The resources below are a collection of those shared by members of our community during our All College Forum and since. We are currently working on developing a LibGuide resource for as many of these resources as we can and will update soon.
LaChance Library:
Resources for Parents
- Books:
- Podcasts:
- Articles:
Speaking to Kids about Racism
- Here are some FAQ鈥檚 on raising race-conscious children to get you started.听 But please, explore the whole site.
- A resource on Talking About Race from the Smithsonian/Nat’l African-American Museum of History and Culture that includes a section for Parents –
- 听 This link will take you directly to 8 Tips for Talking to Your Child About Racial Injustice
- 听 This is the main page of the website “Embracerace” which is filled with many resources for parents, educators, and children.
- American Psychological Association Reading and RES Parent Tip Tool
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Articles
Books
- Race Matters by Cornel West
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs
- Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
- Deadly Injustice: Trayvon Martin, Race, and the Criminal Justice System (New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law) by Devon Johnson
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness听by Michelle Alexander
- White Rage by Carol Anderson
- 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,
- The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
- Policing the Black Man edited by Angela Davis
- Philosophy of Race: An Introduction by Naomi Zack
- Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America by Cornel West
- The Idea of Race by Robert Bernasconi and Tommy Lee Lott
- A Realist Metaphysics of Race: A Context-Sensitive, Short-Term Retentionist, Long-Term Revisionist Approach by Jeremy Pierce
- What Is Race? Four Philosophical Views by Joshua Glasgow, Sally Haslanger, Chike Jeffers, and Quayshawn Spencer
- Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance (Suny Series, Philosophy and Race)by Shannon Sullivan and Nancy Tuana
- Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing by Miranda Fricker
- The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race. by Jesmyn Ward
- Our Declaration by Dr. Danielle Allen
- Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
- A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life. By Dr. Allyson Hobbs
- Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family, by Mitchell Jackson
- An American Marriage by TAYARI JONES (fiction)
- White Trash, by Nancy Isenberg.
- Reconstruction, by Eric Foner
- Stony the Road, by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
- Those Terrible Carpetbaggers, by Richard Current
- This History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter
- The Half Has Never Been Told by Edward Baptists
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by
Websites, Blogs & Videos
- Southern Poverty Law Center www.splcenter.org
- How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
- by听Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools (18:26)
- White Like Me by Tim Wise
- Tim Wise 鈥�
- 13th (Ava DuVernay) 鈥� Netflix
- American Son (Kenny Leon) 鈥� Netflix
- Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 鈥� Available to rent
- Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu) 鈥� Available to rent
- Dear White People (Justin Simien) 鈥� Netflix
- Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) 鈥� Available to rent
- I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin doc) 鈥� Available to rent or on Kanopy
- If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) 鈥� Hulu
- Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton) 鈥� Available to rent
- King In The Wilderness 听鈥� HBO
- See You Yesterday (Stefon Bristol) 鈥� Netflix
- Selma (Ava DuVernay) 鈥� Available to rent
- The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution 鈥� Available to rent
- The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.) 鈥� Hulu with Cinemax
- When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) 鈥� Netflix
- PBS documentary directed by Joel Katz
- Understanding Race – www.understandingrace.org