Becoming Anti-Racist
Ministry on Racism
Organizations
Videos
Resources
Ministry on Racism Committee
Friends in SEYM actively support various issues concerning the continuing struggle for social justice for Black people, Indigenous people, and People of Color.
Becoming an Anti-Racist community requires us to learn how white privilege and discrimination against BIPOC people is woven into our culture and institutions as structural racism that shapes policies and practices, and acknowledge our part in it. We must understand how white privilege and micro-aggressions are part of everyday conversation, and the harm these do to people of color.
We must continue learning how to be a community that is truly welcoming for all.
The SEYM Committee for Ministry on Racism facilitates workshops, discussion, and actions on these concerns. You are welcome to contact the committee with your questions.
Quaker Organizations
American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) works to challenge injustice and build peace around the globe. They also have a Study Guide for groups reading The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander.
Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) is the Quaker lobby in Washington, DC.
Friends General Conference(FGC) has a Ministry on Racism, with several programs and resources to help Friends and their meetings challenge racism, and opportunities for Friends of Color to gather and build community together.
Quakers Engage to End Racism is a Facebook group for Friends to connect on issues related to racism.
Videos
Quakers, Racism, and the Blessed Community
Dreaming of Wholeness: Quakers and the Future of Racial Healing
White Quakers Confronting White Privilege
Resources
Online
Quakers engage to end racism (Facebook group)
Friends Journal
Eileen Flanagan’s blog: Spirituality for Troubled Times
Documentaries & Films
I Am Not Your Negro. Director, Raoul Peck, 2016. Based on James Baldwin’s unfinished book, Remember This House.
13TH. Filmmaker, Ava Duvernay, 2016. A powerful look at how the modern-day prison system links to enslavement.
BlacKkKlansman. Filmmaker, Spike Lee, 2018. True story of the first African American to serve on the Colorado Springs Police Department.
In Print
Living Our Testimony on Equality: A White Friend’s Experience, Patience A. Schenck. Pendle Hill Pamphlet 415, 2011: Contains queries and bibliography.
Black Fire: African American Quakers on Spirituality and Human Rights, Harold Weaver Jr., Paul Kriese, Steven W. Angell and Emma Lapsansky. 2011. Available at FGC Quakerbooks>
Books by Jawanza Kunjufu
Books by bell hooks
Cathedrals of the Spirit, The Messages of Sacred Places, T. C. McLuhan. 1996
Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir, Jean Guerrero. 2018. Author of Puerto Rican/Mexican background. Very current border issues.
Deep Denial: The Persistence of White Supremacy in United States History and Life, David Billings, 2016. Recommended reading by New York Yearly Meeting, 2017
Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship: Quakers, African Americans, and the Myth of Racial Justice, Donna McDaniel and Vanessa Julye.
I Dream a World – Portraits of African American Women who Changed America, Brian Lanker. 1989
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, James Forman Jr. 2017. Winner of 2018 Pulitzer Prize in non-fiction.
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, Langston Hughes. Arnold Rampersad, Ed. 1995
The Debtors. Caucasians United for Reparations and Emancipation. 2005 (CURE, headquartered in Red Oak, Georgia)
The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander.
The Third Reconstruction: How A Moral Movement Is Overcoming the Politics Of Division and Fear, Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II. 2016. Revival Of The Poor People’s Campaign.
Touch the Earth: A Self-Portrait of Indian Existence, T.C. McLuhan. 1971
Waking Up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race. Debbie Irving. 2016. Good discussion questions at the end of each chapter.
When I was Puerto Rican. Esmeralda Santiago, 1993. Memoir. “Oldie-but-goodie,” Minerva Glidden.
When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir, Patrice khan-cullors and asha bandel. 2017.
Whereas, Layli Long Soldier, Oglala Lakota poet, 2017. “… debut collection ‘Whereas’, a piercing rejoinder to the US Congressional resolution of apology to Native Americans, claimed the night’s book of the year prize, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award…” Native Lit. and Culture, Feb. 23, 2018
White Awareness: Handbook for Anti-Racism Training, Judith Katz. 2003