Resources
Land Acknowledgement:
Guide -- how to do a land acknowledgement.
Map of First Nations across the world— including the U.S.
Support Local Wampanoag people:
Use this guide to island Wampanoag businesses.
Support Black-owned businesses:
Digital
The Shed — Eric Adams
The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones
13th on Netflix
Slavery by Another Name on PBS
137 Shots on Netflix
Shots Fired — Frontline
Organizations
NAACP — island chapter
The Emancipator — Boston Globe
Good Reads: please consider borrowing from your local lobrary or purchasing from your local bookstore seller
The 1619 Project: A New American Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
The Age of McArthyism — A Brief History with Documents by Ellen Schrecker and Philip Deery
An Indigenous People’s History by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
Faith and Boundaries by David Sullivan
From A Whisper to A Rallying Cry — The Killing of Vencint Chin and the Trial that Galvinized the Asian American Movement by Paula Yoo
Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America by Ari Berman
Half American by Matthew Delmont
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community by Mia Birdsong
I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
Infamy — The Shocking Story of Japanese Internment by Richard Reeves
Just Mercy by Bryan Stephenson
The Making of Asian America by Erika Lee
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad
Naming Names by Victor Navasky
Not Quite Not White: Losing and Finding Race in America by Sharmila Sen
On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope by DeRay Mckesson
On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
Perilous Times — Free Speech in War Time — From the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism by Geoffrey Stone
The Power of the Powerless by Vaclav Havel
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique W. Morris
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
Taking Children — A History of American Terror by Laura Briggs
The Sum of Us by Heather McGee
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
This Land is Their Land by David Sullivan
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America by Morgan Jerkins
Touch the Earth by T.C. McLuhan
The Water Dancer by Terry Gamble
Under the Skin by Linda Villarosa
We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation by Jeff Chang
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Asha Bandele, Angela Y. Davis (Foreword)
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
When Paris Went Dark — The City of Light Under German Occupation by Ronald Rosbottom
Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States edited by Joe Macaré, Maya Schenwar and Alana Yu-lan Price
Yellow Peril — An Archive of Anti-Asian Fear by John Kuo Wei Tchen and Dylan Yeats