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:
- Anti-Racist Resources and Reads from the Evanston Public Library
- Lifting Up Early Childhood: The Intersection of Race, Social Justice and Early Childhood from the Evanston Early Childhood Council
- Black History in Two Minutes
- How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
- Being Antiracist from The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture
- Roycemore sponsored FAN conversation with Robin DiAngelo, author of White Fragility and Dr. Marcus Campbell (held on June 12, 2020)
- Additional FAN videos on race
- Why White Students Need Multicultural and Social Justice Education from Cult of Pedagogy
- 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
- How to talk to kids about race and racism by Cultures of Dignity
- This resource from Common Sense Media offers some suggestions for how white parents can use media to raise anti-racist kids
- Raising Race Conscious Children
- Talking Race With Young Children
- Mindful Schools: Healing Our Hearts
- African American History: From Emancipation to the Present | Open Yale Courses (taught by Jonathan Holloway)
- Race relations and the making of the United States: A conversation with Rutgers University President Dr. Jonathan Holloway
- Free Resources for Supporting Antiracist Education (BrainPOP)
- 13th on Netflix
- Leading Equity
- Code Switch
- Teaching While White
- This episode from 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
- 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
- How to Talk to Kids About Difficult Subjects (Common Sense Media)
- 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)
Do you have a suggestion to add to the list? Let us know at info@roycemoreschool.org.