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"I've been wondering who might fill the intellectual void that plagued me after James Baldwin died. Clearly it is Ta-Nehisi Coates. The language of Between the World and Me, like Coates's journey, is visceral, eloquent, and beautifully redemptive. And its examination of the hazards and hopes of black male life is as profound as it is revelatory. This is required reading." -Toni Morrison

"Powerful and passionate . . . profoundly moving . . . a searing meditation on what it means to be black in America today." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

"Really powerful and emotional." -John Legend, The Wall Street Journal

"Extraordinary . . . [Coates] writes an impassioned letter to his teenage son-a letter both loving and full of a parent's dread-counseling him on the history of American violence against the black body, the young African-American's extreme vulnerability to wrongful arrest, police violence, and disproportionate incarceration." -David Remnick, The New Yorker

"Brilliant . . . a riveting meditation on the state of race in America . . . [Coates] is firing on all cylinders, and it is something to behold: a mature writer entirely consumed by a momentous subject and working at the extreme of his considerable powers at the very moment national events most conform to his vision." -The Washington Post

"An eloquent blend of history, reportage, and memoir written in the tradition of James Baldwin with echoes of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man . . . It is less a typical memoir of a particular time and place than an autobiography of the black body in America. . . . Coates writes with tenderness, especially of his wife, child, and extended family, and with frankness. . . . Coates's success, in this book and elsewhere, is due to his lucidity and innate dignity, his respect for himself and for others. He refuses to preach or talk down to white readers or to plead for acceptance: He never wonders why we just can't all get along. He knows government policies make getting along near impossible." -The Boston Globe

"For someone who proudly calls himself an atheist, Coates gives us a whole lot of 'Can I get an amen?' in this slim and essential volume of familial joy and rigorous struggle. . . . [He] has become the most sought-after public intellectual on the issue of race in America, with good reason. Between the World and Me . . . is at once a magnification and a distillation of our existence as black people in a country we were not meant to survive. It is a straight tribute to our strength, endurance and grace. . . . [Coates] speaks resolutely and vividly to all of black America." -Los Angeles Times

"A crucial book during this moment of generational awakening." -The New Yorker

"A work that's both titanic and timely, Between the World and Me is the latest essential reading in America's social canon." -Entertainment Weekly

"Coates delivers a beautiful lyrical call for consciousness in the face of racial discrimination in America. . . . Between the World and Me is in the same mode of The Fire Next Time; it is a book designed to wake you up. . . . An exhortation against blindness." -The Guardian

"Coates has crafted a deeply moving and poignant letter to his own son. . . . [His] book is a compelling mix of history, analysis and memoir. Between the World and Me is a much-needed artifact to document the times we are living in [from] one of the leading public intellectuals of our generation. . . . The experience of having a sage elder speak directly to you in such lyrical, gorgeous prose-language bursting with the revelatory thought and love of black life-is a beautiful thing."

"Rife with love, sadness, anger and struggle, Between the World and Me charts a path through the American gauntlet for both the black child who will inevitably walk the world alone and for the black parent who must let that child walk away."

"Poignant, revelatory and exceedingly wise, Between the World and Me is an essential clarion call to our collective conscience. We ignore it at our own peril." -San Francisco Chronicle

"Masterfully written . . . powerful storytelling." -New York Post

"One of the most riveting and heartfelt books to appear in some time . . . The book achieves a level of clarity and eloquence reminiscent of Ralph Ellison's classic Invisible Man. . . . The perspective [Coates] brings to American life is one that no responsible citizen or serious scholar can safely ignore." -Foreign Affairs

"Urgent, lyrical, and devastating in its precision, Coates has penned a new classic of our time."

"Powerful." -The Economist

"A work of rare beauty and revelatory honesty . . . Between the World and Me is a love letter written in a moral emergency, one that Coates exposes with the precision of an autopsy and the force of an exorcism. . . . Coates is frequently lauded as one of America's most important writers on the subject of race today, but this in fact undersells him: Coates is one of America's most important writers on the subject of America today. . . . [He's] a polymath whose breadth of knowledge on matters ranging from literature to pop culture to French philosophy to the Civil War bleeds through every page of his book, distilled into profound moments of discovery, immensely erudite but never showy."

"The most important book I've read in years . . . an illuminating, edifying, educational, inspiring experience." -Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center

"It's an indescribably enlightening, enraging, important document about being black in America today. Coates is perhaps the best we have, and this book is perhaps the best he's ever been."

"Vital reading at this moment in America." -U.S. News & World Report

"[Coates] has crafted a highly provocative, thoughtfully presented, and beautifully written narrative. . . . Much of what Coates writes may be difficult for a majority of Americans to process, but that's the incisive wisdom of it. Read it, think about it, take a deep breath and read it again. The spirit of James Baldwin lives within its pages." -The Christian Science Monitor

"Part memoir, part diary, and wholly necessary, it is precisely the document this country needs right now." -New Republic

"A moving testament to what it means to be black and an American in our troubled age . . . Between the World and Me feels of-the-moment, but like James Baldwin's celebrated 1963 treatise The Fire Next Time, it stands to become a classic on the subject of race in America." -The Seattle Times

"Riveting . . . Coates delivers a fiery soliloquy dissecting the tradition of the erasure of African-Americans beginning with the deeply personal." -Minneapolis Star Tribune

"[ Between the World and Me] is not a Pollyanna, coming-of-age memoir about how idyllic life was growing up in America. It is raw. It is searing. . . . [It's] a book that should be read and shared by everyone, as it is a story that painfully and honestly explores the age-old question of what it means to grow up black and male in America." -The Baltimore Sun

"A searing indictment of America's legacy of violence, institutional and otherwise, against blacks." -Chicago Tribune

"I know that this book is addressed to the author's son, and by obvious analogy to all boys and young men of color as they pass, inexorably, into harm's way. I hope that I will be forgiven, then, for feeling that Ta-Nehisi Coates was speaking to me, too, one father to another, teaching me that real courage is the courage to be vulnerable, to admit having fallen short of the mark, to stay open-hearted and curious in the face of hate and lies, to remain skeptical when there is so much comfort in easy belief, to acknowledge the limits of our power to protect our children from harm and, hardest of all, to see how the burden of our need to protect becomes a burden on them, one that we must, sooner or later, have the wisdom and the awful courage to surrender." -Michael Chabon

"Ta-Nehisi Coates is the James Baldwin of our era, and this is his cri de coeur. A brilliant thinker at the top of his powers, he has distilled four hundred years of history and his own anguish and wisdom into a prayer for his beloved son and an invocation to the conscience of his country. Between the World and Me is an instant classic and a gift to us all." -Isabel Wilkerson, author of The Warmth of Other Suns

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"I've been wondering who might fill the intellectual void that plagued me after James Baldwin died. Clearly it is Ta-Nehisi Coates. The language of Between the World and Me, like Coates's journey, is visceral, eloquent, and beautifully redemptive. And its examination of the hazards and hopes of black male life is as profound as it is revelatory.

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Robin Diangelo

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White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

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Ibram X. Kendi

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"What do you do after you have written Stamped From the Beginning, an award-winning history of racist ideas? . . . If you're Ibram X. Kendi, you craft another stunner of a book. . . . What emerges from these insights is the most courageous book to date on the problem of race in the Western mind, a confessional of self-examination that may, in fact, be our best chance to free ourselves from our national nightmare." -The New York Times

" How to Be an Antiracist couldn't come at a better time. . . . Kendi has gifted us with a book that is not only an essential instruction manual but also a memoir of the author's own path from anti-black racism to anti-white racism and, finally, to antiracism. . . . How to Be an Antiracist gives us a clear and compelling way to approach, as Kendi puts it in his introduction, 'the basic struggle we're all in, the struggle to be fully human and to see that others are fully human.'""Kendi dissects why in a society where so few people consider themselves to be racist the divisions and inequalities of racism remain so prevalent. How to Be an Antiracist punctures the myths of a post-racial America, examining what racism really is-and what we should do about it."

"Ibram Kendi is today's visionary in the enduring struggle for racial justice. In this personal and revelatory new work, he yet again holds up a transformative lens, challenging both mainstream and antiracist orthodoxy. He illuminates the foundations of racism in revolutionary new ways, and I am consistently challenged and inspired by his analysis. How to Be an Antiracist offers us a necessary and critical way forward." -Robin DiAngelo, New York Times bestselling author of White Fragility

"Ibram Kendi's work, through both his books and the Antiracist Research and Policy Center, is vital in today's sociopolitical climate. As a society, we need to start treating antiracism as action, not emotion-and Kendi is helping us do that." -Ijeoma Oluo, author of So You Want to Talk About Race

"Ibram Kendi uses his own life journey to show us why becoming an antiracist is as essential as it is difficult. Equal parts memoir, history, and social commentary, this book is honest, brave, and most of all liberating." -James Forman, Jr., Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Locking Up Our Own

"A boldly articulated, historically informed explanation of what exactly racist ideas and thinking are . . . [Kendi's] prose is thoughtful, sincere, and polished. This powerful book will spark many conversations." -Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"A combination of memoir and extension of [Kendi's] towering Stamped from the Beginning . . . Never wavering . . . Kendi methodically examines racism through numerous lenses: power, biology, ethnicity, body, culture, and so forth. . . . This unsparing honesty helps readers, both white and people of color, navigate this difficult intellectual territory. . . . Essential." -Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"In this sharp blend of social commentary and memoir . . . Kendi is ready to spread his message, his stories serving as a springboard for potent explorations of race, gender, colorism, and more. . . . With Stamped From the Beginning, Kendi proved himself a first-rate historian. Here, his willingness to turn the lens on himself marks him as a courageous activist, leading the way to a more equitable society." -Library Journal (starred review)

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1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a "groundbreaking" (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting...

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Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?  

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Read 1,981 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth...

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Lisa Delpit

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"We do not really see through our eyes or hear through our ears, but through our beliefs. To put our beliefs on hold is to cease to exist as ourselves for a moment - and that is not easy. It is painful as well, because it means turning yourself inside out, giving up your own sense of who you are, and being willing to see yourself in the unflattering light of another's angry gaze."

"The purpose of education is to learn to die satiated with life." That, I believe, is what we need to bring to our schools: experiences that are so full of the wonder of life, so full of connectedness, so embedded in the context of our communities, so brilliant in the insights that we develop and the analyses that we devise, that all of us, teachers and students alike, can learn to live lives that leave us truly satisfied."

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"We do not really see through our eyes or hear through our ears, but through our beliefs. To put our beliefs on hold is to cease to exist as ourselves for a moment - and that is not easy.

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Americans don't consider social class often enough in evaluating systemic bias in schooling as well as career opportunities. Parenting styles tend to adhere to social class practices, and middle class parenting styles tend to be rewarded in our capitalist economy. But not always, and not dependably. Everything matters, and unfortunately, best intentions are not enough. I knew this, but it's nice to hear again -- having a family is hard work, especially when you're your own best resource.

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Americans don't consider social class often enough in evaluating systemic bias in schooling as well as career opportunities. Parenting styles tend to adhere to social class practices, and middle class parenting styles tend to be rewarded in our capitalist economy. But not always, and not dependably.

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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

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Michelle Alexander

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"One of the most influential books of the last 20 years."
-Chronicle of Higher Education

"Two years after Obama's election, Alexander put the entire criminal justice system on trial, exposing racial discrimination from lawmaking to policing to the denial of voting rights to ex-prisoners. This bestseller struck the spark that would eventually light the fire of Black Lives Matter."
- Ibram X. Kendi, The New York Times

"[ The New Jim Crow] transformed forever the way thinkers and activists view the phenomenon of mass incarceration."
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Claudia Rankin

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"Serena and her big sister Venus Williams brought to mind Zora Neale Hurston's 'I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background."Serena and her big sister Venus Williams brought to mind Zora Neale Hurston's 'I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.' This appropriated line, stenciled on canvas by Glenn Ligon, who used plastic letter stencils, smudging oil sticks, and graphite to transform the words into abstractions, seemed to be ad copy for some aspect of life for all black bodies" (p. 25). ...more (less)

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"Serena and her big sister Venus Williams brought to mind Zora Neale Hurston's 'I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background."Serena and her big sister Venus Williams brought to mind Zora Neale Hurston's 'I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.'

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First, there are a few problems with this question. I can find absolutely no data to backup such an absurdly high number as you have mentioned.First, there are a few problems with this question. I can find absolutely no data to backup such an absurdly high number as you have mentioned. According to the FBI data in the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) in 2015 there were 13,455 total victims of murder nationwide. If black on black killings were "something like 8,000 a month, nationwide", those murders alone would add up to 96,000. That's an increase of over 7 times the actual murder rate for all races combined. ...more

Second, and perhaps more important, your question seems to imply that we as a society can only focus on one task at a time. We cannot ignore troubling evidence of racism in our government or our society simply because there are other problems as well. Just as we don't abandon cancer research because heart disease is the leading cause of death. Further, these two issues are actually very closely related upon closer inspection. The way a government and society treats a group of people has a direct effect on statistics like violent crime and murder.

At first, statistically, it does appear there is some truth to this issue. Blacks are far more likely to kill blacks (approx 90%), and whites are far more likely to kill whites (approx 83%). Also it is true that murder rates appear disproportionately higher in blacks than in whites (52% vs 45%). But it isn't as simple as that.

When you control for various factors like poverty, unemployment, education, social capital and income inequality those higher murder rates drop. All of those issues lead to an increase in violent crime and murder. Statistically most blacks suffer from issues related to poverty, most whites do not and those who do often don't suffer to the same degree. Whites statistically and on average are doing much better in our society and blacks are again on average doing much worse. The median net worth for households in 2013, for whites $141,900, for blacks $11,000. When you compare the whites with similar rates of poverty the rates of violent crime appear to balance out.

Consider why we might want to do something about obvious racism in the government police force. I've already posted a brief run down on several examples of racial discrimination in policing in other posts. Drug arrests are 4 times higher for blacks despite equal drug usage with whites. Blacks are more often searched and detained during traffic stops despite research showing white drivers are more likely to carry contraband. Blacks are more likely to be stopped by police, detained by police, fined by police and arrested by police. We've seen evidence of entire police departments and court systems focusing on efforts to ticket and fine low income blacks. We've even seen a man stopped by police 258 times for "trespassing" at his job. Now imagine what impact that incredible disparity actually has to an already struggling minority population.

You are correct that the shooting of unarmed black boys and men by a police force that appears to be targeting them based on their race isn't the entire problem. I don't think many people believe that is the case, certainly not those passionate about this issue. We have a long way to go and I believe it starts with openly and honestly acknowledging the issue and taking responsibility for what centuries of systemic racism has and is still creating.(less)

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First, there are a few problems with this question. I can find absolutely no data to backup such an absurdly high number as you have mentioned.First, there are a few problems with this question. I can find absolutely no data to backup such an absurdly high number as you have mentioned.

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Christina Baldwin

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Calling the Circle book. Read 14 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. The original small-press edition of Calling the Circle has becom...

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The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why it Matters

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Priya Parker

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This book tested my resolve to complete every book I begin. Part of the problem was the title lead me to believe it was going to be about the social aspects of how individual meet and become couples. Instead it is about how to plan dinner parties and corporate meetings. So OK, I'm interested in a far-reaching spectrum of topics so I'll give it a try. However, I think the author was more interested in name-dropping than imparting knowledge. She also has a habit of stating a rule then going on to ...more

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In this thought-provoking documentary, scholars, activists and politicians analyze the criminalization of African Americans and the U.S. prison boom. Watch trailers & learn more.

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Tony and Pulitzer Prize nominee Anna Deavere Smith brings her acclaimed one-woman show of the same name to the screen. The HBO Film presentation dramatizes accounts of students, parents, teachers and administrators caught in America's school-to-prison pipeline, which pushes underprivileged, minority youth out of the classroom and into incarceration.

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Tony and Pulitzer Prize nominee Anna Deavere Smith brings her acclaimed one-woman show of the same name to the screen. The HBO Film presentation dramatizes accounts of students, parents, teachers and administrators caught in America's school-to-prison pipeline, which pushes underprivileged, minority youth out of the classroom and into incarceration.

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"One of the most powerful documentaries ever crafted about the current nature of race relations in America." - Toronto Film Scene

After a school fight lands 17-year old Daje Shelton in a court-supervised alternative high school, she's determined to turn things around and make a better future for herself in her rough St. Louis neighborhood. But focusing on school is tough as she loses multiple friends to gun violence, falls in love for the first time, and becomes pregnant with a boy, Ahkeem, just as Ferguson erupts a few miles down the road. Through Daje's intimate coming-of-age story, For Ahkeem illuminates challenges that many Black teenagers face in America today, and witnesses the strength, resilience, and determination it takes to survive.

* Top 10 Lists in Entertainment Weekly ("Must List") and People Magazine ("People Pick")
* Cinema Eye Honors "Unforgettables" list for subjects that "helped to define documentary cinema in 2017" - IndieWire
* Winner of 10 awards-including 7 "Best Feature Documentary" awards-and an Official Selection of over 60 festivals: Berlinale, Tribeca Film Festival, Hot Docs, AFI Docs, Sheffield, and more.

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"One of the most powerful documentaries ever crafted about the current nature of race relations in America." - Toronto Film Scene After a school fight lands 17-year old Daje Shelton in a court-supervised alternative high school, she's determined to turn things around and make a better future for herself in her rough St.

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Front Line: The School to Prison Pipeline

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FRONTLINE: Prison State | School-to-Prison Pipeline | PBS LearningMedia

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Experts discuss the circumstances that lead thousands of juveniles into the court system and jail each year in this video adapted from FRONTLINE: Prison State. According to these experts, in certain communities where incarceration has been "normalized," a child's parents, siblings, or other relations have likely spent time behind bars.

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How we're priming some kids for college, and others for prison

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Alice Goffman: How we're priming some kids for college - and others for prison

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In the United States, two institutions guide teenagers on the journey to adulthood: college and prison. Sociologist Alice Goffman spent six years in a troubled Philadelphia neighborhood and saw first-hand how teenagers of African-American and Latino backgrounds are funneled down the path to prison - sometimes starting with relatively minor infractions.

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The School to Prison Pipeline

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The School to Prison Pipeline | Kiera Wilmot | TEDxYouth@TampaRiverwalk

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School Suspensions are an Adult Behavior

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Resilient Kids Read Father's Day Cards To Their Incarcerated Dads

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The Neuroscience of Restorative Justice

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Dan Reisel studies the biology of change, including our ability to rewire our own brains. And he asks a big question: Instead of warehousing these criminals, shouldn't we be using what we know about the brain to help them rehabilitate? Put another way: If the brain can grow new neural pathways after an injury ...

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Restorative Justice

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Restorative Justice | Laila Fakhoury | TEDxLSSC

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The Opportunity Gap

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Anindya Kundu: The "opportunity gap" in US public education -- and how to close it

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How can we tap into the potential of all students, especially those who come from disadvantaged backgrounds? Sociologist Anindya Kundu invites us to take a deeper look at the personal, social and institutional challenges that keep students from thriving in the United States -- and shows how closing this "opportunity gap" means valuing public education for what it really is: the greatest investment in our collective future.

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How Can We Support the Emotional Wellbeing of Our Teachers?

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Sydney Jensen: How can we support the emotional well-being of teachers?

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Teachers emotionally support our kids -- but who's supporting our teachers? In this eye-opening talk, educator Sydney Jensen explores how teachers are at risk of "secondary trauma" -- the idea that they absorb the emotional weight of their students' experiences -- and shows how schools can get creative in supporting everyone's mental health and wellness.

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Why open a school? To close a prison.

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Nadia Lopez: Why open a school? To close a prison

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Our kids are our future, and it's crucial they believe it themselves. That's why Nadia Lopez opened an academic oasis in Brownsville, Brooklyn, one of the most underserved and violent neighborhoods in New York -- because she believes in every child's brilliance and capabilities.

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How to Fix a Broken School

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Linda Cliatt-Wayman: How to fix a broken school? Lead fearlessly, love hard

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On Linda Cliatt-Wayman's first day as principal at a failing high school in North Philadelphia, she was determined to lay down the law. But she soon realized the job was more complex than she thought. With palpable passion, she shares the three principles that helped her turn around three schools labeled "low-performing and persistently dangerous."

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Every Kid Needs a Champion

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Rita Pierson, a teacher for 40 years, once heard a colleague say, “They don’t pay me to like the kids.” Her response: “Kids don’t learn from people they don’t like.’” A rousing call to educators to believe in their students and actually connect with them on a real, human, personal level.

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A Teacher Growing Green in the South Bronx

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A teacher growing green in the South Bronx

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A whirlwind of energy and ideas, Stephen Ritz is a teacher in New York’s tough South Bronx, where he and his kids grow lush gardens for food, greenery -- and jobs. Just try to keep up with this New York treasure as he spins through the many, many ways there are to grow hope in a neighborhood many have written off, or in your own.

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Why Black Girls are Being Targeted in Our Schools for Punishment and How to Change That

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Why Black girls are targeted for punishment at school -- and how to change that

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Around the world, Black girls are being pushed out of schools because of policies that target them for punishment, says author and social justice scholar Monique W. Morris. The result: countless girls are forced into unsafe futures with restricted opportunities. How can we put an end to this crisis? In an impassioned talk, Morris uncovers the causes of “pushout” and shows how we can work to turn all schools into spaces where Black girls can heal and thrive.

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Help for Kids the Education System Ignores

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Victor Rios: Help for kids the education system ignores

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Define students by what they contribute, not what they lack -- especially those with difficult upbringings, says educator Victor Rios. Interweaved with his personal tale of perseverance as an inner-city youth, Rios identifies three straightforward strategies to shift attitudes in education and calls for fellow educators to see "at-risk" students as "at-promise" individuals brimming with resilience, character and grit.

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Jean Keller, Lorene Sisquoc, & Clifford Trafzer

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Among North American Indians, the boarding school system was a successful failure. The practice of removing Native American children from their homes, families, and communities and forcing them into an educational system designed to assimilate them into American and Canadian societies both succeeded and failed. The governments succeeded in providing some measure of academic, domestic, agricultural, and vocational education to First Nations children, but they failed to assimilate completely Indian children or entirely destroy the essence of their being Native peoples. Ironically, the American boarding school and Canadian residential school experience for many Native American children provided new skills in language, literature, mathematics, and history that strengthened their identities as Native Americans. Many children attending boarding schools returned home or moved to urban areas where they embraced their American Indian heritage in a heightened manner, communicating their strength in being the First Americans in ways that preserved Indian identity. Thus the very system that non-Indians had established to "Kill the Indian in him and save the man" provided Indian students with the experience and expertise to "turn the power." Students used the potentially negative experience to produce a positive result-the preservation of Indian identity, cultures, communities, languages, and peoples. For many Native Americans, the initial exposure to boarding schools gave them the blues, and the illness and death of so many children left their mark on the hearts and minds of Indian people from the outset. Still, the American Indian boarding school experience also . . .

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Off-Reservation Boarding Schools--History

Indian Children--Relocation--United States--History

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Boarding School Blues: Revisiting American Indian Educational Experiences

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Among North American Indians, the boarding school system was a successful failure. The practice of removing Native American children from their homes, families, and communities and forcing them into an educational system designed to assimilate them into American and Canadian societies both succeeded and failed.

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First Nations Development Institute Booklist

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First Nations Development Institute Booklist

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History/Politics
Bordewich, Fergus M. Killing The White Man's Indian; The Reinvention of Native Americans at the End of the 20th Century. New York: Anchor; 1st Anchor Books Trade Pbk. Ed edition, 1997.
Boye, Alan. Holding Stone Hands: On the Trail of the Cheyenne Exodus. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999.
Brown, Dee. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. New York: Owl Books, 2001.
Cahn, Edgar S. and David W. Hearne. Our Brother's Keeper: The Indian in White America. Cincinnati: New Community Press, 1972.

Cornell, Stephen. The Return of the Native: American Indian Political Resurgence. New York: Oxford Press, 1998.
Deloria, Vine. Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1969.
Deloria, Vine Jr. and Clifford M. Lytle. American Indians, American Justice. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1983.

Deloria, Vine and David Wilkins. Tribes, Treaties, and Constitutional Tribulations. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999.
Deloria, Vine Jr. Red Earth, White Lies: Native Americans and the Myth of Scientific Fact. Golden: Fulcrum Publishing; Reissue edition, 1997.
Denetdale, Jennifer Nez. Reclaiming Diné History: The Legacies of Navajo Chief Manuelito and Juanita. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2007.

Demos, John Putnam. The Unredeemed Captive. New York: Vintage, 1995

Dorris, Michael and Louise Erdrich. The Broken Cord: A Family's Ongoing Struggle with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. London: Harper Perennial, 1989.

Dorris, Michael. Morning Girl. New York: Hyperion, 1999.
Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne and Dina Gilio-Whitaker. "All the Real Indians Died Off" and 20 Other Myths about Native Americans. Boston: Beacon Press, 2016.
Echo-Hawk, Walter, R. In the Light of Justice: The Rise of Human Rights in Native America and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Golden: Fulcrum Publishing, 2013.

Echo-Hawk, Walter, R. In the Courts of the Conqueror: The 10 Worst Indian Law Cases Ever Decided. Golden: Fulcrum Publishing, 2010.

Fleming, Walter. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Native American History. Royersford: Alpha Publishing, 2003.

Howe, Craig and Kim TallBear. eds. This Stretch of the River: Lakota, Dakota, & Nakota Responses to the Lewis & Clark Expedition and Bicentennial. Rapid City: Oak Lake Writers' Society, 2006.

Johnson, Troy, ed. Contemporary Native American Political Issues. Walnut Creek: Alta Mira Press, 1999.
Limerick, Patricia Nelson. The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West. New York: W. W. Norton, 1987. Lyons, Oren. Exiled in the Land of the Free: Democracy, Indian Nations & the U.S. Constitution. Santa Fe: Clear Light Books, 1992.
Mason, Dale. Indian Gaming: Tribal Sovereignty and American Politics. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000.

McCool, Daniel. Native Waters - Contemporary Indian Water Settlements and the Second Treaty Era. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2002.

Meyer, John ed. American Indians and U.S. Politics: A Companion Reader. Westport: Praeger Paperback, 2002.

Neihardt, John. Black Elk Speak s. Lincoln: Bison Books, 2004.

O'Brien, Sharon. American Indian Tribal Governments. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989.

O'Brien, Sharon. Roots of Resistance: Land Tenure in New Mexico, 1680-1980. Los Angeles: University of California, 1980.

O'Brien, Sharon. Indians of the Americas: Human Rights and Self-Determination. New York: Zed Books, 1984.

Prucha, Francis Paul. Documents of United State Indians. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000.

Sale, Kirkpatrick. Conquest of Paradise. New York: Plume, 1991.

Smith, Andrea. Conquest: Sexual Violence And American Indian Genocide. Boulder: South End Press, 2005.

Stannard, David. American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Sullivan, Robert. A Whale Hunt: How a Native-American Village Did What No One Thought It Could. New York: Scribner, 2002.

Weatherford, Jack. Indian Givers. New York: Ballantine Books, 1989

Wilkins, David E. and K. Tsianina Lomawaima. Uneven Ground: American Indian Sovereignty and Federal Law. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2001.

Wilkins, David E. American Indian Politics and the American Political System. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2002.

Wilkins, David E. American Indian Sovereignty and the U.S. Supreme Court: The Masking of Justice. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997.

Wilkinson, Charles. American Indians, Time, and the Law. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987.

Wilkinson, Charles. Blood Struggle. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2005.

Wittstock Waterman, Laura and Dick Bancroft. We Are Still Here: A Photographic History of the American Indian Movement. St. Paul: Borealis Books, 2013.

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Books | First Nations Development Institute

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The staff members of First Nations Development Institute have compiled a list of what they consider to be essential reading for anyone interested in the Native American experience. Certain entries on the list are boldfaced, indicating that the employees of First Nations consider them to be "a goo...

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What a World Without Prisons Could Look Like

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Deanna Van Buren: What a world without prisons could look like

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Deanna Van Buren designs restorative justice centers that, instead of taking the punitive approach used by a system focused on mass incarceration, treat crime as a breach of relationships and justice as a process where all stakeholders come together to repair that breach.

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Why Your Worst Deeds Don't Define You

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Shaka Senghor: Why your worst deeds don't define you

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In 1991, Shaka Senghor shot and killed a man. He was, he says, "a drug dealer with a quick temper and a semi-automatic pistol." Jailed for second degree murder, that could very well have been the end of the story. But it wasn't.

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How Jails Extort the Poor

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Why do we jail people for being poor? Today, half a million Americans are in jail only because they can't afford to post bail, and still more are locked up because they can't pay their debt to the court, sometimes for things as minor as unpaid parking tickets.

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What if we ended the injustice of bail?

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Robin Steinberg: What if we ended the injustice of bail?

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On any given night, more than 450,000 people in the United States are locked up in jail simply because they don't have enough money to pay bail. The sums in question are often around $500: easy for some to pay, impossible for others.

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We Need to Talk about Injustice

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In an engaging and personal talk -- with cameo appearances from his grandmother and Rosa Parks -- human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson shares some hard truths about America's justice system, starting with a massive imbalance along racial lines: a third of the country's black male population has been incarcerated at some point in their lives. These issues, which are wrapped up in America's unexamined history, are rarely talked about with this level of candor, insight and persuasiveness.

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Bryan Stevenson: We need to talk about an injustice

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In an engaging and personal talk -- with cameo appearances from his grandmother and Rosa Parks -- human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson shares some hard truths about America's justice system, starting with a massive imbalance along racial lines: a third of the country's black male population has been incarcerated at some point in their lives.

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The Human Stories Behind Mass Incarceration

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Eve Abrams: The human stories behind mass incarceration

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The United States locks up more people than any other country in the world, says documentarian Eve Abrams, and somewhere between one and four percent of those in prison are likely innocent. That's 87,000 brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers -- predominantly African American -- unnecessarily separated from their families, their lives and dreams put on hold.

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In a new study described as a brief for the parents of black students in San Diego's schools, researchers from San Diego State University detail the disparities in test scores and school discipline at San Diego Unified School District.

The report, titled "When They Teach US: The Education of Black Children in San Diego," presents data from recent school years showing lower test scores and higher suspension rates for black students in the state's second largest school district.

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Among the main findings, black boys between Kindergarten and third grade during the 2017-2018 school year were nearly four times as likely to be suspended than their classmates in the same grade levels.

"We consider this to be a major problem because they are young children," said Mohamed Abdi, an academic success coach at SDSU and one of the co-authors of the study. "These are the early years where they learn, and you know, good practices start young."

The report, published by the Community College Equity Assessment Lab and the Black Minds Project at SDSU, also found that disproportionate suspension rates occur at schools designated as high performing schools on websites like GreatSchools.org.

"Some of these schools that are suspending a lot of black males are actually considered great schools," Abdi said. "They are great schools, just not for us."

Noemi Villegas, an instructional support officer for San Diego Unified, said the district will not shy away from these data points. The district will host a community meeting with the researchers at Lincoln High School on Nov. 18.

"We want to have conversations about what we can do to engage our black students," Villegas said. "We want all of our parents to know that their students belong here."

While black students have lower graduation rates and state test scores the district, their college readiness rates have increased by nearly 20 percentage points since 2014-2015. Two studies conducted by UCLA and the Learning Policy Institute found that San Diego Unified has made significant progress in achievement for disadvantaged students and educators' commitment to equity.

Villegas said the district has implemented restorative justice practices that encourage teachers to listen to students rather than just punish them.

"A culturally responsive educator will try to get to the bottom of the behavior rather than criminalize that behavior," Villegas said.

In response to the report's findings, San Diego Unified Board President Sharon Whitehurst-Payne said both parents and the district need to do their part.

"One thing I've encouraged the system to do is to continue to look for ways to help teachers work with children who have special needs, who may be acting in a different way than what they expected," she said. "It's a two sided story there."

Whitehurst-Payne urged parents to enroll their children in preschool to better prepare them for the classroom setting.

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