Family Resources
Discussing Race and Racism
Here are some resources to use when talking with your child(ren) about race and racism.
National Geographic Talking to Kids About Race
Race Forward 10 Ways to Start a Conversation About Race
Zero to Three
Racism and Violence: Using Your Power as a Parent to Support Children Aged Two to Five
Anti-Defamation League
Table Talk: Family Conversations about Current Events
Smithsonian: National Museum of African American History and Culture
History and Culture Releases "Talking About Race" Web Portal
Teaching Tolerance
Additional Resources:
Books for parents teaching young children:
Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners: books for children and young adults
Books to for teenagers and adults to read:
Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold
Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD
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