A White Parent's Guide to Talking About Race

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1	Books
2	Title	Author	Website	Summary
3	White Fragility: Why It's so Hard for White People to Talk About Racism	Robin DiAngelo	https://www.charisbooksandmore.com/book/9780807047415	In a groundbreaking and timely book, antiracist education Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility. Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotion such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including argumentation and silence. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent any meaningful cross-racial dialogue. In this in-depth examination, DiAngelo explores how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively.
4	So You Want to Talk About Race	Ijeoma Oluo	https://www.charisbooksandmore.com/book/9781580058827	Widespread reporting on aspects of white supremacy - from police brutality to the mass incarceration of Black Americans - has put a media spotlight on racism in our society. Still, it's a difficult subject to talk about. How do you tell your roommate his jokes are racist? Why did you sister-in-law take umbrage when you asked to touch her hair, and how do you make it right? How do you explain white privilege to your white, privileged friend? In So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo guides readers of all races through subjects ranging from intersectionality and affirmative action to "model minorities" in an attempt to make the seemingly impossible possible: honest conversations about race and racism, and how they infect almost every aspect of American life.
5	A Race Is a Nice Thing To Have: A Guide to Being a White Person or Understanding the White Persons in Your Life	Dr. Janet E Helms	https://www.charisbooksandmore.com/book/9781516583263	A Race Is a Nice Thing to Have: A Guide to Being a White Person or Understanding the White Persons in Your Life is designed to help White people fully recognize and accept their racial identity, assume the proper responsibility for ending racism, and develop an understanding of how racism impacts their own racial group. This powerful text encourages positive racial adjustment and deeper levels of self-understanding. The book explores the meaning of race in society, the "color-blindness" movement, the problem of ignorance about Whiteness, the various phases of internalized racism, and other critical topics. Evocative and meaningful activities throughout the text foster reflection an increased levels of self-awareness and acceptance.
6	Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America	Jennifer Harvey	https://www.charisbooksandmore.com/book/9781501878077	Living in a racially unjust and deeply segregated nation creates unique conundrums for White children that begin early in life and impact development in powerful ways. Raising White Kids offers age-appropriate insights for teaching children how to address racism when they encounter it and tackles tough questions about how to help white kids be mindful of racial relations while understanding their own identity and the role they can play for justice. Raising White Kids is a book for families, churches, educators, and communities who what to equip their children to be active and able allies in a society that is becoming one of the most racially diverse in the world while remaining full of racial tensions.
7	me and white supremacy Combat Racism,Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor	Layla F. Saad	https://www.meandwhitesupremacybook.com/	Me and White Supremacy: A 28-Day Challenge to Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor leads readers through a journey of understanding their white privilege and participation in white supremacy, so that they can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on black, indigenous and people of color, and in turn, help other white people do better, too.
8	How To Be Actively Anti-Racist	Ibram X. Kendi	https://www.ibramxkendi.com/how-to-be-an-antiracist-1	Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America--but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. Instead of working with the policies and system we have in place, Kendi asks us to think about what an anti racist society might look like, and how we can play an active role in building it.In his memoir, Kendi weaves together an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science--including the story of his own awakening to antiracism--bringing it all together in a cogent, accessible form. He begins by helping us rethink our most deeply held, if implicit, beliefs and our most intimate personal relationships (including beliefs about race and IQ and interracial social relations) and reexamines the policies and larger social arrangements we support. How to Be an Antiracist promises to become an essential book for anyone who wants to go beyond an awareness of racism to the next step of contributing to the formation of a truly just and equitable society.
9	A Good Time For The Truth: Race in Minnesota	Sun Yung Shin	https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781681340029	Essays that challenge, discomfort, disorient, galvanize, and inspire all of us to evolve now, for our shared future.
10	The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in The Age of Colorblindness	Michelle Alexander	https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781620971932	Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of the Marshall Project and the new $100 million Art for Justice Fund; it has been the winner of numerous prizes, including the prestigious NAACP Image Award; and it has spent nearly 250 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Most important of all, it has spawned a whole generation of criminal justice reform activists and organizations motivated by Michelle Alexander's unforgettable argument that "we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it." As the Birmingham News proclaimed, it is "undoubtedly the most important book published in this century about the U.S." Now, ten years after it was first published, The New Press is proud to issue a tenth-anniversary edition with a new preface by Michelle Alexander that discusses the impact the book has had and the state of the criminal justice reform movement today.
11	Stamped From the Beginning	Ibram X. Kendi	https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781568585987	Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America -- it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues, racist ideas have long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit. In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-Black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course of American history. He uses the life stories of five major American intellectuals to drive this history: Puritan minister Cotton Mather, Thomas Jefferson, abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, W.E.B. Du Bois, and legendary activist Angela Davis. As Kendi shows, racist ideas did not arise from ignorance or hatred. They were created to justify and rationalize deeply entrenched discriminatory policies and the nation's racial inequities. In shedding light on this history, Stamped from the Beginning offers us the tools we need to expose racist thinking. In the process, he gives us reason to hope.
12	Racism without Racists	Eduardo Bonilla-Silva	https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781442276239	Eduardo Bonilla-Silva's acclaimed Racism without Racists documents how, beneath our contemporary conversation about race, there lies a full-blown arsenal of arguments, phrases, and stories that Whites use to account for -- and ultimately justify -- racial inequalities. The fifth edition of the provocative book makes clear that color blind racism is as insidious now as ever. It features new material on our current racial climate, including the Black Lives Matter movement; a significantly revised chapter that examines the Obama presidency, the 2016 election, and Trump's presidency; and a new chapter addressing what readers can do to confront racism -- both personally and on a larger structural level.
13	Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty	Dorothy Roberts	https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780679758693	In 1997, this groundbreaking book made a powerful entrance into the national conversation on race. In a media landscape dominated by racially biased images of welfare queens and crack babies, Killing the Black Body exposed America's systemic abuse of Black women's bodies. From slave masters' economic stake in bonded women's fertility to government programs that coerced thousands of poor Black women into being sterilized as late as the 1970s, these abuses pointed to the degradation of Black motherhood - and the exclusion of Black women's reproductive needs in mainstream feminist and civil rights agendas. Now, some two decades later, Killing the Black Body has not only exerted profound influence, but also remains as crucial as ever - a rallying cry for education, awareness, and action on extending reproductive justice to all women.
14	Are Racists Crazy? How Prejudice, Racism, and Antisemitism Became Markers of Insanity	Sander L. Gilman, James M. Thomas	https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781479887309	The connection and science behind race, racism, and mental illness. In 2012, an interdisciplinary team of scientists at the University of Oxford reported that - based on their clinical experiment - the beta-blocker drug, Propranolol, could reduce implicit racial bias among its users. Shortly after the experiment, an article in Time Magazine cited the study, posing the question: Is racism becoming a mental illness? In Are Racists Crazy? Sander Gilman and James Thomas trace the idea of race and racism as psychopathological categories., from mid-19th century Europe to contemporary America, up to the aforementioned clinical experiment at the University of Oxford, and ask a slightly different question than that posed by Time: How did racism become a mental illness? Using historical, archival, and content analysis, the authors provide a rich account of how the 19th century 'Science of Man' - including anthropology, medicine, and biology - used race as a means of defining psychopathology and how assertions about race and madness became embedded within disciplines that deal with mental health and illness. An illuminating and riveting history of the discourse on racism, anti semitism, and psychopathology, Are Racist Crazy? connects past and present claims about race and racism, showing the dangerous implications of this specious line of thought for today.
15	Articles
16	Title	Author	Website
17	Raising white kids to be racially sensitive -- and proactive	Jennifer Harvey	https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/09/health/race-kids-sensitivity-harvey/index.html
18	How do I make sure I'm not raising the next Amy Cooper?	Jennifer Harvey	https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/28/health/parents-raising-white-children-racism-wellness/index.html
19	A mother's warning: If you have White teen sons, listen up...	Sara Sidner	https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/22/us/california-mother-warning-white-supremacists-soh/index.html
20	Here's Why White Allies Can Get So Overwhelmed and Confused About What To Do Next About Racism	Sandra Kim	https://www.sandrakim.com/heres-why-white-allies-dont-know-what-to-do-next
21	How White Women Use Themselves as Instruments of Terror	Charles M. Blow	https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/opinion/racism-white-women.html?fbclid=IwAR3W8Rw3EEYjm8FGn8yhpime7Gwfv8HASbBfIqwEJeY9ZjJCx20qvMghF6E
22	My Black Students Have Learned to Be Wary of People Who Look Like Me, And That's Not Racist	Jay Wamsted	https://educationpost.org/my-black-students-have-learned-to-be-wary-of-people-who-look-like-me-and-thats-not-racist/?fbclid=IwAR212Hfjwc3dDGKvGUWCHLYE-K2WlRKXGZhQlhae0ntgahNE5v3Tf3us7vk
23	What To Say When Your Kids Asks You About Baltimore	Fatherly	https://www.fatherly.com/parenting/what-to-say-when-your-kid-asks-you-about-baltimore/
24	Parents Guide to Talking with Kids About Protest (Ages 6 & Under)	Article Twenty Network	https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5694f5c6bfe87314267a8a1b/t/5a9fe809e4966b2fb99f7627/1520429067378/Talking+With+Kids+6+and+Under.pdf
25	How to Talk to Kids About Race: Experts Offer 8 Approaches to Broaching the Topic	Imani Razat	https://www.parentmap.com/article/how-to-talk-to-kids-about-race-racism
26	George Floyd. Ahmaud Arbery. Breonna Taylor. What do we tell our children?	Alia E. Dastagir	https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/05/31/how-talk-kids-racism-racial-violence-police-brutality/5288065002/
27	An Anti-Racist Reading List	Ibram X. Kendi	https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/29/books/review/antiracist-reading-list-ibram-x-kendi.html
28	An Essential Reading Guide To Fighting Racism	Arianna Rebolini	https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ariannarebolini/george-floyd-amy-cooper-antiracist-books-reading-resources?fbclid=IwAR1fg9lItYu9TRXqJ5nEhFMbQNMX1QwJi-uSq5Ca1PFWBzb8iAqgyAKB4Qo
29	Racism and Violence: How to Help Kids Handle the News	Child Mind Institute	https://childmind.org/article/racism-and-violence-how-to-help-kids-handle-the-news/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=%20Parents%20Guide%20to%20Problem%20Behavior&utm_campaign=Weekly-06-02-20
30	Talking To Children After Racial Incidents	Dr. Howard Stevenson	https://medium.com/lions-story/talking-to-children-after-racial-incidents-46843a062f27
31	Talking With Students About Racism	Beth McMurtrie	https://www.chronicle.com/newsletter/teaching/2020-06-18
32	Code of Ethics for White Anti-Racists	Tim Wise	https://medium.com/@timjwise/code-of-ethics-for-white-anti-racists-103914639dd7
33	White parents: Here's how to (and how not to) talk to your kids about racism	Sasha Emmons	https://www.todaysparent.com/family/parenting/how-to-talk-to-kids-about-racism/?fbclid=IwAR0bxp5v0kLSgI-pe0QIumuZjPmfuVKbmzE6O6nAwS3YxlZrzUKtuGkPnTM
34	White Fragility and Parenting	Time Wise	https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/white-fragility-and-parenting-a0e7e9c63743
35	Performative Allyship is Deadly (Here's What to Do Instead)	Holiday Phillips	https://forge.medium.com/performative-allyship-is-deadly-c900645d9f1f
36	White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack	Peggy McIntosh	https://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/mcintosh.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3DLhn7sF2qh0oz0FeXie_WlMu0Bv0RtP0cIj6SCHWyaHIWntdVjDhQV4c
37	Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color	Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw	https://www.racialequitytools.org/resourcefiles/mapping-margins.pdf
38	When black people are in pain, white people just join book clubs	Tre Johnson	https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/white-antiracist-allyship-book-clubs/2020/06/11/9edcc766-abf5-11ea-94d2-d7bc43b26bf9_story.html
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41	Systematic Racism Explained	NowThis Politics	https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2471083903114363
42	Hello, Privilege. It's Me, Chelsea	Alex Stapleton	https://www.netflix.com/title/80244973
43	White People	Jose Antonio Vargas	https://www.netflix.com/title/80244973
44	13th	Ava DuVernay	https://www.netflix.com/title/80091741
45	Racism and Violence: How To Held Kids Handle The News	Child Mind Institute	https://www.facebook.com/ChildMindInstitute/videos/673076123472542/?v=673076123472542
46	Just Mercy	Destin Daniel Cretton	https://www.justmercyfilm.com/?fbclid=IwAR28Un7toUAEKIgRijiyuHX6A0orK40QWSAfCffg31MwC7c2Av4S5XzV0Iw
47	Let's get to the root of racial injustice	Megan Ming Francis	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aCn72iXO9s&fbclid=IwAR3aHcvFGw1lsDfYuzVxp1B1rP4pY6gWExxqI_j67Tbhc5FDT2EgYPPyErc
48	The urgency of intersectionality	Kimberlé Crenshaw	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akOe5-UsQ2o
49	How to Talk to Kids About Race	The Atlantic	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNEKbVq_ou4&feature=emb_title
50	Online Resources
51	Title	Creator	Link
52	Resources for Talking About Race, Racism and Racialized Violence With Kids	Center for Racial Justice & Education	https://centerracialjustice.org/resources/resources-for-talking-about-race-racism-and-racialized-violence-with-kids/
53	Raising Race Conscious Children	Welcome to Raising Race Conscious Children, a resource to support adults who are trying to talk about race with young children. The goals of these conversations are to dismantle the color-blind framework and prepare young people to work toward racial justice.	http://www.raceconscious.org/
54	Anti-Racism Resources for White People		https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BRlF2_zhNe86SGgHa6-VlBO-QgirITwCTugSfKie5Fs/mobilebasic?fbclid=IwAR2xTMepc3tmC7R3bjos2qkU7gSK-OoVLi4abUOXNyk8-e_MqeEKaBGq_5k
55	Your Kids Aren't Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Round Up	Katrina Michie	https://www.prettygooddesign.org/blog/Blog%20Post%20Title%20One-5new4?fbclid=IwAR0YW9XrZJRUMrv5doAHke3tfzbOhO1D7FG7f4A3quZ5BCTvG-xUQ5PGHGM
56	75 Things White People Can Do For Racial Justice	Corriene Shutack	https://medium.com/equality-includes-you/what-white-people-can-do-for-racial-justice-f2d18b0e0234
57	Talking About Race	Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture	https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race
58	White Supremacy Triangle	@theconciouskid	https://www.instagram.com/p/CAq9_0uJary/
59	Anti Racist Allyship Starter Pack		https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bUJrgX8vspyy7YttiEC2vD0DawrpPYiZs94V0ov7qZQ/htmlview?usp=embed_facebook&pru=AAABcpmK7MM%2Ar_xEh5ZA116uc1BFklxyOw&fbclid=IwAR01x0A9SFXs27rmHQ4RYyq6d-Z7WZM4MXLFi6nY5X1VL2O3uiePm-5vuds#
60	Scaffolded Anti-Racist Resources	Dr. Shelby Ortega	https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/1PrAq4iBNb4nVIcTsLcNlW8zjaQXBLkWayL8EaPlh0bc/mobilebasic
61	Justice in June	Bryanna Wallace & Autumn Gupta	bit.ly/junejustice
62	28-Day Anti-Racism Challenge	Nashoba Brooks School	https://sites.google.com/nashobabrooks.org/28-dayanti-racismchallenge/wk-1-history?fbclid=IwAR2zmuMRwaU3GIigUnLSuckj5bJi8V2TA5LirdxKuUQRMcKO0zH9FJh8Hfo
63	14 Anti Racist Books for Kids & Teens Recommended by BIPOC Teachers & Librarians	Jackie Reeve/New York Times	https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/antiracist-books-for-kids-and-teens/
64	Inclusive Parents v. Anti-Racist Parents	@curious.parenting	https://www.facebook.com/BeyondWordsPsychologicalServices/photos/a.762168950532803/3005738789509130/?type=3&theater
65	29 Movies, Shows, & Documentaries to Watch to Educate Yourself on Racial Injustice	Ashley Selleke	https://theeverygirl.com/movies-shows-documentaries-racial-injustice/?fbclid=IwAR1HqI9AaiDPLiWY5BaJgsyUK8rwqDhly6NR5jeYpRepCcukdWhKDsONaTU
66	Talking to Kids About Racism and Justice: a list for parents, caregivers & educators	Resource List	https://docs.google.com/document/d/1s0lCA3FlulVhK6DFE2d3uYCipc6ApY8Gn2rMwm6fYqw/edit#heading=h.660636hiyby8
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