These resources are part of a collection of readings, videos etc. I have explored in an attempt to understand my own role in the maintenance of a culture of white supremacy, particularly within my workplace and community. This is being shared because “white people need to do this work themselves” according to the author of My Grandmother’s Hands, Reesma Menakem.

General Resources

• 15 Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture (1999) – Tema Okun
• WSC: Catching our Conditioning (video) – Tema Okun
• White Supremacy Culture webpage – Tema Okun
• Four Stages of White Identity Formation – Beloved Conversations
• Resmaa Menakem in Conversation with Robin DiAngelo (both audio and transcript available)
• I am racist too (how could I not be?)…..A brief interview with Sonya Renee Taylor on combating racism

Thinking about White Supremacy Culture

• Why Anti-racism will Fail – The Rev Thandeka
• How did we get here: white supremacy culture – The Fifth Principle Project
• Is the “White Supremacy Culture” Paradigm a Useful Strategy for Anti-Racist / Anti-Oppression Social Justice Work? – Anne Schneider
• The current Unitarian Universalist Racial Crisis – The RevThandeka
• From White Racist to White Anti-Racist – Tema Okun
• A Word for White People – adrienne maree brown
• Scaffolded anti-racism resources – collection of contributors

Imagination:

• VIDEO: A Radical Vision for the Future (8:58)
• Love Beyond Belief – The Rev Thandeka

Key Concepts:

• AUDIO/POEM: “Sometimes” by David Whyte  (audio file, 7:21) 
• READING: Characteristics of and Antidotes to White Supremacy Culture by Tema Okun and Kenneth Jones  
• To go deeper into these concepts visit Tema Okun’s new website:  CHARACTERISTICS – WHITE SUPREMACY CULTURE 
• VIDEO: Shame vs. Guilt with Brene Brown  (excerpt from a Ted Talk, Brene Brown standing on on a stage, lecturing, 2:12) 
• READING: The Bias of Professionalism Standards by Aysa Gray 
• READING: 7 Ways to Support and Center People of Color
• The Cost of Whiteness – Thandeka

Reparations and Reconciliation

• The Four Parts of Accountability – Leaving Evidence
• The Case for Reparations – Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Reparations for Amherst– Daily Hampshire Gazette
• Will the Towns of Amherst be Renamed – History Inquiry
• Native American Reparations – ABC News
• More Guidelines for Native American Reparations – Univ. of Wisconsin
• Land Tax for Native American Reparations – Native Gov’t. Center
• You’ve already stolen the land – you might as well pay rent
• Reconciliation as a Spiritual Practice
• UUA 2007 Truth, Repair, and Reconciliation Resolution

Resilience Wisdom:

• VIDEO/SONG:  Rising Appalachia – Resilient (two women singing on a stage with banjo and drum, 3:42)
• GRAPHIC: Window of Tolerance Rainbow

Indigenous Peoples Historical Perspective on the History of Amherst, MA

• Changing Nature of Indian Slavery in New England
• Reinterpreting New England Indians and the Colonial Experience
• Amherst before 1759: Indian Deeds of Land
  • Amherst before 1759: a Glimpse of Early Amherst
• Amherst before 1759: Amherst becomes a District in 1759
• Puffers Pond and Native Trails
• Tracing Indigenous Lives in and around Amherst College
• Historic Northampton: Native Peoples I
• Historic Northampton: Native Peoples II
• Native Presence in Nonotuck and Northampton

• An Itrnoduction to Native sites in Amherst and surrounds

Dismantling Racism within Unitarian Universalist Institutions and Culture

• READING: Unitarian Universalist Association President Rev. Susan Frederick Gray’s UU World Column “A Message to White Unitarian Universalists” 
• Widening the Circle of Concern (chapter on Congregations and Community, p. 39) – UUA Commission on Institutional Change
• Dismantle White Supremacy – UUA
• The history of the Eighth Principle
• Land Acknowledgements – UUA
• To Answer the Call of Love (linked below). FROM: Mistakes and Miracles: UU Congregations on the Road to Multiculturalism; this chapter tells the story of the First Parish, Cambridge, MA – Karin Lin

And here is an another important viewpoint from UU’ers

• How Did We Get Here ; White Supremacy Culture – 5th Principle Project
• The Self-Confessed “White Supremacy Culture”: The Emergence of an Illiberal Left in Unitarian Universalism – Anne Schneider
• Used to be UU – Casper and Kiskel
• The Road to the Gadfly Papers – UU” heretic,” Rev. Todd Eklof
• Wordy Shipmates (looking back at our Puritan heritage) – Sarah Vowell

UUSA Sunday Service Videos

Many Roads: Exploring White Supremacy Culture – Reverend Rachael Hayes; October 24, 2021

More Eighth Principle Services on You Tube

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES