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.
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