Intro to Updated Resource List – Beginning, updated August 2021:<\/b><\/p>\n
The Addressing Racism Collaborative (ARC) organized itself to help strengthen our individual meetings\u2019 work to help us all move ahead to realize Friends’ commitment to antiracism.<\/p>\n
Reading alone or checking websites are only part of our work.\u00a0 <\/span>Learning and doing go hand in hand. Stepping out into this work may hold discomfort. Consider accompaniment with others.<\/p>\n This resource list is a beginning. It is not inclusive of all the resources we have gathered; it is simply a place to start.\u00a0 <\/span>It will be followed in the future by lists to focus on action and other areas.\u00a0 <\/span>This is the latest update of our original list.<\/p>\n We invite your thoughts and your additions to our lists. Please email Joan Broadfield: pym.friendsnrace@gmail.com<\/span><\/p>\n Resources to begin <\/b><\/p>\n An exercise at a session at Yearly Meeting<\/span><\/a> helped us see what it would mean to be a truly antiracist organization. You can see this and more at the website after the 2019 continuing sessions.\u00a0 <\/span>In 2021 Friends heard from the Diversity and Equity Sprint in a report here;<\/span><\/a> and more is available here<\/span><\/a> , and\u00a0 <\/span>\u2018way forward\u2019 here<\/span><\/a>. This is work the Yearly Meeting commits to.<\/p>\n Looking at the work of Antiracism<\/b>:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Beginning the Conversation for Meetings & Families:<\/b><\/p>\n Ongoing resource help for families and others working with children<\/b><\/p>\n To read with young children in your life:<\/b><\/p>\n See also the resources listed from <\/b> Religious Ed on racial justice.<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Joining with others – webinars, events<\/b><\/p>\n Reading\u00a0 <\/span>together:<\/b><\/p>\n A reading group, in your meeting or community, can be the place to explore ideas with others. The focus of the group can be a single race or mixed race group. The work required to build antiracism\/equity has many angles.<\/p>\n Memoirs allow readers to learn from others\u2019 experiences, giving opportunity to learn, to build understanding of complexities.\u00a0 <\/span>The Philadelphia Yearly Meeting library catalog<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 <\/span>is a resource to check.<\/p>\n Short items from Quaker writers in pamphlets available through Quaker Books<\/p>\n A recent part memoir – Stamped from the Beginning<\/i>\u00a0 <\/span>by Ibram X Kendi – now appears in age appropriate versions:<\/p>\n Consider these 3 together if you have a meeting with children. See if members agree.\u00a0 <\/span>All could start with Stamped (for kids) – or Antiracist Baby. Both are engaging;\u00a0 <\/span>pause to reflect, answer questions. People can share experiences.\u00a0 <\/span>As you read it together, older ones may want to pick up the one for middle school, or the larger more intense one.\u00a0 <\/span>Learning together builds community through engaging in relationships. Even the conversation to consider it can be a starter, whether or not this is the choice.<\/i><\/p>\n Perhaps a set of essays might be a place to start. Or perhaps fiction.<\/p>\n Ready to dig deeper?<\/b><\/p>\n History to Relearn:<\/b><\/p>\n The history of white supremacy in the colonization of the Americas \u2013 even the development of the Christian church \u2013 is a sobering reality within the US and within the Quaker world, with African enslavement and the Indigenous peoples still here — and still working to right wrongs that continue.<\/p>\n Ideas to re-examine<\/b><\/p>\n Maybe you are hoping to get ideas about what your next step will be.<\/b><\/p>\n In addition to Stamped, and books mentioned above, here are some others to consider:<\/p>\n Exercises – to build commitment and self love:<\/b><\/p>\n * \u2018The Light\u2019 is a workshop\/exercise outlined by the British Quaker Rex Ambler.\u00a0 <\/span>The Library at Philadelphia Yearly Meeting<\/span><\/a> has copies of it and the Pendle Hill pamphlet.<\/p>\n Quaker organizations are doing workshops and work that you can join and learn from:<\/p>\n\n
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