HOW TO TALK TO KIDS ABOUT RACE & RACISM

A Guide For Parents, Teachers, and  Writers

RESOURCES FOR CAREGIVERS  AND INSPIRATION FOR WRITERS

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• https://www.embracerace.org/resources/26-childrens-books-to-support-conversations-on-race-racism-resistance

• https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race

• American Psychological Association: Talking to Kids about Discrimination

• Center for Racial Justice in Education's Resources for Talking about Race, Racism, and Racialized Violence with Kids

• The National Child Traumatic Stress Network section on Community Violence 

• Teaching Tolerance's Beyond the Golden Rule: A Parent's Guide List of positive identity development focused books and Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners

• Common Sense Media's How White Parents can use Media to Raise Anti-Racist Kids

• Jennifer Harvey's CNN article, "How do I make sure I'm not raising the next Amy Cooper?"

• EmbraceRace's webinars Managing Racial Stress: Guidance for Parents and Unlocking the Potential of Parents to Work for Equity

• https://bookriot.com/listen/transgender-voices-of-color/

• https://bookriot.com/listen/dismantling-white-privilege/

• https://bookriot.com/listen/loving-our-bodies/

• https://www.prettygooddesign.org/blog/Blog%20Post%20Title%20One-5new4?fbclid=IwAR2hEcvItMwwVyoooaDS3_LXMVKqUc1KWdFYeuNrdGAemLplTnGTP8mK1kk

• Children’s book resources to explain Racism and Protest to your kids NYTimes: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/parenting/kids-books-racism-protest.html?fbclid=IwAR06lQ1ml_LPbKru2wn-mR4LnPDBOab6IFf0g8kyS6AcuEPce01krAqEpbM​​

INTERRUPT YOUR OWN BIASES

Organizations:

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• The Conscious City Guide has shared free Resources for Racial Healing & Action.

• Campaign Zero, a national organization dedicated to ending police violence in America.

• The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, a coalition of more than 200 national organizations to promote and protect civil and human rights in the United States.

• Building Movement Project, Social Change trainings, tools and ideas for nonprofits.

• Obama Foundation, resources to get informed, take action, engage or stand together to end racism in America.

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Education and Allyship Resources:

• 8 Everyday Ways to Fight Racism

• A Guide to Being an Ally

• 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice

• 6 Things White People Can Do To Reach Friends and Family Members to End Racism

• 20+ Allyship Actions for Asians to Show Up for the Black Community Right Now

• Talking about Race with Kids

• Beyond the Hashtag: How to take Anti-Racist Action in your Life

• Overt v.s. Covert White Supremacy

Literature

• An AntiRacist Reading List

• 24 books for White People to Read beyond Black History Month

• The New Jim Crow- Michelle Alexander

• Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates

• Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America - Michael Eric Dyson

• Freedom A Constant Struggle - Angela Davis

• White Fragility - Robin Diangelo

• Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul - Eddie S. Glaude Jr.

• How to Be an Antiracist - Ibram X. Kendi

• Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America - Ibram X. Kendi

• So You Want to Talk about Race - Ijeoma Oluo

• The Unexamined Whiteness of Teaching: How White Teachers Maintain and Enact Dominant Racial Ideologies - Bree Picower

• Everyday Antiracism: Getting Real About Race in School - Mica Pollock

• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria- Beverly Daniel Tatum

• Talking about Race, Learning about Racism: The Application of Racial Identity Development Theory in the Classroom- Beverly Daniel Tatum

• White Racial Identity and Anti-Racist Education: A Catalyst for Change - Sandra M. Lawrence and Beverly Daniel Tatum

ACTION BASED RESOURCES: 

Donate

• The Official George Floyd Memorial Fund

• The National Police Accountability Project, a council of lawyers dedicated to fighting police brutality.

• Minnesota ACLU: Donating to ACLU supports legal programing, organizing, and special projects in relation to helping protect civil liberties and human rights in Minnesota. 

• Reclaim the Block, a grassroots organization advocating to redirect law enforcement funding towards community investment in affordable housing, health and education.

• Color of Change, a national online racial justice organization that designs campaigns powerful enough to end practices that unfairly hold Black people back, and champion solutions that move us all forward. 

• Justice for Amaud Arbery Fundraiser

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Petitions

• Justice for Big Floyd, a grassroots law project organizing a petition for the arrest of the four police officers involved in George Floyd’s murder.

• Petition Stand with Breonna 

• Email your Senators as a call to action to ending police brutality.

• Text “ FLOYD” to 55156 or “JUSTICE” to 668366- put pressure on District Attorney Mike Freeman to charge and arrest all the officers involved immediately.

• Please consider supporting black owned bookstores.

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