Resources
Opportunities for continuing anti-racist education and action.
Continuing Education:
Helms Groups
For participants who have completed the Witnessing Whiteness program at 80% or higher attendance, we offer 4-week discussion groups on Dr. Janet E. Helms’s racial identity theory using her book A Race Is A Nice Thing to Have: A Guide to Being a White Person or Understanding the White Persons In Your Life.
Groups are offered based on participant interest and facilitator availability. If you are a former Witnessing Whiteness participant who’d like to be notified when a Helms group is available, please let us know via our contact form.
Events & Organizations
Our volunteers have attended events and/or gotten involved with:
Local
Forward Through Ferguson (host of the St. Louis Equity Summit)
National
Alliance of White Anti-Racists Everywhere (AWARE)-LA (home of the Unmasking Whiteness Institute)
The Privilege Institute (host of The White Privilege Conference)
Books & Media
Recommendations from our volunteers:
Books
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
How to Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DeAngelo
Articles
“White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Peggy McIntosh
“White Supremacy Culture – Still Here” by Tema Okun
Girlhood Interrupted: The Erasure of Black Girls’ Childhood from The Center on Gender Justice & Opportunity at Georgetown Law
Videos & Podcasts
We Live Here podcast by St. Louis Public Radio
“How Can I Have a Positive Racial Identity? I'm White!”, TEDx talk by Ali Michael
“Want to change the world? Start by being brave enough to care”, TEDx talk by Cleo Wade