New York Times: A Conversation on Race

A Conversation with Asians on Race

A Conversation with Black Women on Race

A Conversation about Growing Up Black

A Conversation on Race A series of short films about identity in America.

The New York Times presents this series of videos featuring personal stories that reflect the breadth of experiences in the United States. 

Why Talk About Whiteness?

Why Talk About Whiteness?

Toolkit for Why Talk About Whiteness

Don’t take it personally—it’s not about you! 

White people have come to expect a level of racial comfort. When that expectation is met with racial stress, DiAngelo explains the result can be White Fragility: “White Fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves. These moves include the outward display of emotions such as anger, fear and guilt, and behaviors such as argumentation, silence and leaving the stress-inducing situation. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium.”

No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning by Abigail Thernstrom and Stephan Thernstrom

No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning 

by Abigail Thernstrom and Stephan Thernstrom

352 pages, Simon & Schuster, 2004

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The racial gap in academic performance between whites and Asians, on the one hand, and Latinos and blacks, on the other hand, is America's most urgent educational problem. It is also the central civil rights issue of our time, say Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom. Unequal skills and knowledge are the main sources of ongoing racial inequality, and racial inequality is America's great unfinished business. 
A wide and tragic gap in learning is evident in affluent suburbs as well as inner cities. But great schools are scattered across the country, as described in inspiring detail by the Thernstroms. These schools are putting even the most highly disadvantaged children on the American ladder of economic opportunity. 
There are no good excuses for the perpetuation of long-standing inequalities, the Thernstroms argue eloquently. The problem can be solved, but conventional strategies will not work. Fundamental educational reform is needed. Carefully researched, accessibly written, and powerfully persuasive, this book offers both a close analysis of the current landscape and a blueprint for essential and overdue change.

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Must Schools Fail? A review from the New York Review of Books here.
Comments and Reviews here.

Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs by David R. Roediger 

At the vanguard of the study of race and labor in American history, David R. Roediger is the author of the now-classic The Wages of Whiteness, a study of racism in the development of a white working class in nineteenth-century America. In Working Toward Whiteness, he continues that history into the twentieth century. He recounts how American ethnic groups considered white today-including Jewish-, Italian-, and Polish-Americans-once occupied a confused racial status in their new country. They eventually became part of white America thanks to the nascent labor movement, New Deal reforms, and a rise in home-buying. From ethnic slurs to racially restrictive covenants--the racist real estate agreements that ensured all-white neighborhoods--Roediger explores the murky realities of race in twentieth-century America. A masterful history by an award-winning writer, Working Toward Whiteness charts the strange transformation of these new immigrants into the "white ethnics" of America today.

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Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students by Zaretta L. (Lynn) Hammond

Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students by Zaretta L. Hammond 

This book presents a bold, brain-based teaching approach to culturally responsive instruction. To close the achievement gap, diverse classrooms need a proven framework for optimizing student engagement. Culturally responsive instruction has shown promise, but many teachers have struggled with its implementation-until now. In this book, Zaretta Hammond draws on cutting-edge neuroscience research to offer an innovative approach for designing and implementing brain-compatible culturally responsive instruction. The book includes: information on how one's culture programs the brain to process data and affects learning relationships; ten "key moves" to build students' learner operating systems and prepare them to become independent learners; and, prompts for action and valuable self-reflection. 

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Ready4Rigor

Culturally Relevant Teaching: Hip-Hop Pedagogy in Urban Schools by Darius D. Prier

Culturally Relevant Teaching: Hip-Hop Pedagogy in Urban Schools by Darius D. Prier

Culturally Relevant Teaching centers hip-hop culture as a culturally relevant form of critical pedagogy in urban pre-service teacher education programs. In this important book, Darius D. Prier explores how hip-hop artists construct a sense of democratic education and pedagogy with transformative possibilities in their schools and communities. In a postmodern context, students’ critical street narratives challenge educators to rethink where «public education» can happen, and the political and empowering purposes to which Black popular culture can serve social justice ends for youth in urban education. This book provides educational leaders in the academy and public schools with new cultural contexts that connect teaching and learning with music and popular culture in relation to race, class, gender, culture, and community.

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Bringing Hip-Hop to Education in a Meaningful Way by Sam Seidel

Equity Professional Development at Loring

Post Note: This section (post) is a holding (a bulletin board, a digital file) for articles, definitions, and resources directly pertinent to the current and ongoing effort to learn about and implement the goals of the Equity Focus at Loring Community School. Additional resources will be added regularly.

Creating Your Racial Autobiography

Toward a Critical Race Theory of Education by Gloria Ladson-Billings and William F. Tate IV

Developing a Positive White Identity

White Racial Identity and Anti-Racist Education: A Catalyst for Change by Sandra M. Lawrence and Beverly Daniel Tatum

Racial Bias, Even When We Have Good Intentions by Sendhil Mullainathan

What is White Supremacy? by Elizabeth Martinez

Culturally Relevant Teaching Practices - Ideas from the Field - Saint Paul Public Schools

Equity Walk Matrix

Inquiry for Equity: What Does It Mean for Teacher Research? by Tom Malarky

Roseville Area Public Schools Achievement and Integration Plan Components

Six Goals of Educational Equity and School Reform

School Discipline: What Race Has To Do With It by Sheila Regan

Sagging Pants And The Long History Of 'Dangerous' Street Fashion by Gene Demby

A Guide to Culture in the Classroom by Muriel Saville-Troike

Cultural Identity and Teaching

Managing Diverse Classrooms by Carrie Rothstein-Fisch and Elise Trumbull