The resources and materials below were compiled by CCD’s Anti-Racism Committee from civil rights and disability rights and justice organizations, including some CCD member organizations and the National Disability Leadership Alliance Organizers Forum on Resisting Anti-Blackness in Disability Spaces (February 2020). The materials posted meet CCD’s vision and mission statement. Members can submit anti-racism materials for this resource page by emailing info@c-c-d.org with a request to forward recommendations to the CCD Anti-Racism Committee. The Anti-Racism committee will review submissions to ensure they meet the vision and mission of CCD prior to publishing on this page.
Please note, CCD does not endorse ideas or positions from the organizations and individuals listed below beyond the materials posted on this page.
Talking About Race
A Learning Agenda for Collective Impact (article) Stanford Social Innovation Review by Jennifer Splansky Juster and Cindy Santos
Allegories on Race and Racism (TEDx Talk) with Camara Jones
Dismantling Racism Works web workbook (training materials)
Me and White Supremacy (book) by Layla Saad
Smithsonian NMAAHC Talking About Race, Being an Antiracist
What Does it Mean to be an Antiracist? (handout) from The Racial Healing Handbook by Anneliese A Singh, PhD, LPC
#BlackDisabledLivesMatter, Intersectionality and Disability Justice
10 Principles of Disability Justice (blog) Sins Invalid
Activist Lydia X.Z. Brown on Disability Justice, Mutual Aid, and How Race and Disability Intersect (interview) Mare Claire by Zoe Guy
African American Conference on Disabilities (conference recap and materials) Arizona Center for Disability Law
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (book) by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
CCD Racialized Ableism Recording Transcript (presentation) by ChrisTiana Obey
Crisis in our Communities: Racial Disparities in Community Living (training toolkit) Autistic Self Advocacy Network
Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics (article) University of Chicago Legal Forum by Kimberle Crenshaw – coined the term intersectionality
Kimberlé Crenshaw on Intersectionality, More than Two Decades Later (interview) Columbia Law School Story Archive
How to be an AntiRacist (book and discussion guide) by Ibram X. Kendi
National Center on Cultural Competency (training material) by Georgetown University
Race, Ethnicity and Disability: The Financial Impact of Systemic Inequality and Intersectionality (article) The National Disability Institute
Reckoning with Race and Disability (article) Yale Law Journal Forum by Jasmine E. Harris
Working definition of ableism by Talila TL Lewis
Black, Indigenous and People of Color in the Disability Rights & Independent Living Movements
Black History of 504 Sit-In for Disability Rights: More than Serving Food – when will the Healing begin? San Fransisco Bay View by Leroy Moore
Brad Lomex: The Black Panthers and the Disability Rights Movement by Daisy Holder
National Alliance of Melanin Disabled Advocates (advocacy group and blog) by Keri Gray
NDRN #DisabilityRightsinBlack series (advocate stories) National Disability Rights Network
Race, Violence & Policing
Policing and Pandemics: On Racism, Health and Justice (Presentation) Recording Northwest Health Law Advocates Series by Dr. Rhea Boyd
The History of Race Violence (twitter thread) from @EricaBuddington
The Racist Roots of Policing, from Slave Patrols to Traffic Stops (article) The Conversation by Connie Hassett-Walker
We Can’t Breathe: The Deaf & Disabled Margin of Police Brutality Project (video and toolkit) by Keri Gray and Dustin Gibson with support from the NCIL Diversity Committee and Caucuses
What is Police Violence? (toolkit/booklet) by ASAN, AAPD & Green Mountain Self Advocates
Intersection of Race and Disability in Healthcare
A Racial Equity Framework for Assessing Health Policy (article) Commonwealth Fund by Jamila Michener
Advancing Health Equity And Reducing Health Disparities For People With Disabilities In The United States (article) Health Affairs by Monika Mitra, Linda Long-Bellil, Ian Moura, Angel Miles, and H. Stephen Kaye
Disability Justice in Public Health (article) University of Michigan School of Public Health by Kara Mannor
Ensuring Health Equity for Persons with Disabilities–Historical Context on Medically Rationing and Disability Justice (8 min segment of a longer webinar; starts at 9 mins in) Harvard Radcliffe Institute
Financial Inequality: Disability, Race and Poverty in America (paper) National Disability Institute by Nanette Goodman, Michael Morris, Kelvin Boston, Foreword by Donna Walton
Improving The Measurement Of Structural Racism To Achieve Antiracist Health Policy (article) Health Affairs by Rachel Hardeman, Patricia Homan, Tongtan Chantarat, Brigette Davis, Tyson Brown
Navigating Health with Pacific Islander Communities (Self-Paced 6 module course) Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum
The Color of Care (documentary) by Yance Ford
The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law (book) by Haben Girma
The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease (book) by Jonathan Metzl
Racial Discomfort & Allyship
4 Ways White People Can Process Their Emotions Without Bringing the White Tears (article) Everyday Feminism by Jennifer Loubriel
A Learning Agenda for Collective Impact (article) Stanford Social Innovation Review by Jennifer Splansky Juster and Cindy Santos
A Sociologist Examines the “White Fragility” That Prevents White Americans from Confronting Racism (article) New Yorker by Katy Waldman
Confronting racism is not about the needs and feelings of white people (article) The Guardian by Ijeoma Oluo
Notice the Rage; Notice the Silence (interview) On Being with Krista Tippett, guest Resmaa Menakem
Open-Source Guide to Allyship
CCD Task Force Anti-Racism Principles, Statements and CCD Materials
CCD Racialized Ableism presentation by ChrisTiana ObeySumner, April 12, 2021. Recording and Transcript.
CCD Board Statement on George Floyd, from the CCD Board of Directors 06/03/20
CCD Code of Participation Alleged Violation Confidential Complaint Form
LTSS Anti-Racism Principles and Objectives
Transportation Task Force Anti-Racism Efforts
Transportation Comments on the Equity Action Plan
Transportation Task Force CCD USDOT Equity Data RFI Comments
Transportation Task Force ADA 30 Briefing Handout
Rights Task Force Statement on Reducing Police Responses to People with Disabilities, September 2020
2024 CCD Statement on Reducing Police Responses to People with Disabilities
Advocate and Organizational Statements
Disability Solidarity: Completing the “Vision for Black Lives" Harriett Tubman Collective, September 7, 2016
National Council on Independent Living Statement on Equity and Race January 20, 2020
National Institute of Mental Health, Racism and Mental Health Research: Steps Toward Equity (not a CCD member organization)
Statement from the National Alliance of Multicultural Disabled (NAMD) Advocates August 26, 2019 (Note: NAMD is now the National Alliance of Melanin Disabled Advocates. CCD’s Anti-Racism Committee was initially formed in response to the NAMED Advocates’ statement)
Statement: Addressing Systemic Racism and Institutional Inequities in CSD American Speech-Language Hearing Association June 2020
