General Resources
our favorite resources to learn more about identity, anti-racism, and ethnic studies for K-12 schooling
Articles & Essays
Stanford Study Suggests Academic Benefits to Ethnic Studies Courses
NEA Racial Justice in Education
The Intersection of White Supremacy and the Education System
Dismantling White Supremacy in Our Classrooms
How Ethnic Studies Connects Learning With Students’ Identities
Ibram X. Kendi: An Antiracist Reading List for Americans
Podcasts & Film
How White Parents Can Talk to Their Kids About Race (NPR)
Talking Race With Young Children (NPR)
Intersectionality Matters! (Kimberle Crenshaw)
Pod for the Cause (The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)
Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
TED Talks
The Difference Between Being Not Racist and AntiRacist – Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
Deconstructing White Privilege – Dr. Robin DiAngelo
The Urgency of Intersectionality – Kimberle Crenshaw
We Need to Address the Real Roots of Racial Injustice – Megan Ming Francis
The Danger of a Single Story – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion – Peggy McIntosh
How to Overcome Our Biases? Walk Toward Them – Verna Myers
Social Media
CUSD Against Racism – Instagram
Black in PUSD – Instagram
Websites
Asian American Racial Justice Toolkit
Books
How to Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankin
Unequal Childhoods by Annette Laureau
They Can’t Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong
Raising Race Questions: Whiteness and Inquiry in Education by Ali Michael
Scarcity: The New Science of Having Less and How It Defines Our Lives by Sendhil Mullainthan
Dream Makers, Dream Breakers: The World of Justice Thurgood Marshall by Carl T. Rowan
What’s Race Got to Do With It? How Current School Reform Policy Maintains Racial and Economic Inequity edited by Edwin Mayorga and Bree Picower
Reading for Their Life: (Re)Building the Textual Lineages of African American Adolescent Males by Alfred W. Tatum
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria: And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
Schooltalk: Rethinking What We Say About and To Students Every Day by Mica Pollock
Playing Indian by Philip J. Deloria
The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America by Sarah Deer