Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Books:

• White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
• White Rage by Carol Anderson
• Good White Racist?: Confronting Your Role in Racial Injustice by Kerry Connelly
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
• Deadly Injustice: Trayvon Martin, Race, and the Criminal Justice System by Devon Johnson, Patricia Y. Warren, Amy Farrell
• Race Matters by Cornel West

Podcasts:

• 1619 - An audio series on how slavery has transformed America, connecting past and present through the oldest form of storytelling.
• WeTalkDifferent - Episode 63 - The "What Does It Mean to Be White" Edition - A discussion with Robin DiAngelo about prejudice, racism, discrimination, white fragility, and white privilege.
• NPR Throughline - Weekly exploration of history that include stories from the moments that shaped our world.
• Scene on Radio - Seeing White - This season of "Scene on Radio" explores where the notion of "whiteness" comes from, what it does and what it is there for.

Movies/Documentaries:

• 13th - In this thought-provoking documentary, scholars, activists and politicians analyze the criminalization of African Americans and the U.S. prison boom.
• When They See Us - Five teens from Harlem become trapped in a nightmare when they're falsely accused of a brutal attack in Central Park. Based on the true story.
• Time: The Kalief Browder Story - This series traces the tragic case of Kalief Browder, a Black Bronx teen who spent three horrific years in jail, despite not being convicted of a crime.
• Crash - Explores racial and social tensions in Los Angeles.
• The Hate U Give - In this powerful drama based on the best-selling novel, when a teenager witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood friend, she must find her voice and stand up for what's right.
• A Conversation About Growing Up Black (5 min) - In this short documentary, young black men explain the particular challenges they face growing up in America.

Books:

• Let's Talk About Race by Julius Lester
• The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks by Cynthia Levinson
• The Skin I'm In: A First Look at Racism by Pat Thomas
• Woke Baby by Mahogany L. Browne (Ages 0-3)
• Dream Big, Little One by Vashti Harrison (Ages 0-3)
• A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara (Ages 3-7)
• The Name Jar by Yangsook Choi (Ages 3-7)
• Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry (Ages 4-8)
• Sulwe by Lupita Nyong'o (Ages 4-8)
• Something Happened in our Town by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, and Ann Hazzard (Ages 5-10)
• Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness by Anastasia Higginbotham (Ages 6 and up)
• Momma, Did You Hear the News? by Sanya Whittaker Gragg (Ages 6-9)
• Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh (Ages 6-9)

Movies/Documentaries:

• Zootopia - This animated film explores the trouble and subtly weaves in racial profiling, stereotypes and preconceived notions of others in a creative way.
• Hidden Figures - Despite the racism and sexism faced, three brilliant African American women become the brains behind the launch of the first American astronaut into space.

Books:

• Anti-Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves by Louise Derman-Sparks and Julie Olsen Edwards

Podcasts:

• How White Parents Can Talk To Their Kids About Race

Movies/Documentaries:

• American Son - Time passes and tension mounts in a Florida police station as an estranged interracial couple awaits news of their missing teenage son.

Additional Resources:

• Coming Together from Sesame Workshop
• Talking About Race from the National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Talking to Children After Racial Incidents from Penn Graduate School of Education

Books:

• We Got This: Equity, Access, and the Quest to Be Who Our Students Need Us to Be by Cornelius Minor
• Culturally Responsive Education and the Brain by Zaretta Hammond
• Don't Look Away: Embracing Anti-Bias Classrooms by Iheoma Iruka, Stephanie Curenton, Tonia Durden, and Kerry-Ann Escayg
• Anti-Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves by Louise Derman-Sparks and Julie Olsen Edwards

Podcasts:

• Teaching Hard History - What we don’t know about American slavery hurts us all. From Teaching Tolerance and host Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Teaching Hard History brings us the lessons we should have learned in school through the voices of leading scholars and educators. 

Movies/Documentaries:

• Teach Us All - It's been decades since Brown v. Board of Education, yet American schools remain largely segregated. Some leaders are working to change that.

Additional Resources:

• Teaching Young Children about Bias, Diversity, and Social Justice
• Children Are Not Colorblind: How Young Children Learn About Race by Erin Winkler, PhD
• Anti Bias Montessori Downloads - Anti-Bias Montessori is dedicated to providing information and resources about Anti-Bias, Anti-Racist, Social Justice Montessori education. You will find resources and downloadable lessons plans, games, and activities which may be used in the classroom (both, Montessori and traditional) and among staff.
• SPL Center Teaching Tolerance - Our Teaching Tolerance project combats prejudice among our nation’s youth while promoting equality, inclusiveness and equitable learning environments in the classroom. We produce an array of anti-bias resources that we distribute, free of charge, to educators across the country – award-winning classroom documentaries, lesson plans and curricula, Teaching Tolerance magazine, and more.
• ADL Education and Resources - As a leader in the field of anti-bias education, ADL provides current, relevant curricula and customizable, interactive training programs that incorporate the latest research.
• Raising Race Conscious Children - The primary purpose of Raising Race Conscious Children is to support parents and teachers who are trying to talk about race and diversity with young children. The goal of these conversations is to prepare young people to work toward racial justice.
• Teaching Tolerance - Teaching Tolerance provides free resources to educators—teachers, administrators, counselors and other practitioners—who work with children from kindergarten through high school. Educators use our materials to supplement the curriculum, to inform their practices, and to create civil and inclusive school communities where children are respected, valued and welcome participants.
• Border Crossers - Border Crossers utilizes creative and interactive pedagogy to engage educators in explorations of race and racism with K-12 students. We believe that if educators have a strong racial justice analysis, and are prepared to have meaningful conversations about race and racism, students will be better equipped to interrupt patterns of racism and injustice in their own lives and thrive in a multicultural society.