ANTIRACIST RESOURCES
Books
A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature by Jacqueline Goldsby
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Biased by Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt
Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
Brutal Imagination by Cornelius Eady
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond by Marc Lamont Hill
Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children In A Racially Unjust America by Jennifer Harvey
Stamped From the Beginning by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
Stony the Road by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Color of Money by Mehrsa Baradaran
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
The Next American Revolution by Grace Lee Boggs
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
The Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann Woodward (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called this “the historical bible of the Civil Rights movement.)
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
They Were Her Property by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
Uprooting Racism by Paul Kivel
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum
Articles
5 Ways White People Can Take Action in Response to White and State-Sanctioned Violence (SURJ)
The 1619 Project (all the articles), The New York Times
“A Brief History of Slavery”, The New York Times
A project from Harvard University about implicit bias
“America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us”, The Atlantic
“Black Male Writers For Our Time”, The New York Times
“Don’t understand the protests? What you’re seeing is people pushed to the edge”, Los Angeles Times
“Guidelines for Being Strong White Allies”, Racial Equity Tools
“How to Make This Moment the Turning Point for Real Change”, Medium
“I’m Black. My Mom is White. This Is The Talk We Had To Have About George Floyd’s Killing”, Huff Post
“I Was The Mayor Of Minneapolis And I Know Our Cops Have A Problem,” by R.T. Rybak
Mitch Landrieu’s Speech on the Removal of Confederate Monuments in New Orleans
“My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant”, The New York Times
“Performative Allyship is Deadly (Here’s What to Do Instead)”, Forge
“Racial Trauma in Film: How Viewers Can Address Re-traumatization”, The Family Institute
Relinquishing the Patriarchy, adrienne maree brown
“The Case for Reparations”, The Atlantic
“The Death of George Floyd, In Context,” The New Yorker
“The Intersectionality Wars”, Vox
“The Law Isn’t Neutral,” Slate
“The White Space” American Sociological Association
“This Is How Loved Ones Want Us To Remember George Floyd,” CNN
”White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Peggy McIntosh
“Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | The Atlantic (May 12, 2020)
What to Watch
13th — a Netflix documentary exposing racial inequality within the criminal justice system
A Class Divided — a Frontline documentary
Fruitvale Station — a film with Michael B. Jordan about the killing of Oscar Grant
"How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion" | Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools
I Am Not Your Negro — a documentary envisioning the book James Baldwin was never able to finish
Just Mercy — a film based on civil rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson’s work on death row in Alabama
Let It Fall — a documentary looking at racial tensions in Los Angeles and the 1992 riots over LAPD officers’ brutal assault on Rodney King
Selma — a film that chronicles the marches of the Civil Rights Movement
The 1965 debate between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley
The Central Park Five — a documentary from Ken Burns
When They See Us — a Netflix miniseries from Ava DuVernay about the Central Park Five
Whose Streets? — a documentary about the uprising in Ferguson
Podcasts
Juneteenth Resources
“An American Spring of Reckoning” , The New Yorker
“Juneteenth”, Atlanta
“Juneteenth Is a Reminder That Freedom Wasn’t Just Handed Over”, The New York Times
“Juneteenth Jamboree,” PBS
Miss Juneteenth, a new movie about a former beauty queen and single mom preparing her rebellious teenage daughter for the “Miss Juneteenth” pageant in Texas
“No, Trump did not make Juneteenth, the holiday celebrating slavery’s end, ‘very famous,’”, Washington Post
The 1619 Project, The New York Times
“The Belated National Embrace of Juneteenth,” Slate’s “What Next?” podcast
“What is Juneteenth?” , The New York Times
Resources for Teachers & Parents
5 Ways to Teach about Michael Brown and Ferguson in the new school year, Huffington Post
Age-related Reactions to a Traumatic Event, National Trauma Stress Network
Beyond the Golden Rule: A Parent’s Guide to Preventing and Responding to Prejudice, Southern Poverty Law Center
For Parents of Young Black Men with Autism: Extra Fear of Police, NPR
Helping Youth After Community Trauma: Tips for Educators, National Trauma Stress Network
How to Teach Kids about what’s happening in Ferguson, The Atlantic
Self-Segregation: Why it’s Hard for Whites to Understand Ferguson, The Atlantic
Study: Both Public and Police View Black Kids As Older And Guiltier Than Whites, APA
Talking Race With Young Children, National Geographic
The Realities of Raising a Kid of a Different Race, Time Magazine
The Troubling Link Between School Funding and Race, The Atlantic
US Study: Teacher Bias in Discipline towards Black Students, Reuters
We, White Teachers of Mostly White Students, We Have a Lot of Work To Do
Welcoming Schools Curriculum, Human Rights Campaign Foundation
Zinn Education Project’s teaching materials, Zinn Education Project