LibGuides: Resources for Exploring Race, Racism, and Racial Identity: Educator Resources

Q&A: How To Talk To Kids About Black Lives And Police Violence

Q&A: How To Talk To Kids About Black Lives And Police Violence
NPR journalist Anya Kamenetz interviewed Jesse Hagopian, an author, an activist, a father of two sons and a black teacher at Garfield High School in Seattle. The topic of the conversation: what it means to teach for black lives and why it's important. Hagopian is the co-editor, with Dyan Watson and Wayne Au, of the 2018 book Teaching For Black Lives.

Teaching for Black Lives by Dyan Watson (Editor); Jesse Hagopian (Editor); Wayne Au (Editor); Nancy Zucker (Designed by); Ar Bloomekatz (Editor, Produced by)
ISBN: 9780942961041
Publication Date: 2018-04-13
Provides a curriculum for teaching students in high school about African American history and contemporary issues, discussing slavery, civil rights, gentrification, mass incarceration, black identity, and the Black Lives Matter movement.

Not Light, But Fire: How to Lead Meaningful Race Conversations in the Classroom, by Matthew R. Kay

Not Light, but Fire: How to Lead Meaningful Race Conversations in the Classroom by Matthew R. Kay
Call Number: 370.11 Kay
ISBN: 9781625310989
Publication Date: 2018-07-17
Inspired by Frederick Douglass's abolitionist call to action, "it is not light that is needed, but fire" Matthew Kay has spent his career learning how to lead students through the most difficult race conversations. In this book Kay outlines how to have productive dialogues about race in the classroom. He presents practical strategies for engaging with students, maintaining that schools are the best places for young people to discuss race.

Matthew R. Kay: Slowing down

Matthew R. Kay: Safe Spaces

Matthew R. Kay: Pop-up conversations

Native Knowledge 360 ̊ - National Museum of the American Indian

Native Knowledge 360 ̊ - Framework for Essential Understandings about American Indians
The National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) Native Knowledge 360° Essential Understandings about American Indians is a framework that offers new possibilities for creating student learning experiences. Building on the ten themes of the National Council for the Social Studies' national curriculum standards, the NMAI's Essential Understandings reveal key concepts about the rich and diverse cultures, histories, and contemporary lives of Native Peoples. These concepts reflect a multitude of untold stories about American Indians that can deepen and expand your teaching of history, geography, civics, economics, science, engineering, and other subject areas.
Native Knowledge 360 ̊ website
Native Knowledge 360° provides educators and students with new perspectives on Native American history, cultures, and contemporary lives, and provides educational materials and teacher training that incorporate Native narratives, more comprehensive histories, and accurate information to enlighten and inform teaching and learning about Native America. NK360° challenges common assumptions about Native peoples—their cultures, their roles in United States and world history, and their contributions to the arts, sciences, and literature. NK360° offers a view that includes not only the past but also the richness and vibrancy of Native peoples and cultures today.

Why Classroom Conversations About Diversity and Identity Shouldn't Be Framed as 'Difficult'-

On ‘Difficult’ Conversations
Framing discussions as 'difficult' further marginalizes diverse students by labeling them as promoting identity politics when, in fact, all course content reflects identity politics. Author Darisa Grant, writing for Inside Higher Ed; July 15, 2020.

Project Ready: Allies and Antiracism

Project Ready is a free online professional development curriculum developed by University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science. These modules are for those interested in improving knowledge about race and racism, equity, and culturally sustaining pedagogy. The focus of the curriculum is on improving relationships with and resources for youth of color and Native youth.

Module 14: Allies & Antiracism of this curriculum defines the term “ally”, describe the characteristics of allyship, distinguishes between non-racist and anti-racist, and describes ways to engage in anti-racist work. Allies can work to actually actively fight racism when they hear it, see it, and they can acknowledge it.

Module 14: Allies & Antiracism
This module of the Project Ready online professional development curriculum explore two related concepts – allyship and anti-racism – that can help white people effectively and respectfully work for racial justice.

Justice in June - Resources for Learning How to be an Ally to the Black Community

Justice in June
Choose how much time you have each day to become more informed as step one to becoming an active ally to the black community: 10 minutes per day, 25 minutes per day, or 45 minutes per day. The website has inks to the learning resources and a schedule of what to do each day. Compiled by Autumn Gupta with Bryanna Wallace's oversight for the purpose of providing a starting place for individuals trying to become better allies.

Anti-Racism Graphic Novels Reading & Resources List

Anti-Racism Graphic Novels Reading & Resources List
A eading list of comics addressing themes of anti-racism and the African American experience, along with resources to help frame teaching opportunities in the classroom and beyond. Profiles in Black Cartooning, spotlights comics creators and cartoonists who made significant historical contributions to free expression. Several webinar videos provide teaching strategies and insights. Author: Charles Brownstein, for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.