
The Ummah Chroma
The Ummah Chroma seeks to answer through our collective
practice what is Black cinema as it is spiritually mandated for our
generation of contemporary filmmakers of the African diaspora.
The Ummah Chroma seeks to answer through our collective
practice what is Black cinema as it is spiritually mandated for our
generation of contemporary filmmakers of the African diaspora.
All texts cited within film and below written by
PEOPLE WHO CALL THEMSELVES WHITE.
this is by no way an EXHAUSTIVE list.
this is a STARTING POINT.
Battalora, J. (2015)
Birth of a White Nation: The Invention of White People
and Its Relevance Today
Strategic Book Publishing and Rights.
Braden, A. (1972)
Free Thomas Wansley: A Letter to White Southern
Women
(Unknown Binding)
Chomsky, N. (1986)
Race to Destruction: Its Rational Basis
Spokesman Books
Chomsky, N. (2014)
Power Systems: Conversations with David Barsamian on Global
Democratic Uprisings and the New
Challenges to U.S. Empire.
Penguin
Deming, B. (1985)
Prisons That Could Not Hold
Spinsters Ink
DiAngelo, R. (2018)
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard
for White People to Talk About Racism
Beacon Press
Foote, S. (1992)
Jordan County: A Novel
First Vintage Books Edition
Grimké, S. (1838)
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and
the Condition of Woman, Addressed to Mary S. Parker
Isaac Knapp
Grimké S. (August 30, 1835)
Extract from a letter to Abolitionist William Lloyd GarrisoN.
published in The Liberator,
September 19, 1835.,
as quoted in Ceplair L. (1989) The Public Years of
Sarah and Angelina Grimké: Selected Writings, 1835-1839
Columbia University Press
Grimké S. (1836)
From “Appeal to the Christian Women of the South,” The
Anti-Slavery Examiner, as quoted in
People & Ideas: Angelina and Sarah Grimké.
PBS. Retrieved on 4 January 2019
Grimké S. (1838)
Addressing an abolitionist meeting in Philadelphia, as a mob
howled outside, throwing bricks and stones into the building,
as quoted in Todras, Ellen H. (1999). Angelina Grimké: Voice of AbolitioN
Linnet
Hayes C. (2017)
A Colony in a Nation
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Heyrick, E. (1834)
Immediate, Not Gradual Abolition, Or, an Inquiry Into
the Shortest, Safest, and Most Effectual Means of
Getting Rid of West Indian Slavery
Creative Media Partners, LLC
Jensen R. (2015)
The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race,
Racism, and White Privilege
City Lights Books
Klein, N. (2002)
Fences and Windows
Vintage Canada, Picador
Klein, N. (1999)
No Logo
Knopf Canada, Picador
Lloyd Garrison, W. (1971)
The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison
Harvard University Press
Loewen J.W. (1995)
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your
American History Textbook Got Wrong
The New Press
McIntosh, P. (1990)
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
Independent School, Winter
Okun, T. (undated)
White Supremacy Culture
dRworks
Rothenberg, Paula S. (2015) (5th Ed.).
White Privilege: Essential Readings on the Other Side of
Racism
Macmillan Learning
Showing up for Racial Justice
www.showingupforracialjustice.org/resources.html
Online resource list
Stanley E. A. and Smith N. (2011)
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and
the Prison Industrial Complex
AK Press
Wilberforce, W. (1823)
An appeal to the religion, justice and humanity of
the inhabitants of the British Empire onbehalf of
the negro slaves in the West Indies
[Printed] for J. Hatchard and Son
Wilberforce, W. (1807)
A Letter on the Abolition of the Slave Trade: Addressed to the
Freeholders and Other Inhabitants
of Yorkshire, Volume 1.
T. Cadell and W. Davies
Wise, T. (2004)
White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged
Son
Soft Skull Press
Wise, T. (2005)
Affirmative Action: Racial Preference in Black and
White
Routledge
Zinn H. (2011)
The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and
Democracy
Seven Stories Press
Zinn H. (1990)
The Politics of History
University of Illinois Press
In our white communicates we have co-existing narratives of shame and superiority. Without busting them
open and learning new ways, white people will remain stuck in denial or defense.
- Kari Points + Evangeline Weiss
Listed below are organizations COMMITTED TO
white anti-racism work.
you too as a person who identifies as white can
get involved and show up