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Anti-Oppression Resources

Oppression based on race, gender, sexuality, class, ethnicity, disabilities, and age is prevalent in our society, and affects the lives of students and workers everywhere. As campus activists, we must challenge ourselves to see that we all either benefit or are hurt by structures of oppression.

«Anti-Oppression Resources«

A short list of resources to help combat oppression in your campaign and every day life.

Websites and Organizations

The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond
Holds anti-racism trainings and organizing for community organizers
www.thepeoplesinstitute.org

The Challenging White Supremacy Workshop
Anti-racist workshop based in San Francisco with a wealth of online materials and resources
www.csworkshop.org

Colours of Resistance
Grassroots network working to develop anti-racist, anti-imperialist, multiracial, feminist, queer and trans liberationist, anti-authoritarian politics in the movement against global capitalism
colours.mahost.org

Resource Generation
Works with young people with financial wealth to effect progressive social change through the creative, responsible and strategic use of financial and other resources and the strengthening of cross-class alliances
www.resourcegeneration.org

Active Solidarity
Provides and extensive on-line resource for those interested in opposing white supremacy and supporting liberations movements of color. The Active Solidarity Collective facilitates participatory workshops in anti-racism for predominately white social justice groups. Many resources linked from their website.
www.activesolidarity.net

The Institute for Social Ecology
Educational and activist organization based in Vermont which offers college level educational programs in many different subjects, such as; radical political theory, social activism, agriculture, philosophy, and radical education
www.social-ecology.org
Student-Worker Solidarity
Student-Worker Solidarity Organizing Kit- Chapter 4 of this guide, "How do we get started? - Inclusiveness and Group Dynamics," is an excellent overview of how issues of oppression relate to student organizing. Required reading for all campus activists! Published by the Service Worker Solidarity Campaign.

Books

Detroit: I Do Mind Dying; A Study in Urban Revolution, Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin
Killing Rage: Ending Racism, bell hooks
My Gender Workbook, Kate Bornstein
Assata, Assata Shakur
De Colores Means All of Us, Elizabeth Betita Martinez
The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the UFW
Sweatshop Warriors; Immigrant Women Workers Take on the Global Factory, Mariam Ching Yoon
Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years 1960-1975, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Feminist Theory, From Margin to Center, bell hooks
Race Traitor, edited by Noel Ignatiev
Getting by on the Minimum, The Lives of Working-Class Women, Jennifer Johnson
Stone Butch Blues, Leslie Feinberg
Occupied America, A History of Chicanos, Rodolfo Acuna
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, Gloria Anzaldua and others
Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America/25^th Anniv Ed, LeRone Bennet

Helpful tip: Schedule an anti-racism training on your campus with your group and allies

Acuna	Rodolfo	Occupied America, A History of Chicanos
Allen	Theodore	Invention of the White Race I & II
Anzaldua	Gloria and others	This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
Aptheker	Herbert	Anti-Racism in U.S. History
Barndt	Joseph	Dismantling Racism: The Continuing Challenge to White America
Bell	Derrick	Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism
Bennet	LeRone	Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America/25^th Anniv Ed
Bonilla-Silva	Eduardo	Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the US
Braden	Ann	The Wall Between
Brodkin	Karen	How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says about Race in America
Brown	Dee	Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee: The Indian history of the American West
Bullard	Robert	Unequal Protection: Environmental Justice and Communities of color
Chisom Ronald & Michael Washington		Undoing Racism: A Philosophy of International Social Change
Churchill	Ward	A Little Matter of Genocide
Davis	Angela	Women, Race and Class
Louise Derman-Sparks	Carole Brunson Phillips, Asa G. Hillard III	Teaching/Learning anti-Racism: A Developmental Approach
Du Bois	WEB	The Souls of Black Folks
Ellison	Ralph	Invisible Man
Franklin	John Hope	From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African-Americans
Friero	Paulo	Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Giddings	Paula	Where and When I Enter: the Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America
Goodman	Diane J	Promoting Diversity and Social Justice: Educating People from Privileged Groups
Gossett	Thomas	Race: The History of an Idea in America
Graham	Lawrence Otis	Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class
Hacker	Andrew	Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal
Higgenbotham	Leon A. Jr.	In the Matter of Color: Race and the American Legal Process: The Colonial Period
Hitchcock	Jeff	Lifting the White Veil
Hooks	Bell	Ain't I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism
Hooks	Bell	Race, Gender and Cultural Politics
Hughes	Langston	The Ways of White Folks
Hurtado	Aido	The Color of Privilege
Ignatiev	Noel	How the Irish Became White
Institute of Medicine		Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care
Jaimes	M. Annette	The State of Native American Genocide, Colonization and Resistance
Johnson	Allan G.	Privilege, Power and Difference
Jordan	Winthrop D.	The White Man's Burden: Historical Origins of Racism in America
Katz	Judith	White Awareness: A Handbook
Kinchelow	Joe L.	White Reign: Deploying Whiteness in America
King	Dr. Martin Luther	Why We Can't Wait
Kivel	Paul	Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice
Kochman	Thomas	Black and White Styles in Conflict
Kozol	Jonathan	Savage Inequalities: Children in American Schools
Lipsitz	George	The Possessive Investment of Whiteness: How White People Benefit from Identity Politics
Loewen	James	Lies my Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
Lord	Audre	Sister Outsider
Lord	Audre	Zami
Lopez	Ian Haney	White by Law: The Legan Construction of Race
Malcolm X & Alex Haley		Autobiography of Malcom X
Mandela	Nelson	Long Walk to Freedom
Marable	Manning	The Crisis of Color and Democracy: Essays on Race, Class and Power
Martinez	Elizabeth	500 Years of Chicano History
Martinez	Elizabeth	De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Cultured Century
McIntosh	Peggy	"White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" (available online at http://www.utoronto.ca/acc/events/peggy1.htm)
Montagu	Ashley	Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race
Moore	Robert B.	Racism in the English Language
Oliver	Melvin L. & Thomas M. Shapiro	Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality
Robinson	Randall	The Debt: What America Owes to Black People
Root	Marla	Racially Mixed People in America
Segrest	Mab	Memoirs of a Race Traitor
Smith	Lillian	Killers of the Dream
Takaki	Ronald	A Different Mirror
Takaki	Ronald	Iron Cages: Race and Culture in 19th Century America
Takaki	Ronald	Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans
Tatum	Beverly	Why Are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria
Terry	Robert W.	For Whites Only
Thompson	Becky	A Promise and A Way of Life: History of White Anti-Racist Activism
West	Cornel	Race Matters
Wolf	Eric R.	Europe and the People Without History
Wright	Richard	Black Boy
Wu	Frank	Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White
Zinn	Howard	A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

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