Race, Racism and Equity Resources
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“Challenge yourself into empathy. Don’t allow your own emotional reactions to negate the stories of those who are marginalized in society. Try to acknowledge your inherited biases openly so that you can listen in a non-defensive way.”
Dr. Julia Bryan (Penn State University)
ACTION STEPS- WHAT CAN I DO?
- Check in with friends, family members, people of color
- Validate the way a person is feeling. Look for shared meanings, Be an Ally.
- Speak up when you see injustice happening- people of color being discriminated against
- Challenge and acknowledge your own stereotypes and biases- Assessments
- Don’t feel because you are not of the same race that you cannot support a person of a different race than yours
- Find spaces to have conversations with friends or family
- Educate yourself -Videos, Articles, Books
- Stop making implicitly racist jokes or jokes about Black people, people of color
- Protest peacefully that “Black Lives Matter”
- Confronting your feelings, confront your silence. Do it scared!
- Confronting the pain of your Black students, students of color. Listen to them and empower them
- Confronting racism in the classroom, bring about change through courage and going against the status quo
- Empower students, families, educators- help them talk about race and racism
- Sign petitions, make donations, have a community town hall around racism
- Recognize and understand your power and privilege. Use it to change systemic and institutionalized racism
- Be open to new insights, ideas and opportunities
- Build relationships and trust
ASSESSMENTS
Harvard’s Project Implicit Association Test
Race and Justice Quiz | ACLU of Washington
VIDEOS
Kids speak their minds about race
A Look at Race Relations through a Child's Eyes
Talking to Children About Racism
W. Kamau Bell On Being Black In America
Hard conversations about racial incidents
Bias Isn't Just A Police Problem, It's A Preschool Problem | Let's Talk | NPR
Anti-bias lessons help preschoolers hold up a mirror to diversity
PODCAST: 20 MIN LESSON - Talking Race With Young Children
Elizabeth Denevi on Race & Equity in Schools
Video Resources for Becoming an Ally
Ted Talk: How to overcome bias? Walk boldly toward them
Let’s Talk About Race: Shelly Tochluk TEDx Talks
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man
Understanding My Privilege: Sue Borrego TEDx Talks
50 Year of Racism -- Why Silence Isn’t The Answer: James A. White Sr. TEDx Talks
How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion: Peggy McIntosh TEDx Talks
White People, Enough: A Look at Power and Control: Jaelyn Coates TEDx Talks
Deconstructing White Privilege with Dr. Robin DiAngelo
The power of privilege: Tiffany Jana TEDx Talks
I Spy Something White: Stephanie Afful TEDx Talks
Bad White People: Travis Jones TEDx Talks
A Class Divided |PBS (Jane Elliot’s Blue Eyes Brown Eyes Experiment)
How to overcome our biases? Walk boldly toward them: Verna Myers TEDx Talks
MOVIES
Just Mercy (It is free, just click the ‘buy or rent’ tab)
I Am Not Your Negro – Official Trailer
Selma ($2.99 on Youtube)
Dear White People - Official Trailer (watch on Netflix)
ARTICLES
Your Kids Aren't Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup
PARENT'S GUIDE to Preventing and Responding to Prejudice
Black Teen shares the rules his Mom makes him follow when leaving the house
Here's How W. Kamau Bell Talks About Race With His Kids
The Children’s Community School in Philadelphia
Anti-Racism for Kids 101: Starting to Talk About Race
The 8 R’s of Talking About Race: How to Have Meaningful Conversations
100 Race-Conscious things you can say to your child to advance racial justice
Article on Raising Race-Conscious Children
Resources for talking about race, racism and racialized violence with kids
Creating an Anti-Racist Classroom-Reflections to level the playing field
5-Minute Film Festival: Talking About Race and Stereotypes
Teaching Young Children About Bias, Diversity, and Social Justice
Teaching, and Learning, Racial Sensitivity (Jerald Walker, The Chronicle of Higher Education)
Strategies for Reducing Racial and Ethnic Prejudice: Essential Principles for Program Design (Willis Hawley, Teaching Tolerance)
Increasing Equity for All Students
A Look at Implicit Bias and Microaggressions
Let’s talk! | discussing race, racism and other difficult topics with students
Talking to Children About Racism
https://www.counseling.org/knowledge-center/mental-health-resources/racism
So What Do White 4th Graders Have to Say About Race?
“We Gotta Change First”: Racial Literacy in a High School English Classroom
Why We Need Racial Literacy Now More Than Ever — Teaching While White
Article Resources for Becoming an Ally
Unpacking White Privilege: The Invisible Knapsack
75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?
What is White Privilege, Really?
Why You Need to Stop Saying “All Lives Matter”
Do More Than Acknowledge Your White Guilt
Robin DiAngelo: How ‘white fragility’ supports racism and how whites can stop it
For Our White Friends Desiring to Be Allies
I Am A White Woman And I Must Confront My Racism
9 Phrases Allies Can Say When Called Out Instead of Getting Defensive
Dear White People, Stop Making Racism All About You
The Coronavirus Was an Emergency Until Trump Found Out Who Was Dying
Where do I donate? Why is the uprising violent? Should I go protest?
Ten Myths White People Believe About Racism
Dear fellow white people: Here’s what to do when you’re called racist
Towards a Concept of White Wounding
It’s time to stop talking about racism with white people
BOOKS
Guide for Selecting Anti Bias Children’s Books
37 Children’s Books to help talk about Racism & Discrimination
30 Books to help you talk to your kids about racism
Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America
Your Kids Aren’t Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup
An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz
Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper
Faces at the Bottom of the Well by Derrick Bell
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold
Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander
The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
by Grace Lee Boggs
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
Stamped from the Beginning by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X Kendi (Free audio book on Spotify)
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
28 Days: Moments in Black History That Changed the World
Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad
We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices
Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History
Little Leaders: Exceptional Men in Black History
Portraits of African American Heroes
The Seeds of America Trilogy: Chains; Forge; Ashes
An Essential Reading Guide For Fighting Racism
Hayfield Library resources on issues of racism, anti-racism, and police brutality bit.ly/HSSantiracism
* Resources compiled by Dr. Lynette Henry, Ms. Sharai Bryan and colleagues June 2020