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Antiracism Challenge

This guide provides resources for individuals, teams, departments and units to engage in developing racial literacy, learning more about racial equity issues, and reflection towards building a more diverse, equitable, inclusive and anti-racist community.

Day 1

WATCH: Bodies as Resistance: Claiming the Political Act of Being Oneself | Sonya Renee

Sunday, May 21

Day 2

READ: 10 Steps to Non-Optical Allyship

Tuesday, May 22

Day 3

READ: Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America's Heartland

Tuesday, May 23

Day 4

WATCH: How 'White Fragility' Reinforces Racism

Wednesday, May 24

Day 5

REST AND LISTEN: I AM | Beautiful Chorus feat. India Arie

Thursday, May 25

Day 6 (Choose 1)

WATCH: The Urgency of Intersectionality | Kimberle Crenshaw

Friday, May 26

 

Day 6 (Option 2)

READ: Positionality and Intersectionality

Friday, May 26

Day 7

READ: On the Many Meanings of the Black Diaspora

Saturday, May 27