Resources
Sources to Draw From
Podcasts
Seeing White, from Scene on Radio
The 1619 Project Podcast, from The New York Times
About Race, “Our National Conversation about Conversations about Race”
Code Switch, by NPR
Uncivil, by Gimlet
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The 1619 Project, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Project from The New York Times Magazine
106 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice, from Medium
Books to Educate Yourself
So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo
How to Be An Anti-Racist, by Ibram X. Kendi
Stamped From the Beginning, by Ibram X. Kendi
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, by Robin DiAngelo, PhD
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World and become a Good Ancestor, by Layla Saad
Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do, by Claude M. Steele
The Warmth of Other Suns, by Isabel Wilkerson
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Teach your Students | Children to be Anti-racist
Books for Students
This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work, by Tiffany Jewell
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, a YA adaptation by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi, based on Kendi’s book Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge: George and Martha Washington’s Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away; Young Readers Edition, by Erica Armstrong Dunbar & Kathleen Van Cleve
The Lions of Little Rock, by Kristin Levine
Paperboy, by Vince Vawter
Outcasts United: The Story of a Refugee Soccer Team That Changed a Town by Warren St. John
The Rock and the River, by Kekla Magoon
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
The Watsons Go to Birmingham– 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Books for Parents
Hate Hurts: How Children Learn And Unlearn Prejudice, by The Anti-Defamation League
Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America, by Jennifer Harvey
Books For Younger Children
Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness, by Anastasia Higginbotham
A Kids Book About Racism, by Jalani Memory (part of the A Kids Book About series)
Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story About Racial Injustice, by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins & Ann Hazzard
AntiRacist Baby, by Ibram X. Kendi
Race Cars: A children’s book about white privilege, by Jenny Devenny
Teach Your Dragon About Diversity: Train Your Dragon To Respect Diversity. A Cute Children Story To Teach Kids About Diversity and Differences, by Steve Herman
Last Stop on Market Street, by Matt de la Peña
The Day You Begin, by Jacqueline Woodson
Great Books & Book Lists
Resources for Talking about Race, Racism and Racialized Violence with Kids, Center for Racial Justice in Education
28 Great Black History Month Books for Kids, Today’s Parent
A Kids Book About… Series (Racism; White Supremacy; Systemic Racism, and more)
Mahogany Books, featuring black books for younger to YA readers
Books for Educators
Everyday White People Confront Racial & Social Injustice: 15 Stories, edited by Eddie Moore, Jr., Marguerite W. Penick-Parks, and Ali Michael
Everyday Antiracism: Getting Real About Race in School, by Mica Pollock
Raising Race Questions: Whiteness & Inquiry in Education, by Ali Michael
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race, by Beverly Daniel Tatum
Teaching When the World is on Fire, edited by Lisa Delpit
We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom, by Bettina L.Love
Is Everyone Really Equal?: An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education, by Özlem Sensoy & Robin D’Angelo
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom, by bell hooks
Other People’s Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom, by Lisa Delpit
Confronting Our Discomfort: Clearing the Way for Anti-Bias in Early Childhood, by Tamar Jacobson
The Guide for White Women Who Teach Black Boys by Eddie Moore, Jr., Ali Michael & Marguerite W. Penick-Parks
Teaching for Joy and Justice: Re-Imagining the Language Arts Classroom, by Linda Christensen
The First R: How Children Learn Race and Racism, by Debra Van Ausdale & Joe R. Feagin
Black Ants and Buddhists: Thinking Critically and Teaching Differently in the Primary Grades, by Mary Cowhey
For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood…and the Rest of Y’all, Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education, by Christopher Emdin