Book Study and Reflection on White Fragility and Systemic Racism
During the fall of 2020, Rev. Dr. Anthony Bailey, Rev. Alcris Limongi and a member of Parkdale, Judy Hamley, led a congregational book study and reflection focused on white fragility and systemic racism. Almost 50 people from the congregation attended. Everyone found the book we studied, White Fragility: Why it’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism and the discussions that followed extremely informative and all agreed they have so much more to learn.
Following is a list of resources that emerged from this study:
Books
WHITE FRAGILITY: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin Diangelo
Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to Present by Robyn Manard
Me and White Supremacy by Lala Saad
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
This Book is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action and Do the Work by Tiffany Jewell
So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Race, Gender and Sexual Orientation by Derald Wing Sue
Microaggressions and Marginality: Manifestations, Dynamics and Impact by Derald Wing Sue
UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA
Executive Starts Work to Become Anti-Racism Denomination
https://www.united-church.ca/news/executive-starts-work-become-anti-racist-denomination