Holden Village :: Anti-Racism Resources

From the Holden Village Executive Directors
Chuck Hoffman + Peg Carlson-Hoffman

We (Chuck and Peg) are white and cis-gender. We claim our identity here and the limitation of perspective that accompanies it. We are committed to taking affirmative steps to listen, learn and act.

Now is the time to listen and learn to the lived experience of Black, Indigenous and People of Color. It is also time for Holden to examine its history of privilege. Holden Village is an Educational Retreat Center with ties to the whitest denomination in the U.S., serving an audience that has been predominantly white. It is our responsibility (Holden’s) to bear witness to what is happening in the world, to elevate the voices of Black and Brown people, to change the course of inequities, and to break down structural prejudice in all forms where it exists, within Holden and in white and Christian U.S. culture.

Below you will find more voices well worth contemplation and conversation.

Anti-Racism Resources

Anti-Racism Resources for White People

The Case for Reparations - by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Who Gets to Be Afraid in America? By Ibram X. Kendi

America’s Racial Contract is Showing by Adam Serwer

75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice

Policing.civilrights.org/toolkit

Teaching Tolerance: Teaching About Race, Racism and Police Violence

Seattle Public Libraries Race & Social Justice books for kids K-5

New York Times An Antiracist Reading List

Your Kids Aren't Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup