Antiracist Resources
Greenwich Academy is committed to building an antiracist campus and community. Here are some links that we’ve found helpful.
Updated June 11, 2020
Talking to Your Children
- Your Kids Aren’t Too Young To Talk About Race: Resource Roundup
- How to Talk to Your Children about Protests and Racism
- 100 Race-Conscious Things To Say to Your Child To Advance Racial Justice - This article gives specific language and words to use around many different aspects of race and identity.
- Talking Race with Young Children
- Anti-Racism for Kids - This article includes many book recommendations as a jumping off point for conversations around race.
- Raising Race-Conscious Children
- Talking with Children About Racism, Police Brutality, and Protests
- 31 Children’s Books To Support Conversations on Race, Racism, and Resistance
- George Floyd, Ahmaud Arberry, Breonna Taylor: What Do We Tell our Children - An interview with Beverly Daniel Tatum
- Here are a Few Ideas on How to talk to kids about race, police, and protests
- CNN/Sesame Street Town Hall on Racism
Educate Yourself
For white anti-racist allies:
Books:
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- Can We Talk About Race? by Beverly Tatum
- How To Be an Antiracist by Ibram X Kendi
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
- Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad (interactive workbook!)
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Podcasts:
- Bias Isn’t Just a Police Problem, It’s a Preschool Problem
- “Seeing White” - Scene on Radio - This podcast walks us through the history/construction of race in America.
- 1619 - New York Times - An audio series on how slavery has transformed America, connecting past and present through the oldest form of storytelling.