Diversity & Equity

How to talk to your kids about race/racism/whiteness/white privilege/white supremacy/police brutality

• Are kids too young to talk about race & social justice? (LOTS of great resources from The Children’s Community School)

•  How to talk to kids about racism - an age by age guide

• How to Talk About Race and Racism with Young Kids: Q+A with Dr. Jane Rosen

• Kindergarten teacher in Brooklyn explaining current George Floyd protests to her students 

• Raising Race conscious children (lots of resources)

• How White Parents Can Talk To Their Kids About Race | NPR

• Dear white parents of my black child’s friends, I need your help.

• Are we raising racists? 

• White parents, here’s how to start talking to your children about race

• Your Kids Aren't Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup from Pretty Good

• 7 Reminders for White Parents Talking to Their Kids About Police Killing Black People

• 100 Race-conscious things you can say to your child to advance racial justice

• Video on systemic racism for older grade students (redlining, implicit bias) - 

Talking about Holidays:

• Teaching Your Child About Black History Month | PBS

• Student Ignition Society Indigenous Peoples’ Day Family Action Toolkit 

• Decolonizing Thanksgiving - a toolkit for combatting racism in schools

• Teaching Thanksgiving in a Socially Responsible Way

• Saying “No Thanks” to Lying to kids about Thanksgiving

• What really happened at the First Thanksgiving - The Wampanoag Side of the tale

Children’s books:

• 28 MORE BLACK PICTURE BOOKS THAT AREN’T ABOUT BOYCOTTS, BUSES OR BASKETBALL (2018)

• Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners: books for children and young adults

•  Children’s book by and about Native People Children’s books - captivating stories to recognize privilege (economic, male, white, non-disabled, heteronormative, body size & others)

• 20 Picture Books for 2020: Readings to Embrace Race, Provide Solace & Do Good

• 50 Children's Books Celebrating Native American and Indigenous Mighty Girls

• Titles by/for/about Latinx

• 18 multiracial books celebrating LGBTQIA characters

• 10 laugh out loud funny multicultural picture books 

• "The Cat is Out of the Bag: Orientalism, Anti-Blackness, and White Supremacy in Dr. Seuss's Children's Books"

• Books by black authors for kids ages 0-18

• Authors of colors writing for kids 

• 12 children’s books to help you talk about prejudice

Adult books:

• 10 books about race to read instead of asking a person of color to explain things to you

• 9 essential reads for your racial justice conversation

• 16 books about race every white person should read

TV and films:

• 26 mini-films exploring race, bias and identity with students

• Kids’ tv shows that celebrate diversity 

• Massive online catalogue of indigenous films online - 6 suggestions to get you started 

Podcasts for adults:

• Nice white parents

• Parenting Forward podcast episode ‘Five Pandemic Parenting Lessons with Cindy Wang Brandt’

• Fare of the Free Child podcast

• Integrated Schools podcast episode “Raising White Kids with Jennifer Harvey”

• Seeing White

Local Portland/OR links

• Portland black owned restaurants

• PDX POC owned restaurants list

• Timeline of Oregon’s Racial and Educational History

• When Portland Banned Blacks - Oregon’s shameful history as an all white state

School Segregation

• Integrated Schools podcast 

• We can draw school zones to make classrooms less segregated. This is how well your district does.

• Two moms choose between separate and unequal schools in Oakland

• How the systemic segregation of schools is maintained by individual choices

Diversity/Equity/Equality - what do they mean? What’s the difference?

• “Diversity Isn’t Equity” blogpost

• Back to basics - equity vs equality and how to tell the difference

• Teaching kindness isn’t the same as teaching justice

Supporting BIPOC businesses

• Portland black owned restaurants

• 10 black owned businesses that sell back to school items

• 100 black owned businesses

• Black owned Portland brands

• Directory of Portland Black owned businesses 

Other info/resources

• Information about Racial Profiling by the Police

• Financial literacy in the black community

• How white privilege is taught

• Syllabus for white people to educate themselves

• Hate is taught on the playground and we (the parents) have to stop it

• What well meaning white people need to know about race

• For our white friends desiring to be allies

• It takes a village to save a child: 7 ways to help a black kid who feels like life is too much

• Why the myth of meritocracy harms kids of color

• 10 ways whiteness shows up you may not even realize

• What it looks like when communities make Racial Justice a priority

• Teacher: “A student told me I couldn’t understand because I was a white lady - here’s what I did then”

• What should white people do for racial justice? 

• What to do when your child comments on a stranger’s physical appearance in public

• What I Told My White Friend When He Asked For My Black Opinion On White Privilege

• Color brave space - how to run an equity focused meeting