Black Coffee Buddhism: E. Ethelbert Miller interviews scholar Charles Johnson

Read the interview from the Fall 2016 Tricycle magazine here:

Black Coffee Buddhism

"...There is nothing new one can say about issues of race in America. What is new is how Buddhists, working daily, can take the lead in expressing the desire for true brotherhood. I asked Charles Johnson questions a person in a crowd might be thinking about. His answers illuminate the road ahead.

–E. Ethelbert Miller

Meet Cecilia “Cissy” Marshall

Read this article in the August 20, 2016, Washington Post:

Cissy Marshall recalls day of Brown v. Board of Education decision

Sixty-two years later, Cissy Marshall, now 88, remembers certain details of the day the 9-to-0 decision in Brown v. Board of Education was handed down, as if it happened yesterday.

She was in New York, working at the NAACP’s offices on 43rd Street.

Thurgood Marshall and the legal team that included James M. Nabrit and George Hayes had traveled to Washington on a tip the justices would reveal the ruling. “They were expecting the decision,” she said. “They were getting hints the opinion was coming down. You are not supposed to know anything of these things. But a grapevine gets going.”

Chief Justice Earl Warren delivered the unanimous ruling: “We conclude that, in the field of public education, the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. Therefore, we hold that the plaintiffs and others similarly situated for whom the actions have been brought are, by reason of the segregation complained of, deprived of the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment.”

The Danger of a Single Story: Writing Essays about Our Lives

This article is from Rethinking Schools.

The Danger of a Single Story Writing essays about our lives by Linda Christensen

Linda Christensen (lmc@lclark.edu) is director of the Oregon Writing Project at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. She is author of Reading, Writing, and Rising Up and Teaching for Joy and Justice; co-editor of Rethinking Elementary Education and The New Teacher Book; and an editor of Rethinking Schools.

Black Lives Matter Booklists and Resources

Teens are naturally curious about current events and their roles as emerging citizens. Including fiction, non-fiction, and poetry titles, this list offers a great starting point for discussions of race, justice, and privilege.

HCL List

Whether you're a parent, a student, a community organizer or a concerned neighbor, this Resource Series offers books, articles and videos to prompt discussion and action. This is a blog resource from the Oakland (California) Public Library.

Listen, Learn, Participate: A #BlackLivesMatter Resource Series

Black Lives Matter: Resource/Reading List Master Post

Basically, a list of ‘required readings’ to become acquainted not just with the movement, but with said movement’s philosophical, intellectual, and scholarly/academic underpinnings and foundations. And the results, yielded by the kind individuals in that group, were quite helpful. I’ve decided to compile the results here, in one single source, so as to create a better and wider access of information. This list will be updated as I come across more resource guides and the like. 
- Malcolm Teller/Malcolm Teller's Writing Space

The First R: How Children Learn Race and Racism by Debra Van Ausdale, Joe R. Feagin

The First R: How Children Learn Race and Racism 

by Debra Van Ausdale and Joe R. Feagin

•  240 pages Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (December 11, 2001)
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Writers since Piaget have questioned when and how children assimilate racist attitudes-or simply become aware of racial differences. This remarkable book offers stirring evidence that the answers may be more surprising than we ever imagined. The rich accounts of children's behavior around race are drawn from Van Ausdale's ethnographies, conducted in several multi-ethnic day-care centers. When she persistently divested herself of any authoritative role, children as young as 3 years gradually revealed to her a surprising array of racial attitudes, assumptions, and behaviors--most of which they normally withhold from parents and adult companions. The careful ethnographic analysis, conducted over many months, lead the authors to question many of our long-held assumptions about the nature of race and racial learning in American society.

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• Read inside here.

Other People’s Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom by Lisa Delpit

                Other People’s Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom 

223 pages Publisher: The New Press; 1 edition (August 1, 2006) $17.95

Winner of an American Educational Studies Association Critics’ Choice Award and Choice Magazine’s Outstanding Academic Book Award, and voted one of Teacher Magazine’s “great books,” Other People’s Children has sold over 150,000 copies since its original hardcover publication. This anniversary paperback edition features a new introduction by Delpit as well as new framing essays by Herbert Kohl and Charles Payne.
In a radical analysis of contemporary classrooms, MacArthur Award–winning author Lisa Delpit develops ideas about ways teachers can be better “cultural transmitters” in the classroom, where prejudice, stereotypes, and cultural assumptions breed ineffective education. Delpit suggests that many academic problems attributed to children of color are actually the result of miscommunication, as primarily white teachers and “other people’s children” struggle with the imbalance of power and the dynamics plaguing our system.A new classic among educators, Other People’s Children is a must-read for teachers, administrators, and parents striving to improve the quality of America’s education system.

          

See inside here.