Racial Injustice & Racial Inequity Resources

Pitt School of Social Work Commitment to Anti-Racism

We hold ourselves responsible and accountable for assuring that the Pitt School of Social Work fully embraces and embodies anti-racism. See the whole statement and commitment to action steps here.

Coursework

Center on Race and Social Problems

Various Resources

 Books:

 

Meditation Exercises:

1. Black Lives Matters Meditation for Healing Racial Trauma by Dr. Candice Nicole 

 

Apps:

1. Liberate app: Liberate is the #1 meditation app for the Black, Indigenous, and People of Color community. Listen to dozens of guided meditations to ease anxiety, find gratitude, heal internalized racism and micro-aggressions and celebrate Blackness.

 

2. The Safe Place: a Minority Mental Health App geared towards the Black Community to bring awareness, education and hope

 

Podcasts:

  1. The Breakdown with Dr. Earl: A Mental Health Podcast
  2. The Homecoming Podcast with Dr. Thema

 

Videos:

  1. Dr. Robin DiAngelo discusses 'White Fragility'
  2. The urgency of intersectionality by Kimberlé Crenshaw
  3. What it takes to be racially literate by Priya Vulchi and Winona Guo
  4. Color blind or color brave? by Mellody Hobson

Music: 

  1. Songs Giving us (Much Needed) Life by Code Switch (NPR)

Social Work Practice and Pedagogy

Allyship and anti-racism resources:

 

Other resources:

 

Articles:

 

Reforming Policing:

 

Resources for talking to your children about racism and violence: