The Azara GroupAdditional Race Rules Content Available for Download
This information accompanies the book Race Rules: What Your Black Friend Won’t Tell You. This book redirects readers to this website to obtain supplemental information. These resources are provided at no cost to assist readers in their journey towards becoming Racism Disruptors. They also help provide more context around the sources informing and shaping Race Rules.
We hope you find this information helpful. Thank you for reading our book. In addition to yourself, we encourage you to buy Race Rules for your friends, family members, colleagues, and neighbors. Please form discussion groups and book clubs to explore this information. Below is a discussion guide to facilitate your conversations.
Discussion Guide
Please use this discussion guide when having conversations about race. It will help you in using Race Rules as a tool to expand your understanding of racism, people of color, and how to form stronger cross-racial personal and professional relationships.
Voter Suppression Historical Overview
Since the 1700s, America’s voting history is a story of intentional disenfranchisement and exclusion, not quite a true representational democracy of one person, one vote. It’s a journey of institutionalizing and codifying white-centered power and supremacy. Today, blocking universal voter access is expanding.
This is a historical overview of America’s voter suppression timeline starting from the 1700s up to 2023. It covers the main legal and historical milestones that serve as the foundation leading us to contemporary voter suppression. It’s a modern-day voter suppression and Jim Crow 2.0 resurgence timeline.
This supplements Race Rule #8: Oppose White Supremacy – Voting Restrictions Are Racist.
Colorblindness Microaggression Translator Chart
This chart translates microaggressive statements, showing what someone may say and comparing it to what a person of color may hear. It breaks down how statements can be heard and received by people of color.
This supplements Race Rule #18: Stop Saying You’re Colorblind Because It’s Racist.
Importance of Race-Centered Conversations
When discussing race, it is important to keep the focus of the conversation on race, racism, and white supremacy. Avoid getting sidetracked by distractions discussing gender, sexuality, class, and other isms. Focus strategically on racism, even if exploring intersectionality with race.
While other groups are also important, talking about them often cannibalizes topic space. Others become included at the expense and in lieu of people of color. Thus, people of color become vehicles for other marginalized groups’ progress, and understanding people of color and solving the negative impacts of racism remain ignored.
This information will help you understand the importance of race-centered conversations when having discussions on race, racism, white supremacy, racial discrimination, and racial bias.
This supplements Race Rule #26: Prioritize POCs’ Views and Feelings When Discussing Race.
Race Rules Bibliography
Significant diligence, hard work, and good faith went into properly crediting sources. If any sources were missed while eagerly seeking to share this book with the public, this website and its related downloadable bibliography will be updated to reflect any additional sources as they become known.
This is a more complete list of sources that informed, influenced, and helped to shape Race Rules (including historical context and trends, concepts, examples, key points, terminology, and phraseology that were sometimes paraphrased). This comprehensive bibliography is a more thorough list of sources that are being credited in developing this book. The endnotes listed in the book are a significantly reduced list of sources that do not represent the full scope of sources that were used and reviewed.
Thank you to every writer, journalist, scholar, academic, news outlet, thought leader, and source whose interesting analysis and commentary served as a beneficial foundation in writing Race Rules, enabling this book’s ability to summarize key concepts and broad-ranging topics for readers in one location.
This supplements the Notes section towards the end of Race Rules.