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Definitions

Refugees, Asylum-Seekers, and Migrants

• Who is an Asylum-Seeker?
• Who Is An Immigrant?
• Who is a Migrant?
• ‘Refugees’ and ‘Migrants’ – Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
• Key Migration Terms
• Glossary of terms related to these peoples (pdf)
• How the Asylum Process Really Works
• How Does the U.S. Refugee System Work?
• How the United States Immigration System Works
• The “Migrant Protection Protocols”
• The Rules for Immigrants Wanting to Work in the United States on a Permanent Basis
• Immigrant workers are most likely to have these jobs
• Immigrants aren't stealing your jobs
• What is DACA?
• No, DACA Immigrants Aren’t Stealing American Jobs
• Naturalization, Explained
• How immigrants and refugees become U.S. citizens
• Immigration Reform FAQ

Vital Reading

• 4 myths about how immigrants affect the U.S. economy
• How we can make the world a better place for immigrants with disabilities
• ICE reached a new low: using utility bills to hunt undocumented immigrants
• Immigrant Activists Say ICE Is Purposely Targeting Them. They're Urging Biden To Help
• Mental Illness a Barrier to U.S. Immigration
• No Papers, No Care: Disabled Migrants Seek Help Through Lawsuit, Activism
• Undocumented Immigrants Can Get Licenses. ICE Can Get Their Data.
• Undocumented immigrants pay billions in taxes each year — and have been for 25 years
• Undocumented immigrants quietly pay billions into Social Security and receive no benefits
• Why baby boomers need immigrants to fund their retirement, in 2 charts

Reading

• 7 Ways To Get Your Green Card In The United States
• 10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Being an Immigrant
• How USCIS Estimates Application and Petition Processing Times
• To #DefendDACA, We Must Defend Each Other First
• Prisoners Without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II by Roger Daniels
• The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America, edited by Nikesh Shukla & Chimene Suleyman
• The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman

Action

• 5 Ways to Support Undocumented Folks
• 6 initial ways you can be a better ally to undocumented immigrants
• How to Be a Citizen Ally to Undocumented Immigrants
• How to be an Emotional Ally to the Immigrant Community
• How You Can Be An Immigrant Ally Locally
• Tell your senators to pass the Dream and Promise Act
• Tips on How to be a Better Ally for the Immigrants’ Rights Cause
• Tweet at your legislators
• UnDocuAlly Training (pdf)
• Urge your senators to keep fighting for citizenship in the reconciliation bill
• Urge President Biden to reverse his destructive policies and welcome asylum-seekers with compassion and dignity

Resources

• A Toolkit for Organizations Responding to Mass Worksite Immigration Raids (pdf)
• Define American
• Deterntion Statistics
• How Do I Get a Disability-Based Waiver? U.S. Citizenship Application Help
• Interview with Niko, an undocumented immigrant worker
• These U.S. industries can't work without illegal immigrants
• UnDocublack
• Undocumented Immigrants Aren’t Getting Needed Mental Health Care, Report Finds
• Why Workplace Abuse Plagues Undocumented Workers

For Immigrants, Asylum-Seekers, Refugees, and more

• National Immigration Legal Services Directory
• Know Your Rights: Immigrants’ Rights (English, Spanish, other languages)
• Immigrants' Rights: What To Do If Stopped (video)
• If ICE Visits a Home, Employer, or Public Space
• Rights When Encountering Law Enforcement
• Rights During Immigration Raids
• Know Your Rights: What to Do When Encountering Law Enforcement at Airports and Other Ports of Entry into the U.S.
• 100 Mile Border Zone (English, Spanish-pdf, other languages)
• Know Your Rights: Dreamers (DACA)
• Immigrant Eligibility for Disaster Assistance (pdf)
• Immigration Preparedness Toolkit
• Know Your Rights Toolkit
• Mental Health Resources for U.S. Immigrants
• National Immigration Law Center: Know Your Rights
• Red Cards
• Rights Cards (pdf)
• National Origin Discrimination
• Rights When Participating in Demonstrations
• Rights: Immigration Enforcement at Health Care Facilities
• Digital Privacy at the U.S. Border: Protecting the Data on Your Devices and in the Cloud

Definitions

• Indigenous Definition: How To Use It Correctly and Related Terms To Avoid
• What Does ‘Indigenous’ Mean? How to Use It (and When to Avoid It)
• Appropriate words & terminology for First Nations topics
• Indigenous Peoples terminology guidelines for usage
• The Impact of Words and Tips for Using Appropriate Terminology: Am I Using the Right Word?
• Why White North Americans Need To Understand Ourselves as “Settlers”

Vital Reading

• A guide to Indigenous land acknowledgment
• An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
• Beyond territorial acknowledgments
• Building a Post-Colonial Community Starts With Vocabulary
• Decolonizing Community Engagement in the ‘Era of Reconciliation’ Part 2: What is Decolonization?
• Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong by Paul Chaat Smith
• How anti-Indigeneity proliferates around the West and the world
• I is for Ignoble: Stereotyping Native Americans
• Indigenous Lives and Disability Justice
• Land acknowledgments meant to honor Indigenous people too often do the opposite – erasing American Indians and sanitizing history instead
• Practicing Decolonization
• Territory Acknowledgement
• The Government Promised to Return Ancestral Hawaiian Land, Then Never Finished the Job
• The Long Walk: The Forced Navajo Exile by Jennifer Denetdale
• What is the significance of acknowledging the Indigenous land we stand on?
• White Allies, Let’s Be Honest About Decolonization

Reading

• 5 articles you should read about Indigenous food sovereignty
• 7 Things History Class Should Have Taught Every US American About Indigenous History
• As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
• Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism by Jack D. Forbes
• COVID-19 data on Native Americans is ‘a national disgrace.’ This scientist is fighting to be counted
• Decolonizing Data Viz
• Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples by Linda Tuhiwai Smith
• Food Sovereignty Practices at the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin Tsyunhehkw^ Farm: The Three Sisters, Ceremony and Community
• Giving Thanks: A Native American Good Morning Message by Chief Jake Swamp
• How do I decolonize my curriculum and pedagogical practices in meaningful and respectful ways?
• How Indigenous Communities Are Battling Coronavirus Alone
• How Native Americans Are Fighting a Food Crisis
• Mass Shootings Are Connected to America’s Legacy of Anti-Indigenous Violence
• Mental Health Effects of Racism on Indigenous Communities
• Menomini (Wild Rice People) Food Sovereignty
• Native Knowledge and Practices Can Help Fight West Coast Wildfires
• Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin: Food Sovereignty, Safe Water, and Tribal Law
• Reawakening Our Ancestors’ Lines: Revitalizing Inuit Traditional Tattooing by Angela Hovak Johnson
• Reclaiming the Right to Healthy Food
• Regaining Food Sovereignty
• Seeds of Our Ancestors, Seeds of Life - Winona LaDuke
• The American Indian Mind in a Linear World: American Indian Studies and Traditional Knowledge by Donald Fixico
• The erasure of Indigenous people in U.S. COVID-19 data
• The Indigenous Peoples Thanksgiving Alcatraz Sunrise Ceremony Draws on the 1969 Occupation to Inform Native Resistance
• The Stories We Tell: Land Acknowledgements & Indigenous Sovereignty
• There is no DNA test to prove you're Native American
• What Does It Mean to Decolonize Design?
• What Native American Heritage Month means to me
• What the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Day of Awareness Meant to Native Women
• Why Food Sovereignty Is A Human Right
• Yakama Rising: Indigenous Cultural Revitalization, Activism, and Healing by Michelle M. Jacob

Action

• 3 Ways To Decolonize Your Nonprofit As Told By A Black Queer Feminist Organizer
• 5 Things To Do Today to Combat Discrimination Against Indigenous Peoples
• 7 Ways to Be An Ally to Native Peoples This Thanksgiving
• Are you planning to do a Land Acknowledgement?
• Celebrating Native American Heritage Month: Dos and Donts
• Decolonization: A Resource for Indigenous Solidarity
• Land Acknowledgement: You're On California Indian Land, Now What? Acknowledging Relationships to Space and Place: A Toolkit (pdf)
• Stolen people on stolen land: decolonizing while Black
• Watch: Decolonization Is for Everyone | Nikki Sanchez
• Watch: Hesapa - A Landback Film
• We’re Still Here: Decolonize Your Mind About Indigenous People This Thanksgiving

Resources

• Anti-Racism
• 28 Organizations Promoting Indigenous Food Sovereignty
• All My Relations Podcast
• American Indian Library Association
• Beyond November, Indigenous Communities Honor Culture and Heritage Year-Round
• Know The Land: Territories Campaign
• Languages List
• Native American Heritage Month Books
• Native Governance Center
• Native Land
• Rematriation Resource Guide
• Seeds of Change
• Territories List
• The Henceforward Podcast
• Treaties List
• Unsettling America: Decolonization in Theory & Practice

Definitions

• What Is Latinx?
• What Is the Difference Between Hispanic and Latino?
• The Case For ‘Latinx’ — And Why This Term Matters For Intersectionality
• Afro-Latino: A deeply rooted identity among U.S. Hispanics
• Defining "Afro-Latin@"

Vital Reading

• A history of anti-Hispanic bigotry in the United States
• Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism by Laura E. Gomez
• Most Latinos Now Say It’s Gotten Worse For Them In The U.S.
• The Brutal History of Anti-Latino Discrimination in America
• The Latino Community Is Finally Coming to Grips With Its Own Racism
• The Long History of Xenophobia in America
• Why Understanding Colorism Within the Latino Community Is So important

Reading

• 6 Harmful Stereotypes About Latin Americans
• 9 Mental Health Resources for the LatinX Community
• Afro-Latino: 6 Women Open Up About Being Black And Latina
• Hispanics progress against racism but have long way to go
• How The Latinx Community Is Responding To Racism
• LatinAsian Cartographies: History, Writing, and the National Imaginary by Susan Thananopavarn
• Light in the Dark/Luz En Lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality by Gloria Anzaldua
• Mental Illness is not a “White Person Problem”: 4 Reasons Mental Illness is Ignored in the Latinx Community, and Why That Needs to End
• The 'Forgotten' History Of Anti-Latino Violence In The U.S.
• The Mental Effects of Racism on the Latinx Community
• Undoing the Silence: 5 Myths that Uphold Mental Health Stigmas in Latinx Communities
• White Mexicans have had a role to play in white supremacy

Action

• Afro-Latino Festival Panelists Explain How to Be an Effective Ally
• Bystander Intervention to Support Latinx Communities in Public Spaces Training
• How to Be an Ally Outside of Hispanic Heritage Month
• How to Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month as an Ally
• How Latinx People Can Fight Anti-Black Racism in Our Own Culture
• Watch: Systemic Racism Against Latinos
• What Do We Want From White People?

Resources

• Anti-Racism
• CAPACES Leadership Institute
• Hispanic Heritage Foundation
• Latino Equality Alliance
• National Hispanic Institute
• National Hispanic Medical Association
• The National Latino Farmers & Ranchers Association
• TransLatin@ Coalition
• Unidos US
• United We Dream

Definitions

• Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
• Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders — a FAQ
• The Complexity Behind the AAPI Inclusion: Who Counts?

Vital Reading

• America’s long history of scapegoating its Asian citizens
• Filipino Public Health Notice
• From A Whisper To A Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement by Paula Yoo
• How Vincent Chin's Death Gave Others A Voice
• Japanese Internment Camps
• 'Model Minority' Myth Again Used As A Racial Wedge Between Asians And Blacks
• Not Your “Geisha Doll”: Why We Need To Stop Skirting Around Racist Sexual Violence
• The Chinese Exclusion Act
• The inadequacy of the term “Asian American”
• The long history of racism against Asian Americans in the U.S.
• The Model Minority Myth with Ellen Wu
• We Are Not A Stereotype: Breaking Down Asian Pacific American Bias
• What Is the Model Minority Myth?
• Yellow Peril

I know this video is long (1:10:08). However, it's also the most comprehensive video to get folks up to speed on what AAPI folks in the US have been facing. Please go watch it.

We Need To Talk About Anti-Asian Hate by The Try Guys

Reading

• 5 Ways ‘Asian Woman Fetishes’ Put Asian Women in Serious Danger
• Building the Transcontinental Railroad: How 20,000 Chinese Immigrants Made It Happen
• Colin's Coffee Corner: An AAPI Heritage Month Q&A with Laura Vang
• I Was Taught to Be Proud of My Tight Asian “Kiki” – Here’s Why I Wish I Hadn’t Been
• LatinAsian Cartographies: History, Writing, and the National Imaginary by Susan Thananopavarn
• My low-level anxiety about being Asian in America has morphed into fear
• Remembering the Manongs and Story of the Filipino Farm Worker Movement
• The model minority myth says all Asians are successful. Why that's dangerous.
• The Muddled History of Anti-Asian Violence
• The Oxford Handbook of Asian American History, edited by David K. Yoo and Eiichiro Azuma
• Whiter: Asian American Women on Skin Color and Colorism, edited by Nikki Khanna
• WWII Propaganda: The Influence of Racism

Action

• 5 D's of Bystander Intervention (pdf)
• 68 Ways to Donate in Support of Asian Communities
• Anti-Asian Racism And COVID-19: How To Be An Ally
• APALA Racial Justice Toolkit (pdf)
• Guide: How to Be an Ally to AAPI Communities
• How to Be an Ally in Times of Xenophobia
• Training to Stop Anti-Asian/American and Xenophobic Harassment
• Watch: Asian Americans on PBS
• What You Can Do About Anti-Asian Violence

Resources

• Anti-Racism
• APIENC
• Asian Americans Advancing Justice
• Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund
• Asian Mental Health Collective
• Butterfly
• Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus
• Korean American Community Foundation
• National Organization of Asians and Pacific Islanders Ending Sexual Violence
• Red Canary Song
• Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund
• South Asian Americans Leading Together
• Stop AAPI Hate
• #StopAsianHate Project
• The National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance

Definitions

• Black vs. African-American: The complex conversation Black Americans are having about identity #ForTheCulture
• The Changing Definition of African-American
• Not all black people are African American. Here's the difference.
• Defining "Afro-Latin@"
• Afro-Latino: A deeply rooted identity among U.S. Hispanics
• Who is Black? One Nation's Definition
• Yes, There’s a Difference Between ‘BIPOC’ and ‘POC’ — Here’s Why It Matters
• Introduction to the African Diaspora across the World

Vital Reading

• 100 Resources to Educate Yourself on Black Oppression, Injustice, and Everyday Experiences
• A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland by DaMaris B. Hill
• An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz
• Black Disabled Lives Matter: We Can't Erase Disability in #BLM
• Black, Disabled and at Risk: The Overlooked Problem of Police Violence Against Americans with Disabilities
• Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory, and Antiracist Politics
• How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
• I Am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin
• Sandra Bland, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray: the toll of police violence on disabled Americans
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
• The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master’s House by Audre Lorde
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
• The Racist Origins of US Gun Control: Laws Designed to Disarm Slaves, Freedmen, and African-Americans
• Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
• Your Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre Lorde

Reading

• 13 Black Women In Wellness Share What Wellness & Self Care Means To Them
• A Black Women's History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry  & Kali Nicole Gross
• A Conversation with Black Women on Race
• Afro-Latino: 6 Women Open Up About Being Black And Latina
• Black and British: A Forgotten History by David Olusoga
• Black in Latin America by Henry Louis Gates, Jr
• Black Trans* Lives Matter by D-L Stewart
• Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement, edited by Kimberle Crenshaw, Neil Gotanda, Gary Peller, & Kendall Thomas
• Discrimination is Costly to Black Men, No Matter Their Income
• Equating Black Girls With Bad Attitudes Is Not the Answer
• Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing by Joy a Degruy
• Put Some Respect On Our Name: Why Every Black & Brown Girl Needs to Learn About Radical Feminist Leadership 
• Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World from the Tweets to the Streets by Feminista Jones
• Rejecting Fetishization and Lack: Claiming the Fullness of My Black Demisexuality
• Systematic Inequality: How America's Structural Racism Helped Create the Black-White Wealth Gap
• The (Anti) Black A** Roots of America’s Islamophobia
• The Beginning Black Feminist’s Guide to Feminism Without the Anti-Black Bullsh*t
• The Body Positivity Movement Both Takes From and Erases Fat Black Women
• The Combahee River Collective: A Black Feminist Statement
• Trauma From Slavery Can Actually Be Passed Down Through Your Genes
• What I Told My White Friend When He Asked For My Black Opinion On White Privilege

Action

• 6 Ways White Folks Can Support Black Lives Matter, Even If You Can’t Leave Your House
• 10 ways to be an ally to Black LGBT people
• 12 Ways to Be a White Ally to Black People
• 106 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
• Anti-Racism Toolkit for Allies (pdf)
• Bystander Intervention to Stop Police Sponsored Violence and Anti-Black Racist Harassment
• For White Allies in Search of a Solution to American Racisim / When Folks of Color Are Exhausted
• How to be an ally for Black lives
• How to Be an Ally if You Are a Person with Privilege
• How to Become an Ally to the Black Community
• If You Want To Be Anti-Racist, This Non-Optical Allyship Guide Is Required Reading
• Save the Tears: White Woman's Guide | White Guyde To The Galaxy
• Talking About Race

Resources

More on Anti-Blackness

• A Black Feminist Book List
• Anti-Blackness and It's Link to Racism, Power and Privilege: Impacts of White Supremacy on Housing
• Free Copies of Black Revolutionary Texts
• Rest For Resistance
• The Black History Month Library
• The Nap Ministry

Watch

• Anti-Racism
• Black History in Two Minutes (or so)
• Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
• Eight Black Women Discuss the Politics of Skin Tone
• Get Out
• Harriet
• Hidden Figures
• I’m Not Racist... Am I?
• Malcolm X
• Miss Juneteenth
• Moonlight
• My Brooklyn - Demystifying Gentrification
• POSE
• Reconstruction
• Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II
• Tell Them We Are Rising The Story of Historically Black Colleges and Universities
• The 13th
• The Hate You Give
• The History of Juneteenth
• When they See Us

• Birthing black women should not have to save their own lives
• Black children twice as likely as white children to die after surgery
• Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine by Damon Tweedy
• Black newborns are less likely to die in Black doctors' care
• Black people in U.S. have worse health outcomes than White people, report shows
• Data used to build algorithms detecting skin disease is too white
• Ethnicity and Health in America Series: Racism Related Stress in the Latina/o American Community
• Fat, Black Women’s Bodies Are Under Attack. Why Did It Take a Thin White Man to Get Our Cries Heard?
• Gene Editing Cannot Be Separated From The Violent History Of Eugenics And Medical Racism
• How Dr. Carla Williams Combats Medical Racism
• How we fail black patients in pain
• Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington
• Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology by Deirdre Cooper Owens
• Medical Photography is Failing Patients with Darker Skin: Even medical stock photos only depict white people
• Medical Racism from 1619 to the Present
• Racism has a toxic effect: Study may explain how racial discrimination raises the risks of disease among African Americans
• Racism, Inequality, and Health Care for African Americans
• The Discrimination Black Americans Face When It Comes to Pain Management
• The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
• This is What it's Like to Navigate Healthcare While Black
• Watch: Combating Racism and Place-ism in Medicine | J. Nwando Olayiwola
• 'You are not listening to me': Black women on pain and implicit bias in medicine

• 7 Ways Not to be an Ally on Halloween
• Black Disabled Lives Matter: We Can't Erase Disability in #BLM
• Black, Disabled and at Risk: The Overlooked Problem of Police Violence Against Americans with Disabilities
• Black Trans* Lives Matter by D-L Stewart
• Disability Justice Must Include All Marginalized Identities
• Gene Editing Cannot Be Separated From The Violent History Of Eugenics And Medical Racism
• I Was Taught to Be Proud of My Tight Asian “Kiki” – Here’s Why I Wish I Hadn’t Been
• Indigenous Lives and Disability Justice
• Mental Illness is not a “White Person Problem”: 4 Reasons Mental Illness is Ignored in the Latinx Community, and Why That Needs to End
• Principles of Environmental Justice
• The Queer, Disabled, and Women of Color Suffragettes History Forgot
• Voices from the Ancestors: Xicanx and Latinx Spiritual Expressions and Healing Practices by Lara Medina and Martha R. Gonzales
• Watch: Race, gender, class, and equality: intersectionality in the 21st century

Definitions

• What Is Anti-Racism?
• What Is An Anti-Racism Journey?
• The difference between being "not racist" and antiracist | Ibram X. Kendi

Reading

• Acknowledging Your Own Racism
• The Psychology of Racism
• How to Talk About Race Effectively
• What is the Role for White People Working for Racial Justice in This Current Period?
• Racism, Whiteness, and Burnout in Antiracism Movements: How White Racial Justice Activists Elevate Burnout in Racial Justice Activists of Color in the United States
• From White Racist to White Anti-Racist: The Life-long Journey
• Message to White Allies from A Black Anti-Racism Expert: You’re Doing It Wrong
• The Work Is Not The Workshop: Talking and Doing, Visibility and Accountability in the White Anti-Racist Community
• 7 Strategies to Help You on Your Anti-Racism Journey
• How to Cope With Black Racial Injustice
• Ways to combat racist or hateful beliefs

Action

• 106 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
• Anti-Racism Guide
• Anti-Oppressive Facilitation
• Dismantling Racism Works Web Workbook
• Facilitation Tools for Meetings and Workshops
• Opportunities for White People in the Fight for Racial Justice
• Social Justice Toolbox
• Tools for White Anti-Racist Organizing

Resources

• Detour-Spotting for White Anti-Racists
• SURJ Guide to Talking White Supremacy
• Talking Points — Effective Strategies for Confronting Racism in Conversation
• White Fragility and the Rules of Engagement