Ally Resource(s) – Faculty/Educator
Resources to assist faculty in healing, listening and learning of students
These general tools and information links are to permit for faculty members to navigate discussions and to take care of yourself and students in (and outside of) the classroom after an experience with racial trauma.
Academic Research
Institutions of Higher Education and Academics
- Vajra Watson, “Open Question: What is a world without whiteness?” Medium.com (June 1, 2020)
- Robin DiAngelo reads from her book, White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, explains the phenomenon, and discusses how white people can develop their capacity to engage more constructively across race, YouTube (July 3, 2018)
- #BlackInTheIvory – See also, Francie Diep, “‘I Was Fed Up’: How #BlackInTheIvory Got Started, and What Its Founders Want to See Next,” Chronicle of Higher Education, June 9, 2020.
- UC Davis Library, Resources for Understanding: Books on the Social Movement to End Police Violence Against African Americans
- UC Davis Center for Educational Effectiveness, Implicit Bias Series
- University of Michigan, Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: “I Am So Tired.” (May 29, 2020).
- Taunya Lovell Banks, Professor of Law, “After Minneapolis.” University of Maryland Carey School of Law (June 1, 2020).
- Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Dean and Professor of Law, “The Fire this Time,” Boston University School of Law (June 1, 2020).
Community Based Organizations
- American Psychological Association, “We Are Living in a Racism Pandemic” (May 29, 2020)
- Teaching Tolerance, Affirming Black Lives Without Inducing Trauma (May 8, 2020)
- InCultureParent, “Resources for White Parents to Learn about Racism,” “12 Children’s Books about Racism and Injustice”
- Boy Town: Saving Children, Healing Families – Tips for Parents on How to Teach Cultural Sensitivity
- How to Talk to Young Children About Racism– PBS
Activist and Journalists
Resources for Preventing and Addressing Police Abuse
Course/Curriculum Strategies/Ideas
Anti-Racism and Anti-Oppression: Teaching Resources
Race Talk: Engaging Young People in Conversations about Race and Racism
Social Identities and Systems of Oppression
Speak Up: Opening a Dialogue with Youth about Racism
Faculty/Educator Resources
Performing Anti-Racist Pedagogy