Parent and Student Resources

Anti-Racism For Kids 101: Starting To Talk About Race

https://booksforlittles.com/racial-diversity/?fbclid=IwAR0dcFdVRPu_8-eU0awW2jSVmj_KPsoI6jpgmaxOLsg1nVLWHpexM0jLYf8

Pretty Good Blog

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

PBS

Talking About Racism

NPR

Talking Race With Young Children

The Bump

https://www.thebump.com/a/talking-to-kids-about-race

6 Things White Parents Can Do to Raise Racially Conscious Children https://everydayfeminism.com/2014/08/raising-racially-conscious-kids/

Talking With Children About Racism, Police Brutality and Protests https://www.ahaparenting.com/ask-the-doctor-1/talking-with-children-about-racism-police-brutality-and-protests

The POC Families’ Guide For Talking About Racism https://educationwithanapron.com/2020/06/the-poc-families-guide-for-talking-about-racism/

A White Families’ Guide For Talking About Racism https://educationwithanapron.com/2020/05/a-white-families-guide-for-talking-about-racism/

Videos:

CNN/Sesame Street Talking about Racism Town Hall https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/06/app-news-section/cnn-sesame-street-race-town-hall-app-june-6-2020-app/index.html

Collection of Children’s Videos

https://www.weareteachers.com/anti-racism-videos/

• Books:
  • Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners: books for children and young adults
  • 31 Children's books to support conversations on race, racism and resistance
• Podcasts:
  • Parenting Forward podcast episode ‘Five Pandemic Parenting Lessons with Cindy Wang Brandt’
  • Fare of the Free Child podcast
  • Integrated Schools podcast episode “Raising White Kids with Jennifer Harvey”
  • Brene Brwon and Ibram X Kandi: How to be Antiracist
• Articles:
  • How White Parents Can Talk To Their Kids About Race | NPR
  • Teaching Your Child About Black History Month | PBS
  • Your Kids Aren't Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup from Pretty Good
• The Conscious Kid: follow them on Instagram and consider signing up for their Patreon

Articles to read:

• “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
• ”My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” by Jose Antonio Vargas | NYT Mag (June 22, 2011)
• The 1619 Project (all the articles) | The New York Times Magazine
• The Combahee River Collective Statement
• “The Intersectionality Wars” by Jane Coaston | Vox (May 28, 2019)
• Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groups developed by Craig Elliott PhD
• “Where do I donate? Why is the uprising violent? Should I go protest?” by Courtney Martin (June 1, 2020)
• ”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)
• Talking With Children About Racism, Police Brutality and Protests https://www.ahaparenting.com/ask-the-doctor-1/talking-with-children-about-racism-police-brutality-and-protests

Videos to watch:

• Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers (50:48)
• Dr. Robin DiAngelo discusses 'White Fragility' (1:23:30)
• "How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion" | Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools (18:26)
• Just belonging: finding the courage to interrupt bias. | Kori Carew at TEDxYouth@KC

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)
• Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)
• Seeing White

Books to read:

• Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper
• 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
• Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea J. Ritchie
• 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
• Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendu
• 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
• White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo

Films and TV series to watch:

• 13th (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix
• American Son (Kenny Leon) — Netflix
• Blindspotting (Carlos López Estrada) — Hulu with Cinemax or available to rent
• Dear White People (Justin Simien) — Netflix
• 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 for free in June in the U.S.
• King In The Wilderness — HBO
• Selma (Ava DuVernay) — Available to rent for free in June in the U.S.
• The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.) — Available to rent for free
• When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) — Netflix

Organizations to follow on social media:

• Antiracism Center: Twitter
• Audre Lorde Project: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• Black Women’s Blueprint: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• Colorlines: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• The Conscious Kid: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• Equal Justice Initiative (EJI): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• Justice League NYC: Twitter | Instagram + Gathering For Justice: Twitter | Instagram
• The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• The Movement For Black Lives (M4BL): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• The Trevor Project: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• MPowerChange: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• A Mighty Girl: Twitter | Facebook
• Muslim Girl: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• NAACP: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• RAICES: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
• SisterSong: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook

Books:

• Brightly

• Book Riot

• Welcoming Schools

• We Are Teachers

• Common Sense Media

Videos:

• Ted Talk

• How To Explain LGBTQ to Your Kids

Organizations:

• Indiana Youth Group

• The Trevor Project

• National Center for Cultural Competence -Georgetown University