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Undoing Racism

Undoing Racism

Undoing Racism (formerly known as Understanding Racism) is a group open to any CDT members who want to explore how race and racism operate in our society. For more information about the group and to be added to the listserv, please contact Alan Epstein.

Upcoming Undoing Racism Programs

CDT's Undoing Racism group invites all members of CDT to a special three-part series on the Haitian Revolution, its complex aftermath, and pathways toward acts of reparation. At this session, we will dive more deeply into the Age of Revolution  through a discussion of Evelyne Trouillot's powerful and lyrical novel Désirée Congo, translated by our own Marjorie Salvodon, in conversation with Sue Lanser.

Next session: Saturday, January 17 at 12:45 PM - 2:15 PM in the CDT Parlor.

If you'd like some background knowledge of the Haitian Revolution, this 12-minute video provides a good overview. This timeline and interactive map might also be helpful. For those interested in a deeper dive, C.L.R. James's classic The Black Jacobins (1963) is available online, and here is a list of further reading that is an education in itself. 

Recent Undoing Racism Programs and Articles

Watch the recording of the Freeman's Challenge book discussion with author and CDT member Robin Bernstein! 

View a recording of a CDT program about societal teshuvah, reparations, and the German experience. 

Read the complete article from the May 2023 Newsletter, "In the Deep South." 

Undoing Racism Resources

The following includes articles, books, and online resources that the Undoing Racism group has studied and collected about racism and white supremacy in the U.S. You can also find at  this link (and below) a list of Native American resources, and a listing of racial justice organizations in both the general and Jewish communities.

Articles

      • Rabbi Mordechai Liebling's D'var at CDT's MLK Shabbat 15 January 2022.
          To watch and listen to the YouTube recording of his d'var, please click HERE

     • The Case for Reparations, by Ta-Nehisi Coates

     • Letter to My Nephew (in The Fire Next Time) – James Baldwin

     • White Fragility, by Dr. Robin Diangelo 

     • Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack of White Privilege, by Peggy MacIntosh

Books

     • The Sum of Us, by Heather McGhee

     • The 1619 Project, by Nikole Hannah-Jones

     • The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander

     • The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin

     • Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates

     • White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard to Talk to White People About Racism, by Dr. Robin Diangelo

     • The Fire This Time, Jesmyn Ward, Ed. (selected chapters)

     • So you want to talk about Race, Ijeoma Oluo

     • The Warmth of Other Suns, by Isabell Wilkerson

Audio/Visual

     • Kimberly Jones speaking about protests following murder of George Floyd, May 2020

      • “Fighting Racism as a Multi-Racial Jewish Community”, ADL

     • Race: The Power of An Illusion (PBS, episode 3)

     • Eyes on the Prize

     • Getting in Good Trouble 2021, Congregation Dorshei Tzedek Students

Reading Lists

     • A U.S./Canadian Race & Racism Reading List, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

     • Native American Resources - A resource list including videos, books by Native women, elders,             spiritual leaders, historians and activists as well as many children's books offering a window into           different Native cultures.

Organizations

     • Movement for Black Lives

     • Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ)

     • Showing up for Racial Justice (SURJ)

     • Jewish Multiracial Network

     • Be’chol Lashon

Sat, February 14 2026 27 Shevat 5786