I have a huge A Collection Of Useful Posts, Articles & Videos On Race & Racism – Help Me Find More list, which also includes many “sub” Best lists. It’s also pretty unwieldy for readers/users.
Many of the resources on that list are there using Storify, a tool that will be going off-line soon. So, I’m using that change as an opportunity to cull and re-organized those links over the next few months into a series of “New & Revised” Best lists.
In some cases, the lists are artificial divisions, and many of the resources in one can be applied to the other. But I just thought dividing them in this way would make them more useful to readers and to me.
Here are the ones I’ve revised and updated so far:
New & Revised: A Collection Of Advice On Talking To Students About Race & Racism
New & Revised: The Best Resources For Understanding Why We Need More Teachers Of Color
The Best Resources For Teaching About Confederate Monuments
The Best Resources For Examining “Privilege”
The Best Resources For Teaching & Learning About The National Anthem Protests
The Best Explanations For Why You Shouldn’t Say “All Lives Matter”
A Beginning List Of The Best Resources For Fighting Islamophobia In Schools
The Best Videos Explaining “Intersectionality”
The Best Resources For Learning About The “Little Rock 9”
The Best Resources On The Smithsonian’s African-American Museum
The Best Teaching & Learning Resources About Harriet Tubman
The Best Sites For Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
The Best Resources On Japanese Internment In World War II
The Best Resources For Hispanic Heritage Month
The Best Sites For International Day Of The World’s Indigenous People
The Best Sites For Learning About Cesar Chavez
Best Resources For Teaching About Rosa Parks & 60th Anniversary Of The Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Best Websites For Learning About Martin Luther King
The Best Resources To Remember Dr. Martin Luther King’s Death (& Life)
The Best Sites For Learning About The Martin Luther King Memorial
The Best Sites To Teach About African-American History
The Best Sites To Learn About The Greensboro Sit-Ins (It’s The Fiftieth Anniversary)
The Best Places To Learn About President Obama’s Life
The Best Resources For Learning About The “Freedom Riders”
The Best Resources About The March On Washington
The Best Commentaries On The 60th Anniversary Of Brown vs. Board Of Education
The Best Resources For Teaching About Selma
The Best Resources For Learning About School Desegregation (& Segregation) – Help Me Find More
The Best Posts & Articles On The Textbook That Calls Slaves “Workers”
The Best Resources On Why Improving Education Is Not THE Answer To Poverty & Inequality
The Best Social Media-Created “Syllabuses” About Current Events
The Best Resources For Learning What Caused The Civil War
The Best Resources On “The Danger Of A Single Story”
The Best Resources For Learning About The Code Talkers
The Best Resources For Learning About Restorative Practices – Help Me Find More
The Best Resources For Learning About Juneteenth
The Best Resources For Lessons On Trayvon Martin
Resources For Learning About #Charlottesville
The Best Resources For Learning & Teaching About Malcolm X
The Best Resources For Teaching About The Black Panther Movie:
The Raw Videos That Have Sparked Outrage Over Police Treatment of Blacks is from The NY Times.
I’m still working on some other related “Best” lists.
In addition to the resources in those recently revised lists, here are a few more of the materials from the huge list I mentioned at the beginning of this post. These are ones that I have used in lessons over the years:
The Value of Diversity is the topic of one of my NY Times interactives.
I’ve used these two videos in class:
Here are some resources useful for lessons on reparations:
You may have already heard about, or read, Ta-Nehisi Coates’ article in The Atlantic titled “The Case for Reparations.”
It’s an amazing article, and Bill Moyers just aired an interview with him about it, which I’ve embedded below:
You might also find The New Republic’s piece, Get Ready for a National Debate About Slavery Reparations, useful.
Also, this: How To Tell Who Hasn’t Read The New ‘Atlantic’ Cover Story, from NPR.
Slavery reparations are workable and affordable is from Vox.
Six times victims have received reparations — including four in the US is from Vox.
Why white folks shouldn’t fear reparations is from The Week.
Are Reparations Due to African-Americans? is from The New York Times.
Here are some materials on team mascots/names and racism:
A Super-Simple, Step-by-Step Guide to Determine if Your Team Mascot Is Offensive is from The New York Times.
The Future of Native American Imagery in Sports is from The Atlantic.
What’s in a Mascot? is from Teaching Tolerance.
Cleveland Indians Remove Offensive Logo From Uniforms
Looking Beyond Chief Wahoo is from The Atlantic.
People of color shouldn’t have to confront the harm & ridicule levied by a sports team whose name refers to the color of their skin. @NFL & its Washington franchise must eradicate offensive Native-themed mascots from the sports landscape. #ChangeTheMascot https://t.co/EFAY7ZPARJ
— Derrick Johnson (@DerrickNAACP) August 24, 2018
The Cleveland Indians’ season is over, and so is Chief Wahoo’s 71-year run is from The Washington Post.
Maine Just Banned Native American Mascots. It’s a Movement That’s Inching Forward. is from The NY Times.
Native American Mascot Recommendations and Resource Page has a lot of useful info.
The Kansas City Chiefs’ racist “Arrowhead Chop” has flown under the radar. Not anymore. is from Vox.
Hundreds Of Schools Are Still Using Native Americans As Team Mascots is from Five Thirty Eight.
On use of the “n word”:
The N-Word is an impressive interactive from The Washington Post.
Politics and the African-American Human Language appeared in The Atlantic.
Who Can Use The N-Word? That’s The Wrong Question is from NPR.
Today’s n-word lesson went well. Here’s my reflection and some resources, too 🙂 https://t.co/nx1CLEiXYj
— Lorena Germán (@nenagerman) November 1, 2017
Good teachers use the N-word is by Andre Perry.
Many white women ask me what do when the n-word comes in up their novels or instruction. We know the deficit ways this has been taught- here is what I would say to my students as an ELA teacher. pic.twitter.com/vGBSgCpGgf
— Gholdy Muhammad (@GholdyM) February 27, 2021
Good column highlighting ‘no’ as the answer ——— Is there ever a reason to hear the ‘n-word’ in the classroom? https://t.co/9nFmAuGpJc
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) July 10, 2022
Useful Imagery:
These 2 sets of pictures are everything you need to know about race, crime, and media bias http://t.co/qR0ZyNnREb pic.twitter.com/DIDPunXxea
— Vox (@voxdotcom) April 2, 2015
Remember this after Katrina? The difference between “looting” and “finding” is often black and white pic.twitter.com/nZoaP0KJ2l
— Astead (@AsteadWesley) August 29, 2017
5 images about being black in America http://t.co/fweVlQAa6H
— Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo) April 9, 2015
This racial double standard is on full display pic.twitter.com/zwdTcBiNBA
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) August 25, 2018
I guess sometimes it’s a meltdown and other times it’s just arguing a strike 🤷🏻♂️ pic.twitter.com/I3ZyxBMzGT
— Josh Billinson (@jbillinson) September 8, 2018
Race & Media:
Why I won’t wear war paint and feathers in a movie again: http://t.co/ycd4PN5DNy via @TIMEIdeas
— TIME Ideas (@TIMEIdeas) June 12, 2015
VIDEO: “HOW WHITE SAVIOR MOVIES HURT HOLLYWOOD”
Examining Our Own Attitudes On Race
Language:
What I Hear When You Say Code Words is a useful online series of videos from PBS.
Here’s how they describe it:
One phrase. Many interpretations. Explore the history of code words and their effects on all of us to this day from unique and differing perspectives.
Here’s another PBS video on the same topic:
Other:
Starbucks Releases The Racial Bias Curriculum They Used Today
Segregation In America is a very impressive interactive website documenting – in multimedia – the history of…segregation in the United States. It was just unveiled by the Equal Justice Initiative, who last year released an equally impressive site on Lynching In America (see Google Supports Development Of New “Lynching In America” Interactive).
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