ANTI-RACISM & BLM RESOURCES:
(Please email us to submit resources)


UPDATED 1/22/22

• 28 Days of Black History (2021) Virtual Exhibition

• NATIONAL RESOURCE LIST -- MINNEAPOLIS UPRISING & BEYOND

• BLM RESOURCE DOC
• ANTI-RACISM RESOURCE FOR WHITE PEOPLE
• THE GREAT UNLEARN
• CALIFORNIANS FOR THE ARTS ANTI-RACISM RESOURCES
• RESOURCES FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS AND BEYOND ON ANTI-RACISM

SHAREABLE GRAPHICS:

• FREE Downloadable Posters by R.I.S.E. Indigenous
• Racism in the Arts
• FREE Downloadable Poster by CrimethInc (Collab with Bandilang Itim)
  
  

READINGS:

• !NEW! bell hooks Reading List
• Reimagining the Museum with a Native Lens
• Movie Stars and Anti-Filipino Race Riots: The Secret History of San Francisco's Macintosh Studios
• How Two Artists’ Transformation of a Portland Museum May Provide a Blueprint for Larger Institutions
• The Future Came and Went: A.R. Kane Interviewed
  (for you shoegaze fans!)
• Crowd Control and Riot Manual
• Decentering Whiteness in the Museum
  By Steph Littlebird Fogel
• Global List of Black-Owned/Founded Museums, Art Galleries, and Spaces
• Little Noticed, Filipino-Americans Are Dying of COVID-19 at an Alarming Rate
• Should White People Review Black Art?
• We Want More for Breonna Taylor Than What the System Can Deliver
  Turning Away from Systems of Policing and Punishment Doesn't Mean Turning Away from Accountability

• How Gentrifying Businesses Co-Opted a Black Movement
• What is Juneteenth?
• Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture
• How Do Museums Uphold White Supremacy?
• The Most Influential Living African-American Artists
• When Black Art Becomes 'Disruptive'
• It's Time to End the Terms 'Slave & Master' in Photography
• Working Towards a Police-Free Minneapolis
• A Phenomenology of Whiteness
• Black Anarchism: A Reader by Black Rose Anarchist Federation
• Goth So White? Black Representation in the Post-Punk Scene
• How Black Soldiers Aided in Philippine 'Independence' & Why it Still Matters Today
• Addressing Anti-Black Microaggressions in Filipino Families
• Staying Safe in the Streets - A Guide by CrimethInc
• FREE E-BOOK: The End of Policing
  
  

WATCH:

• The Linda Lindas - "Racist, Sexist Boy" (Live at LA Public Library) 
• The Chinese Exclusion Act (PBS)
• What Does Punk Have to Do with Basquiat?
• Inside the Historic Swamp Enslaved People Took Refuge In
• Pandemic of Hate: Anti-Asian Racism During COVID-19

• Be Water: What We Can Learn from Hong Kong's Protests​

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