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

Folded Map Project

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