As Dr. Kent Butler said in "Now Is Our Time to be Actively Anti-Racist":
With more than 80,000 students and faculty and staff members, each of us has a story and a part to play in building this inclusive community. We all need to be listened to and learned from.
We also need to be comfortable with the discomfort born from honest, difficult dialogues about race and culture. And these conversations must happen regularly, not just in reaction to tragic and gut-wrenching headline-grabbing incidents of racism.
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But it is time we share those stories, and more importantly, that we truly listen to them. Ultimately, we all have a need to express our feelings about the discrimination and violence we have been inundated with recently, especially those we experience firsthand.
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Breaking down barriers is not easy, but as Knights, we have the power to do it together by creating an environment that encourages a space for our stories and embraces equity, inclusion and diversity.
It is going to take all of us to do better — to be better — to change our society.
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The 1619 Project: a new origin story by ISBN: 9780593230589Publication Date: 2021-11-16The New York Times Magazine's award-winning "1619 Project" issue reframed our understanding of American history by placing slavery and its continuing legacy at the center of our national narrative. This new book substantially expands on that work, weaving together eighteen essays that explore the legacy of slavery in present-day America with thirty-six poems and works of fiction that illuminate key moments of oppression, struggle, and resistance.
Algorithms of oppression : how search engines reinforce racism by ISBN: 9781479833641Publication Date: 2018In Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Umoja Noble challenges the idea that search engines like Google offer an equal playing field for all forms of ideas, identities, and activities. Data discrimination is a real social problem. Noble argues that the combination of private interests in promoting certain sites, along with the monopoly status of a relatively small number of Internet search engines, leads to a biased set of search algorithms that privilege whiteness and discriminate against people of color, especially women of color.
Anti-Racist Educational Leadership and Policy: addressing racism in public education by ISBN: 9780429487224Publication Date: 2020-05-26Anti-Racist Educational Leadership and Policy helps educational leaders better comprehend the racial implications and challenges of the current educational policy landscape. Each chapter unpacks a policy issue such as school choice, school closures, standardized testing, discipline, and school funding, and analyzes it through the racialized and market-driven lenses of the current leadership context.
But I Don't See Color: The Perils, Practices, and Possibilities of Antiracist Education by ISBN: 9789463005852Publication Date: 2016-01-01Racism is still very prevalent and pervasive in all aspects of the P-12 educational experience in the United States. Far too many teachers and administrators continue to respond to this challenge by applying colorblind perspectives and approaches.
Color Matters: skin tone bias and the myth of a postracial America by ISBN: 9780415517744Publication Date: 2013-12-13Colorism, is both related to and distinct from discrimination on the basis of race, with which it is often conflated. Preferential treatment of lighter skin tones over darker occurs within racial and ethnic groups as well as between them. In Color Matters, Kimberly Jade Norwood has collected the most up-to-date research on this insidious form of discrimination, including perspectives from the disciplines of history, law, sociology, and psychology.
Deep Diversity: A Compassionate, Scientific Approach to Achieving Racial Justice by ISBN: 9781771649018Publication Date: 2021-09-28Award-winning racial justice educator Shakil Choudhury explores the emotionally loaded topic of racism using a compassionate, scientific approach that everyone can understand--whether you are Black, Indigenous, a person of color (BIPOC), or white. With clear language and engaging stories that will appeal to readers of Brené Brown and Malcom Gladwell, Choudhury explains how and why well-intentioned people can perpetuate systems of oppression, often unconsciously.
Institutional Racism and Restorative Justice: Oppression and Privilege in America by ISBN: 9780429340291Publication Date: 2019-11-27Moving beyond the immediate sources and consequences of prejudice, racism and inequality, to thoroughly assess approaches to restorative justice, Emling details America's complex history of racism, demonstrating how it becomes embedded in society through land ownership, housing, education, health care, employment, public services and criminal justice. For each of these issues, she suggests actions to restore justice.
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by ISBN: 9781728209807Publication Date: 2020-01-28This eye-opening book challenges you to do the essential work of unpacking your biases, and helps white people take action and dismantle the privilege within themselves so that you can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of color, and in turn, help other white people do better, too. Me and White Supremacy takes readers on a 28-day journey, complete with journal prompts, to do the necessary and vital work that can ultimately lead to improving race relations.
Race, Class, and Social Welfare: American populism since the New Deal by ISBN: 9781108873116Publication Date: 2020-07-07What makes it so difficult to enact and sustain comprehensive social welfare policy that would aid the disadvantaged in the United States? Addressing the relationship between populism and social welfare, this book argues that two competing camps of populists divide American politics. Regressive populists motivated by racial resentment frequently clash with progressive populists, who embrace an expansion of social welfare benefits for the less affluent, regardless of race or ethnicity.
Racial Formation in the Twenty-First Century by ISBN: 9780520953765Publication Date: 2012-09-01Michael Omi and Howard Winant's Racial Formation in the United States remains one of the most influential books and widely read books about race. Racial Formation in the 21st Century, arriving twenty-five years after the publication of Omi and Winant's influential work, brings together fourteen essays by leading scholars in law, history, sociology, ethnic studies, literature, anthropology and gender studies to consider the past, present and future of racial formation.
Racism, Not Race: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions by ISBN: 9780231200660Publication Date: 2021-12-07The science on race is clear. Common categories like "Black," "white," and "Asian" do not represent genetic differences among groups. But if race is a pernicious fiction according to natural science, it is all too significant in the day-to-day lives of racialized people across the globe. Inequities in health, wealth, and an array of other life outcomes cannot be explained without referring to "race"-but their true source is racism. What do we need to know about the pseudoscience of race in order to fight racism and fulfill human potential?
Racism Postrace by ISBN: 9781478001386Publication Date: 2019-06-21With the election of Barack Obama, the idea that American society had become postracial--that is, race was no longer a main factor in influencing and structuring people's lives--took hold in public consciousness, increasingly accepted by many. The contributors to Racism Postrace examine the concept of postrace and its powerful history and allure, showing how proclamations of a postracial society further normalize racism and obscure structural antiblackness.
Radical Empathy: Finding a Path to Bridging Racial Divides by ISBN: 9781447357261Publication Date: 2021-02-25The persistence of inequality is an indicator of the stubborn resilience of the institutions that maintain white supremacy. To bridge our divides, renowned political scientist Terri Givens calls for 'radical empathy' - moving beyond an understanding of others' lives and pain to understand the origins of our biases, including internalized oppression.
Reproducing Racism: How Everyday Choices Lock In White Advantage by ISBN: 9781479811090Publication Date: 2021-03-01This book is designed to change the way we think about racial inequality. Long after the passage of civil rights laws, blacks and Latinos possess barely a nickel of wealth for every dollar that whites have. Why have we made so little progress? Legal scholar Daria Roithmayr provocatively argues that racial inequality lives on because white advantage functions as a powerful self-reinforcing monopoly, reproducing itself automatically from generation to generation even in the absence of intentional discrimination.
Seeing like an activist: civil disobedience and the civil rights movement by ISBN: 9780197526446Publication Date: 2021There are few movements more firmly associated with civil disobedience than the civil rights movement. Seeing Like an Activist charts the emergence of this influential account of civil disobedience in the civil rights movement, and demonstrates its reliance on a narrative about black protest that is itself entangled with white supremacy.
Shame on me: an anatomy of race and belonging by ISBN: 9780735277441Publication Date: 2019Tessa McWatt has been called Susie Wong, Pocahontas and "black bitch," and has been judged not black enough by people who assume she straightens her hair. Now, through a close examination of her own body--nose, lips, hair, skin, eyes, ass, bones and blood--which holds up a mirror to the way culture reads all bodies, she asks why we persist in thinking in terms of race today when racism is killing us.
Unschooling racism : critical theories, approaches and testimonials on anti racist education by ISBN: 9783030537951Publication Date: 2020This book draws on critical race theories and teachers' testimonials grounded in 20 years of teaching experiences to reveal the ways in which racial and cultural biases are embedded in school curricula, and both their intended and unintended consequences on the learning and well being of students of color. More specifically, this book examines how these biases have played a significant role in the mis-education, misrepresentation, and marginalization of African American, Native American, Latino and Asian students.
Whiteucation: privilege, power and prejudice in school and society by ISBN: 9781351253482Publication Date: 2018-12-17This important volume explores how racism operates in schools and society, while also unpacking larger patterns of racist ideology and white privilege as it manifests across various levels of schooling. A diverse set of contributors analyze particular contexts of white privilege, providing key research findings, connections to policy, and exemplars of schools and universities that are overcoming these challenges.
Whitewashing Race: the myth of a color-blind society by ISBN: 9780520244757Publication Date: 2005-01-21White Americans, abetted by neo-conservative writers of all hues, generally believe that racial discrimination is a thing of the past and that any racial inequalities that undeniably persist--in wages, family income, access to housing or health care--can be attributed to African Americans' cultural and individual failures. If the experience of most black Americans says otherwise, an explanation has been sorely lacking--or obscured by the passions the issue provokes.
The Mismeasure of Minds: debating race and intelligence between Brown and The bell curve by Call Number: BF431.5.U6 S73 2018ISBN: 9781469643595Publication Date: 2018-11-19The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision required desegregation of America's schools, but it also set in motion an agonizing multidecade debate over race, class, and IQ. In this innovative book, Michael E. Staub investigates neuropsychological studies published between Brown and the controversial 1994 book The Bell Curve. In doing so, he illuminates how we came to view race and intelligence today.
Biased : uncovering the hidden prejudice that shapes what we see, think, and do by Call Number: BF575.P9 E34 2019ISBN: 0735224943You don't have to be racist to be biased. Unconscious bias can be at work without our realizing it, and even when we genuinely wish to treat all people equally, ingrained stereotypes can infect our visual perception, attention, memory, and behavior. This has an impact on education, employment, housing, and criminal justice. Now one of the world's leading experts on implicit racial bias offers us insights into the dilemma and a path forward.
Antisemitism: here and now by Call Number: DS145 .L6157 2019ISBN: 9780805243376Publication Date: 2019-01-29***2019 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER--Jewish Education and Identity Award*** The award-winning author of The Eichmann Trial and Denial: Holocaust History on Trial gives us a penetrating and provocative analysis of the hate that will not die, focusing on its current, virulent incarnations on both the political right and left: from white supremacist demonstrators in Charlottesville, Virginia, to mainstream enablers of antisemitism such as Donald Trump and Jeremy Corbyn, to a gay pride march in Chicago that expelled a group of women for carrying a Star of David banner.
Who We Be: the colorization of America by Call Number: E184.A1 C4425 2014ISBN: 9780312571290Publication Date: 2014-10-21Race. A four-letter word. The greatest social divide in American life, a half-century ago and today. During that time, the U.S. has seen the most dramatic demographic and cultural shifts in its history, what can be called the colorization of America. But the same nation that elected its first Black president on a wave of hope--another four-letter word--is still plunged into endless culture wars.
Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and its urgent lessons for our own by Call Number: E184.A1 G554 2020ISBN: 9780525575320Publication Date: 2020-06-30NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the civil rights movement to force America to confront its lies about race. What can we learn from his struggle in our own moment? Named one of the best books of the year by Time, The Washington Post, and the Chicago Tribune * Winner of the Stowe Prize * Shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice.
White Kids: growing up with privilege in a racially divided America by Call Number: E184.A1 H185 2018ISBN: 9781479803682Publication Date: 2018-09-04Winner, 2019 William J. Goode Book Award, given by the Family Section of the American Sociological Association Finalist, 2019 C. Wright Mills Award, given by the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Riveting stories of how affluent, white children learn about race American kids are living in a world of ongoing public debates about race, daily displays of racial injustice, and for some, an increased awareness surrounding diversity and inclusion. In this heated context, sociologist Margaret A. Hagerman zeroes in on affluent, white kids to observe how they make sense of privilege, unequal educational opportunities, and police violence.
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: how white people profit from identity politics by Call Number: E184.A1 L56 2018ISBN: 9781439916384Publication Date: 2018-07-13The Possessive Investment in Whiteness argues that public policy and private prejudice work together to create a possessive investment in whiteness that is responsible for the racialized hierarchies of our society. Whiteness has a cash value: it accounts for advantages that come to individuals through profits made from housing secured in discriminatory markets, through the unequal educational opportunities available to children of different races.
America for Americans: A History Of Xenophobia In The United States by Call Number: E184.A1 L4135 2019ISBN: 9781541672598Publication Date: 2019-11-26The United States is known as a nation of immigrants. But it is also a nation of xenophobia. In America for Americans, Erika Lee shows that an irrational fear, hatred, and hostility toward immigrants has been a defining feature of our nation from the colonial era to the Trump era. Benjamin Franklin ridiculed Germans for their "strange and foreign ways." Americans' anxiety over Irish Catholics turned xenophobia into a national political movement. Chinese immigrants were excluded, Japanese incarcerated, and Mexicans deported.
So You Want to Talk about Race by Call Number: E184.A1 O454 2018ISBN: 9781580056779Publication Date: 2018-01-16In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a hard-hitting but user-friendly examination of race in America Widespread reporting on aspects of white supremacy -- from police brutality to the mass incarceration of Black Americans -- has put a media spotlight on racism in our society. Still, it is a difficult subject to talk about.
Protecting Whiteness: Whitelash and the rejection of racial equality by Call Number: E184.A1 P77 2020ISBN: 9780295747989Publication Date: 2020-12-01The standoff at Cliven Bundy's ranch, the rise of white identity activists on college campuses, and the viral growth of white nationalist videos on YouTube vividly illustrate the resurgence of white supremacy and overt racism in the United States. White resistance to racial equality can be subtle as well, like art museums that enforce their boundaries as elite white spaces, right on crime, policies that impose new modes of surveillance and punishment for people of color.
Tacit Racism by Call Number: E184.A1 R36 2020ISBN: 9780226703558Publication Date: 2020-11-13We need to talk about racism before it destroys our democracy. And that conversation needs to start with an acknowledgement that racism is coded into even the most ordinary interactions. Every time we interact with another human being, we unconsciously draw on a set of expectations to guide us through the encounter.
We the People: the 500-year battle over who is American by Call Number: E184.A1 R337 2019ISBN: 9781538128541Publication Date: 2019-07-31"We the People." The Constitution begins with those deceptively simple words, but how do Americans define that "We"? In We the People, Ben Railton argues that throughout our history two competing yet interconnected concepts have battled to define our national identity and community: exclusionary and inclusive visions of who gets to be an American.
A Different Mirror: a history of multicultural America by Call Number: E184.A1 T335 2008ISBN: 9780316022361Publication Date: 2008-12-08Upon its first publication, A Different Mirror was hailed by critics and academics everywhere as a dramatic new retelling of our nation's past. Beginning with the colonization of the New World, it recounted the history of America in the voice of the non-Anglo peoples of the United States--Native Americans, African Americans, Jews, Irish Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, and others--groups who helped create this country's rich mosaic culture.
Not Quite Not White: losing and finding race in America by Call Number: E184.S69 S46 2018ISBN: 9780143131380Publication Date: 2018-08-28A first-generation immigrant's exploration of race and assimilation in the United States, an American's journey into the heart of not-whiteness. At the age of 12, Sharmila Sen emigrated from India to the U.S. The year was 1982, and everywhere she turned, she was asked to self-report her race-on INS forms, at the doctor's office, in middle school. Never identifying with a race in the India of her childhood, she rejects her new "not quite" designation-not quite white, not quite black, not quite Asian-and spends much of her life attempting to blend into American whiteness.
White Rage: the unspoken truth of our racial divide by Call Number: E185.61 .A5438 2016ISBN: 9781632864123Publication Date: 2016-05-31From the Civil War to our combustible present, acclaimed historian Carol Anderson reframes our continuing conversation about race, chronicling the powerful forces opposed to black progress in America. As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, and media commentators across the ideological spectrum referred to the angry response of African Americans as "black rage," historian Carol Anderson wrote a remarkable op-ed in The Washington Post suggesting that this was, instead, "white rage at work.
Stamped from the Beginning: the definitive history of racist ideas in America by Call Number: E185.61 .K358 2016ISBN: 9781568584638Publication Date: 2016-04-12The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America -- it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues, racist ideas have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit.
Long Time Coming: reckoning with race in America by Call Number: E185.615 .D947 2020ISBN: 9781250276759Publication Date: 2020-12-01The night of May 25, 2020 changed America. George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, was killed during an arrest in Minneapolis when a white cop suffocated him. The video of that night's events went viral, sparking the largest protests in the nation's history and the sort of social unrest we have not seen since the sixties.
Divided We Stand: racism in America from Jamestown to Trump by Call Number: E185.615 .M677 2017ISBN: 9781941688489Publication Date: 2017-08-01David R. Morse details how the "whiteness" of America came about and how it has become more prevalent from time to time. As various immigrant groups have come to the United States, usually in response to a need for labor, the public and Congress have responded by harassment and limiting the numbers of immigrants who are welcome in the country. The pendulum has swung many times in the last 200 years, as Mexicans, Chinese, Italians, Irish, Jews, Eastern Europeans, and now Muslims have come to the U.S., fleeing violence or seeking economic opportunity.
Black or Right: anti/racist campus rhetorics by Call Number: E185.625 .M328 2020ISBN: 9781646421473Publication Date: 2020-12-01Black or Right: Anti/Racist Campus Rhetorics explores notions of Blackness in white institutional--particularly educational--spaces. In it, Louis M. Maraj theorizes how Black identity operates with/against ideas of difference in the age of #BlackLivesMatter. Centering Blackness in frameworks for antiracist agency through interdisciplinary Black feminist lenses, Black or Right asks how those racially signifying "diversity" in US higher education (and beyond) make meaning in the everyday.
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: and other conversations about race by Call Number: E185.625 .T38 2017ISBN: 9780465060689Publication Date: 2017-09-05The classic, New York Times-bestselling book on the psychology of racism that shows us how to talk about race in America. Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups. Is this self-segregation a problem to address or a coping strategy? How can we get past our reluctance to discuss racial issues?
Fault Lines: a history of the United States since 1974 by Call Number: E839 .K78 2019ISBN: 9780393088663Publication Date: 2019-01-08Two award-winning historians explore the origins of a divided America. In the middle of the 1970s, America entered a new era of doubt and division. Major political, economic, and social crises-Watergate, Vietnam, the rights revolutions of the 1960s-had cracked the existing social order. In the years that followed, the story of our own lifetimes would be written. Longstanding historical fault lines over income inequality, racial division, and a revolution in gender roles and sexual norms would deepen and fuel a polarized political landscape.
The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the violent history of the United States by Call Number: F474.S257 J65 2020ISBN: 9780465064267Publication Date: 2020-04-14A searing portrait of the racial dynamics that lie inescapably at the heart of our nation, told through the turbulent history of the city of St. Louis. From Lewis and Clark's 1804 expedition to the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, American history has been made in St. Louis. And as Walter Johnson shows in this searing book, the city exemplifies how imperialism, racism, and capitalism have persistently entwined to corrupt the nation's past.
Race after Technology: abolitionist tools for the new Jim code by Call Number: HN90.I56 B46 2019ISBN: 9781509526390Publication Date: 2019-07-29From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity. Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, has the potential to hide, speed up, and deepen discrimination while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to the racism of a previous era.
Speaking of Race: why everybody needs to talk about racism--and how to do it by Call Number: HT1521 .H397 2021ISBN: 9780063098152Publication Date: 2021-11-02A Boston Globe Most Anticipated Fall Book In this urgently needed guide, the PBS host, award-winning journalist, and author of We Need to Talk teaches us how to have productive conversations about race, offering insights, advice, and support. A self-described "light-skinned Black Jew," Celeste Headlee has been forced to speak about race--including having to defend or define her own--since childhood.
The Fire Now: anti-racist scholarship in times of explicit racial violence by Call Number: HT1523 .F58 2018ISBN: 9781786993793Publication Date: 2018-11-15Not so long ago, many spoke of a 'post-racial' era, claiming that advances made by people of colour showed that racial divisions were becoming a thing of the past. But the hollowness of such claims has been exposed by the rise of Trump and Brexit, both of which have revealed deep seated white resentment, and have been attended by a resurgence in hate crime and overt racial hatred on both sides of the Atlantic.
What Does It Mean to Be White?: developing white racial literacy by Call Number: HT1575 .D53 2012ISBN: 9781433111150Publication Date: 2012-05-30What does it mean to be white in a society that proclaims race meaningless yet is deeply divided by race? In the face of pervasive racial inequality and segregation, most whites cannot answer that question. Robin DiAngelo argues that a number of factors make this question difficult for whites miseducation about what racism is; ideologies such as individualism and colorblindness; defensiveness; and a need to protect (rather than expand) our worldviews. These factors contribute to what she terms white racial illiteracy.
Assimilation: an alternative history by Call Number: JV6342 .R36 2020ISBN: 9780520300712Publication Date: 2020-12-08For over a hundred years, the story of assimilation has animated the nation-building project of the United States. And still today, the dream or demand of a cultural "melting pot" circulates through academia, policy institutions, and mainstream media outlets. Noting society's many exclusions and erasures, scholars in the second half of the twentieth century persuasively argued that only some social groups assimilate. Others, they pointed out, are subject to racialization. In this bold, discipline-traversing cultural history, Catherine Ramírez develops an entirely different account of assimilation.
The Displaced: refugee writers on refugee lives by Call Number: JV6346.D568 2018ISBN: 9781683352075Publication Date: 2018-04-10In January 2017, Donald Trump signed an executive order stopping entry to the United States from seven predominantly Muslim countries and dramatically cutting the number of refugees allowed to resettle in the United States each year. The American people spoke up, with protests, marches, donations, and lawsuits that quickly overturned the order. But the refugee caps remained. In The Displaced, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Viet Thanh Nguyen, himself a refugee, brings together a host of prominent refugee writers to explore and illuminate the refugee experience.
The Bill of the Century by Call Number: KF4749 .R57 2014ISBN: 9781608198269Publication Date: 2015-04-21The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the single most important piece of legislation passed by Congress in American history. This one law so dramatically altered American society that, looking back, it seems preordained-as Everett Dirksen, the GOP leader in the Senate and a key supporter of the bill, said, No force is more powerful than an idea whose time has come. But there was nothing predestined about the victory- a phalanx of powerful senators, pledging to fight to the death for segregation, launched the longest filibuster in American history to defeat it.
Racism in American Public Life: a call to action by Call Number: LC212.42 .C65 2021ISBN: 9780813945620Publication Date: 2021-02-16For some in our society, diversity is a threat. Others feel society should be more inclusive, if only out of fairness. But as Johnnetta Cole argues in her new book, embracing diversity and inclusiveness is more than a virtuous ideal; it is essential to a healthy, productive society. Focusing on higher education and other arenas of cultural development, Cole explores our institutions' vulnerability to the influence of racism and the wider implications for American society.
Building Pedagogues: white practicing teachers and the struggle for antiracist work in schools by Call Number: LC1099.3 .C376 2020ISBN: 9781438479743Publication Date: 2020-07-01"Antiracist professional development for white teachers often follows a one-size-fits-all model, focusing on narrow notions of race and especially white privilege at the expense of more radical analyses of white supremacy. Frustrated with this model, Zachary A. Casey and Shannon K. McManimon, both white teacher educators, developed a two-year professional development seminar called "RaceWork" with eight white practicing teachers committed to advancing antiracism in their classrooms, schools, and communities.
We Are Not Dreamers: undocumented scholars theorize undocumented life in the United States by Call Number: LC3746.5.C2 W44 2020ISBN: 9781478009795Publication Date: 2020-08-31The widely recognized "Dreamer narrative" celebrates the educational and economic achievements of undocumented youth to justify a path to citizenship. While a well-intentioned, strategic tactic to garner political support of undocumented youth, it has promoted the idea that access to citizenship and rights should be granted only to a select group of "deserving" immigrants. The contributors to We Are Not Dreamers--themselves currently or formerly undocumented--poignantly counter the Dreamer narrative by grappling with the nuances of undocumented life in this country.
White Freedom: the racial history of an idea by ISBN: 9780691205366Publication Date: 2021-01-19The racist legacy behind the Western idea of freedom The era of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to our modern conceptions of freedom and democracy, was also the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. America, a nation founded on the principle of liberty, is also a nation built on African slavery, Native American genocide, and systematic racial discrimination. White Freedom traces the complex relationship between freedom and race from the eighteenth century to today, revealing how being free has meant being white.
We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices by Call Number: 303.4 WeISBN: 9780525580423Publication Date: 2018-09-04What do we tell our children when the world seems bleak, and prejudice and racism run rampant? With 96 lavishly designed pages of original art and prose, fifty diverse creators lend voice to young activists. Featuring poems, letters, personal essays, art, and other works. This anthology empowers the nation's youth to listen, learn, and build a better tomorrow.
Woke by Call Number: 303.484 WokISBN: 9781250311207Publication Date: 2020-03-10Woke: A Young Poet's Guide to Justice is a collection of poems to inspire kids to stay woke and become a new generation of activists. Historically poets have been on the forefront of social movements. Woke is a collection of poems by women that reflects the joy and passion in the fight for social justice, tackling topics from discrimination to empathy, and acceptance to speaking out.
This Book is Anti-racist by Call Number: 305.8 JewISBN: 9780711245204Publication Date: 2020-01-07This book is written for the young person who doesn't know how to speak up to the racist adults in their life. For the 14 year old who sees injustice at school and isn't able to understand the role racism plays in separating them from their friends. For the kid who spends years trying to fit into the dominant culture and loses themselves for a little while.
Our Skin: a First Conversation about Race by Call Number: 305.8 MadISBN: 9780593382639Publication Date: 2021-03-16Based on the research that race, gender, consent, and body positivity should be discussed with toddlers on up, this read-aloud board book series offers adults the opportunity to begin important conversations with young children in an informed, safe, and supported way. Based on the research that race, gender, consent, and body positivity should be discussed with toddlers on up, this read-aloud board book series offers adults the opportunity to begin important conversations with young children in an informed, safe, and supported way.
The Other Talk by Call Number: 305.809 KieISBN: 9781534494046Publication Date: 2021-09-21Talking about racism can be hard, but most kids of color grow up doing it. They have "The Talk" with their families—the honest talk about survival in a racist world. But white kids don't. They're barely spoken to about race at all—and that needs to change. Because not talking about racism doesn't make it go away. Not talking about white privilege doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Stormy Seas: stories of young boat refugees by Call Number: 305.90691 LeaISBN: 9781554518968Publication Date: 2017-04-11A desperate last hope for safety and freedom. The plight of refugees risking their lives at sea has, unfortunately, made the headlines all too often in the past few years. This book presents five true stories, from 1939 to today, about young people who lived through the harrowing experience of setting sail in search of asylum. Stormy Seas combines a vivid and contemporary collage-based design with dramatic storytelling to produce a book that makes for riveting reading as well as a source of timely information.
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Call Number: 305.800973 ReyISBN: 9780316453677Publication Date: 2020-03-10The #1 New York Times bestselling, "must-read" (San Francisco Chronicle), "amazingly timely and stunningly accessible" (Jacqueline Woodson) exploration of race and racism from award-winning, beloved authors Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi, now in paperback. This is NOT a history book. This is a book about the here and now. A book to help us better understand why we are where we are. A book about race.
The Talk by Call Number: 305.800973 TalISBN: 9780593121610Publication Date: 2020-08-11In the powerful follow-up to We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices, thirty diverse and award-winning authors and illustrators capture frank discussions about racism, identity, and self-esteem. Here is an invitation to all families to be advocates and allies for change.
A Girl Like Me by Call Number: 811.54 JohISBN: 9781541557772Publication Date: 2020-02-04"[A] rallying cry for girls to reject limitations others might place on them and their dreams."--starred,The Horn Book Magazine "Once I dreamed I swam / the ocean / and saw everything deep,cool / and was part of the waves. / I swam on by the people / onshore /hollering, / 'A girl like you needs to / stay out of the water / and be dry /like everyone else.'" Empower young readers to embrace their individuality, reject societal limitations, and follow their dreams. This inspiring picture book brings together a poem by acclaimed author Angela Johnson and Nina Crews's distinctive photocollage illustrations to celebrate girls of color.
Refugee by Call Number: F GraISBN: 9780545880831Publication Date: 2017-07-25A tour de force from acclaimed author Alan Gratz (Prisoner B-3087), this timely -- and timeless -- novel tells the powerful story of three different children seeking refuge. A New York Times bestseller! Three kids go on harrowing journeys in search of refuge. All will face unimaginable dangers -- from drownings to bombings to betrayals. But there is always the hope of tomorrow. And although Josef, Isabel, and Mahmoud are separated by continents and decades, shocking connections will tie their stories together in the end. This action-packed novel tackles topics both timely and timeless: courage, survival, and the quest for home.
Northbound: a Train Ride Out of Segregation by Call Number: P BanISBN: 9780763696504Publication Date: 2020-10-13On his first train ride, Michael meets a new friend from the "whites only" car—but finds they can hang together for only part of the trip—in the last story in a trilogy about the author's life growing up in the segregated South. Michael and his granddaddy always stop working to watch the trains as they rush by their Alabama farm on the way to distant places. One day Michael gets what he's always dreamed of: his first train journey, to visit cousins in Ohio! Boarding the train in the bustling station, Michael and his grandma follow the conductor to the car with the "colored only" sign. But when the train pulls out of Atlanta, the signs come down, and a boy from the next car runs up to Michael, inviting him to explore.
A Thousand White Butterflies by Call Number: P BetISBN: 9781580895774Publication Date: 2021-01-19As if being new to the United States wasn't hard enough, Isabella's first day of school is canceled due to snow! Isabella has recently arrived from Colombia with her mother and abuela. She misses Papa, who is still in South America. It's her first day of school, her make-new-friends day, but when classes are canceled because of too much snow, Isabella misses warm, green, Colombia more than ever. Then Isabella meets Katie and finds out that making friends in the cold is easier than she thought!
Something Happened in Our Town by Call Number: P CelISBN: 9781433828546Publication Date: 2018-05-01Emma and Josh heard that something happened in their town. A Black man was shot by the police. "Why did the police shoot that man?" "Can police go to jail?" Something Happened in Our Town follows two families—one White, one Black—as they discuss a police shooting of a Black man in their community. The story aims to answer children's questions about such traumatic events, and to help children identify and counter racial injustice in their own lives.
All Because You Matter by Call Number: P ChaISBN: 9781338574852Publication Date: 2020-10-06This powerful, rhythmic lullaby reassures readers that their matter and their worth is never diminished, no matter the circumstance: through the joy and wonder of their first steps and first laughs, through the hardship of adolescent struggles, and the pain and heartbreak of current events, they always have, and always will, matter. Accompanied by illustrations by renowned artist Bryan Collier, a four-time Caldecott Honor recipient and a nine-time Coretta Scott King Award winner or honoree, All Because You Matter empowers readers with pride, joy, and comfort, reminding them of their roots and strengthening them for the days to come.
Not My Idea by Call Number: P HigISBN: 9781948340007Publication Date: 2018-09-04Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness is a picture book about racism and racial justice, inviting white children and parents to become curious about racism, accept that it's real, and cultivate justice. This book does a phenomenal job of explaining how power and privilege affect us from birth, and how we can educate ourselves...Not My Idea is an incredibly important book, one that we should all be using as a catalyst for our anti-racist education.
Thao by Call Number: P LamISBN: 9781771474320Publication Date: 2021-04-15An honest #OwnVoices story about growing up with a name that is unfamiliar to the kids around you, told with humor and heart by critically acclaimed author/illustrator Thao Lam. Even though it's only four simple, familiar letters long, nobody can ever pronounce Thao's name. She's been called Theo, Tail, even Towel! But the teasing names—Tofu, Tiny, China Girl—are worse. Maybe it's time to be someone else? Thao decides to try on a different name, something easy, like Jennifer. It works, but only until she opens her lunchbox to find her mother's Vietnamese spring rolls—Thao's favorite! Now, it feels a lot more comfortable to be herself.
We Shall Overcome by Call Number: P LevISBN: 9781423119548Publication Date: 2013-12-17It only takes a few words to create change. When those people sing out, they can change the world. 'We Shall Overcome' is one of these songs. From its humble beginnings in America's era of slavery through to the civil rights movement of the 1960s and beyond, it has come to represent the fight for equality and freedom around the world. This important book, lyrically written by Debbie Levy and paired with elegant, collage-style art by Vanessa Brantley-Newton, pays tribute to the heroic spirit of the famous song that encompasses American history.
- Exploring the emotions of white racism and antiracism byPublication Date: 2013To address this dimension of white racial attitudes, Dr. Spanierman presents her taxonomy of the emotions of racism. Drawing on her research, she discusses responses to elements of racism, including white guilt, fear, and empathy. She offers recommendations for educators and counselors to recognize and respond to powerful race-related emotions among white individuals.
- Implicit bias : new forms of the American dilemma and the new science of discrimination byPublication Date: 2011Although overt race discrimination has greatly declined in America, recent research has revealed that various biases exist in "implicit" forms that operate outside of awareness. Many earnestly egalitarian Americans remain unaware that any dilemma still exists. It is therefore not surprising that many assume America is "post-racial." Yet, implicit biases have been found based on ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender, and age. In addition to describing the basic findings that underlie this new science of discrimination, Dr. Greenwald demonstrates the implicit association test
- Race & Ethnicity: Crash Course Sociology #34 byPublication Date: 2017What’s the difference between race and ethnicity? Today we’ll look at how definitions of races and ethnicities have changed over time and across places. We also discuss the terms minority and minority-majority and how races are defined in the United States.
- Reveal moments : Microaggressions in everyday life byPublication Date: 2013Reveal Moments is an intimate portrait of four people of color in the Pacific Northwest coping with microaggressions in everyday life. Their vivid stories create "reveal" moments, where the truth about lived experience shines and inspires. A white ally discusses his experience of privilege as he struggles to learn about and change his own racial bias.
- The Talk : Race in America byPublication Date: 2017This film documents the increasingly common conversation taking place in homes across the country between parents of color and their children, especially sons, about how to behave if they are ever stopped by the police.
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