Healing from Whiteness
“White supremacy is a project of psychic conditioning and toxic belonging.”
~ White Supremacy Culture: Still Here, by Tema Okun ~
Books
Inherited Silence: Listening to the Land, Healing the Colonizer Mind, by Louise Dunlap
Ethnoautobiography: Stories and Practices for Unlearning Whiteness, Decolonization, Uncovering Ethnicities, by Jürgen Wermer Kremer and R. Jackson-Paton
Combined Destinies: Whites Sharing Grief About Racism, by Ann Todd Jealous and Caroline T. Haskell
Whiteness is Not an Ancestor: Essays on Life and Lineage by White Women, edited by Lisa Iversen
Not a Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion, by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
The History of White People, by Nell Irvin Painter
Waking up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race, by Debby Irving
White Fragility: Why it’s so Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, by Robin DiAngelo
Classified: How to Stop Hiding your Privilege and Use it For Social Change, by Karen Pettelman and Resource Generation
So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo
Learning to Be White: Money, Race, and God in America, by Thandeka
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies, by Resmaa Menakem
It Didn’t Start with You: How Inherited Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to Break the Cycle, by Mark Wolyn
White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better, by Regina Jackson and Saira Rao
Articles
10 Ways White Supremacy Harms White People: A Tale of Mutuality, by Greg Elliot
Native Tribes Have Lost 99% of their Land in the United States, by Lizzie Wade
Recipe for a Thanksgiving Ceremony, by Irene Ammar
Is Spiritual Growth Possible Without Confronting Whiteness?, by Jordana Rosenfeld
How Textbooks Taught White Supremacy, by Liz Mineo
White Supremacy as a Trauma Response, by Resmaa Menakem
“Non-Indigenous Culture”: Implications of a Historical Anomaly, by Derek Rasmussen
What I Mean When I Say ‘White’, by Tad Hargrave
The Cosmogenealogy of Whiteness, by Gretchen Groenke
Renewal, Remembrance, and Resistance for Decolonizing People of European Heritage, by Ana Oian Amets & Christine Blachly
What’s Wrong With Cultural Appropriation? These 9 Answers Reveal Its Harm by Maisha Z. Johnson
Why You Might Want to Rethink Using the Word “Tribe” for Your Business Community by Elinor Trier
Enough With the Love and Light by Gretchen Groenke
Healing Your Thousand-Year-Old Trauma by Resmaa Menakem
There Is No Such Thing As “White Ally” by Catherine Pugh
A Journey of Belonging: Embodying White Anti-racism as an Ancestral Practice by Jardana Peacock
My Class Didn’t Trump My Race: Using Oppression to Face Privilege by Robin J. DiAngelo
Hey White Women: Māori Culture is Not Your Birthright, by Debra Hunt
Healing Our Family Pandemic by Louise Dunlap
Settler Fragility: Why Settler Privilege Is So Hard To Talk About, by Dina Gilio-Whitaker
Holding the Tension: Whiteness vs European Cultural Identity, by Jamie Utt
Grieving the White Void, by Abraham Lateiner
Women Have Always Been a Part of White Supremacy, by Jenn M. Jackson
White People Have no Culture, by Lorena Wallace
Roots Deeper Than Whiteness: Remembering Who We Are for the Well-Being of All, by David Dean
What is Cultural Appropriation? by Pegi Eyers
How Racism Began as White-on-White Violence, by Resmaa Menakem
The Heart of Whiteness: On Spiritual Tourism and the Colonization of Ayahuasca, by Bani Amor
Wanting to be Indian: When Spiritual Searching Turns into Cultural Theft, by Myke Johnson
A Theft of Spirit? by Christopher Shaw
Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack of Setter Privilege, by Dina Gilio-Whitaker
From Colonial Rescue to Cultural Genocide, by Pegi Eyers
Unsettling America: Decolonization in Theory and PracticeSpiritual Bypassing: Avoidance in Holy Drag, by Robert Augustus Masters
White People are Broken, by Katherine Fugate
Building Trust Before Truth: How Non-Indigenous Canadians can Become Allies, by Robyn Ward
Confronting the Past, by Michelle Abrahmz
How My Settler Ancestors Set Us Up for Uncontrollable Wildfires, by Louise Dunlap
64 Things White People Can do for Racial Justice, by Corinne Shutack
Cultural Amnesia: How the Celts Became White, by Tad Hargrave
Interactive Maps
Podcasts
Guides
A White Paper, In the Spirit of a Red Paper: How to Be an Ally to Indigenous Peoples, by Alice Woodworth, Joe Hessenius, and Joe Parker
White Supremacy Culture - Still Here, by Tema Okun
Practitioners and Community
Videos
Receiving Life in Ancestral Blueprints
How is your life influenced by past generations? This talk delves into a deeper connection that many people overlook between their past and that of their country's in relationship to their current situation.
How Southern socialites rewrote Civil War History
The United Daughters of the Confederacy was a significant leader of the “Lost Cause,” an intellectual movement that revised history to look more favorably on the South after the American Civil War. They were women from elite antebellum families that used their social and political clout to fundraise and pressure local governments to erect monuments that memorialized Confederate heroes.
Deconstructing White Privilege with Robin DiAngelo
Dr. Robin DiAngelo discusses systemic White Supremacy and how it affects us.
Socio-Spiritual Evolution, TEDx talk by Calvin Terrell
Calvin Terrell challenges all to remember their power to see themselves in others. To transcend global challenges while maintaining the Earth’s environment, humankind must heal historical traumas around race intersecting with every human identity. In his candid presentation, Calvin will weave ancient indigenous concepts of healing with modern challenges as a call to action.
Ed Duran Talk on Historical Trauma & Forgiveness
Exterminate all the Brutes
Filmmaker Raul Peck Explores Colonialism and the Origins of White Supremacy
Our Story. Our Stake.
Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) is the largest organization explicitly organizing white communities in US history. Join us in the critical work of bringing in millions of white people to movements for social justice.