Listening & educating ourselves and those around us are the first steps in ending systemic bias and racism. Below are We Speak's recommendations for Anti-bias Education, courtesy of Quincie Zari
Readings
Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks
By Donald Bogle
The Color Complex: The Politics of Skin Color in a New Millennium
By: Kathy Russell Midge Wilson and Ronald Hall
It’s exhausting. How many hashtags will it take for all of America to see Black people as more than their skin color?
By Rita Omokha for Elle
White Fragility -Robin DiAngelo
Biased- Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt
White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women's Studies- Peggy McIntosh
Documentaries
Dark Girls: Filmmakers Bill Duke and D. Channsin Berry explore a deep-seated bias within black culture against women with darker skin.
13th: Filmmaker Ava DuVernay explores the history of racial inequality in the United States, focusing on the fact that the nation's prisons are disproportionately filled with African-Americans.