Anti-Racism in Education: Resources
Anti-Racist Task Force Newsletter
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Books
Learning about racism
- Critical race theory: An introduction (3rd edition) by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic (New York University Press, 2017)
- How to be an antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi (One World, 2019)
| | - Other people's children: Cultural conflict in the classroom by Lisa Delpit (New Press, 1995/2006)
| - So you want to talk about race by Ijeoma Oluo (Seal Press, 2018)
| - Stamped from the beginning: The definitive history of racist ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi (Nation Books, 2016)
| | - Waking up white: and finding myself in the story of race by Debby Irving (Elephant Room Press, 2014)
I read this book during my Ph.D. program and it seems as important as ever in helping us all understand stories of whiteness and how they impact worldviews. – Dr. Rhonda Hylton
- We want to do more than survive: Abolitionist teaching and the pursuit of educational freedom by Bettina L. Love (Beacon Press, 2019)
- White fragility: Why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism by Robin Diangelo (Beacon Press, 2018)
| - "Why are all the Black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?" and other conversations about race by Beverly Daniel Tatum (Basic Books, 1997-2017)
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Anti-racist teaching
- Culturally sustaining pedagogies: Teaching and learning for justice in a changing world by Django Paris and H. Samy Alim (Teachers College Press, 2017)
| | - Everyday antiracism: Getting real about race in school by Mica Pollock (New Press, 2008)
- For white folks who teach in the hood - and the rest of y'all too: Reality pedagogy and urban education by Christopher Emdin (Beacon Press, 2016)
- Teaching for Black Lives (Rethinking Schools, 2018)
- Teaching to transgress: Education as the practice of freedom by bell hooks (Routledge, 1994)
| - Teaching when the world is on fire: Authentic classroom advice, from climate justice to Black Lives Matter edited by Lisa Delpit (New Press, 2019)
| - We can't teach what we don't know: White teachers, multiracial schools (3rd edition) by Gary Howard (Teachers College Press, 2016)
For children and teens
- This book is anti-racist: 20 lessons on how to wake up, take action, and do the work by Tiffany Jewell, illustrated by Aurelia Durand (Frances Lincoln Children's Books, 2020)
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Podcasts & Documentaries
This fourteen part documentary traces the development of whiteness, racism, and white supremacy in the United States. It turns the lens on systems of whiteness and how they both manifest and impact life now. Highly recommended. - Dr. Elizabeth Kenyon- (PBS)
This podcast examines the future of democracy as we know it hinged on the outcome of two senate races in a state that shocked the nation by turning blue for the first time in nearly three decades.
