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Today, Kaytee is chatting with online friend Anna Hithersay. Kaytee and Anna both got started on the road to racial justice multiple years ago, but we do not claim to be experts. We do have a few years of reading and listening under our belts and want to point you toward the resources we have found and the places we have learned. This episode is meant to point OUTWARD, to give our white listeners the starting places, the books, podcasts, and accounts, and the conversations to get started. Tune in to hear about: How we each got started on the road to racial justice Anna’s “Do Better” book club and embracing the awkward Questions and Answers from our Currently Reading Bookish Friends A list of books and resources to get you started on your own journey And, of course, a book she wants to press into your hands. Connect with Anna on Instagram: @ahithersay and @comehither_andstay Minisode show notes are not timestamped, but this episode includes a huge list of resources. Here’s a comprehensive list of the books we mentioned (and the ones we skipped for time), the lists of Black bookstores and Black bookstagrammers you might want to start following, the podcasts and articles we talked about, and anything else I can link to that we mentioned. These show notes are meant to be a starting place, to hold information that you can come back to in order to continue this journey and find additional resources from our Black brothers and sisters who are lifting their voices. The work will not end anytime soon. Prepare for a long haul. Primer Books I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing BrownWhite Fragility by Robin DiAngeloThe Fire This Time by Jesmyn WardSo You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma OluoStamped: Racism, Anti-Racism and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. KendiMe a White Supremacy by Layla F. SaadBe the Bridge by Latasha Morrison (Christian) Memoir You Can’t Touch My Hair and Other Things I Still Have to Explain by Phoebe RobinsonEloquent Rage by Brittney CooperBorn A Crime by Trevor NoahWell-Read Black Girl by Glory EdimThe Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clementine WamariyaBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesBecoming by Michelle ObamaThe Other Wes Moore by Wes MooreI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouMen We Reaped by Jesamyn WardBad Feminist by Roxanne Gay Fiction Starter Pack Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (YA)Roots by Alex HaleySuch a Fun Age by Kiley ReidThe Underground Railroad or The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead Romance Authors of Color: Kennedy Ryan, Jasmine Guillory, Alisha Rai, Rebecca Weatherspoon, Talia Hibbert, Naleni Singh, Jackie Lao, Sonali Dev, Mariana SabadaAn American Marriage by Tayari JonesPiecing Me Together by Renee Watson (YA)Sing, Unburied, Sing and Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn WardHomegoing by Yaa GyasiGirl, Woman, Other by Bernardine EvaristoKindred by Octavia Butler Deeper Topics The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander (mass incarceration)When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors a Asha Bandele (Black Lives Matter)Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson (Death Penalty and Mass Incarceration)The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson (history)Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi (history)How to Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi (action steps)We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates (history and personal essay)Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel TatumShalom Sistas by Osheta Moore (Christian) Anti-Racist Kids Middle GradeThe Crossover by Kwame AlexanderThis Book is Anti-Racist by Tiffany JewellGhost Boys (upper middle grade) by Jewell Parker RhodesBrown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline WoodsonGhost (Track Series) by Jason ReynoldsBlended by Sharon M DraperHarbor Me by Jacqueline WoodsonGenesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams Young AdultDear Martin by Nic StoneLong Way Down by Jason ReynoldsOn the Come Up by Angie ThomasA Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney (fantasy)I'm Not Dying with You Tonight by Kimberly Jones and Emily SegalSlay by Brittney MorrisAll American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely Picture BooksHair Love by Matthew A CherryThe Colors of Us by Karen KatzThe Skin You Live In by Michael Taylor and David Lee CsicskoPeople by Peter SpierKadir Nelson's picture booksEzra Jack Keats' picture books Podcasts Episodes on race from The Liturgists: Racism in America, Anti-Racism1619 PodcastCode Switch from NPR Yo, Is This Racist? Pod Save the People Sounds of Justice podcast (Christian) Seeing WhiteOn Ramp: Two Christians Talk About Race Ibram X Kendi with Brene Brown on Unlocking Us Places that You Might Donate NAACPACLUBlack Lives MatterNational Bailout Fund Other Resources Sign Petitions Black Bookstagrammers - I shared a roundup, saved in my Anti-Racism story highlightMockingbird history lessons on Patreon A list of Black-owned bookstores Anti-Racism Resources for White People Scraping Raisins: 70+ Race Resources for White People and 80+ MOREA Conversation with Ibram X Kendi about talking to Kids about race Be the Bridge courses - Whiteness 101, Talking to Kids about Race and Racism, Whiteness Intensive The 2020 Ultimate List of Diverse Children’s Books from Here Wee ReadThe Conscious Kid on Instagram Medium’s List of Anti-Racism Resources Common Sense Media - using media to raise anti-racist kids Vox’s List of Streaming Movies that are Anti-Racist