Inclusivity Resource List
For Children
Books
Videos
PBS Kids Talk about Race and Racism
For Caregivers and Educators
Books
- Anti-Biased Education for Young Children and Ourselves: Louise Derman-Sparks and Julie Edwards
- Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do: Jennifer L. Eberhardt
- How to Be an Antiracist: Ibram X Kendi
- My Grandmother's Hands: Resmaa Menakem
- Other People’s Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom: Lisa Delpit
- Nice Racism: Dr. Robin DiAngelo
- Raising Antiracist Children: A Practical Parenting Guide: Britt Hawthorne & Natasha Yglesias
- Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: Jason Reynolds & Ibram X Kendi
- Supporting Gender Diverisity in Early Childhood Classrooms: A Practical Guide by Encian Pastel, Katie Steele, Julie Nicholson, Cyndi Maurer, Julie Hennock, Jonathan Julian, Tess Unger and Nathanael Flynn
- Teaching and Learning in a Diverse World: Multicultural Education for Young Children: Matt Lamothe
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness: Michelle Alexander
- The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures: Anne Fediman
- Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race: Debby Irvin
- What If All the Kids Are White? Anti-Bias Multicultural Educaion with Young Children and Families: Louise Derman-Sparks
- White Fragility, Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism: Dr. Robin DiAngelo
- We Be Lovin' Black Children: Learning to Be Literate About the African Diaspora: Gloria Swindler Boutte, Joyce Elaine King, et al.
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race: Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum
Indigenous books that we are currently using as resources:
- Baskets of the Dawnland People: Project Indian Pride
- If You Lived During the Plimouth Thanksgiving: Chris Newell and Winona Nelson
- Many Hands: A Penobscot Indian Story: Angeli Perrow & Heather Austin
- The Micmac: How Their Ancestors Lived Five Hundred Years Age: Ruth Holmes Whitehead and Harold McGee
- Six Micmas Stories: Ruth Holmes Whitehead
- Swift Fox All Along: Rebecca Lea Thomas & Maya McKibbin
- Racoon's Last Race: Joseph & James Bruchac
- Why Indigenous Literatures Matter: Daniel Heath Justice
Websites and Blogs
ADL-Anti-Bias Education: Early Childhood FAQs
Anti-Racism Resources for White People
Britt Hawthrone: For Educators: Anti-Bias Teaching
Nicole the Librarian: Anti-Racism Resources for All Ages
Articles
An Exploratory Cross-Cultural Study: Fathers’ Early Involvement With Infants
Black Homeowners Face Discrimination in Appraisals
Dear White Teachers: You Can’t Love Your Black Students If You Don’t Know Them
Grandmothers’ Developmental Expectations for Early Childhood in Botswana
How to Raise Kids Who Won’t Be Racist“I’m Gonna Cook My Baby in a Pot”: Young Black Girls’ Racial Preferences and Play Behavior
Mirrows, Windows, and Sliding Glass Doors: Rudine Sims Bishop Essay on Multicultural Literature
My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant
These Books Can Help You Racism and Protest to Your Children: The New York Times
The Goals of Anti-bias Education: Clearing Up Some Key Misconceptions
They’re Not Too Young to Talk About Race
What I Learned When I Recreated the Famous ‘Doll Test’ That Looked At How Black Kids See Race
Who Gets to be Afraid in America?
Podcasts
Be Antiracist with Ibram X. Kendi
Cape Up with Jonathan Capehart: Nice Racism with Robin Diangelo
White Parents (New York Times)
Talking About Race with Young Children (NPR)
This American Life Story: "Babies Buying Babies"New Books Network: Mothers of Massive Resistance
Videos
Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum on Talking to Kids about Race and Racism
Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum: TedTalk: Is My Skin Brown Because I Drank Chocolate Milk?
Dr. Robin DiAngelo Discusses ‘White Fragility’
Landmark Cases: Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka (Doll Test)
Ibram X. Kendi: How to raise kids to be anti-racist and talk to them about racism
Melanie Funchess: Implicit Bias - how it effects us and how we push through
Peggy McIntosh: Ted Talk: How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion