New Resources below: For you and your team's antiracist journey.
New Book, just released by our very own.. David Billings
Deep Denial: The Persistence of White Supremacy in United States History and Life
Author David Billings
Publisher Crandall, Dostie & Douglass Books, Inc.
Deep Denial: Interview With David Billings on His New Book's Relevance to Social Workers
This interview is not just about social work. This interview is for anyone who works, loves or knows human beings ... please read this interview. Sandy Bernabei , LCSW
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Newly released Book inspired by First Monday Collective - by Alma Carten, Alan Siskind, Mary Pender Greene
Strategies for Deconstructing Racism in the Health and Human Services by Alma Carten, Alan Siskind, Mary Pender Greene
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This is Why I do this work: Mary
Mary: thank you for this. Your words strongly influenced my statement in front of the camera at the Peekskill Black Lives Matter demonstration today. It also gave me the encouragement to communicate with my boss, the President, and the rest of the executive staff at my office about the need to acknowledge the vastly disproportionate pain and suffering these videotaped police killings have on our black friends and peers and patients. I challenged my work mates to consider racism in all that we do. We can start by talking openly about this atrocity and all the lesser atrocities (from a thousand cuts or one bullet).
I treasure this learning and especially appreciate your including me in the discussion. It is often overwhelming?.but I cannot sit back and just be overwhelmed. Ron Chisoolm told me to stay the course, to organize, to speak out for justice, to demand justice. I was born with the unearned privilege of my white ancestry. I cannot tolerate the resulting inferior status that is the undeniable by product of my privilege. I have a lot of work to do with my predominantly white friends, congregation, work associates and others.
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Past Resources
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Awesome ..Must See 21 Racial Microaggressions You Hear On A Daily Basis
A photographer at Fordham asked her peers to write down the microaggressions they’ve encountered. Here is what they had to say:
How microaggressions are like mosquito bites ? Same Difference
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDd3bzA7450&sns=em
Microaggressions through Hollywood movies?.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjzWENcW6NQ
Powerful Video on Restorative Justice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N3LihLvfa0
Consent for Tea ?Awesome video about Sexual Consent---esppecially useful for teens and young adult men
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQbei5JGiT8&sns=em
Oppression Olympics, the Games we should not be playing
Definition: Oppression Olympics is a term used when two or more groups compete to prove themselves more oppressed than each other. Contestants may include:
Women. People of color. People with disabilities. LGBTQ people
The Oppression Olympics are an one-upmanship dynamic that can arise within debates amongst people who adhere to the ideological values of identity politics, intersectionality and social privilege. They have been described as "verbal banter between different, marginalized, groups who are trying to determine the weight of their many intersectionalities of oppression (race, gender, socioeconomic status, disability) to determine who has it the worst. We as a antiracist organizers must recognize that using the Oppression Olympics to determine who is truly oppressed contributes towards the maintenance of structures that prevent us from collectively working together to create a world where we can all flourish, it only serves to build walls between us when we should be tearing them down.
We must direct our frustration towards structural racism and focus our rage on dismantling oppression systems so that we can all experience what it is like to be free truly in America
Scholarly Work on Oppression Olympics:
In her work Dialogical Epistemology - An Intersectional Resistance To The "Oppression Olympics", Nira Yuval-Davis addresses the issue of Oppression Olympics and argues that categorical intersectionality provides a solution to this problem.
In her work Solidarity Politics for Millenials: A Guide to Ending the Oppression Olympics,Ange-Marie Hancock argues that the core causes for Oppression Olympics are the desire to one-up other professional victims, and blindness to t
Must See --Awesome Poem about White Privilege by..8th Grader---Hope for the future
Talking to Kids about Racism and Justice - Oakland Library --
Listen, Learn, Participate: a #BlackLivesMatter Resource Series
Talking to Kids About Racism and Justice: a list for parents, caregivers & educators
“Awake youth of the land and accept this noble challenge of salvaging the strong ship of civilization by the anchors of right, justice and love?” ?— Ella Baker
BOOKS
Babies & Toddlers
- A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara (local author). Board book. Also available in Spanish.
K-2nd
- Let’s Talk About Race by Julius Lester. Introduces concept of race as part of a person’s story; Introduces the idea of prejudice based on skin color. Picture book for K-2.
- Henry's Freedom Box by Ellen Levine. Excellent book about a child’s resistance to slavery.
- Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down by Andrea Davis Pinkney. Describes the sit-in by four college students at a Woolworth’s counter in 1960. Picture book for K-2.
- We March by Shane Evans. Picture book about 1963 March on Washington. Preschool-Grade 2.
- A Sweet Smell of Roses by Angela Johnson; illus. by Eric Velasquez. A stirring yet jubilant glimpse of the invaluable contributions of youth in the Civil Rights movement. Ages 5-8.
- Yours for justice, Ida B. Wells : the daring life of a crusading journalist by Philip Dray
- Dolores Huerta : a hero to migrant workers by Sarah E. Warren ; illustrated by Robert Casilla
3rd-6th
- Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson. Through poetry, Woodson shares her experience growing up African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Grade 4 & up.
- Claudette Colvin: twice toward justice. An excellent book parents and teachers can use to raise the question: Who gets to be a leader? Which Black lives matter, and who gets left out when we look for just one kind of hero? Grades 6 & up.
- One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia. Three sisters visit their mother, a Black Panther Party member, during a memorable summer in Oakland. Sequel P.S. Be Eleven. Grades 3 & up.
- Little Rock Nine by Marshall Poe; illustrated by Ellen Lindner. Two boys in Little Rock get caught up in the struggle over public school integration. Grades 4 & up.
- Through My Eyes by Ruby Bridges. Autobiography about the harrowing story of how Bridges integrated a public school in New Orleans when she was 6 years old. Grades 2-4.
- Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children and Don’t You Grow Weary by Elizabeth Partridge (local author). A photo essay focusing on the critical role that children and teens played in the success of the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery. Grades 4 & up.
- The Watsons Go to Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis. The Watsons’ lives are drastically changed after they visit Grandma in Birmingham in the summer of 1963. Grades 4 & up.
- Revolution by Deborah Wiles. Twelve-year-old Sunny evolves a growing sense of justice and empathy after “the invaders” arrive in her Mississippi town to integrate public facilities and register voters during “Freedom Summer.” Grades 4 & up.
- The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny and the Fight for Civil Rights by Steve Sheinkin. The riveting local account of African American sailors who were charged with mutiny for refusing to work in unsafe conditions after a deadly explosion during World War II. Grades 4 & up.
- The kid's guide to social action: how to solve the social problems you choose -- and turn creative thinking into positive action by Barbara A. Lewis
- Black lives matter by Sue Bradford Edwards and Duchess Harris. Grades 6 & up.
7th & Up
- From #BlackLivesMatter to Black liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
- A young people's history of the United States by Howard Zinn
- March: book one by John Lewis ; with Andrew Aydin; art by Nate Powell
- All-American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
- How it Went Down by Kekla Magoon
- Police Brutality (opposing viewpoints series) by Sheila Fitzgerald.
- A Letter to My Nephew by James Baldwin (1962). See also The Fire Next Time. Grades 9 & up.
- Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis. Grades 9 & up.
See also:
- Canerow Book List, titles featuring children of color as central characters in their own stories, curated by Bay Area mom, activist and author Mia Birdsong for children of color to see themselves and their histories reflected in literature.
- #RaiseUpJustice Diverse Books Starter Kit from Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)
- The Zinn Education Project teaching materials on racism, civil rights and other social issues.
- Teaching for Change. Resources by theme, including Racial Identity and Fairness and Activism.
- Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching. Sample lesson plans and resources.
- #WeNeedDiverseBooks envisions a world where all children can see themselves in the pages of a book. Get involved with the #WeNeedDiverseBooks campaign by tweeting and contacting publishers. http://diversebooks.org
ARTICLES
- Confederate Flag 2 - How to Talk to Small Children About Racism; Celebrating Bree Newsome, a model for educational, age-appropriate storytelling by Aya de Leon.
- Straight Talk on Race: Challenging the Stereotypes in Children’s Books by Mitali Perkins in School Library Journal
- How To Teach Kids About Ferguson by Marcia Chatelain in The Atlantic (contains resource list)
- A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement by Alicia Garza on FeministWire.com. Article for discussion with grades 7 & up.
- Contemporary Police Brutality and Misconduct: A Continuation of the Legacy of Racial Violence from the Black Radical Congress. Article for discussion with grades 7 & up.
- Black Youth 100 - Agenda to Build Black Futures includes numerous resources, solutions and reports for discussion with grades 7 & up.
- How the Children of Birmingham Changed the Civil Rights Movement in The Daily Beast.
- These Teens and 20-Somethings are Organizing the Civil Rights Movement That Will Change Our Country on MTV.com
PARENT and TEACHER PERSPECTIVES
- The Rules: Making sense of race and privilege by Lawrence Otis Graham in Princeton Alumni Weekly. A Black father shares the lessons and rules he hoped would protect his upper-class Black children, and how they failed.
- A Mother’s White Privilege by Elizabeth Broadbent in the Huffington Post
- Talk to Your Kids About Ferguson by Bruce Reyes-Chow in the Huffington Post
- Telling My Son About Ferguson by Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow
- What White Children Need to Know About Race by Ali Michael and Eleonora Bartoli in Independent School Magazine.
- Your Child and the Juvenile Justice System by Lenore Anderson. For parents.
VIDEOS & MULTIMEDIA
- Black Lives Matter Co-Creator on the New Civil Rights Movement. Alicia Garza, co-founder of #BlackLivesMatter, tells AJ+ about the young Black activists leading a movement for change and what it is they are asking for (03:51 minutes). Grades 7 & up.
- Cracking the Codes dir. by Shakti Butler (film and discussion guide)
- Teaching Ferguson in the Classroom from PBS. Various videos for discussion.
- Michelle Alexander: A System of Racial and Social Control on PBS Frontline. Grades 7 & up.
- Letter to the Local Police by June Jordan. Use this poem as a conversation starter: Remove key identity words from the poem and ask students to fill in the blanks. Discuss how the poem could actually be about racism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or sexism.
- The Knotted Line by Evan Bissell. An interactive media project exploring the historical relationship between freedom and confinement in the United States. With miniature paintings of over 50 historical moments from 1495-2025. Includes resources for educators.
- For Teens: “Is Ferguson Like Mockingjay?” from MTV Braless. (03:15 minutes, clip continues until 04:09 - Strong language in the unrelated segment starting at 03:16 mins). Grades 8 & up.
USEFUL WEBSITES & OTHER RESOURCES
- Resources for Families from SURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice)
- Raising Race Conscious Children (blog)
- Embrace Race (newsletter), also on facebook.
- YWCA Stand Against Racism
- Teaching #BlackLivesMatters, a guide from San Francisco Unified School District Guide
- St. Louis School Librarian Offers LibGuide on Ferguson from School Library Journal
- The Children’s Peace Education and Anti-Bias Library
- Teaching African American Literature and History from the National Humanities Center
- Teaching About Ferguson: Race and Racism in the United States from Teaching Tolerance
- Books to Increase Awareness of the Cycles of Poverty, Race and Incarceration from Reaching Reluctant Readers, a blog by Amy Cheney.
- The Other America, speech by Martin Luther King Jr. Read what MLK actually said about riots, protest and racism in the weeks before he was assassinated in 1968.
- In the Margins booklists for youth in custody
- Gale Opposing Viewpoints: Racial Profiling ?& Community Policing ? Racism ? Activism
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