Resources to Learn About Racism & Social Equity
The outdoor industry is one of the many that need to address its prevalent racism and social discrimination. Sports Basement is working to help diversify the outdoors but we also know that it starts with each and every one of us. Here's a (non-exhaustive and continually evolving) list of resources that we've been learning from.
Recommended Readings
If you're looking to purchase a book we recommend buying through black-owned bookstores!
- Sing a Rhythm, Dance a Blues by Monique Morris
- White Fragility by Robin Diangelo
- The Adventure Gap: Changing the Face of the Outdoors by James Mills
- So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- Social Change: Everyone Has a Role to Play (#UseYourPrivilege, #UnlearnRacism), Medium, May 31, 2020
- The Anti-Racist Reading List, via Random House
- These Books Can Help You Explain Racism and Protests to Your Kids, New York Times, June 2, 2020
- Bryan Stevenson on the Frustration Behind the George Floyd Protests, The New Yorker, June 1, 2020
- White People Can Be Better Allies to the Black Community
- The Anti Racist Reading List - The Atlantic, Feb 12 2019
- Green Apple Books' List of Books to Combat Racism
- Racial Equity Tools
Podcasts
- 1619
- About Race
- At Liberty
- Code Switch
- Momentum
- Pod Save the People
- Still Processing
- Seeing White
- The Stoop
- Black Girl Podcast
Films
Diversity in the Outdoors Films:
- Everyone Outside Series from Outdoor Collective
- REEL Rock: Young Guns Part 1 hosted by Red Bull TV
Social Justice Films:
- A Class Divided (free on YouTube, under 1 hour!)
- Just Mercy (Rent for free on several platforms now!)
- 13th (Netflix)
- American Son (Netflix)
- When They See Us (Netflix)
- If Beale Street Could Talk (Hulu, others)
- Crash (HBO, others)
- The Freedom Writers (Netflix)
- I am not your Negro (rent from multiple platforms)
- When They See Us (series, Netflix)
Bay Area specific Social Justice Films:
- Fruitvale Station (free on Tubi)
- Blindspotting (Hulu and HBO)
Free Viewing Resources:
Websites for More Resources and Ways to Get Involved
3 comments
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Linda Swiller says...
Hi,
On June 19, 2020
I’m one of your customers in So. Cal., and a social worker. I just want to commend you on the wealth of resources you’re putting out there to educate all of us about racism. I’m forwarding to others.
Thank you and good job👍 -
Kimberly L King says...
I think you left out a number of resources that need to be included:
Not sure at all why this did not make the list; local group out of Oakland, Shanti Butler’s Cracking The Codes, THE SYSTEM OF RACIAL INEQUITY. https://www.world-trust.org/cracking-the-codes
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide – https://www.amazon.com/White-Rage-Unspoken-Racial-Divide
Ms. Anderson was also recently inteviewed on DemocracyNOW! and the Guardian UK published an OpEd.
Our System Is Corroded: Carol Anderson on Rampant Police Violence and Assault on Voting Rights – https://www.democracynow.org/2020/6/5/new_evidence_ahmaud_arbery_caseIn 1919, the state failed to protect black Americans. A century later, it’s still failing – https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2020/jun/02/in-1919-the-state-failed-to-protect-black-americans-a-century-later-its-still-failing
Jane Elliott’s Blue Eyes Green Eyes Experiment –
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/lesson-of-a-lifetime-72754306/
Lesson of a Lifetime
Her bold experiment to teach Iowa third graders about racial prejudice divided townspeople and thrust her onto the national stage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0-vRRFhNDA,And this just in today, To be Black is to suffer perpetual wounds. Here’s how you can make a difference
– https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/09/black-americans-police-violence-protest-activismAnything by James Baldwin.
I hope these are helpful.
On June 19, 2020 -
Marcia Lusk says...
Thank you, Eric! This is a great list and I appreciate your action plan!! I hope you are all doing well and staying safe! Congratulations on all the graduations and birthdays!
On June 19, 2020