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Anti-racist education/allyship

A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America (Revised Edition) by Ronald Takaki

A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

American Poison: How Racial Hostility Destroyed Our Promise by Eduardo Porter

America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America by Jim Wallis, Bryan Stevenson (Foreword)

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer L. Eberhardt PhD

Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880 by W.E.B. Du Bois

Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon

Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

Cultural Hegemony and African American Development by Clovis E. Semmes

Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland by Jonathan M. Metzl

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper

Faces at the Bottom of the Well by Derrick Bell

Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century by Dorothy Roberts

Fitzgerald, H.E., Johnson, D.J., Qin, D.B., Villarruel, F.A., & Norder, J. (2019). Handbook of Children and Prejudice: Integrating Research, Practice and Policy. Springer.

From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

From Here to Equality by William A. Darity and A. Kristen Mullen

Harrell, C.J.P. (1999). The meaning and impact of racism.  In C.J.P. Harrell, Manichean Psychology, (1 – 51) by C.J.P. Harrell

How Blacks Built America by Joe Feagin

How to Be Less Stupid about Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide by Crystal Marie Fleming

How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America by Kiese Laymon

killing rage: Ending Racism by bell hooks

Killing the Black Body and Fatal Invention by Dorothy Roberts

Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty Paperback by Dorothy Roberts

Latinos Facing Racism: Discrimination, Resistance, And Endurance by Joe Feagin

Lynching: Violence, Rhetoric, and American Identity by Ersula J. Ore

Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla Saad

Medical Apartheid by Harriet Washington

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington

Race for Profit by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Race Matters (25th Anniversary Edition with a New Introduction) by Cornell West

Racecraft by Barbara and Karen Fields

Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

Racist America (Third edition) by Joe Feagin

Sister Citizen by Melissa Harris Perry

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Commemorative Edition) by Audre Lorde, Cheryl Clarke (Foreword by)

So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo

Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi

Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson

The Alchemy of Race and Rights: Diary of a Law Professor by Patricia J. Williams

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X, Ossie Davis (Afterword), Alex Haley (As Told to)

The Broken Heart of America by Walter Johnson

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein

The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James Cone

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

The Miseducation of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

The Pushout by Monique Morris

The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois

The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni Morrison

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

The White Racial Frame: Centuries of Racial Framing and Counter-Framing by Joe Feagin

The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

Understanding Everyday Racism: An Interdisciplinary Theory (Vol. 2) by Philomena Essed

Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates

When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century by Ira Katznelson

When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors, asha Bandele

White Kids: Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America by Margaret A. Hagerman

White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son / Edition 3 by Tim Wise

White Party, White Government: Race, Class, and U.S. Politics by Joe Feagin

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson

White Supremacy and Racism in the Post-Civil Rights Era by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations about Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum

Why We Can't Wait by Martin Luther King Jr., Jesse Jackson (Afterword)

Women, Race, and Class by Angela Y. Davis

12 Years a Slave

13th

4 Little Girls

Blackkklansmen

Buck and the Preacher

Do the Right Thing

Eyes on the Prize

Freedom Riders

Fruitvale Station

I Am Not Your Negro

If Beale Street Could Talk

Just Mercy

Love Song for Latasha

Malcolm X

Rosewood

Selma

Slavery by Another Name

The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross

The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

The Life and Death of Marsha P. Johnson

The Wire – Television Series

Time: The Kalief Browder Story

Watchmen – Television Series

When the Levees Broke

When They See Us

Within Our Gates

Cabrera, N. L. (2012). Working through Whiteness: White male college students challenging racism. The Review of Higher Education, 35(3), 375-401.

Cabrera, N. L. (2014). "But I'm oppressed too": White male college students framing racial emotions as facts and recreating racism. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 27(6), 768-784.

Cabrera, N. L. (2014). But we're not laughing: White male college students' racial joking and what this says about "post-racial" discourse. Journal of College Student Development, 55(1), 1-15.

Cabrera, N. L. (2014). Exposing Whiteness in higher education: White male college students minimizing racism, claiming victimization, and recreating White supremacy. Race Ethnicity and Education. 17(1), 30-55. doi:10.1080/13613324.2012.725040

Cabrera, N. L., Watson, J., & Franklin, J. D. (2016). Racial arrested development: A Critical Whiteness analysis of the campus ecology. Journal of College Student Development, 57(2), 119-134.

Cabrera, N.L., & Corces-Zimmerman, C. (2017). An Unexamined Life: White Male Racial Ignorance and the Agony of Education for Students of Color. Equity & Excellence in Education, 50, 300-315. doi:10.1080/10665684.2017.1336500

Cabrera, N. L. (2017). White immunity: Working through the pedagogical pitfalls of privilege. Journal Committed to Social Change on Race and Ethnicity, 3(1), 74-86.

Cabrera, N. L. (2019). White guys on campus: Racism, White immunity, and the myth of 'post-racial' higher education. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Cabrera, N. L. (2019). Racism: Becky's dance around the other 'r-word' in student affairs. In C. E. Matias (Ed.), Surviving Becky(s): Pedagogies for deconstructing Whiteness and gender (pp. 147-157). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.

Cabrera, N. L., Utt, J. R., & Corces-Zimmerman, C. (2019). Engaging White students. In S. J. Quaye, S. R. Harper, & S. L. Pendakur (Eds.), Student engagement in higher education: Theoretical perspectives and practical approaches for diverse populations (3rd ed.) (pp. 89-106). New York, NY: Routledge.

Cabrera, N. L., & Corces-Zimmerman, C. (2019). Beyond privilege: Whiteness as the center of racial marginalization. In P. Brug, Z. S., Ritter, and K. R. Roth (Eds.), Marginality in the urban center: Costs and challenges of continued Whiteness in the Americas (and beyond) (pp. 13-29). New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.

Dulin-Keita. A., Hannon, L., Fernandez, J.R., & Cockerham, W.C. (2011). The defining moment: children's conceptualization of race and experiences with racial discrimination. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 34, 662-682. doi:10.1080/01419870.2011.535906

Gee, G. C., Walsemann, K. M., & Brondolo, E. (2012). A life course perspective on how racism may be related to health inequities. American Journal of Public Health, 102, 967-974.

Gee, G.C., Hing, A., Mohammed, S., Tabor, D.C., & Williams, D.R. (2019). Racism and the life course: Taking time seriously. American Journal of Public Health, 109, S43-S47. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2018.304766

Hagerman, M.A. (2014). White Families and Race: Colour-blind and Colour-conscious Approaches to White Racial Socialization. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 37, 2598- 2614.

Hagerman, M. A. (2016). Reproducing and Reworking Colorblind Racial Ideology: Acknowledging Children's Agency in the White Habitus. Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 2, 58-71.

Hagerman, M. A. (2017). White racial socialization: Progressive fathers on raising "antiracist"  children. Journal of Marriage and Family, 79, 60-74.

Hagerman, M. A. (2019). Racial Ideology and White Youth: From Middle Childhood to Adolescence. Sociology of Race and Ethnicitydoi.org/10.1177/2332649219853309

Harrell, S.P. (2000). A Multidimensional conceptualization of racism-related stress: Implications for the well-being of people of color. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 70, 42-57. doi:10.1037/h0087722

Jones, C.P. (2000). Levels of racism: A theoretic framework and a gardener's tale. American Journal of Public Health, 90, 1212-1215. doi:10.2105/AJPH.90.8.1212

Kordesh, K., Spanierman, L. B., & Neville, H. A. (2013). White students' racial affect: Gaining a deeper understanding of the antiracist type. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 6, 33-50. doi:10.1037/a0030102

Mekawi, Y., Bresin, K., & Hunter, C.D. (2016). White Fear, Dehumanization, and Low Empathy: Lethal Combinations for Shooting Biases. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 22, 322-332. doi:10.1037/cdp0000067

Priest, N., Paradies, Y., Trenerry, B., Truong, M., Karlsen, S. & Kelly, Y. (2013). A systematic review of studies examining the relationship between reported racism and health and wellbeing for children and young people. Social Science & Medicine, 95, 115 – 127. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.11.031

Priest, N., Slopen, N., Woolford, S., Philip, J.T., Singer, D., Kauffman, A.D., Moseley, K., Davis, M., Ransome, Y. & Williams, D.R. (2018). Stereotyping across intersections of race and age: Racial stereotyping among White adults working with children. PLoS One, 13(9):e0205614.

Raver, C., & Blair, C. (2020). Developmental science aimed at reducing inequality: Maximizing the social impact of research on executive function in context. Infant and Child Development, 29, e2715. doi:10.1002/icd.2175

Reskin, B. (2012). The race discrimination system. Annual Review of Sociology, 38, 17–35. doi:10.1146/annurev-soc-071811-145508

Seaton, E.K., Gee, G., Neblett, E., & Spanierman, L. (2018). New directions for racial discrimination research as inspired by the Integrative Model. American Psychologist, 73, 768-780. doi:10.1037/amp0000315

Schooley, R., Lee, D. L., & Spanierman, L. B. (2019). Measuring Whiteness: A systematic review of instruments and call for action. The Counseling Psychologist, 47(4), 530-565.

Spanierman, L. B., Poteat, V. P., Whittaker, V. A., Schlosser, L. Z., & Arévalo Avalos, M. R. (2017). Allies for life? Lessons from White scholars of multicultural psychology. The Counseling Psychologist, 45, 618-650. 45.

Spanierman, L. B. & Smith, L. (2017). Roles and responsibilities of White allies: Implications for research, teaching, and practice. The Counseling Psychologist, 45, 606-617. 44.

Spanierman, L. B. & Smith, L. (2017). Confronting White hegemony: A moral imperative for the helping professions. The Counseling Psychologist, 45, 727-736.

Kordesh, K., Spanierman, L. B., & Neville, H. A. (2013). White students' racial affect: Gaining a deeper understanding of the antiracist type. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 6, 33-50.

Yeung, J., Spanierman, L. B., & Landrum-Brown, J. (2013). "Being White in a multicultural society": Critical whiteness pedagogy in a dialogue course. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 6, 17-32.

Poteat, V. P., & Spanierman, L. B. (2012). Modern racism attitudes among White students: The role of dominance and authoritarianism and the mediating effects of racial color-blindness. Journal of Social Psychology, 152, 758-774.

Spanierman, L. B., Beard, J. C., & Todd, N. R. (2012). White men's fears, White women's tears: Examining gender differences in racial affect types. Sex Roles, 67, 174-186.

Todd, N. R., Spanierman, L. B., & Poteat, V. P. (2011). Longitudinal examination of the psychosocial costs of racism to Whites across the college experience. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 58, 508-521.

Todd, N. R., Spanierman, L. B., & Aber, M. (2010). White students reflecting on Whiteness: Understanding emotional responses. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 3, 97-110.

Spanierman, L. B., Todd, N. R., & Anderson, C. J. (2009). Psychosocial costs of racism to Whites: Understanding patterns among university students. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 56, 239- 252.

Spanierman, L. B., Oh, E., Poteat, V. P., Hund, A. R., McClair, V. L., Beer, A. M., & Clarke, A. M. (2008). White university students' responses to societal racism: A qualitative investigation. The Counseling Psychologist, 36, 839-870.

Spanierman, L. B., Poteat, V. P., Wang, Y. F., & Oh, E. (2008). Psychosocial costs of racism to White counselors: Predicting various dimensions of multicultural counseling competence. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 55, 75-88.

Spanierman, L. B., Poteat, V. P., Beer, A. M., & Armstrong, P. I. (2006). Psychosocial costs of racism to Whites: Exploring patterns through cluster analysis. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 53(4), 434–441.

Williams, D. R., & Mohammed, S. A. (2009). Discrimination and racial disparities in health: Evidence and needed research. Journal of Behavioral Medicine32, 20-47.

Williams, D. R., & Mohammed, S. A. (2013). Racism and health I: Pathways and scientific evidence. American Behavioral Scientist57, 1152-1173.

Williams, D.R., Lawrence, J.A., & Davis, B.A. (2019). Racism and health: Evidence and needed research. Annual Review of Public Health, 40, 105-125. doi:10.1146/annurev-publhealth040218-043750

One Talk at a Time videos (free): https://www.caminoslab.org/onetalk

“Mommy Was Distracted Today…” by parent and child development expert Fantasy Lozada: https://medium.com/@ftlozada/mommy-was-distracted-today-2aabcef87b0a

“Reflections From a Token Black Friend” (about being Black in predominantly White spaces/groups) by Ramesh A. Nagarajah: https://medium.com/@rnagarajah2/reflections-from-a-token-black-friend-2f1ea522d42d?fbclid=IwAR1GGIXwFj7ke0HEn7ZTFmJcKuJzso8qD2GYOnf9zzfRo45SH1wwNRkolsU

“Reflections on Being The Asian Friend” (about being Asian in predominantly White friend groups and also in romantic relationships with White partner) by Lindsey Lazarte: https://medium.com/@lindseyruns/reflections-on-being-the-asian-friend-8a6886b06d15

Panel of child/adolescent development experts on raising Asian American youth in a xenophobic society: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AMxFIr9jBkE

Addressing anti-Blackness and colonialism in Filipinx families by E. J. R. David: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/unseen-and-unheard/202006/addressing-anti-black-microaggressions-in-filipino-families-0?amp&__twitter_impression=true

Identifying how race and racism is addressed euphemistically in media coverage: https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/06/george-floyd-protests-what-news-reports-dont-say/612571/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Snapshot of Data on Institutional Racism shared by Desiree Baolian Qin from Dialogues on Race (2018) at Michigan State Univ link

17 Resources to Help Parents Raise Anti-Racist Kids: https://tinkergarten.com/blog/17-resources-to-help-parents-raise-anti-racist-kids

For Adults Talking to/with Children and Youth About Social Justice

One Talk at a Time videos (free): https://www.caminoslab.org/onetalk

“Mommy Was Distracted Today…” by parent and child development expert Fantasy Lozada:https://medium.com/@ftlozada/mommy-was-distracted-today-2aabcef87b0a

“Reflections From a Token Black Friend” (about being Black in predominantly White spaces/groups) by Ramesh A. Nagarajah: https://medium.com/@rnagarajah2/reflections-from-a-token-black-friend-2f1ea522d42d?fbclid=IwAR1GGIXwFj7ke0HEn7ZTFmJcKuJzso8qD2GYOnf9zzfRo45SH1wwNRkolsU

“Reflections on Being The Asian Friend” (about being Asian in predominantly White friend groups and also in romantic relationships with White partner) by Lindsey Lazarte: https://medium.com/@lindseyruns/reflections-on-being-the-asian-friend-8a6886b06d15

Panel of child/adolescent development experts on raising Asian American youth in a xenophobic society: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AMxFIr9jBkE

Addressing anti-Blackness and colonialism in Filipinx families by E. J. R. David: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/unseen-and-unheard/202006/addressing-anti-black-microaggressions-in-filipino-families-0?amp&__twitter_impression=true

Identifying how race and racism is addressed euphemistically in media coverage: https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/06/george-floyd-protests-what-news-reports-dont-say/612571/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Snapshot of Data on Institutional Racism shared by Desiree Baolian Qin from Dialogues on Race (2018) at Michigan State Univ link

17 Resources to Help Parents Raise Anti-Racist Kids: https://tinkergarten.com/blog/17-resources-to-help-parents-raise-anti-racist-kids

Webinars

Talking to Kids about Racism - Dr. Kira Banks & Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum: https://www.facebook.com/DrKiraBanks/videos/264032861323725/

CNN and Sesame Street Town Hall Addressing Racism (June 6th): https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/25/app-news-section/cnn-sesame-street-coronavirus-town-hall-april-25-2020-app/index.html

Repurposing Our Pedagogies: Abolitionist Teaching in a Global Pandemic - Dr. Bettina Love: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39A0qBGb7WM

Abolitionist Teaching and the Future of Our Schools - Dr. Bettina Love (June 23): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJZ3RPJ2rNc

Podcasts

In My Skin: https://www.racepride.pitt.edu/in-my-skin-podcast/ 

Code Switch on NPR: https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510312/codeswitch

How White parents can talk to their kids about race: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-white-parents-can-talk-to-their-kids-about-race/id1454009140?i=1000476760260

How to Identify, Navigate, and Challenge Oppression in schools - Scott Seider and Daren Graves link

Raising Equity - Dr. Kira Banks https://raisingequity.org/the-podcast/

The Toll of Stereotypes - Dr. Seanna Leath https://scholars.org/podcast/toll-stereotypes

The Effects of Oversexualizing Black Girls - Dr. Seanna Leath https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc3ByZWFrZXIuY29tL3Nob3cvNDA3ODk4OS9lcGlzb2Rlcy9mZWVk/episode/aHR0cHM6Ly9hcGkuc3ByZWFrZXIuY29tL2VwaXNvZGUvMTk2NTk2Mjc

Books/Book Lists

 Written by youth/young people:

List of Anti-Racism books for children

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/parenting/kids-books-racism-protest.html

Children’s Books that Discuss Race and Racism:

  • Malcolm Little, The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X by Ilyasah Shabazz
  • Let it Shine, Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney
  • Something Happened in Our Town, A Children’s Story About Racial Injustice by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, and Ann Hazzard
  • My Hair is a Garden by Cozbi A. Cabrera
  • Separate is Never Equal, Sylvia Mendez & Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh
  • Young Water Protectors, A Story About Standing Rock by Aslan Tudor and Kelly Tudor
  • My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero with Erica Moroz
  • We are Grateful by Traci Sorell and Frané Lessac
  • I Am Not a Number by Jenny Kay Dupuis and Kathy Kacer
  • Lailah’s Lunchbox, A Ramadan Story by Reem Faruqi
  • The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson
  • The Whispering Town by Jennifer Elvgren
  • Moses, When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom byCarole Boston Weatherford
  • When I was Eight by Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton
  • Happy in Our Skin by Fran Manushkin
  • Chocolate Milk, Por Favor! by Maria Dismondy
  • Voice of Freedom Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by Carole Boston Weatherford
  • When We Were Alone by David A. Robertson & Julie Flett
  • Shining Star, the Anna May Wong Story by Paula Yoo and Lin Wang
  • Little Leaders, Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison
  • Maddi’s Fridge by Lois Brandt
  • Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry

YA Novels with YOC:

  • The Children of Blood and Bone (series) - Tomi Adeyemi
  • The Poet X - Elizabeth Acevedo
  • Clap When You Land - Elizabeth Acevedo
  • With the Fire on High - Elizabeth Acevedo
  • Shadowshaper (series) - Daniel José Older
  • Pet - Akwaeke Emezi
  • Our Wayward Fate - Gloria Chao
  • Slay - Brittney Morris
  • Once Upon an Eid, Stories of Hope and Joy by 15 Muslim Voices by S.K. Ali and Aisha Saeed
  • Juliet Takes a Breath - Gabby Rivera
  • Light it Up - Kekla Magoon
  • The Moon Within - Aida Salazar
  • Dominicana - Angie Cruz
  • Ordinary Girls - Jaquira Díaz
  • The City of Brass (series) - S.A. Chakraborty

Reading list by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas (updated every year):

https://www.gse.upenn.edu/news/educators-playbook/best-books-young-readers-2019

Rivas-Drake, D., & Umaña-Taylor, A. (2019). Below the Surface: Talking with Teens about Race, Ethnicity, and Identity. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Recursos antirracistas en español

 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DbS6Q9oSfLbShmkNrkTgaDVHGedpYrCI-Pq6RDUcYrY/edit

Social Media

The Conscious Kid:

https://www.instagram.com/theconsciouskid/

Anti-racist Educators

Tanesha B. Forman:

https://www.instagram.com/love.tanesha/

Tiffany M. Jewell

https://www.instagram.com/tiffanymjewell/

Organizations

https://www.tolerance.org/frameworks/social-justice-standards

https://nationalequityproject.org/

https://casel.org/

https://www.chooseorg.org/