Resources

As part of Jimiri’s Youth Leadership Program, students engage in supervised discussions of race, racism, and Black history, led by trained high-school and college student facilitators. The following resources guide the development of our curriculum:

Online Training

Talking About Race: National Museum of African American History & Culture (Smithsonian).
Learning for Justice: Southern Poverty Law Center.
A Classroom of Difference: Anti-Bias Education: Anti-Defamation League.
Reconstruction.us.
Embrace Race.
Raising Race Conscious Children.
Education for Racial Equity (Kenneth Hardy)
Center for Racial Justice in Education.
Social Justice Toolbox.
Choose.
Teaching for Change.
Courageous Conversation.
Crossroads Antiracism Organization & Training — Chicago ROAR (Regional Organizing Against Racism)
The Conscious Kid.

Book Lists

Social Justice Books.
Corretta Scott King.
Oakland Public Library Book List (June 2020)
NYT Book List (June 2020)
EmbraceRace 20 Picture Books for 2020.
EmbraceRace Children’s Books.
Race Conscious Children’s Book List.
The Conscious Kid Book List (Black authors)
The Conscious Kid Book List (Antiracist themes)
“How to Talk to Kids About Race: Books and Resources That Can Help” (Brightly)
DEI Books for Ages 12-18.
“30 books to help you talk to your kids about racism” (Today’s Parent – June 1, 2020)
ADL Book List.
“Sticking Up For Each Other: The Power of Allies”
“10 Children’s Books About Racism And Activism To Help Parents Educate Their Kids”
The Brown Bookshelf.
- “KidLit Rally 4 Black Lives: Anti-Racist Resources for Children, Families, and Educators” (June 4, 2020)

Books

Alex Haley, Roots (1974)
Alex Haley and Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965)
Alice Walker, The Color Purple (1982)
Amanda Lewis and John Diamond, Despite the Best Intentions ()
Angela Davis, Women, Race, and Class (1983)
Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give (2017)
Assata Shakur
Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider (1984)
Audre Lorde, Your Silence Will Not Protect You ()
Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father (1995)
bell hooks, The Will to Change ()
Beverly Daniel Tatum, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria (2017).
Bryan Stephenson, Just Mercy (2014)
Bryan Stephenson, Just Mercy (adapted for young adults) (2018)
Carol Anderson, White Rage (2016)
Carol Anderson, One Person, No Vote (2019)
Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad (2016)
David Halberstam, The Children (1999)
Deepa Iyer, We Too Sing America ()
Dena Simmons, White Rules for Black People ()
Douglas Blackmon, Slavery by Another Name (2008)
Frederick Douglass, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass.
Ibi Zoboi, Black Enough (2019)
Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning (2016)
Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist (2019)
Ida B. Wells-Barnett,
Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race (2018)
Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of our Discontents (2020)
Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns (2011)
Jamala Rogers, Ferguson is America (2015)
James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time (1963)
Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped (2020)
James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom ()
Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming (2014)
Jennifer Harvey, Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America ()
Jesse Morgan-Owens, Girl in Black and White ()
Jesmyn Ward, The Fire This Time (2016)
Jewell Parker Rhodes, Ghost Boys (2018)
John Lewis, Andrew Aydin & Nate Powell, March (2016)
Jonathan Kozol, Savage Inequalities ()
Katie Kissinger, Anti-Bias Education in the Early Childhood Classroom ()
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation ()
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, How We Get Free ()
Kekla Magoon, How it Went Down (2014)
Kiese Laymon, Long Division (2013)
Langston Hughes, Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
Langston Hughes, “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain”
LeRoi Jones, The Dutchman (1971)
Margaret Hagerman, White Kids: Growing Up With Privilege in a Racially Divided America (2019)
Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)
Michael Tyler, The Skin You Live In ()
Michele Wallace,
Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2010)
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black (2018)
Nic Stone, Dear Martin (2017)
Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuf (1989)
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1952)
Rebecca Walker, Black Cool: One Thousand Streams of Blackness (2012)
Renee Watson and Ellen Hagan, Watch Us Rise (2019)
Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law ()
Richard Wright, Native Son (1940)
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me (2015)
Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power (2017)
Theodore Allen, The Invention of the White Race ()
Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye (1970)
Walter Dean Myers, Monster (1999)
Walter Johnson, The Broken Heart of America (2020)
W.E.B. DuBois, Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept (1940)
Zora Neale Hurston, Barracoon (2018)

News Articles

“Why We Need More Close Interracial Friendships (And Why We’re Bad At Them)” (Huffington Post – Sept. 4, 2020)
“6 Things White Kids Say About Race That Parents Should Call Out Now” (Huffington Post – July 16, 2020)
“How can we embrace race? Learn from this couple advocating for change” (CNN – July 1, 2020)
“What white parents get wrong about raising antiracist kids — and how to get it right” (Washington Post – June 25, 2020)
“How to Raise an Anti-Racist Kid” (NYT – June 24, 2020)
“Why Raising Kids To ‘Not See Color’ Doesn’t Help Fight Racism” (Huffington Post – June 18, 2020)
“How to talk to kids about racism, explained by a psychologist” (Vox – June 9, 2020)
“9 Things Non-Black Parents Can Do In The Wake Of Police Brutality” (Huffington Post – June 4, 2020)
“How do I make sure I’m not raising the next ‘Amy Cooper’?” (Embrace Race – June 3, 2020)
“How White Parents Can Talk To Their Kids About Race” (Huffington Post – June 3, 2020)
“CNN and ‘Sesame Street’ to host a town hall addressing racism” (June 2, 2020)
“How do we teach our children anti-racism? These resources will help” (Today.com – June 1, 2020)
“Talking to Kids About Race” (National Geographic – June 1, 2020)
“Resources for Talking About Race, Racism and Radicalized Violence with Kids” (Center for Racial Justice in Education)
“Talking to Kids About Racism and Justice: a list for parents, caregivers & educators” (Oakland Public Library)
“Top Five Ways to Promote Ally Behavior in Students” (Human Rights Campaign – Oct. 1, 2019)
“How to talk to kids about race and racism” (Today – June 1, 2019)
“Talking Race With Young Children” (NPR – April 26, 2019)
“Why White Parents Need to Do More Than Talk to Their Kids About Racism” (Time – Sept. 4, 2018)
“Here’s How To Raise Race-Conscious Children” (Buzzfeed – June 11, 2017)
“100 Race-Conscious Things You Can Say To Your Child to Advance Racial Justice” (June 2, 2016)
“Supporting kids of color amid racialized violence” (Medium – Oct. 25, 2016)
“10 Ways to Talk to Students About Sensitive Issues in the News” (NYT – March 23, 2012)
“Children Are Not Colorblind: How Young Children Learn Race” (Erin Winkler, Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 2009)
“First Encounters With Race and Racism: Teaching Ideas for Classroom Conversations” (Jinnie Spiegler, NY Times, Sept. 17, 2017)
“Three quarters of whites don’t have any non-white friends” (Washington Post – Aug. 25, 2014)

Film

42
American Son
Black Panther
Boyz ‘n the Hood
Do the Right Thing
Get on the Bus (1996)
Glory
Hidden Figures
I Am Not Your Negro (2017)
Just Mercy
Mississippi Burning
Roots
Selma
The Color Purple
The Hate U Give
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
When They See Us
X

Documentaries

13th (2016)
Eyes on the Prize
Selma: The Bridge to the Ballot (documentary)
The Children’s March (documentary)
The Color of Fear (1994) (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)
A Time For Justice
True Justice: Bryan Stephenson’s Fight for Equality

Podcasts

1619 Project (NYT)
Code Switch (NPR)
“Cross-Racial Friendships” (NPR – Jan. 27, 2020) (7 min.)
Nice White Parents (NYT/Serial – 2020)
“Three Miles” (This American Life – March 13, 2015)

Scholarly Articles

Erin Winkler, Children are Not Colorblind: How Young Children Learn About Race.
Erin Winkler, Learning Race, Learning Place
Peggy McIntosh, “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”
Melanie Killen, “How to Reduce Social Exclusion and Foster Equality and Equity in Childhood” (American Federation of Teachers – Fall 2019) — Developing Inclusive Youth.