The International Association of Blacks in Dance believes that racism is the primary barrier preventing communities from building effective coalitions and overcoming institutionalized oppression and inequities. As a first step in helping America move forward, we all must work against systemic injustice in an ongoing way and across all venues of life. BLACK LIVES MATTER in our Association, in our country, and in our world. We encourage you to learn more, beginning with the following resources:

ARTICLES  |  BOOKS  |  PODCASTS  | RACIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENTS  |  RESOURCES  |  TELEVISION/VIDEO

 

Fight Systemic Racism

ARTICLES

• I Said, Can You Hear Me Now?
• The Black Report
• The Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture
• We See You, W.A.T
• IATSE Statement on Death of George Floyd and Subsequent Protests
• Jackie Taylor and The Black Ensemble Theater Release a Statement Against Racism and Injustice
• 'It's time to step up': Black members of Broadway community call out racism behind the curtain
• Cody Renard Richard on Experiencing Racism as a Broadway Stage Manager, and a Call to Allies
• The 1619 Project:
  
  
  • The 1619 Project is an ongoing initiative from The New York Times Magazine that began in August 2019, the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of Black Americans at the very center of our national narrative.
• Colorblind Ideology Is a Form of Racism
• Three quarters of whites don’t have any non-white friends
• I, Racist
• The Sugarcoated Language Of White Fragility
• 4 Ways White People Can Process Their Emotions Without Bringing the White Tears
• Explaining White Privilege to a Broke White Person
• How to Talk to Kids about Race and Racism
• Woke Supremacy: A Critical Perspective on American Theatre

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BOOKS

Please buy books from your local booksellers. Even better, find a local Black-owned bookstore. Use bookshop.org to purchase books online from local and independent booksellers. Also, check out the IABD Book Resource Pages for more Books by Black Authors.

• I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown

• Dance Pedagogy for a Diverse World by Nyama McCarthy Brow

• The Palgrave Handbook of Race and the Arts in Education edited by Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández, Amelia M. Kraehe, and B. Stephen Carpenter

• Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance: Dance and Other Contexts by Brenda Dixon Gottschild

• Beyond Hierarchy: Reimagining African Diaspora Dance in Higher Education Curricula by Takiyah Nur Amin

• Oxford Handbook of Dance and Politics edited by Rebekah J. Kowal, Gerald Siegmund, and Randy Martin

• Decolonizing Dance Pedagogy: Application of Pedagogies of Ugandan Traditional Dances in Formal Dance Education by Alfdaniels Mabingo

General Anti-Racism Book Resources

• The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

• Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brown

• Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown

• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

• Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi

• How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
  

• So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo

• A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn

• So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo

• Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities by Craig Steven Wilder

• Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown

• Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brown

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PODCASTS 

• Art Accordingly

• Black History for White People

• Code Switch (NPR) 

• Dance Behind the Screen (from kNOwBOX dance)

• Dance & Stuff

• Movers & Shapers: A Dance Podcast

• Scene on Radio: Seeing White a semi distilled version (unintentionally) of the brilliant book The People's History of the United States

• Speaking of Race

• The Dance Union

• Your Attention Please (Hulu/iHeartRadio)

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RACIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENTS

• Anti Police Terror Project

• Arts Go Black

• Black Lives Matter – Resources and Ways to Help

• Black Visions Collective

• BLM – Arts & Culture

• Campaign Zero

• Color of Change

• For The Culture 2020

• I Said, Can You Hear Me Now?
  

• For The Culture 2020

• Know Your Rights Camp

• Minnesota Freedom Fund

• NAACP

• National Resource List: Bail funds, Donations & Reading Resources

• Reclaim The Block
  

• The Bail Project

• The Movement for Black Lives

• We See You White American Theatre

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RESOURCES

• Anti-Racist resources for white people
  • This document is intended to serve as a resource to white people and parents to deepen their anti-racism work.

• Anti-Racist Theatre from HowlRound Theatre Commons 
• Black Lives Matter Resources 101
• Black Theatre Network
• BroadwayWorld Resources
• For my nonblack folx (resource list curated by SF Bay Area dancer Clarissa Dyas)
• Justice in June – Anti Racism actions in 10/25/45 minutes a day
• MoBBallet
• Recognizing Systemic Racism in Dance
  
• Resources to find Black and Brown people in the industry, Mental health for People of Color, articles, and much more

• Sarah Crowell Moves to Decolonize Dance
  

• Scaffolded Anti-Racist Resources
  

• SETC EDIA Resources for Engagement
  

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TELEVISION/VIDEO

• Just Giving: Resist, Rethink Restructure to Build the New |  Edge Funders Alliance
  

• Reimagining Destiny | Sarah Crowell

• TV: Netflix documentary 13th

• Whiteness Project
  

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Sources

• Sarah Sophie Flicker, Alyssa Klein - Anti-Racism Resources
• Theresa Ruth Howard - MoBBallet