In response to the Bates College community’s overwhelming desire to do the work of anti-racism and the requests for support and resources, we have designed this page. This is a communally sourced page with contributions coming from students, alumni, staff and faculty as well as outside sources that have been shared with the Office of Equity and Inclusion. If you wish to contribute to this page, please email equityandinclusion@bates.edu.

Training and Development Opportunities

• Bates Women Leading: Faculty Resilience Stories hosted by @bates_women_leading (email for zoom link)
  • July 6th 12:00 pm Dr. Hoi Ning Ngai
  • July 18th 12:00 pm Nicole Springer
• Commons Conversations Let’s Talk About Race 2
  • July 9th 8:00 am
• Commons Conversations Discussion on 13th the Documentary
  • July 9th 4pm
• Book Discussion: White Fragility (email to join)
• Book Discussion: So, You Want to Talk About Race (email to join)
• Book Discussion: How to be an Anti-Racist (email to join)

Giving and Donation Opportunities

Bates’ Anti-Racism Coalition. Please give if you can, read our letter to learn more about this project and here is our GoFundMe.  

Reading Resources

• Institutionalized Racism: A Syllabus
• Twelve Books That Give Content to Current Protests (reading list)
• When black people are in pain, white people just start book clubs by Tre Johnson (article)
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration In The Age of Colorblindness
• How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• White Fragility: Why Is It So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
• When Black People Are In Pain, White People Just Join Book Clubs by Tre Johnson
• Stamped From the Beginning. by Ibram X. Kendi
• How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others In America (Essays) by Kiese Laymon
• Biased. by Jennifer L. Eberhardt

Multimedia Resources

• 13^TH Directed by Ava DuVernay Watch on Netflix Watch the Trailer
• White Fragility Mixed Tape
• PBS Racism in America Multimedia Resource Page
• Respectability politics and race by Dr. Michael Sargent
• The psychology of implicit bias by Dr. Michael Sargent
  • Part I of II
  • Part II of II
• White identity and U.S. politics by Dr. Michael Sargent
• Mass Incarceration by Dr. Michael Sargent
• 1619 Project Podcast
• Seeing White
• I am Not Your Negro (2016) James Baldwin Documentary
• When They See Us by Ava Duvernay Watch the Trailer
• Can We Overcome Racial Bias on NPR with. Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt