Race & Equity Resources
Engaging in conversations around race, equity and justice is not easy. However, as a school family, we are committed to creating a healthy multiracial community in which these conversations can take place. We hope that these resources will be helpful.
Our Diversity and Inclusion team curated this list with the help of faculty and staff committed to doing this work. Laying a foundation for these conversations begins with understanding our history and identity. This is not intended to be an exhaustive list. We hope that these resources will encourage you to engage in important conversations involving racial inequality.
2020 Summer reading
The Person You Mean To Be by Dolly Chugh
Talking to Your Children
- Beyond the Golden Rule: Teaching Tolerance
- Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners: Books for Children and Young Adults
- SocialJusticeBooks.org
- Talking Race With Young Children (NPR)
- Anti-Racism For Kids 101: Starting To Talk About Race
- CNN’s Sesame Street Town Hall on Racism
Videos & Films - Black Lives Matter
- 13th
- Just Mercy
- American Son
- Fruitvale Station
- When They See Us
- The Hate U Give
Understanding History
- An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States: Roxanne Dunbar-Oritz
- The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America: Richard Rothstein
- The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism: Edward E. Baptist
- Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America: Juan Gonzalez
- Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption: Bryan Stevenson
- The Making of Asian America: A History: Erika Lee
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness: Michelle Alexander
- Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America: Ibram X. Kendi
- The People’s History of the United States: Howard Zinn
- The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration: Isabel Wilkerson
- White Rage: The Unspoken Truth or Our Racial Divide: Carol Anderson
Understanding Identity
ARTICLES
- The 1619 Project (all the articles) | The New York Times Magazine
- The Combahee River Collective Statement
- How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion: Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools (18:26)
- The Intersectionality Wars: Jane Coaston | Vox (May 28, 2019)
- My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant: Jose Antonio Vargas | NYT Mag (June 22, 2011)
- To the Black and White Youth, Let’s Get Real About Race
- The Unbearable Grief of Black Mothers: Vox
- White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack: Peggy McIntosh
- Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?: Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)
PODCASTS
BOOKS
- Between the World and Me: Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Breathe: A Letter to My Sons: Imani Perry
- Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People: Anthony Greenwald and Mahzarin Banaji
- The Fire Next Time: James Baldwin
- Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations: Mira Jacob
- How to Be an Anti-Racist: Ibram X. Kendi
- I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness: Austin Channing Brown
- Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption: Bryan Stevenson
- Mother to Son: Letters To A Black Boy On Identity And Hope: Jasmine L. Holmes
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness: Michelle Alexander
- Sisters Of The Yam: Black Women and Self Recovery: Bell Hooks
- So You Want to Talk About Race: Ijeoma Oluo
- White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism: Robin DiAngelo, PhD
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race: Beverly Daniel Tatum
- The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health: Navigate an Unequal System, Learn Tools for Emotional Wellness, and Get the Help You Deserve: Rheeda Walker
WEBSITES
www.teachingtolerance.org
www.theconsciouskid.org
Talking About Race
ORGANIZATIONS TO FOLLOW
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