Resources
Interrupting Racism Resources
Continuing the conversation from our workshop, below are resources staff at Working Credit lean on to learn.
At Working Credit we recognize the deep seated discrimination within the financial institutions we promote. Credit has a long history of being used as a tool to exclude marginalized communities. Below are resources that Working Credit staff lean on to educate ourselves in this hurtful practice and learn ways to fight these injustices and continue to help the people we serve.
Books
Rothstein, Richard The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Kendi, Ibram X. How to Be An Antiracist
DiAngelo, Robin Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm
Anderson, Carol White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
Baradaran, Mehrsa The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
Perry, Andre Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property In America’s Black Cities
Articles:
Price, Anne Don’t Fixate on the Racial Wealth Gap, Focus on Un-Doing Its Root Cause (Insight Center)
Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, CFPB data point: Credit visible
Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, CFPB data point: Becoming credit visible
Time Magazine, Segregation and the Racial Wealth Gap
Working Credit Blog: Black Lives Matter
Working Credit Blog: The Dual Credit Market Dilemma: Working Credit Interrupts Structural Racism
Videos:
Consumer Finance Protection Bureau: Unpacking the Black Wealth Gap – Historical Lessons of Credit Discrimination
Consumer Finance Protection Bureau: Unpacking the Black Wealth Gap, Part 2
Podcasts:
Diversifying: Does it feel like the financial system is stacked against you? For many of us, it is. Especially if you’re Black or Brown, a woman, or single. In Diversifying, we explore why the traditional rules of money management no longer apply to new generations. Hosted by Delyanne Barros, better known as Delyanne The Money Coach, Diversifying demystifies and humanizes money by examining the culture we make it in and how to make it work for you.
Hidden Brain explores the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior and questions that lie at the heart of our complex and changing world.
- Money 2.0: Rewrite Your Money Story
- Money 2.0: Why We Bust Our Budgets
- Money 2.0: Emotional Currency