Personal Learning Resources

Getting started

Articles and books for personal learning and reflection about the impact of race. Useful for getting started as a community of practice with a team.

• Black Lives Matter in Santa Cruz: What Matters

• Talking About Race (National Museum of African American History & Culture) *

• Understanding Race and Privilege (National Association of School Psychologists) *

• ”White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Peggy McIntosh *

• “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020) *

• "How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion" | Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools *

Personal Learning Resource

Useful resources for deepening understanding of the impact of race.

• How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi

• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

• 158 Resources for Understanding Racism in America from the Smithsonian. *

• Black Health Matters "A community initiative that promotes equity through a network of community trust, advocacy, and collaboration to improve the quality of life for Black residents in Santa Cruz County" *

• Black American Experiences in Nature edited by Camille Dungy

• African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz

• White Fragility by Robin DiAngel

• Stamped from the Beginning - Ibram X Kendi

• I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness - Austin Channing Brown

• Me and White Supremacy - Layla F Saad

• Nice White Parents Podcast *

• The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter

• Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities by Craig Steven Wilder

• Privilege, Power, and Difference by Allan G. Johnson

• Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire

• The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children by Gloria Ladson-Billings

• Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum

• 1619 NYT Podcast *

• Project Implicit Project Implicit is a non-profit organization and international collaboration between researchers who are interested in implicit social cognition - thoughts and feelings outside of conscious awareness and control. Free quizzes. *

Resources for Families & Students

• Ibram X. Kendi, Allison Briscoe-Smith at the Commonwealth Club Black Lives: How to Build a Just Future for Kids

• Dr Victor Rios’ TED Talk Help for Kids that Education System Ignores

• Talking to Children about Racial Bias