended” at the bottom of this page for more of Robin DiAngelo on White Fragility
Remember the 5 Rs when you have been unskillfull
Preparation for Class 4
Transforming White Culture
Read Agreements for Multicultural Interactions Adapted from Visions Inc.
Don’t be Nice, be Kind by Akaya Winwood
Full Length version of White Supremacy Culture article
Read Emergent Strategy Principles by adrienne marie brown
Read What is “White Space
Read Constructing the Modern American Midwife: White Supremacy and White Feminism Collide
Preparation for Class 5
We can’t do it alone
View Bryan Stevenson's Remarkable Speech On How To Change the World - (13 minutes)
Read Psychology Today interview with Resmaa Menakem, author
of My Grandmother’s Hands.
View Toni Morrison youtube ( 6 minutes)
Read Integrity by Larry Yang
Watch Ibram Kendi’s short video “5 Steps to being an Anti-Racist”
Why you can’t save the world without addressing racism and classism (2 pages)
Facing Our Other Crises with Lessons from Covid-19
Also recommend
Black Lives Matter: A Resource List for Midwives (read their letter to white midwives)
“Seeing White” by Scene on Radio podcast series on what it means to be white
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies, by Resmaa Menakem
NATAL: the podcast about having a baby while Black
How to Be an AntiRacist, (full book), by Ibram X. Kendi
Robin DiAngelo mp3 file on White Fragility (1 hour 42 min - this is her talk on the book White Fragility)
White Fragility, the full book by Robin DiAngelo
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
13th, the documentary by Ava DuVernay, which traces moder mass incarceration to the 13th amendment
Film: Aftershock streaming on Hulu on Disney+