DEI Learning Resources
As a community, we commit to the understanding that this work is never complete, and it is important to continue learning. This is a non-exhaustive list of learning resources from members of our community:
Websites and Articles:
- Black History in Two Minutes
- Being Antiracist from The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture
- Why White Students Need Multicultural and Social Justice Education from Cult of Pedagogy
- Raising Race Conscious Children
- Talking Race With Young Children
- African American History: From Emancipation to the Present | Open Yale Courses (taught by Roycemore Alumni Parent Jonathan Holloway)
- Free Resources for Supporting Antiracist Education (BrainPOP)
- Facing History and Ourselves- Reflecting on George Floyd’s Death and Police Violence Against Black Americans
- American University’s Summer Institute on Education, Equity & Justice (June 2020) recordings and resources available
- Anti-Racism Resources to Support Asian American, Pacific Islander Community (NBC)
- There is No Rung on the Ladder that Protects You from Hate (New York Times)
- Why This Wave of Anti-Asian Racism Feels Different (The Atlantic)
- What It’s Like When Racism Comes for You (The Atlantic)
- The Long History of Racism Again Asian Americans in the U.S. (PBS Newshour)
- How Racism and Sexism Intertwine to Torment Asian American Women (New York Times)
Books:
- How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
- The Person You Mean to Be by Dolly Chugh
- White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Videos and Podcasts:
- Lifting Up Early Childhood: The Intersection of Race, Social Justice and Early Childhood from the Evanston Early Childhood Council
- Roycemore-sponsored FAN (Family Action Network) conversation with Robin DiAngelo, author of White Fragility and Dr. Marcus Campbell
- Additional FAN videos on race
- 13th on Netflix
- Code Switch by NPR
- Teaching While White
- Why White Students Need Multicultural and Social Justice Education by Cult of Pedagogy
- Brene Brown with Austin Channing Brown on I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
- Brene Brown with Ibram X. Kendi: How to Be an Antiracist