Educational Resources on Race and Inequality

Discovering Justice’s Education Director Laura Brenner compiled this list of resources to support learning and facilitate conversations around race and racism in America.

Books For Students

• Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners
• A Children’s Booklist for Anti-racist Activism
• Race Cars: A children’s book about white privilege, Jenny Devenny
• BLM Instructional Library (online read alouds)
• If You Come Softly, Jacqueline Woodson
• NYTimes Anti-Racism Booklist for kids 0-12+

Books by Black authors to for Adults:

General:

• • The Classroom and the Cell: Conversations on Black Life in America, Marc Lamont Hill
  • How to be an Antiracist, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
  • The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Michelle Alexander
  • Nobody: Casualties of American’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond, Marc Lamont Hill
  • The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
  • The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin

• Between The World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates

• Stamped From The Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, Ibram X. Kendi  The Beginning

• Stamped: Racism, Anti Racism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning, Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds *a YA remix (other Jason Reynold’s YA books here)

• This Book is Anti-Racist, Tiffany Jewell *a YA book

• See more books here at “This Book List in Anti-Racist”

Specifically for Educators:

• Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain, Zaretta Hamond
• We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom, Bettina L. Love
• Cultivating Genius, Dr. Gholdy Muhammad
• Other People’s Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom, Lisa Delpit
• Schooling for Critical Consciousness, Daren Graves & Scott Seider
• Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom,  Bell Hooks

*Please consider purchasing these titles and others from Frugal Bookstore, a Black-owned community bookstore in Boston that DJ tries to support whenever possible.

Articles

• Tens Steps to Non-Optical Allyship
• 11 Things To Do Besides Say ‘ This Has To Stop’ In The Wake of Police Brutality
• Fredrck Douglass Used Photographs To Force The Nation To Begin Addressing Racism
• White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack

Video

• Talks to help you understand racism in America
• “How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion”
• Raising Antiracist Kids: Empowering the Next Generation of Changemakers
• “The Danger of a Single Story”

Specifically for Educators:

• Abolitionist Teaching and the Future of Our Schools
• Cultivating Genius: An Equity Model for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy

Podcasts

• RadioLab Presents: More Perfect, (WNYC Studios)
• 1619 (The New York Times)

Netflix Series

• 13th
• When They See Us
• The Racial Wealth Gap, Explained
• The Death & Life of Marsha P. Johnson
• Teach Us All

Amazon Prime

• I Am Not Your Negro 

HBO

• The Loving Story

Social Media Accounts:

• The Conscious Kid
• ACLU
• Grassroots Law Project
• The King Center
• Ibram X. Kendi
• Austin Channing
• Jumaane Williams
• Dr. Shola Mos-Shogbamimu’s IG or  twitter
• Rachel Cargie