Macalester Alumni Anti-Racist Resources
The Macalester Alumni Board invites you to view our collection of articles, videos, websites, and online learning opportunities provided by community members around anti-racist work.
We hope that these resources will help those seeking to increase their knowledge, awareness, and understanding of anti-racism and how they can be part of the change.
If you have additional resources you’d like to share, please let us know by filling out this short form!
Anti-Racism in the Workplace
- Awake to Woke to Work
- Anti-Racist Organizational Development
- An Antiracist Framework for Scholarly Publishing
- Glossary for Understanding the Dismantling Structural Racism/Promoting Racial Equity Analysis
- Sister Song: Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective
- Continuum on Becoming an Anti-Racist Multicultural Organization
- Starbucks Report on Efforts to Promote Civil Rights, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
- Minnesota Business Coalition for Racial Equity
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum
- The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter
Articles
- Core Concepts of Media Literacy
- The Weaponization of Whiteness in Schools by Coshadra Dillard via Teaching Tolerance
- This Conversation is Anti-Racist by Monita K. Bell and Cory Collins via Teaching Tolerance
- 21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge. All articles on this month-long challenge are phenomenal; also includes some great TED talks.
- 10 Ways to Be an Anti-Racist Parent, Starting Right Now
- American Library Association – Celebrating Diversity
- Brightly – Raise kids who love to read
- KidLit Rally 4 Black Lives: Anti-Racist Resources for Children, Families, and Educators
- 50 Latina Books Every Child Should Know – Mamiverse
- 50 Multicultural Books Every Child Should Know – Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC)
- Race Forward – Research and advocacy group advancing racial justice
- Moon Palace Books – Twin Cities-based bookstore with a strong selection of books on racial justice
Talking to Children About Race
- Talking to Very Young Children About Race
- Developmental Understanding of Race and Difference and Strategies to Talk Young Children about Race (age 0-6)
- PBS has great resources and programming (age 2-8)
- I Live in Minneapolis. This is What I Told My 4-Year Old
- I Evacuated from Minneapolis. This is What I Told my 4-Year Old
- Family Discussion Guide from the Unitarian Universalist Association
- Raising (White) Anti-Racist Kids: Some big ideas to keep in mind
- Beyond the Golden Rule via Teaching Tolerance
- Talking to Children About Racial Bias via the American Academy of Pediatrics
- Antiracist Religious Education Resources via Liberal Religious Educators Association, Unitarian Universalist
- How Do I Talk to Young Children about Racial Injustice?
- How To Talk To Your Little Kids About Hard Things
- Embrace Race – Community and resources for educating young children on race and racism
Books
Suggestions for Parents
- Raising Antiracist Kids: The Power of Intentional Conversations About Race and Parenting by Nicole Lee
- Power Means Who the Police Believe: Talking with Young Children about Race and Racial Violence by Emma Redden.
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- Raising White Kids by Jennifer Harvey
- Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad.
- This book is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell.
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum
- White Kids: Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America by Margaret A. Hagerman
- Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-Winning Stamped from the Beginning by Jason Reynolds
- Raising Biracial Children by Kerry Ann Rockquemore & Tracey Laszloffy
- Learning Race, Learning Place: Shaping Racial Identities and Ideas in African American Childhoods by Erin N. Winkler
- Crossing the Color Line: race, parenting, and culture by Maureen T. Reddy
- Diverse Book Finder – A website research tool
- Charis Books – Maintains a great list of books about race and racism
Book Suggestions for Children
- All the Colors We Are: Todos los colores de nuestra piel/The tory of How We Get Our Skil Color by Kate Kissinger, Wernher Krutein (photographer)
- Julián Is a Mermaid by Jessica Love. In an exuberant picture book, a glimpse of costumed mermaids leaves one boy flooded with wonder and ready to dazzle the world.
- Children’s books for ages 0-18 featuring strong female protagonists
- Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story about Racial Injustice by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, Ann Hazzard, Jennifer Zivoin (Illustrator)
- Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness by Anastasia Higginbotham
- A Kids Book About Racism by jelani memory
- A Mighty Girl website -Children’s books ages 0-18; all with strong female protagonists, many diverse
- Charis Books – List of antiracism books for kids
Children’s Books about Native American Culture
- The Birchbark House, by Louise Erdrich
- First Laugh: Welcome Baby! by Rose Tahe and Nancy Bo Flood
- Lessons from Turtle Island: Native Curriculum in Early Childhood Classrooms, by Guy W. Jones & Sally Moomaw
- Life in a Longhouse Village, by Bobbie Kalman
- Life in a Plains Camp, by Bobbie Kalman
- Maple Moon, by Connie Brummel Crook
- Morning on the Lake, by Jan Bourdeau Waboose
- Shin-chi’s Canoe, by Nicola I. Campbell
- The Legend of the Lady Slipper, by Margi Preus and Lise Lunge-Larsen
- The Pencil, by Susan Avingaq & Maren Vsetula
- We Are Water Protectors, by Carole Lindstrom
- 1621: A New Look at Thanksgiving, by Catherine Grace O’Neill
- I Can Make This Promise by Christine Day
- How I Became a Ghost A Choctaw Trail of Tears Story by Tim Tingle
- Indian No More by Charlene Willing McManis and Traci Sorell
- The Forever Sky by Thomas Peacock
- Bowwow Powwow by Brenda Child
- A Kid’s Guide to Native American History: More than 50 Activities, by Yvonne Wakim Dennis and Arlene Hirschfelder
- A Walk on the Shoreline, by Rebecca Hainnu
- I Am not a Number, by Jenny Kay Dupuis & Kathy Kacer
- Greet the Dawn: The Lakota Way, by S.D. Nelson
- What Is Truth, Betsy? A Story of Truth, by Katherena Vermette
- The Train, by Jodie Callaghan
- Takoza: Walks With the Blue Moon Girl by Tara Perron
- The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
Book List Suggestions (Hilary ’96)
- American Indians in Children’s Literature
- 5 Black Children’s Authors and Illustrators You Should Know
- A Diverse Summer Reading List for Kids
- Readers Recommend a Diverse Children’s Bookshelf: Favorites about race, protest, and non-white protagonists
- The ZORA Canon: The 100 greatest books ever written by African American women
Movies and Documentaries
- No suggestions shared–use the form above to let us know your picks!
Podcasts
- Cindy Wang Brandt
- Nice White Parents from the New York Times. This podcast is a new five-part series about building a better school system, and what gets in the way. (Andrea)
- Seeing White from Scene on Radio. Just what is going on with white people? Police shootings of unarmed African Americans. Acts of domestic terrorism by white supremacists. The renewed embrace of raw, undisguised white-identity politics. Unending racial inequity in schools, housing, criminal justice, and hiring. Some of this feels new, but in truth it’s an old story.
- Why? Where did the notion of “whiteness” come from? What does it mean? What is whiteness for? (Prof. Cari Gillen-O’Neel)
Speakers/Experts/Research
- @theconsciouskid especially if you join their patreon – they send you articles, resources, etc. (Available as a website, Patreon, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter) (Grace ’09)
- Emma Redden via https://www.emmaredden.com/
- Ijeoma Oluo (author of So You Want To Talk About Race) – she is also VERY good at clearly explaining complex topics to white people who are at various stages of figuring out how they have been socialized into white supremacist culture. (Sue)
- Macalester Prof. Cari Gillen-O’Neel on the role of white parents in combating systemic racism
TV Shows
- Netflix series “Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices” (Grace ’09)
Additional Resources and Guides
- Talking to Kids About Racism and Justice: a list for parents, caregivers & educators via the Oakland Library
- A resource guide with age-appropriate books, videos & multimedia, articles, useful websites & other resources
- Antiracism Resources for Families via the First Unitarian Church of Pittsburgh
- Anti-Racism Resource Guide by Tasha K (via Google Doc) (Maureen ’73)
- Resources for Parents and Caregivers About Race and Racism (via Google Doc) (Hilary ’96)