Readings on Anti-Racism: A Resource

Developing an Anti-Racist Pedagogy

• Ahmed, S. Speaking about racism. In S. Ahmed On being included: Racism and diversity in institutional life. 141-71. Duke U.P., 2012.
• Ash, A. Hill, R., Risdon, S.N., & Jun, A. Anti-racism in higher education: A model for change. Race and Pedagogy Journal, 4(3), 1–35. 2020.
• Blakeney, A.M. Antiracist pedagogy: Definition, theory, purpose, and professional development. Journal of Curriculum & Pedagogy 2(1), 119–32. 2011.
• Bolgatz, J. Talking Race in the Classroom. New York: Teachers College Press, 2005.
• DeChavez, Y. (October 8). It’s time to decolonize that syllabus. The Los Angeles TimesBooks. 2018
• Desai, M. A. (May 31). You Too Can—and Must—Lead Class Discussions on Social Justice Issues, Lessons Learned from Writing and Teaching a Case About the Tulsa Massacre. 2021.
• Gupta, S. (May 21). Your Asian and AAPI Students Want to Hear from You. Actions Educators Can Take to Support Students—and Amplify Their Voices. 2021.
• Haynes, C. Dismantling the White supremacy embedded in our classrooms: White faculty in pursuit of more equitable educational outcomes. International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 29(1), 87–107. 2017.
• Hooks, B. Teaching community: A pedagogy of hope (Vol. 36). Psychology Press. 2003.
• Hooks, B. Teaching to transgress. Routledge. 2014.
• Jett, C.C. Culturally responsive collegiate mathematics education: Implications for African-American students. Interdisciplinary Journal of Teaching and Learning, 3, 102–116. 2013.
• Kernahan, C. Teaching about race and racism in the college classroom: Notes from a white professor. West Virginia U.P. 2019.
• Kishimoto, K. Anti-racist pedagogy: From faculty’s self-reflection to organizing within and beyond the classroom. Race Ethnicity and Education, 21(4), 540–554. 2018.
• Kleinrock, E. (June 30). Anti-racist work in schools: Are you in it for the long haul? Teaching Tolerance. 2020.
• Laboiron, M. (August 10). Decolonizing your syllabus? You might have missed some steps. 2019.
• Love, B. L. We want to do more than survive: Abolitionist teaching and the pursuit of educational freedom. Beacon Press. 2019.
• McKamey, P. (June 17). What anti-racist teachers do differently. The Atlantic 2020.
• McMurtrie, B. (July 2). Interrogating your discipline, and other ways into anti-racist teaching. The Chronicle of Higher Education. 2020.
• Pollock, M. Colormute: Race Talk Dilemmas in an American School. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2004.
• Pollock, M. (Ed.) Everyday Antiracism: Getting Real About Race in School. New. York: The New Press. 2008.
• Smith, L., Kashubeck-West, S., Payton, G., & Adams, E. White professors teaching about racism: Challenges and rewards. The Counseling Psychologist, 45(5), 651–68. 2017.
• Steele, Claude M. Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do. New York: W. W Norton & Company, 2010.
• Taylor, S.D., Veri, M.J., Eliason, M., Hermoso, J.C.R., Bolter, N.D., & Van Olphen, J.E. The social justice syllabus design tool: A first step in doing social justice pedagogy. Journal Committed to Social Change on Race and Ethnicity (JCSCORE), 5(2), 133–66. 2019.
• Warren-Grace, A. (August). Show don’t tell: Decolonize your classroom, syllabus, rules, and practices. Liberated Genius Blog. 2019.
• Zheng, Lily, (May 27). To Dismantle Anti-Asian Racism, We Must Understand Its Roots, In the wake of the Atlanta shootings, corporate America struggled to meet the moment. Harvard Business Review. 2021.

Podcasts

• Biewen, John. Seeing White. Scene On Radio.
• Carroll, Rebecca. Come Through with Rebecca Carroll. WNYC Studios.
• Hannah-Jones, Nikole. 1619. The New York Times.
• Moyo, Thoko. A historic crossroads for systemic racism and policing in America. PolicyCast. Featuring Khalil Muhammad and Erica Chenoweth.
• Raghuveera, Nikhil and Erica Licht. Untying Knots. SoundCloud.

TED Talks

• Camara Jones, “Allegories on Race and Racism.”
• Kimberlé Crenshaw, “The Urgency of Intersectionality.”

Managing Stress

• Managing Strong Emotional Reactions to Trauma, National Association of School Psychologists.
• Radical Self Care in the Face of Mounting Racial Stress American Psychological Association.

Books

• Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem. (2020). Don’t Understand the Protests? What You’re Seeing is People Pushed to the Edge. Los Angeles Times.
• Bell, Lee Ann, “Expanding Definitions of ‘Good Teaching’,” Everyday Anti-Racism: Getting Real about Race in School edited by Mica Pollock, New York, 2008.
• DiAngelo, Robin. (2017). Why It’s So Hard to Talk to White People About Racism. Huffington Post.
• DiAngelo, Robin. White Fragility, Boston, 2018.
• Fleming, Crystal. How to Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide. New York: Penguin Random House, 2019.
• Kendi, Ibram X. How to Be an Antiracist. New York: One World, 2019.
• Leonardo, Zeus and Alicia Broderick. Smartness as Property: A Critical Exploration of Intersections Between Whiteness and Disability Studies, 2011.
• McIntosh, Peggy. White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack. Antiracist Alliance, 1990.
• Serwer, Adam. (2020). The Coronavirus Was an Emergency Until Trump Found Out Who Was Dying. The Atlantic.
• Singleton, Glenn. Courageous Conversations about Race: A Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools. Los Angeles: Corwin, 2015.
• Tatum, B. D. “Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” and Other Conversations About Race. New York: Harper/Collins. 1997.
• Tatum, B.D. “Can We Talk About Race?” and Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation. New York: Beacon Press, 2007.
• West, Cornel. Race Matters. Boston: Beacon Press, 1993.
• Williams, Chad, Kidada E. Williams, and Keisha N. Blain. (Eds.) Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2016.
• Wing Sue, Derald. Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2015.

Microaggressions

• Cora Learning. (2020, April 28). Responding to racial bias and microaggressions in the online environment, YouTube video.
• Daniel G. Solórzano (Author), Lindsay Pérez Huber (Author) Racial Microaggressions Using Critical Race Theory to Respond to Everyday Racism (Multicultural Education Series, 2020.
• Torino, Gina C. David P. Rivera, Christina M. Capodilupo, Kevin L. Nadal, Derald Wing Sue, Everything You Wanted to Know About Microaggressions but Didn’t Get a Chance to Ask, 2018.
• Wing Sue, Derald , Christina M. Capodilupo, Gina C. Torino, Jennifer M. Bucceri, Aisha M. B. Holder, Kevin L. Nadal, and Marta Esquilin, Racial Microaggressions in Everyday Life, American Psychologist, 2007.

Art Resources

• Kraehe, A., R. Gaztambide-Fernandez, B.S. Carpenter. The Palgrave Handbook of Race and the Arts in Education, 2018.
• Levine, G. Art and Tradition in a Time of Uprisings, 2020.
• Olson, K, Social Practice Art in Turbulent Times, 2019.
• Pinder, K. N. Racing-Art History: Critical Readings in Race and Art History. New York, 2002.