This is by no means a comprehensive list. It was compiled by Roy Jones, Lilith Dorsey, Lorrie Wood, and Phat Man Dee for use in their workshops about confronting racism and cultural appropriation in modern pagan culture and is intended as a starting point for anyone wanting to learn about racism in American society and how to adopt and maintain an anti-racist position. This reading list is hosted online at http://www.phatmandeemusic.com/anti_racist__cultural_appropriation_reading_list/


History and Society

Stamped from the beginning: The definitive history of racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
https://www.amazon.com/Stamped-Beginning-Definitive-History-National/dp/1568585985/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1PPKQNSGGA2NP&dchild=1&keywords=stamped+from+the+beginning+by+ibram+kendi&qid=1593956523&sprefix=stamped%2Caps%2C184&sr=8-2

A Dreadful Deceit: The myth of race from the colonial era to Obama's America by Jacqueline Jones
https://www.amazon.com/Dreadful-Deceit-Colonial-Obamas-America/dp/0465055672/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3C7KNG6RUIUA&dchild=1&keywords=a+dreadful+deceit&qid=1593956640&sprefix=a+dreadful+d%2Caps%2C170&sr=8-1

White Fragility: Why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism by Robin DiAngelo
https://www.amazon.com/White-Fragility-People-About-Racism/dp/0807047414/ref=sr_1_2?crid=9EWT1QWDD5WA&dchild=1&keywords=white+fragility+why+its+so+hard+for+white+people+to+talk+about+racism&qid=1593957748&sprefix=white+fragility%2Caps%2C180&sr=8-2

The Color of Law: A forgotten history of how our government segregated America by Richard Rothstein
https://www.amazon.com/Color-Law-Forgotten-Government-Segregated/dp/1631494538/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=The+Color+of+Law&qid=1593956805&sr=8-2

A Colony in a Nation by Chris Hayes
https://www.amazon.com/Colony-Nation-Chris-Hayes/dp/039335542X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=16A1FR40RM5F1&dchild=1&keywords=a+colony+in+a+nation+by+chris+hayes&qid=1593956975&sprefix=a+colony+%2Caps%2C163&sr=8-1 

Automating Inequality: How high-tech tools profile, police and punish the poor by Virginia Eubanks
https://www.amazon.com/Automating-Inequality-High-Tech-Profile-Police/dp/1250215781/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3R5OX14GCU3MT&dchild=1&keywords=automating+inequality&qid=1593957641&sprefix=automating+ine%2Caps%2C168&sr=8-2

We're Teaching History Wrong by Rebecca Onion
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/we-re-teaching-history-wrong?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Black families pay significantly higher property taxes than white families, new analysis shows by Andrew Van Dam
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/07/02/black-property-tax/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

20 Questions for Those Who Deny Systemic Racism by Tim Wise
https://medium.com/@timjwise/20-questions-for-those-who-deny-systemic-racism-781e62319ddc

When Black Digital Culture Gets Appropriated by Xavier Harding
https://blog.getpocket.com/2020/06/digital-appropriation/?utm_source=pocket-newtab

How Race Shapes the American City
https://blog.getpocket.com/2020/06/how-race-shapes-the-american-city/

A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it’s bad for you
https://aeon.co/ideas/a-belief-in-meritocracy-is-not-only-false-its-bad-for-you

Twilight of the Elites: America after meritocracy
https://www.amazon.com/Twilight-Elites-America-After-Meritocracy/dp/0307720462/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=twilight+of+the+elites&qid=1595690728&sr=8-1


Identity and Difference


Why is This Happening (podcast)  Rethinking Identity Chris Hayes with Kwame Anthony Appiah

https://content.production.cdn.art19.com/episodes/5efc5b72-8b65-495b-a4e4-1e67e5b2534b/e03a6622461c1993ca639b0ed65208d687479a7318210e532fff1af093306efd4e917ccc6bb671a4ad62a3b87e9c0b543065b8c6e210a97dc0f92f9ebbbc7620/hayes47_appiah_01_au.mp3 

 

The Scholar who Shaped History, a review of The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation by David Brion Davis

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2014/03/20/scholar-who-shaped-history/ 

 

Why Do So Many Researchers Still Treat Race as a Scientific Concept?

https://slate.com/technology/2019/05/race-science-angela-saini-new-book-superior-deconstructed.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab

 

White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo

https://libjournal.uncg.edu/ijcp/article/viewFile/249/116

 

White Nationalism’s Deep American Roots by Adam Serwer

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/04/adam-serwer-madison-grant-white-nationalism/583258/ 

 

White people assume niceness is the answer to racial inequality. It's not by Robin diAngelo

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/16/racial-inequality-niceness-white-people 

 

Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race by Reni Eddo-Lodge

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/30/why-im-no-longer-talking-to-white-people-about-race 

 


By and about Ibram X. Kendi

 

The Day ‘Shithole’ Entered the Presidential Lexicon by Ibram X. Kendi

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/01/shithole-countries/580054/

 

The racism of good intentions by Carlos Lozada

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/book-party/wp/2016/04/15/the-racism-of-good-intentions/?utm_term=.b817c2411255

A review of "Stamped From the Beginning" by Ibram X. Kendi

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/24/stamped-from-beginning-ibram-x-kendi-review

 

A Reading List for Ralph Northam by Ibram X. Kendi

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/antiracist-syllabus-governor-ralph-northam/582580/

How to be an antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Antiracist-Ibram-Kendi/dp/0525509283/ref=sr_1_1?crid=VBD0R90P5H3B&dchild=1&keywords=how+to+bean+antiracist+by+ibram+x.+kendi&qid=1593956314&sprefix=how+to+be%2Caps%2C179&sr=8-1



Racism in Alternative Spirituality

 

Racism and Recognition in the Pagan Community with Lilith Dorsey and Tehron Gillis

https://youtu.be/G8yn8KXfzL8


Aryans in Arcadia

https://boingboing.net/2015/07/21/aryans-in-arcadia.html 

 

The Unbearable Whiteness of Being Pagan: Some Observations on White Fragility in Esoteric Spiritual Movements

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/mishamagdalene/2019/03/unbearable-whiteness-white-fragility/?fbclid=IwAR1SPKYYcZ53cnehGOk6EBximj1nwShBIQCiUbMFVBFV8FFD-3y3sQKds1A 

 

Dismantling The Widespread White Advantage in Witchcraft by Cyndi Brannen

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/keepingherkeys/2019/03/the-widespread-white-advantage-in-paganism-and-witchcraft-plus-13-ways-to-not-make-things-worse-if-youre-white/?fbclid=IwAR0lxzTaivwfDw5G6cxFvzFSKodML6tzCW49mFasrPEC4l0-uRAdAHRUkzs 

 

Racists Are Threatening to Take Over Paganism

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59kq93/racists-are-threatening-to-take-over-paganism 

 

What To Do When Racists Try To Hijack Your Religion

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/11/asatru-heathenry-racism/543864/ 

 

Who Owns the Vikings? Pagans, Neo-Nazis and Advertisers Tussle Over Symbols

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/17/world/europe/vikings-sweden-paganism-neonazis.html 

Racist Music, Neo-Paganism and Nationalism Drive Growth of Hate Movement

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2001/racist-music-neo-paganism-and-nationalism-drive-growth-hate-movement

 


Cultural Appropriation


 Eating the Other: Desire and Resistance  by Bell Hooks

https://de.ryerson.ca/DE_courses/uploadedFiles/6052_Arts/CSOC202/Modules/Module_00/eating%20the%20other.pdf


New Video Witchcraft & Voodoo : Cultural Appropriation by Lilith Dorsey

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/voodoouniverse/2018/06/new-video-witchcraft-voodoo-cultural-appropriation/



Anti-Racism

Anti-Racism Defined

http://www.aclrc.com/antiracism-defined 

 

15 ways to strengthen anti-racist practice

https://collectiveliberation.org/15-ways-to-strengthen-anti-racist-practice/ 

 

Confronting racism is not about the needs and feelings of white people by Ijeoma Oluo

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/28/confronting-racism-is-not-about-the-needs-and-feelings-of-white-people 

 

 This is what an antiracist America would look like. How do we get there? by Ibram X Kendi

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/06/antiracism-and-america-white-nationalism

 

An Antiracist Reading List by Ibram X. Kendi

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/books/review/antiracist-reading-list-ibram-x-kendi.html

 

Speak Up: Responding to Everyday Bigotry

https://www.splcenter.org/20150125/speak-responding-everyday-bigotry?fbclid=IwAR386ipAxZDjlJVbXMFfHwU4KzrTNq1DoyfsCfQvm1FcHqWqxDmCjGYfqeM


Riots, Racism, Representation, Rights, and Reparations … A Rant by Lilith Dorsey

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/voodoouniverse/2020/06/riots-racism-representation-rights-and-reparations-a-rant/?fbclid=IwAR29D-0DVnBPYqO52GKniCY_4bmA3d9B4xw9GiTrWUkYQ8MUN1H5ZVmWNEA


Listen To Black People! Advice and Resources for Allies! by Lilith Dorsey
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/voodoouniverse/2020/06/listen-to-black-people-advice-and-resources-for-allies/?fbclid=IwAR0o9dQw5TvAV_8Mg_LlAeGCFxccALivUmJUiyEz8ccFqP9YyrAYN2dNJAU