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 exploration includes participation in Beloved Conversations, a program offered by the Meadville Lombard Theological School and sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist Association.

General Resources

Introduction

• 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

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

• 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

Resilience Wisdom:

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

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

UUSA Sunday Service Videos

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

Worthy Now Prison Ministry – The Church of the Larger Fellowship; October 17, 2021

Indigenous People’s Day: Sacred Footprints – Reverend Rachael Hayes; October 10, 2021

Moving Through Fear – Reverend Rachael Hayes; September 26, 2021

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES