Anti-Racism Resources: Home

The Methodist College Library supports the College's values of human dignity, integrity, inquiry, and social justice. As institutional members of the American Library Association (ALA) and Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), the library stands with their commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

ACRL supports ALA in condemning violence and racism towards Black people and all people of color. ACRL endorses the statement of the Black Caucus of The American Library Association (BCALA), which condemns the death of George Floyd at the hands of police officers within the Minneapolis Police Department. ACRL endorses the statement of the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association, which denounces the rise in racism and xenophobia against Asians and Asian/Pacific Americans in wake of the outbreak of COVID-19.

Read the ACRL Board's full statement on ACRL Insider.  

The Methodist College Library offers this reading list committed to addressing systemic racism in our community.

Curriculum and Assessments:

• Communities of Color Organizational Self-Assessment:

• Beloved Community Equity Audit

• Project READY, an open-access racial equity curriculum for librarians (specifically developed for

• youth services librarians, but relevant for all library environments)

• Chart for measuring an organization's anti-racism efforts:

Additional resources from the web:

• Institutionalized Racism: A Syllabus

• COVID-19 and Racism (LibGuide from Vanderbilt University Law Library)

• “When black people are in pain, white people just join book clubs” by Tre Johnson

• “103 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice” by Corrine Shuttack

• “The Limitations Of An Anti-Racist Reading List” by Linda Holmes

• “Dear White People: Here Are 10 Actions You Can Take To Promote Racial Justice In the Workplace” by Dana Brownlee

• “A Farewell Letter to DEI Work” by Tatiana McInnis

• “Why Don’t You Want to Keep Us?” By April Hathcock

The collaborators on this guide have attempted to bring together select quality, relevant resources for the anti-racist issues in this guide, but we are not immune from the limits and hidden biases of our own privileges and perspectives.

We welcome and greatly appreciate any feedback and suggestions for the guide, particularly from the perspectives and experiences of the marginalized groups listed and not listed here.

Many thanks to the William Madison Randall Library at the University of North Carolina Wilmington for their LibGuide (https://library.uncw.edu/guides/antiracism) on which this list is based and to the resources shared from Anti-Racism in Academic Libraries panel for the additional resources.