Resources compiled by Bonny Doon Co-Op members. An ongoing list….
KID BOOKS
Book lists:
- Pragmatic mom: White privilege, booklist
https://www.pragmaticmom.com/2019/05/white-fragility-books-for-kids/ - The Conscious Kid website: Books celebrating black boys
https://www.theconsciouskid.org/black-books-matter-childrens-books-celebrating-black-boys
Recommended Books:
- All the Colors we Are (this explains where we get our skin color from and gives language about melanin etc.)
- Come on Rain
- I Love my Hair
- Race Cars (a book about White privilege – it’s a great pre-K book)
- Over and Under the Pond
Where to buy books online:
- Black-owned Bookstores
- Bookshop.org – Support Local bookstores
ADULT BOOKS
- How To Be An Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates – Rebecca
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness – Rebecca
KID BOOKS IN THE CO-OP (TO SHARE)
- All Are Welcome – Sashont
- The Girl who has a Mind for Math – Rebecca
- Hair Love – Sashont
- I Am Enough – Sashont
- I Am Perfectly Designed – Sashont/Carrie
- It Takes A Village – Sashont
- Jake Makes A World – Carrie
- King of Kindergarten – Carrie
- Let’s Talk About Race – Jenny
- Lullaby For A Black Mother – Carrie
- Mae Among the Stars – Rebecca
- Sulwe – Carrie
ARTICLES & BLOGS
- Courtney Ahn, Instagram / A guide to white privilege
- Teen Vogue / Beyond the hashtag: How to take anti-racist action in your life
- The Cut / How to help demand justice for George Floyd
- Cup of Jo / On becoming anti-racist
- New Yorker / The Death of George Floyd, in context
- Healthy Children / Talking to Your Children about Racial Bias
- Motherly / How to Raise Anti-Racist Kids
- Striving Parent / Blog (I write about my journey exploring the ways I can address and combat systems of oppression within the context of my family)
- HuffPost / Preserving my child’s innocence
VIDEOS
Video Book Readings
- A is for Activist
- A Kids Book About Racism
- Chocolate Me
- Not My Idea
- The Colors of Us
- Let’s Talk About Race by Julius Lester
- Separate is Never Equal
- Something Happened In Our Town
- What Can A Citizen Do?
IGTV
- Chrissy Ford on anti-racism
- Ijeoma Oluo on the role of violence
- Trevor Noah on the dominoes of racial injustice
Documentaries
- 13th by Ava Duvernay (on Netflix/YouTube)
- I am Not Your Negro (trailer linked, available to rent)
PLACES TO DONATE
- Fair Fight
- NAACP Legal Defense Fund
- Reclaim the Block
- Black Visions Collective
- The Bail Project
- Social Justice Learning Institute (grassroots, LA-based)
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