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Learning about racism and Anti-racist teaching

Past editions of the School of TLC's Anti-Racist Task Force Newsletter are available in 404 White Hall.

  • Critical race theory: An introduction (3rd edition) by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic (New York University Press, 2017)
  • How to be an antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi (One World, 2019)
  • Other people's children: Cultural conflict in the classroom by Lisa Delpit (New Press, 1995/2006)
  • So you want to talk about race by Ijeoma Oluo (Seal Press, 2018)
  • Stamped from the beginning: The definitive history of racist ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi (Nation Books, 2016)
  • Waking up white: and finding myself in the story of race by Debby Irving (Elephant Room Press, 2014)
    I read this book during my Ph.D. program and it seems as important as ever in helping us all understand stories of whiteness and how they impact worldviews. – Dr. Rhonda Hylton
  • We want to do more than survive: Abolitionist teaching and the pursuit of educational freedom by Bettina L. Love (Beacon Press, 2019)
  • White fragility: Why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism by Robin Diangelo (Beacon Press, 2018)
  • "Why are all the Black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?" and other conversations about race by Beverly Daniel Tatum (Basic Books, 1997-2017)
  • Culturally sustaining pedagogies: Teaching and learning for justice in a changing world by Django Paris and H. Samy Alim (Teachers College Press, 2017)
  • Everyday antiracism: Getting real about race in school by Mica Pollock (New Press, 2008)
  • For white folks who teach in the hood - and the rest of y'all too: Reality pedagogy and urban education by Christopher Emdin (Beacon Press, 2016)
  • Teaching for Black Lives (Rethinking Schools, 2018)
  • Teaching to transgress: Education as the practice of freedom by bell hooks (Routledge, 1994)
  • Teaching when the world is on fire: Authentic classroom advice, from climate justice to Black Lives Matter edited by Lisa Delpit (New Press, 2019)
  • We can't teach what we don't know: White teachers, multiracial schools (3rd edition) by Gary Howard (Teachers College Press, 2016)
  • This book is anti-racist: 20 lessons on how to wake up, take action, and do the work by Tiffany Jewell, illustrated by Aurelia Durand (Frances Lincoln Children's Books, 2020)

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