Antiracist Resources

For Parents

• Parent Toolkit for talking about Race and Racism

• Teaching Tolerance

• Beyond the Golden Rule

• How White Parents can Use Media to Raise Anti-Racist Kids

• Your kids aren’t too young to talk about Race: Resource Roundup

• Fare of the Free Child podcast

• The Conscious Kid: follow them on Instagram 

• Helping Kids Process Violence Trauma and Race in a world of non-stop news

• 15 Tips for Talking with Children about Violence

• Supporting Young Children After Crisis Events: NAEYC

• Conversations that Matter: Talking with Young Children about Big World Issues: NAEYC

• Black Lives Matter in ECE Workshop slides

• Resources for Addressing Race and Racism with Young Children

• Embrace Race: how to talk with kids about race

• Self Care Tips for Black People

• Scaffolding anti-racism resources (sections for adults and kids)

For Our Youngest Children

• Books about Racism and Social Justice

• Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners: books for children and young adults

• 31 Children's books to support conversations on race, racism and resistance

• Books to promote Tolerance and Diversity

• BLM Reading list for kids 0-12

• Last Stop on Market Street by Matt De La Peña

• Black is a Rainbow Color by Angela Joy

• Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness by Anastasia Higginbotham

• Each Kindness by Jacqueline Wilson

• Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry

For Our Older Students and Adult Learners

Podcasts to subscribe to:

• 1619 (New York Times)

• About Race

• Code Switch (NPR)

• Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw

• Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast

• Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)

• Seeing White

Movies and Documentaries to Watch:

• 13th (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix

• American Son (Kenny Leon) — Netflix

• Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 — Available to rent

• Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu) — Available to rent

• Dear White People (Justin Simien) — Netflix

• Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) — Available to rent

• I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin doc) — Available to rent or on Kanopy

• If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) — Hulu

• Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton) — Available to rent

• King In The Wilderness  — HBO

• See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol) — Netflix

• Selma (Ava DuVernay) — Available to rent

• The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution — Available to rent

• When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix

Articles to read:

• ”White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Knapsack Peggy McIntosh

• “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)

• The 1619 Project (all the articles) | The New York Times Magazine

• The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates | Atlantic

• “America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us” by Adam Serwer | Atlantic (May 8, 2020)

• Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (Mentoring a New Generation of Activists

Videos to watch:

• "How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion" | Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools (18:26)

Books to read:

• How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi

• Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad

• 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

• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

• 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

• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD

• Raising White Kids: Bringing up Children in a Racially Unjust America by Jennifer Harvey

• Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins

• Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper

• Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon

• Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold

• Redefining Realness by Janet Mock 

• Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

• Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi

• Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis

• The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale