Anti-Racism Resources

 Cooke, Nicole A. “Turning Antiracist Knowledge and Education into Action.” Publishers Weekly, 7 Sep 2020. “…how allies for social and racial justice are choosing to 'stand in the gap.'”  
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Hall, Tracie D. “A Hurting Thing: Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline.” American Libraries Magazine, 3 May 2021. 
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Jordan-Makely, Chelsea and Dr. Jeanie Austin. “Outside and In: Services for People Impacted By Incarceration.” School Library Journal, 8 Sep 2021. “Yet the needs of people in jails, prisons, and other detention centers often go overlooked, in part because of lack of funding but also because of what Tracie D. Hall, executive director of the American Library Association (ALA), has described as “the egregious invisibility of the detained.” This othering mindset has catastrophic impacts on access to information, books, and other services that libraries of all types could provide for the millions of people who are incarcerated and detained.” This also contributes to the schools-to-prison pipeline not directly discussed here but important. 

Manji, Irshad. Moral Courage website. “Moral courage means doing the right thing in the face of your fears.” “The No-Shaming Approach to Anti-Racism, Justice-Seeking, and     Power-Sharing.” Equipping Educators to teach Moral Courage.

Perkins, Drew. “Enduring And Sustainable Anti-Racism.” Teach thought Podcast #213. “Perkins talks with Irshad Manji, Director for Courage, Curiosity, and Character at Let Grow, about the ways in which we can implement enduring anti-racist measures.”

Tatum, Beverly Daniel. Is My Skin Brown Because I Drank Chocolate Milk? Video (13:25 min). TedX Stanford, 12 May 2017. When her 3-year-old son told her that a classmate told him that his skin was brown because he drank chocolate milk, Dr. Tatum, former president of Spelman College and a visiting scholar at Stanford’s Haas Center for Public Service, was surprised. As a clinical psychologist, she knew that preschool children often have questions about racial difference, but she had not anticipated such a question. But through conversations with her preschool son, followed by talking to teachers, colleagues and parents, she came to realize it is the things we don’t say and the matters we don’t discuss with our children that find their way into racist dialogue and thinking.’

DIVERSIFYING LITTLE FREE LIBRARIES
Oliver, David. “Little Free Library Fights Racism by Diversifying Its Book-Sharing Boxes: 'Everyone Should See Themselves.'” USA Today, 14 Oct 2020. “Read in Color pledge. Little Free Library stewards and patrons that sign a pledge can access resources like bookmarks and a Read in Color sign for their respective library.”  

Oliver, David. “'Decolonize your bookshelf': Little libraries, book boxes promote conversation about race in America.” USA Today, 28 Aug 2020.