Anti-Racism Resources
This list represents critical anti-racist readings from educators of color for anti-racist teaching and learning.*
Articles
- Identity-Affirming Schools Need Race-Conscious Educators by Erica Buchanan-Rivera
- The Future of Healing: Shifting From Trauma Informed Care to Healing Centered Engagement by Shawn Ginwright
- When SEL is Used as Another Form of Policing by Cierra Kahler-Jones
- Transformative Social and Emotional Learning (SEL): Toward SEL in Service of Educational Equity and Excellence by Robert Jagers, Deborah Rivas-Drake, and Brittney Williams
- 74 Interview: Researcher Gloria Ladson-Billings on Culturally Relevant Teaching, the Role of Teachers in Trump’s America & Lessons From Her Two Decades in Education Research
- How to Be an Antiracist Educator by Dena Simmons
- Why COVID-19 Is Our Equity Check by Dena Simmons
- Decolonizing our Minds and Actions by Waziyatawin and Michael Yellow Bird
- We’re In a Moment of Collective Trauma. But There are Glimmers of Hope by john a. powell
Books
- Onward: Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators by Elena Aguilar
- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
- Pedagogy of the Oppressedby Paulo Freire
- “Multiplication Is for White People”: Raising Expectations for Other People’s Children by Lisa Delpit
- Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students by Zaretta Hammond
- Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks
- Mindful of Race by Ruth King
- The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children by Gloria Ladson-Billings
- We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Bettina Love
- Stamped from the Beginningby Ibram X. Kendi
- How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- The Inner Work of Racial Justice by Rhonda V. Magee
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
- Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
- Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria by Beverley Daniel Tatum
- Indigenous Community: Rekindling the Teachings of the Seventh Fire by Gregory Cajete
Additional Anti-Racism Readings
- White Fragility by Robin Diangelo
- Avoiding Racial Equity Detours by Paul Gorski
- Helping Students Discuss Race Openly by Julie Landsman
- How Can We Build Anti-Racist White Educators? by Charlie McGeehan
- White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh
Organizations Supporting Anti-Racist Teaching
*Originally compiled by Greater Good at UC Berkely.
