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Parents & Educators
Curriculum
Teaching for Change: Building Social Justice Starting in the Classroom
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack (Peggy McIntosh)
Exploring Perspectives on Desegregation Using Brown Girl Dreaming
Books and Articles
Children Are Not Colorblind: How Young Children Learn Race (Erin Winkler)
Debunking The Myths: Talking with Children About Race (Eastern Educational Resource Collaborative)
Even Babies Discriminate: A Nurtureshock Excerpt (Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman)
Five Myths about Talking to Your Children about Race (Jaime Jin-Lewis)
How To Raise Racist Kids (Jonathan H. Liu)
Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America (Jennifer Harvey)
Teaching Children About Diversity (Christopher Metzler, Ph.D)
The Culturally Inclusive Educator: Preparing for a Multicultural World (Dena R. Samuels)
The First R: How Children Learn Race and Racism (Debra Van Ausdale and Joe R. Feagin
The Startlingly Profound (Yet Simple) Question My Daughter Asked About Racism (Jennifer Harvey)
Was the Cat in the Hat Black? The Hidden Racism of Children’s Literature and the Need for Diverse Books (Philip Nell)
Why White Parents Must Teach Their Children About Racism (Lisa Duggan)
Scroll down or navigate through the menu to the left to discover resources for families and the classroom. We recognize that this is just a beginning list, but we hope that it should help you get started!
Videos
Anti-Bias Lessons Help Preschoolers Hold up a Mirror to Diversity (PBS segment)
Books as Windows, Mirrors, and Sliding Glass Doors (Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop -2 min. clip)
The Windows and Mirrors of Your Child’s Bookshelf (Grace Lin TEDx)
Websites and Organizations
Border Crossers: Racial Justice in Education
Embrace Race: Raising a Brave Generation
Raising Race Conscious Children
See What We See (Database of multicultural and social justice books for children, YA, & educators, YA)
Showing Up For Racial Justice (SURJ): For Families
Waking Up White (Website)
Reading While White (Blog)