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In education, nothing is "neutral" when it comes to race. Lesson plans, edtech tools and learning environments either create more equity among students of different races, or more inequity.

That's what scholar Ibram X. Kendi told EdSurge in an interview Nov. 30 during the 2020 virtual conference of the International Society for Technology in Education. (ISTE is the parent organization of EdSurge.)

Kendi, the bestselling author of books including "How to Be an Antiracist" and "Stamped from the Beginning," is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Boston University, as well as the founder and director of the institution's new Center for Antiracist Research.

During the conversation with EdSurge, Kendi shared his perspective about inequitable education outcomes and how antiracist policy changes could benefit the students who grow up with the least access to resources in their homes and schools.

"I think it's a national crime year in and year out that we are not investing in our children and investing in the people who are taking care of our children," he said.

He also discussed his teaching style and why it's important for educators to share vulnerability with their students. Read the lightly edited transcript of the interview here.
EdSurge: Your book, "How to Be an Antiracist," offers many helpful definitions, and I thought that we could start with one of those to lay a foundation for our conversation. You define an antiracist as "one who is expressing the idea that racial groups are equals and none needs developing, and is supporting policy that reduces racial inequity." Why do we need this concept of antiracist, and how is it different from the concept of being neutral or just simply being "not racist"?
Ibram X. Kendi: Well, first, I think it's important for us to realize that the term antiracist, like the term racist, is a descriptive term. Meaning, it describes what a person is being in any given moment. And so what that means is if in one moment a person is expressing that the racial groups are equals, in that moment they're being antiracist. If in the next moment they're saying that this is what's wrong with Black people, then in that moment, they're being racist. The reason why that's critical is because we've been taught something different. We've been taught that racist is essential to who a person is. It's a fixed category. It's in someone's heart.

That's one of the reasons why people are unwilling or unable to admit the times in which they're being racist, because it's not just admitting, "I was being racist in that moment." Basically we're tattooing racist on our forehead for the rest of our lives. Because of people's conception that racist is this fixed category-this fixed, horrible, evil person-people are unwilling to admit the times in which they're being racist.

And so instead they say, "No, no, I'm not racist." So no matter what they say or do, no matter what policies they support, they typically self-identify as not racist. They typically identify policies that are leading to inequities as neutral, as opposed to admitting and reflecting and even seeking to change, as antiracists seek to do.
One of the concepts from your work that I find most powerful is the way you call on us all to re-examine our understanding of cause and effect. You write that "racist policies are the cause of racial inequities" and that "policies determine the success of groups." What does that mean for education? Where, for example, people talk about a racial "academic achievement gap" or disparate discipline rates for Black students?
So let's say for instance, if you're a wealthier parent-and most people of wealth are disproportionately white-and let's say in your city, a single test determines who gets into a prestigious public high school. And let's say you have the resources to hire a personal tutor for your child, which will boost their score on that test, and make it easier, obviously, for them to get into that school. And then somebody comes along and says, "Hey, it's a problem that Black and Latinx kids are underrepresented in that school. And maybe it's because of the test." You have a built-in advantage. And so you are going to-many people, unfortunately-are going to support that policy that benefits their children.

And then they're going to argue that, well, "If only those Black and Latinx kids would work harder"-in other words, they're going to articulate racist ideas to defend that racist policy. And that's typically how racist policies and the defense of those policies lead to racist ideas.
You've written about your experiences in classrooms and at education institutions where teachers and the broader learning environment and the culture of the community either affirmed or racially abused students. What message do you have for teachers and education leaders about how to appropriately teach students of all races and avoid inflicting harm?
I would urge educators to realize that we are either being racist or antiracist educators. When I say "we," I'm an educator too, as a professor. And then also, we are either teaching our children to be racist or antiracist, in our students. And so what that means is, how can we go about ensuring that we are being antiracist in the classroom, and we are teaching an antiracist educational curriculum, or creating an antiracist learning environment where the cultures and the ways of life of different groups of people are valued and taught and understood equally? A learning environment where Black doesn't mean "misbehaving."

I would say the most efficient way we can do that is making sure we ourselves are striving to be antiracist. Because if we as individuals are really ensuring that we are being antiracist as individuals, then that's going to come across in how we act as an educator. That's going to come across in how we teach our students.
Technology can be used in ways that help and support underserved students. But if we're not careful, it can be used in ways that reinforce discrimination. What advice do you have for educators when it comes to using technology and data in ways that are effective and maybe even, hopefully, antiracist?
I don't think we should just assume that anything is, quote, "neutral." If we start from there-that we eliminate the construct-even AI is not neutral. And why is it not neutral? Because humans create it.

And I think if we start there, then that allows us to assess: Is this new technology creating more inequity or equity? Is this new technology allowing me to create, or spread, or build an antiracist learning environment? Those are the types of questions. We shouldn't assume that a new technology is going to do that, because chances are if we make that assumption, then it won't.
And to your point about nothing being neutral, if technology is merely sustaining the status quo, and that status quo is better for some students than others, it seems like that's something worth looking into and questioning as well.
Yes. For instance, the current status quo within our educational system is better for, on average, white students than it is for Black and brown students. And so you then have some white Americans say, "Well, why should I change the status quo? It's benefiting people like me."

But I think what's important for white Americans to think about is to not necessarily compare their lot within the educational system and even outside of it with Black and brown students and people. They should be comparing their lot with white folks in Canada, white folks in France, in Germany, in England. Compare our educational system and what is provided to those students to what on average is provided to students here. They should not be thinking about, "OK I'm in first class. My educational system is in first class." They should realize that there are actually people who are riding in educational systems that are like private jets. And why can't my kid have an educational system that is like a private jet? Why can't every kid? And I think that's what we need to be thinking about.
In "How to Be an Antiracist," you trace the evolution of your own thinking about race. And the lessons that you cite seemed to come not so much from formal school curricula, but often from your experiences and your relationships. What might that mean about the potential or the responsibility of formal education to change how people think about race? And whether interpersonal learning might be more powerful, as it seemed for you.
All of the above is absolutely sort of critical. And indeed, my experiences had to do with different colleagues, and different students and even things that I experienced outside of the classroom. But certainly formal education assisted as well.

I think we should understand, as great educators do, that every place is a classroom. And how do we prepare our students to enter into different classrooms and learn to be better people?
Are there particular curricula or strategies that you're aware of that can help point us toward more-antiracist formal education?
Many people have talked about pedagogy that's culturally relevant, and acknowledging we live in a multicultural country, and ensuring that different forms of pedagogy, different cultures and different histories and different forms of literature are exposed to all students.

But I would also say even at a more basic level, I don't consider intelligence [or] assess one's intelligence based on how much a person knows. I assess one's intelligence based on how much one has a desire to know. And so at the basis, we should be building learning environments that encourage students to want to know, that encourages critical thinking, that encourages students to realize when there is a problem of inequality, that it's not because there's something wrong or inferior about a group of people, but that there's something wrong and inferior about our society. That there's something bad about our policies, our conditions. And then that causes the mind to think, "Well, what are those problems?" as opposed to disparage other groups of people.
In "How to Be an Antiracist," you invited us into your life story to show how your own ideas have developed-and therefore, how ours might develop, too. Does the book reflect your own teaching style or teaching philosophy? There is a lot of history and lots of factual information in the book as well, but it feels very personal. Is that how you teach?
I've learned to teach more in that way. Because what I'm finding is even the students that I teach, it's hard for students, it's hard for people, to separate their own emotionality, to separate themselves, and to really think about race and racism. And so this is a deeply personal affair.

I think people are not taught to be vulnerable. We're not taught to really reflect and challenge and admit the times in which we're being racist so we can strive to be antiracist. We're taught to deny it. And so I think part of the teaching, part of the education, is serving as that model of vulnerability, of self-criticism, that I think is incredibly important for educators to do.
Your work highlights the importance of outcomes, rather than just the intent, of policies and actions and ideas. Are there particular outcomes in education that you see as critical for us to work to change? And are there specific actions that you think could help get us there?
I think that there are many students in this country whose parents have more, and those students typically have more in their schools. And I don't think we should take anything away from what those students are provided.

But what I also think we should do is, those students who currently have the least in their homes and also have the least in their schools-those students should have the most in their schools. And so that obviously means completely transforming how we fund and finance our schools. That calls for how we fund and finance educators. To give an example, when I say the least, I'm not just talking about the resources, but even the teachers who have the least amount of experience tend to be in the schools where students who have the least amount in their homes [are].

So how do we change the incentive structure such that the teachers with the most amount of experience are going to the schools in which they may be the most needed? How do we change? It's so many different structures based on how we're funding schools, how we're incentivizing teachers, how we're preparing educators and principals.

But ultimately it's about investing in our children. And I think it's a national crime year in and year out that we are not investing in our children and investing in the people who are taking care of our children.

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Chapter 1

This morning, Papa call me inside the parlor.

When the sun climb down from the sky and hide hisself deep in the crack of the night, I sit up on my raffia mat, kick Kayus leg away from my feets, and rest my back on the wall of our room.

My head been stoning my mind with many questions since this morning, questions that are not having answers. What is it meaning, to be the wife of a man with two wifes and four childrens? What is making Morufu to want another wife on top the already two? And Papa, why is he wanting to sell me to a old man with no any thinking of how I am feeling? Why didn't he keep the promise he make to Mama before she dead?

I rub my chest, where the too many questions is causing a sore, climb to my feets with a sigh, and walk to the window. Outside, the moon is red, hanging too low the sky, be as if God pluck out his angry eye and throw it inside our compound.

There are fireflies in the air this night, their body is flashing a light of many colors: green and blue and yellow, every one of them dancing and blinking in the dark. Long ago, Mama tell me that fireflies are always bringing good messages to peoples at night. "A firefly is the eyesballs of a angel," she say. "See that one there, the one perching on the leaf of that tree, Adunni. That one be bringing a message of moneys for us." I didn't sure what message that firefly was wanting to bring that long time ago, but I know it didn't bring no money.

When Mama was dead, a light off itself inside of me. I keep myself in that dark for many months until one day Kayus find me in the room where I was sorrowing and weeping, and with his eyes round, full of fear, he beg me to stop my crying because my crying is causing him a heart pain.

That day, I pick up my sorrow and lock it in my heart so that I can be strong and care for Kayus and Papa. But sometimes, like today, the sorrow climb out of my heart and stick his tongue in my face.

When I close my eyes on some days, I see my mama as a rose flower: a yellow and red and purple rose with shining leafs. And if I sniff a deep sniff, I can catch her smell too. That sweet smell of a rosebush sitting around a mint tree, of the coconut soap in her hair just after a washing at Agan waterfalls.

My mama was having long hair which she will plait with black threads and roll around her head like a thick rope, looking like two or three small tires around her head. Sometimes she will remove the threads, let the hair climb down to her back so that I can brush it with her wooden brush. Sometimes, she will take the brush from my hand, make me to sit on a bench in the outside by the well, and twist up my own hair with so much coconut oil that I go about the whole village smelling like a frying food.

She didn't old, my mama, only forty-something years of age before she die, and every day I feel a paining in my spirit for her quiet laugh and voice, for the soft of her arms, for her eyes that say more things than her mouth ever speak.

She didn't sick for too long, thank God. Just six and half months of coughing and coughing until the cough eat up her whole flesh and make her shoulders be like the handle of our parlor door.

Before that devil sickness, Mama was always keeping busy. Always doing the-this and the-that for the everybody in the village. She will fry one hundred puff-puffs every day to sell in Ikati market, sometimes picking fifty of it, the best of the gold-brown ones from the hot oil, and tell me to take it to Iya, one old woman living in Ag‡n village.

I didn't too sure of how Iya and Mama are knowing each other, or what is her real name because "Iya" is a Yoruba word for old woman. All I know is my mama was always sending me to give food to Iya and all the older womens who are sick in the village around Ikati: hot amala and okra soup with crayfish or beans and dodo, the plantain soft, oily.

One time, I bring puff-puff to Iya, after Mama was too sick to travel far, and when I reach home that night and ask Mama why she keep sending food to peoples when she is feeling too sick to travel far, Mama say, "Adunni, you must do good for other peoples, even if you are not well, even if the whole world around you is not well."

It was Mama who show me how to pray to God, to put thread in my hair, to wash my cloth with no soap, and to change my under-cloth when my monthly visitor was first coming.

My throat tight itself as I hear her voice in my head now, the faint and weak of it, as she was begging Papa to don't give me to any man for marriage if she die of this sickness. I hear Papa's voice too, shaking with fear but fighting to be strong as he was answering her: "Stop this nonsense dying talk. Nobody is dying anything. Adunni will not marry any man, you hear me? She will go to school and do what you want, I swear to you! Just do quick and better yourself!"

But Mama didn't do quick and better herself. She was dead two days after Papa make that promise, and now I am marrying a old man because Papa is forgetting all the things he make promise to Mama. I am marrying Morufu because Papa is needing moneys for food and community rent and nonsense.

I taste the salt of my tears at the memorying of it all, and when I go back to my mat and close my eyes, I see Mama as a rose flower. But this rose is no more having yellow and red and purple colors with shining leafs. This flower be the brown of a wet leaf that suffer a stamping from the dirty feets of a man that forget the promise he make to his dead wife.
He was sitting inside the sofa with no cushion and looking me. Papa have this way of looking me one kind. As if he wants to be flogging me for no reason, as if I am carrying shit inside my cheeks and when I open mouth to talk, the whole place be smelling of it.

"Sah?" I say, kneeling down and putting my hand in my back. "You call me?"

"Come close," Papa say.

I know he want to tell me something bad. I can see it inside his eyes; his eyesballs have the dull of a brown stone that been sitting inside hot sun for too long. He have the same eyes when he was telling me, three years ago, that I must stop my educations. That time, I was the most old of all in my class and all the childrens was always calling me "Aunty." I tell you true, the day I stop school and the day my mama was dead is the worst day of my life.

When Papa ask me to move closer, I am not answering him because our parlor is the small of a Mazda car. Did he want me to move closer and be kneeling inside his mouth? So, I kneel in the same place and wait for him to be talking his mind.

Papa make a noise with his throat and lean on the wood back of the sofa with no cushion. The cushion have spoil because our last born, Kayus, he have done too many piss inside it. Since the boy was a baby, he been pissing as if it is a curse. The piss mess the cushion, so Mama make Kayus to be sleeping on it for pillow.

We have a tee-vee in our parlor; it didn't work. Born-boy, our first born, he find the tee-vee inside dustbin two years back when he was working a job as dustbin collector officer in the next village. We are only putting it there for fashion. It is looking good, sitting like a handsome prince inside our parlor, in the corner beside the front door. We are even putting small flower vase on top it; be like a crown on the prince head. When we have a visitor, Papa will be doing as if it is working and be saying, "Adunni, come and put evening news for Mr. Bada to watch." And me, I will be responding, "Papa, the remote-controlling is missing." Then Papa will shake his head and say to Mr. Bada, "Those useless childrens, they have lost the remote-controlling again. Come, let us sit outside, drink and forget the sorrows of our country, Nigeria."

Mr. Bada must be a big fool if he didn't know that it is a lie.

We have one standing fan too, two of the fan blade is missing so it is always blowing air, which is making the whole parlor too hot. Papa like to be sitting in front of the fan in the evening, crossing his feets at his ankles and drinking from the bottle that have become his wife since Mama have dead.

"Adunni, your mama have dead," Papa say after a moment. I can smell the drink on his body as he is talking. Even when Papa didn't drink, his skin and sweat still smell.

"Yes, Papa. I know," I say. Why is he telling me something I have already know? Something that have cause a hole inside my heart and fill it with block of pain that I am dragging with me to everywhere? How can I ever be forgetting how my mama was coughing blood, red and thick with spit bubbles, inside my hand every day for three months? When I am closing my eyes to sleep at night, I still see the blood, sometimes I taste the salt of it.

"I know, Papa," I say again. "Have another something bad happen?"

Papa sigh. "They have told us to be going."

"To be going to where?" Sometimes I have worry for Papa. Since Mama have dead, he keep saying things that didn't make sense, and sometimes he talk to hisself, cry to hisself too when he think nobody is hearing.

"You want me to fetch water for your morning baff?" I ask. "There is morning food too, fresh bread with sweet groundnut."

"Community rent is thirty thousan' naira," Papa say. "If we cannot pay the moneys, we must find another place to live." Thirty thousand naira is very plenty moneys. I know Papa cannot find that moneys even if he is searching the whole of the Nigeria because even my school fees moneys of seven thousand, Papa didn't have. It was Mama who was paying for school fees and rent moneys and feeding money and everything money before she was dead.

"Where we will find that kind money?" I ask.

"Morufu," Papa say. "You know him? He come here yesterday. To see me."

"Morufu the taxi driver?" Morufu is a old man taxi driver in our village with the face of a he-goat. Apart from his two wifes, Morufu is having four childrens that didn't go to school. They just be running around the village stream in their dirty pant, pulling sugar cartons with string, playing suwe and clapping their hand until the skin about to peel off. Why was Morufu visiting our house? What was he finding?

"Yes," Papa say with a tight smile. "He is a good man, that Morufu. He surprise me yesterday when he say he will pay community rent for us. All the thirty thousan'."

"That is good?" I ask the question because it didn't make sense. Because I know that no man will be paying for another somebody's rent unless he is wanting something. Why will Morufu pay our community rent? What was he wanting? Or is he owing Papa moneys from before in the past? I look my papa, my eyes filling with hope that it is not the thing I am thinking. "Papa?"

"Yes." Papa wait, swallow spit and wipe his front head sweat. "The rent moneys is . . . is among your owo-ori."

"My owo-ori? You mean my bride-price?" My heart is starting to break because I am only fourteen years going fifteen and I am not marrying any foolish stupid old man because I am wanting to go back to school and learn teacher work and become a adult woman and have moneys to be driving car and living in fine house with cushion sofa and be helping my papa and my two brothers. I don't want to marry any mens or any boys or any another person forever, so I ask Papa again, talking real slow so he will be catching every word I am saying and not mistaking me in his answer: "Papa, is this bride-price for me or for another person?"

And my papa, he nod his head slowly slow, not minding the tears standing in my eyes or the opening wide of my mouth, as he is saying: "The bride-price is for you, Adunni. You will be marrying Morufu next week."

Chapter 2

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The Girl with the Louding Voice: A Read with Jenna Pick (A Novel)

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As young children, Lyna and Glen were taken from their homes and placed in church-run boarding schools. The trauma of this experience was made worse by years of untold physical, sexual and emotional abuse, the effects of which persist in their adult lives. The profound impact of the Canadian government's residential school system is conveyed unflinchingly through their eyes.

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Sam Killermann is a comedian, author, and award-winning activist. Sam travels the world performing comedy shows and giving talks on themes of social justice, gender, and sexuality.

Killermann's work (that he uncopyrighted in 2013) has been downloaded by hundreds of millions of people around the world who utilize it to bolster their educational efforts toward global equity. His versions of the Genderbread Person, a model for understanding and teaching gender and sexual diversity, have been translated into over a dozen languages.

In 2017, Sam was profiled in National Geographic's documentary "Gender Revolution: A Journey with Katie Couric. In 2014, Sam designed an all-gender restroom sign that he gifted to the commons, which is now being implemented on three continents, was featured in the White House, and is becoming the standard for dozens of communities around the U.S. and world.

Sam is the author of several books, including A Guide to Gender, which is an exploration of gender from a social justice perspective, with humor and comics sprinkled in. The book opened as the #1 bestseller in gender on Amazon, and as a reflection of Sam's commitment to access as a core social justice value, he's given away over 20,000 copies of the book. He gave a well-received TEDxTalk that has over 300,000 views called "Understanding the Complexities of Gender," where he distilled the themes of the book into a few minutes of fun, energetic, and easily-digestible speech.

Sam is the co-creator of TheSafeZoneProject.com, a free online resource for LGBTQ and Ally training materials. The open source curriculum they published is being used by over 17,000 educators in at least 100 countries.

Outside of his key initiatives, Sam is a frequent keynote speaker, makes political shirts for EveryShirtIsPolitical, co-facilitates FacilitatingXYZ, was named a "Person We Love" by Yes! Magazine, Austin "Changemaker," and is always dreaming up new social good projects. When he's not on the road, he likes to spend at least a few hours a day bicycling around sunny Austin, TX, where he counts himself lucky to live.

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A Guide to Gender (2nd Edition): The Social Justice Advocate's Handbook

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The first name bits:

What Jason knows is that there are a lot - A LOT - of people, young, old, and in-between, who hate reading. He knows that many of these book haters are boys. He knows that many of these book-hating boys, don't actually hate books, they hate boredom. If you are reading this, and you happen to be one of these boys, first of all, you're reading this Jason's master plan is already working (muahahahahahaha) and second of all, know that Jason totally feels you. He REALLY does. Because even though he's a writer, he hates reading boring books too.

So here's what he plans to do: NOT WRITE BORING BOOKS.

That's it, and that's all.

Now, for the last name bits:

Jason Reynolds is an award-winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author. Jason's many books include Miles Morales: Spider Man, the Track series (Ghost, Patina, Sunny, and Lu), Long Way Down, which received a Newbery Honor, a Printz Honor, and a Correta Scott King Honor, and Look Both Ways, which was a National Book Award Finalist. His latest book, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You, is a collaboration with Ibram X. Kendi. Recently named the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, Jason has appeared on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, Late Night with Seth Meyers, and CBS This Morning. He is on faculty at Lesley University, for the Writing for Young People MFA Program and lives in Washington, DC. You can find his ramblings at JasonWritesBooks.com.

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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning

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"Layla Saad's Me and White Supremacy is an indispensable resource for white people who want to challenge white supremacy but don't know where to begin. She moves her readers from their heads into their hearts, and ultimately, into their practice. We won't end white supremacy through an intellectual understanding alone; we must put that understanding into action." ― Robin DiAngelo, author of New York Times bestseller White Fragility Anne Hathaway Glennon Doyle, author of #1 New York Times bestseller Love Warrior and founder of Together Rising

"She is no-joke changing the world and, for what it's worth, the way I live my life." ― Me and White Supremacy

"Her work is personal, practical, reflective, applicable, difficult, effective, and imperative. For the millions of us beginning to know where to begin -- where to begin to counteract our ugly history, and where to stand during this historical moment of polarization and hate -- Layla answers: Begin with me. Begin with you." ― , Layla not only engages readers effectively - she hands them the tools they need to change themselves so that they can better the lives of millions of people worldwide." ― Rachel Cargle, activist, writer, and lecturer

"As an educator and writer in this space, I well understand the difficulties of productive discourse on topics like white supremacy, white fragility, and complicity. In Me and White Supremacy teaches readers exactly how to get past the paralysis of white fragility so that they can build bridges, not walls. Read the book, look deep within yourself, sit with your discomfort, and then act. This is how we can truly say we are doing everything we can to combat white supremacy." ― Sophia Bush, award-winning actress and activist Me and White Supremacy

"Allyship means taking action. How? Layla Saad's is a rallying call, for those humble enough to answer, to stop and examine how dominant systems shape how white people see themselves, see others and how they move through the world. Saad takes readers by the hand and holds a mirror up for readers to confront everything conscious and subconscious, that lies within their beliefs. She invites readers to dive deeper and do reflective exercises to cement the work. I applaud Layla for putting to paper this truly transformative work. Me and White Supremacy summons forth a new type of leadership and accountability that this time so desperately calls for and is the pathway to a greater healing that generations of people and communities so desperately need." ― Latha, Wellnessm Thomas Maven, Celebrity Doula, Best-selling author of Own Your Glow and founder of Mama Glow. New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert

"Layla Saad's pioneering work Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author Jamia Wilson, author, and publisher of the Feminist Press Me and White Supremacy has become a major part of our self-care. Now not only do we have more accessible and contemporary language for "How" to speak about the invention of whiteness and the traumas of global white supremacy, but we have a toolkit to point to that does a great deal of this work for us - all in one place. The book is self-care because it helps to eliminate the responsibility of the oppressed to shoulder the burden of educating the oppressor. I suspect that as a result of Me and White Supremacy , we will never be the same." ― EbonyJanice Moore, author, activist, scholar, and founder of Black Girl Mixtape Institute

"America needed this book yesterday. In fact, America has always needed this book. Layla Saad is one of the most important and valuable teachers we have right now on the subject of white supremacy and racial injustice. With keen intelligence and tireless patience, she is working to remove our collective cultural blind spots and to help―at last―change minds and transform society. I have the deepest respect for her. Buy this book for yourself, your family, your students. Don't put it off and don't look away. It's time." ― Jasmin Kaur, author of When You Ask Me Where I'm Going

"Layla Saad is one of the most important and valuable teachers we have right now on the subject of white supremacy and racial injustice." ― Rebekah Borucki, best-selling author of Managing the Motherload

"A timely and thoughtful guide that transforms truth-telling into accessible and actionable change in hearts, minds, and communities worldwide." ― Reema Zaman, award-winning actress, speaker, activist, and author of I Am Yours

"For many Black women that do public justice education work, Layla Saad's Kirkus Reviews Me and White Supremacy will help readers stand up for what is right and make a positive change in the world." ― SheReads Library Journal, STARRED review Booklist, STARRED review

"Layla Saad is an unapologetic force against white supremacy. In a world where the scales of power tip painfully in favor of injustice, Layla gives us the tools to look within, confront internalized oppression, challenge our biases and learn how to do better for one another." ― Midwest Book Review Me and White Supremacy

"Layla Saad is doing sacred work. Because in her effort to protect, center, and advance the well-being of Black folks, she is healing the soul of all humanity. This book is a revolution that will create ripples and waves for an entire generation of truth-seekers." ― is an effective tool for individuals to start their journeys into the work of addressing larger systems of racism and oppression. " ― Shelf Awareness for Readers, STARRED review

"With equal parts love, brilliance, and vulnerability, Layla F. Saad has given us a guidebook for healing and transformation for the self and the world... I want to press this book into everyone's hands, to urge, Read this. This is one of those rare books where the author has given us the profound gift of her entirety poured into pages, attaching additional meaning to the phrase, "The book of a lifetime." It is indeed a book belonging to multiple narratives: yours, mine, hers. The book of a lifetime that will transform lives." ―

"A bracing, highly useful tool for any discussion of combating racism. " ―

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"This small but intense book which provokes readers to take personal ownership of the effort to dismantle systemic racism...This book is not for the oppressed or the marginalized, but rather for those whose privilege, when left unchecked, has harmful consequences. Saad has created an insightful and necessary contribution to the work of combating racism and becoming good ancestors." ―

"Must be considered mandatory reading for anyone having to deal with the social injustice arising from racism and bigotry that has seen a dramatic resurgence in our American culture and society. " ―

Layla Saad is a globally respected writer, speaker and podcast host on the topics of race, identity, leadership, personal transformation and social change.

As an East African, Arab, British, Black, Muslim woman who was born and grew up in the West, and lives in Middle East, Layla has always sat at a unique intersection of identities from which she is able to draw rich and intriguing perspectives. Layla's work is driven by her powerful desire to 'become a good ancestor'; to live and work in ways that leave a legacy of healing and liberation for those who will come after she is gone.

Me and White Supremacy is Layla's first book. Initially offered for free following an Instagram challenge under the same name, the digital Me And White Supremacy Workbook was downloaded by close to ninety thousand people around the world in the space of six months, before becoming a traditionally published book. Layla's work has been brought into homes, educational institutions and workplaces around the world that are seeking to create personal and collective change.

Layla earned her Bachelor of Law degree from Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. She lives in Doha, Qatar with her husband, Sam, and two children, Maya and Mohamed. Find out more about Layla at www.laylafsaad.com.

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Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

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Isabel Wilkerson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, is the author the critically acclaimed New York Times bestsellers The Warmth of Other Suns, and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.

Her first book, The Warmth of Other Suns, tells the story of the Great Migration, a watershed in American history. It won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the Heartland Prize for Nonfiction, the Anisfield-Wolf Award for Nonfiction, the Lynton History Prize from Harvard and Columbia universities, the Stephen Ambrose Oral History Prize and was shortlisted for both the Pen-Galbraith Literary Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.

WARMTH was named to more than 30 Best of the Year lists, including The New York Times' 10 Best Books of the Year, Amazon's 5 Best Books of the Year and Best of the Year lists in The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and The Economist, among others. In 2019, TIME Magazine named Warmth to its list of the10 best books of the decade.

Her second book, CASTE: The Origins of Our Discontents, explores the unrecognized hierarchy in America, its history and its consequences. Caste became a No. 1 New York Times bestseller, was the 2020 summer/fall selection for Oprah's Book Club and was longlisted for the National Book Award. It was named to more best of the year lists than any other work of nonfiction. TIME named it the No. 1 nonfiction book of 2020. Publishers Marketplace named it the book of the year across all genres. In 2021, it was the most borrowed nonfiction library book in the United States, according to Quartz Magazine.

Wilkerson won the Pulitzer Prize for her work as Chicago Bureau Chief of The New York Times in 1994, making her the first black woman in the history of American journalism to win a Pulitzer and the first African-American to win for individual reporting. In 2016, President Barack Obama awarded her the National Humanities Medal for "championing the stories of an unsung history."

She has appeared on national programs such as "Fresh Air with Terry Gross," CBS's "60 Minutes," NBC's "Nightly News," "The PBS News Hour," MSNBC's "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell," "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah," NPR's "On Being with Krista Tippett," the BBC and others. She has taught at Princeton, Emory and Boston universities and has lectured at more than 200 other colleges and universities across the U.S. and in Europe and Asia.

Follow @isabelwilkerson on Instagram and Threads. Follow her on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/IsabelWilkersonWriter/

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"Essential reading for all adults who work with black and brown young people...Filled with exceptional intellectual sophistication and necessary wisdom for the future of education."-Imani Perry, National Book Award Winner author of South To America

An award-winning educator offers a much-needed antidote to traditional top-down pedagogy and promises to radically reframe the landscape of urban education for the better

Drawing on his own experience of feeling undervalued and invisible in classrooms as a young man of color, Dr. Christopher Emdin has merged his experiences with more than a decade of teaching and researching in urban America. He takes to task the perception of urban youth of color as unteachable, and he challenges educators to embrace and respect each student's culture and to reimagine the classroom as a site where roles are reversed and students become the experts in their own learning.

Putting forth his theory of Reality Pedagogy, Emdin provides practical tools to unleash the brilliance and eagerness of youth and educators alike-both of whom have been typecast and stymied by outdated modes of thinking about urban education. With this fresh and engaging new pedagogical vision, Emdin demonstrates the importance of creating a family structure and building communities within the classroom, using culturally relevant strategies like hip-hop music and call-and-response, and connecting the experiences of urban youth to indigenous populations globally.

Merging real stories with theory, research, and practice, Emdin demonstrates how by implementing the "Seven Cs" of reality pedagogy in their own classrooms, urban youth of color benefit from truly transformative education.

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For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education

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Monique Couvson, Ed.D. (formerly Monique W. Morris) is an award-winning author and social justice scholar with three decades of experience in the areas of education, civil rights, juvenile and criminal justice. Dr. Couvson is the President and CEO of Grantmakers for Girls of Color, the nation's only philanthropic intermediary explicitly focused on resourcing movements and organizations led by, and in support of, cis and trans girls and young femmes of color. Under her leadership, G4GC has developed four signature funds, including: the Black Girl Freedom Fund, which as part of the #1Billion4BlackGirls campaign seeking to mobilize $1 billion in investments centering Black girls over the next 10 years; the New Songs Rising Initiative for Indigenous Girls in partnership with the Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples; the Holding A Sister Initiative for Trans Girls of Color with the Black Trans Fund; and G4GC's general grantmaking fund, Love is Healing. Between April 2021 and March 2022, G4GC granted more than $13 million to more than 200 organizations located across all 50 states, Washington, DC, Guam, and Puerto Rico.

Dr. Couvson is the author of six books, including Cultivating Joyful Learning Spaces for Black Girls: Insights into Interrupting School Pushout (ASCD, 2022) and the forthcoming book Charisma's Turn (The New Press, 2023), a graphic novel about supporting Black girls who stand in their gifts. She is an Executive Producer and co-writer of the documentary film, "PUSHOUT: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools," which is based upon two of her books, Sing A Rhythm, Dance A Blues: Liberatory Education for Black and Brown Girls (The New Press, 2019) and Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools (The New Press, 2016).

As Monique W. Morris, Dr. Couvson is the author of Black Stats: African Americans by the Numbers in the Twenty-First Century (The New Press, 2014), Too Beautiful for Words (MWM Books, 2012), and she worked with Kemba Smith on her book, Poster Child: The Kemba Smith Story (IBJ Book Publishing, 2011). She has written dozens of articles, book chapters, and other publications on social justice issues and lectured widely on research, policies, and practices associated with improving juvenile/criminal justice, educational, and socioeconomic conditions for girls and women of color. Her 2018 TED talk on how to stop the criminalization of Black girls in schools has received nearly 2 million views and been translated into 20 languages.

Dr. Couvson is a member of the Tides Advocacy Board of Directors. She is also the Founder and Board Chair for the National Black Women's Justice Institute (NBWJI), an organization that works to interrupt school-to-confinement pathways for girls, reduce the barriers to employment for formerly incarcerated women, and increase the capacity of organizations working to reduce sexual assault and domestic violence in African American communities. She served as an adjunct associate professor for Saint Mary's College of California between 2013-2018 and has taught at the University of San Francisco and California State University, Sacramento. Dr. Couvson is a 2012 Soros Justice Fellow, the former Vice President for Economic Programs, Advocacy and Research at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the former Director of Research for the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice at the UC Berkeley Law School. She has also worked in partnership with and served as a consultant for federal, state and county agencies, national academic and research institutions, and communities throughout the nation to develop research, comprehensive approaches and training curricula to eliminate racial/ethnic and gender disparities in justice and educational systems. Her work in this area has informed the development and implementation of improved culturally competent and gender-responsive continua of services for youth.

As Monique W. Morris, Dr. Couvson's work has been profiled by Forbes, the Chronicle of Philanthropy, MSNBC, CSPAN2, The Washington Post, The New York Times, NPR, USA Today, and PBS, among other national and local print, radio, and television media. Her research intersects race, gender, education and justice to explore the ways in which Black communities, and other communities of color, are uniquely affected by social policies. She also frequently lectures on the life and legacy of the artist Prince.

Instagram: drmoniquecouvson

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Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race

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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 -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

"Powerful and passionate . . . profoundly moving . . . a searing meditation on what it means to be black in America today." -John Legend, The Wall Street Journal -David Remnick,

"Really powerful and emotional." The New Yorker - The Washington Post

"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." 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." -

"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 Boston Globe 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."

"An eloquent blend of history, reportage, and memoir written in the tradition of James Baldwin with echoes of Ralph Ellison's - Los Angeles Times - The New Yorker Between the World and Me is the latest essential reading in America's social canon."

"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. - Entertainment Weekly 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." -

"A crucial book during this moment of generational awakening." The Guardian 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."

"A work that's both titanic and timely, - The Root 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." - Newsday

"Coates delivers a beautiful lyrical call for consciousness in the face of racial discrimination in America. . . . Between the World and Me is an essential clarion call to our collective conscience. We ignore it at our own peril." - San Francisco Chronicle - New York Post Invisible Man . . . . The perspective [Coates] brings to American life is one that no responsible citizen or serious scholar can safely ignore." - Foreign Affairs

"Coates has crafted a deeply moving and poignant letter to his own son. . . . [His] book is a compelling mix of history, analysis and memoir. - Vogue - The Economist 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."

"Rife with love, sadness, anger and struggle, - Slate -Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center - Deadspin

"Poignant, revelatory and exceedingly wise, - U.S. News & World Report - The Christian Science Monitor - New Republic

"Masterfully written . . . powerful storytelling." Between the World and Me feels of-the-moment, but like James Baldwin's celebrated 1963 treatise The Fire Next Time,

"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 it stands to become a classic on the subject of race in America." - The Seattle Times -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."

"Urgent, lyrical, and devastating in its precision, Coates has penned a new classic of our time." - The Baltimore Sun - Chicago Tribune -Michael Chabon

"A work of rare beauty and revelatory honesty . . . 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

"The most important book I've read in years . . . an illuminating, edifying, educational, inspiring experience."

"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."

"[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."

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

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. . . we sprawl in gray chains in a place full of winters when what we want is the sun

Amira Baraka, "Ka Ba"

Son,

Last Sunday the host of a popular news show asked me what it meant to lose my body. The host was broadcasting from Washington, D.C., and I was seated in a remote studio on the far west side of Manhattan. A satellite closed the miles between us, but no machinery could close the gap between her world and the world for which I had been summoned to speak. When the host asked me about my body, her face faded from the screen, and was replaced by a scroll of words, written by me earlier that week.

The host read these words for the audience, and when she finished she turned to the subject of my body, although she did not mention it specifically. But by now I am accustomed to intelligent people asking about the condition of my body without realizing the nature of their request. Specifically, the host wished to know why I felt that white America's progress, or rather the progress of those Americans who believe that they are white, was built on looting and violence. Hearing this, I felt an old and indistinct sadness well up in me. The answer to this question is the record of the believers themselves. The answer is American history.

There is nothing extreme in this statement. Americans deify democracy in a way that allows for a dim awareness that they have, from time to time, stood in defiance of their God. But democracy is a forgiving God and America's heresies-torture, theft, enslavement-are so common among individuals and nations that none can declare themselves immune. In fact, Americans, in a real sense, have never betrayed their God. When Abraham Lincoln declared, in 1863, that the battle of Gettysburg must ensure "that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth," he was not merely being aspirational; at the onset of the Civil War, the United States of America had one of the highest rates of suffrage in the world. The question is not whether Lincoln truly meant "government of the people" but what our country has, throughout its history, taken the political term "people" to actually mean. In 1863 it did not mean your mother or your grandmother, and it did not mean you and me. Thus America's problem is not its betrayal of "government of the people," but the means by which "the people" acquired their names.

This leads us to another equally important ideal, one that Americans implicitly accept but to which they make no conscious claim. Americans believe in the reality of "race" as a defined, indubitable feature of the natural world. Racism-the need to ascribe bone-deep features to people and then humiliate, reduce, and destroy them-inevitably follows from this inalterable condition. In this way, racism is rendered as the innocent daughter of Mother Nature, and one is left to deplore the Middle Passage or the Trail of Tears the way one deplores an earthquake, a tornado, or any other phenomenon that can be cast as beyond the handiwork of men.

But race is the child of racism, not the father. And the process of naming "the people" has never been a matter of genealogy and physiognomy so much as one of hierarchy. Difference in hue and hair is old. But the belief in the preeminence of hue and hair, the notion that these factors can correctly organize a society and that they signify deeper attributes, which are indelible-this is the new idea at the heart of this new people who have been brought up hopelessly, tragically, deceitfully, to believe that they are white.

These new people are, like us, a modern invention. But unlike us, their new name has no real meaning divorced from the machinery of criminal power. The new people were something else before they were white-Catholic, Corsican, Welsh, Mennonite, Jewish-and if all our national hopes have any fulfillment, then they will have to be something else again. Perhaps they will truly become American and create a nobler basis for their myths. I cannot call it. As for now, it must be said that the process of washing the disparate tribes white, the elevation of the belief in being white, was not achieved through wine tastings and ice cream socials, but rather through the pillaging of life, liberty, labor, and land; through the flaying of backs; the chaining of limbs; the strangling of dissidents; the destruction of families; the rape of mothers; the sale of children; and various other acts meant, first and foremost, to deny you and me the right to secure and govern our own bodies.

The new people are not original in this. Perhaps there has been, at some point in history, some great power whose elevation was exempt from the violent exploitation of other human bodies. If there has been, I have yet to discover it. But this banality of violence can never excuse America, because America makes no claim to the banal. America believes itself exceptional, the greatest and noblest nation ever to exist, a lone champion standing between the white city of democracy and the terrorists, despots, barbarians, and other enemies of civilization. One cannot, at once, claim to be superhuman and then plead mortal error. I propose to take our countrymen's claims of American exceptionalism seriously, which is to say I propose subjecting our country to an exceptional moral standard. This is difficult because there exists, all around us, an apparatus urging us to accept American innocence at face value and not to inquire too much. And it is so easy to look away, to live with the fruits of our history and to ignore the great evil done in all of our names. But you and I have never truly had that luxury. I think you know.

I write you in your fifteenth year. I am writing you because this was the year you saw Eric Garner choked to death for selling cigarettes; because you know now that Renisha McBride was shot for seeking help, that John Crawford was shot down for browsing in a department store. And you have seen men in uniform drive by and murder Tamir Rice, a twelve-year-old child whom they were oath-bound to protect. And you have seen men in the same uniforms pummel Marlene Pinnock, someone's grandmother, on the side of a road. And you know now, if you did not before, that the police departments of your country have been endowed with the authority to destroy your body. It does not matter if the destruction is the result of an unfortunate overreaction. It does not matter if it originates in a misunderstanding. It does not matter if the destruction springs from a foolish policy. Sell cigarettes without the proper authority and your body can be destroyed. Resent the people trying to entrap your body and it can be destroyed. Turn into a dark stairwell and your body can be destroyed. The destroyers will rarely be held accountable. Mostly they will receive pensions. And destruction is merely the superlative form of a dominion whose prerogatives include friskings, detainings, beatings, and humiliations. All of this is common to black people. And all of this is old for black people. No one is held responsible.

There is nothing uniquely evil in these destroyers or even in this moment. The destroyers are merely men enforcing the whims of our country, correctly interpreting its heritage and legacy. It is hard to face this. But all our phrasing-race relations, racial chasm, racial justice, racial profiling, white privilege, even white supremacy-serves to obscure that racism is a visceral experience, that it dislodges brains, blocks airways, rips muscle, extracts organs, cracks bones, breaks teeth. You must never look away from this. You must always remember that the sociology, the history, the economics, the graphs, the charts, the regressions all land, with great violence, upon the body.

That Sunday, with that host, on that news show, I tried to explain this as best I could within the time allotted. But at the end of the segment, the host flashed a widely shared picture of an eleven-year-old black boy tearfully hugging a white police officer. Then she asked me about "hope." And I knew then that I had failed. And I remembered that I had expected to fail. And I wondered again at the indistinct sadness welling up in me. Why exactly was I sad? I came out of the studio and walked for a while. It was a calm December day. Families, believing themselves white, were out on the streets. Infants, raised to be white, were bundled in strollers. And I was sad for these people, much as I was sad for the host and sad for all the people out there watching and reveling in a specious hope. I realized then why I was sad. When the journalist asked me about my body, it was like she was asking me to awaken her from the most gorgeous dream. I have seen that dream all my life. It is perfect houses with nice lawns. It is Memorial Day cookouts, block associations, and driveways. The Dream is treehouses and the Cub Scouts. The Dream smells like peppermint but tastes like strawberry shortcake. And for so long I have wanted to escape into the Dream, to fold my country over my head like a blanket. But this has never been an option because the Dream rests on our backs, the bedding made from our bodies. And knowing this, knowing that the Dream persists by warring with the known world, I was sad for the host, I was sad for all those families, I was sad for my country, but above all, in that moment, I was sad for you.

That was the week you learned that the killers of Michael Brown would go free. The men who had left his body in the street like some awesome declaration of their inviolable power would never be punished. It was not my expectation that anyone would ever be punished. But you were young and still believed. You stayed up till 11 p.m. that night, waiting for the announcement of an indictment, and when instead it was announced that there was none you said, "I've got to go," and you went into your room, and I heard you crying. I came in five minutes after, and I didn't hug you, and I didn't comfort you, because I thought it would be wrong to comfort you. I did not tell you that it would be okay, because I have never believed it would be okay. What I told you is what your grandparents tried to tell me: that this is your country, that this is your world, that this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it. I tell you now that the question of how one should live within a black body, within a country lost in the Dream, is the question of my life, and the pursuit of this question, I have found, ultimately answers itself.

This must seem strange to you. We live in a "goal-oriented" era. Our media vocabulary is full of hot takes, big ideas, and grand theories of everything. But some time ago I rejected magic in all its forms. This rejection was a gift from your grandparents, who never tried to console me with ideas of an afterlife and were skeptical of preordained American glory. In accepting both the chaos of history and the fact of my total end, I was freed to truly consider how I wished to live-specifically, how do I live free in this black body? It is a profound question because America understands itself as God's handiwork, but the black body is the clearest evidence that America is the work of men. I have asked the question through my reading and writings, through the music of my youth, through arguments with your grandfather, with your mother, your aunt Janai, your uncle Ben. I have searched for answers in nationalist myth, in classrooms, out on the streets, and on other continents. The question is unanswerable, which is not to say futile. The greatest reward of this constant interrogation, of confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from ghosts and girded me against the sheer terror of disembodiment.

And I am afraid. I feel the fear most acutely whenever you leave me. But I was afraid long before you, and in this I was unoriginal. When I was your age the only people I knew were black, and all of them were powerfully, adamantly, dangerously afraid. I had seen this fear all my young life, though I had not always recognized it as such.

It was always right in front of me. The fear was there in the extravagant boys of my neighborhood, in their large rings and medallions, their big puffy coats and full-length fur-collared leathers, which was their armor against their world. They would stand on the corner of Gwynn Oak and Liberty, or Cold Spring and Park Heights, or outside Mondawmin Mall, with their hands dipped in Russell sweats. I think back on those boys now and all I see is fear, and all I see is them girding themselves against the ghosts of the bad old days when the Mississippi mob gathered 'round their grandfathers so that the branches of the black body might be torched, then cut away. The fear lived on in their practiced bop, their slouching denim, their big T‑shirts, the calculated angle of their baseball caps, a catalog of behaviors and garments enlisted to inspire the belief that these boys were in firm possession of everything they desired.

I saw it in their customs of war. I was no older than five, sitting out on the front steps of my home on Woodbrook Avenue, watching two shirtless boys circle each other close and buck shoulders. From then on, I knew that there was a ritual to a street fight, bylaws and codes that, in their very need, attested to all the vulnerability of the black teenage bodies.

I heard the fear in the first music I ever knew, the music that pumped from boom boxes full of grand boast and bluster. The boys who stood out on Garrison and Liberty up on Park Heights loved this music because it told them, against all evidence and odds, that they were masters of their own lives, their own streets, and their own bodies. I saw it in the girls, in their loud laughter, in their gilded bamboo earrings that announced their names thrice over. And I saw it in their brutal language and hard gaze, how they would cut you with their eyes and destroy you with their words for the sin of playing too much. "Keep my name out your mouth," they would say. I would watch them after school, how they squared off like boxers, vaselined up, earrings off, Reeboks on, and leaped at each other.

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"A vital, necessary, and beautiful book, a bracing call to white folk everywhere to see their whiteness for what it is and to seize the opportunity to make things better now."
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"As powerful forces of white racism again swell, DiAngelo invites white progressives to have a courageous conversation about their culture of complicity. . . .
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White Fragility Reading Guide Özlem Sensoy and Robin DiAngeloBefore You Begin: Suggestions for Discussion . We offer the following pedagogical tips as you organize your discussion. , wherein people with a shared identity (such as cis-men, or Asian women, or Indigenous people) work through issues particular to them, in a closed group. If your group is diverse, discuss how you want to organize yourselves (in a mixed group or an affinity group for all or part of various chapter discussions). rather than as teachers. This means the overall task of the facilitator is to keep the group focused and on track, with equitable sharing of the airtime. This will be easier to do if at the start of the discussion you tell the group that this is your task. You could even name the patterns ahead of time and ask group members to watch out for these themselves.: Identifiable via expressions including "People should just ____," "Society is _____," "How do I tell my coworker _____," "What about all the people who aren't here today who should be _____," "The executive team at my workplace _____," and "My family member _____": Identifiable via behaviors including texting, working on laptop, engaging in side conversations. At the start, ask participants to put phones/laptops away. Explain that effective discussion on racism often causes disequilibrium for those of us who are white and that technology functions as a way to check out. Further, when people of color are present, the distraction of technology sends a problematic message. Someone who has an emergency or is expecting a text or call should leave the room at that time. Regarding side conversations, the facilitator might say, "I am having trouble hearing. Please give your attention to the speaker."The same person or people speaking first, at length, immediately, and/or several times while others sit back in silence.: "Who haven't we heard from?" "Let's wait a little longer to make space for people who need more time." "I'm going to ask that if we have spoken twice already, we wait until everyone else has had a chance before we speak again." "Let's go around the table and check in." "Does anyone else want to share their perspective?" "We all have a responsibility to share our thoughts so others in the group know where we're coming from or what we're struggling with.""I already know all this." "I come from ___ and I can't believe how white it is here." "I realized many years ago that___." "I am married to/have children who are ___," followed by distancing (rather than insight and recognition that this doesn't exempt them and their learning is not finished). "Where do you see your current learning edge?" "DiAngelo states that nothing exempts us from the forces of racism. How are situations that are unique to us still informed by racism?" "How does being white shape one's sense that they are 'beyond' this discussion?" "Can you name three actions in the last month that demonstrate your awareness in practice?" "We have been doing this for years now and nothing changes." "The administration are the ones that need this and they just don't care." : Turning to people of color for answers or to go first: "I grew up in a sheltered environment, so I don't know anything about race." "Sharon, tell me about the racism you have experienced." "Sharon, you go first." "I'm from Germany and we don't have these issues there." "Canada is a multicultural society." "It's completely different where I am from because everyone is the same.": "At what age were you aware that black people existed? Where did they live? If in Africa, what were your impressions of Africa? Where did you get your information about Africa?" "Did you watch Hollywood movies? If so, what impressions did you get about African Americans from US movies? What about Disney movies and cartoons?" "What was your relationship to Asian heritage people? What were Asian people like, in your mind?" and so on.I'm really nervous/scared/uncomfortable saying this and/but ... , rather than protects, the workings of white supremacy). Second, it positions white people-yet again-as the experts. Based on these dilemmas, the following points are important to keep in mind: lives, how we uphold that system, and how we might interrupt it. . When discussing complex social and institutional dynamics such as racism, consider whether "I don't agree" may actually mean "I don't understand.". She has been a consultant and trainer on issues of racial and social justice for more than twenty years. She formerly served as a tenured professor of multicultural education at Westfield State University.

White Fragility
This reading guide is intended to support formal and informal group discussions of On size: On composition:

affinity groups On monitoring the group:
There can be strategic advantages to organizing yourself into what are sometimes called On facilitating: Tips for facilitators of white discussion groups

guides Common Patterns 1. Distancing Response techniques
Based on the following patterns, it is highly recommended that a facilitator or team of facilitators be assigned when primarily white groups discuss racism. Facilitators should think of themselves as : "Can you speak to how you see this in your own

behaviors/thoughts/beliefs in life/work?" "What part do you see yourself playing?" "What might you do...?" "How is the most effective way for someone to talk with you
about your 2. Checking out Response techniques : 3. Dominating the discussion : Response techniques 4. Positioning themselves as already getting this/Giving evidence for why this discussion doesn't apply to them : Response techniques: "The book poses an important question, 'How do we know how well we are doing?' 5. Hopelessness : "Racism is never going to end." "I can't do anything." "What are we supposed to do?" "This is just about making us feel guilty." Response techniques
: "The author speaks to the question of guilt. What points does she make?" "If we apply the question the author asks, How does our discouragement function? 6. Expecting people of color to teach us (white people) about race

Response techniques Claiming this discussion doesn't apply to them because they are not from the US:
Response techniques

Silence Breakers Additional Tips for a Productive Discussion
exposes our Note for those using this guide outside of the US context

agreement
and understanding Before you begin discussing chapter by chapter, spend some time reviewing the guidelines above. Understanding & Dismantling Privilege 4, no. 2, (2014), Robin DiAngelo is an academic, lecturer, and author of White Fragility Is Everyone Really Equal?: An Introduction to Key Concepts in Social Justice Education (Teachers College Press).

Countering Common Patterns via Silence Breakers
2. From my experience/perspective as [identity] ...
3. I'm afraid I may offend someone, and please let know if I do, but ...
4. I'm not sure if this will make any sense, and/but ...
5. I just felt something shift in the room. I'm wondering if anyone else did.
6. It seems as though some people may have had a reaction to that. Can you help me understand why?
7. Can you help me understand whether what I'm thinking right now might be problematic?
8. This is what I understand you to be saying: ____ Is that accurate?
9. I'm having a "yeah but." Can you help me work through it?
10. I'm engaged but just needing time to process this. What I am working on processing is _____.[2]

As DiAngelo notes, white people addressing white fragility surfaces several dilemmas. First, it requires that white people be centered in the conversation about racism. This can be problematic because it reinforces the white centering that is taken for granted in society at large (it is the author's hope, however, that it is a centering that

1. This book and its arguments build on antiracism scholarship and activism that people of color have written for generations. That scholarship has been fundamental to the ability of the author to explicate white fragility. Use this text as the starting point-rather than the ending point-to educate yourself on racism. There are many suggestions for engaging with the work of people of color in the Resources for Continuing Education section of this book.

2. The primary goal for white people working to understand racism is not to learn how racism impacts people of color. The primary goal is to recognize how the system of racism shapes

3. For people of color, multiracial, and Indigenous peoples who are part of an informal or formal discussion group, the book and this guide will hopefully validate your lived experiences and offer some helpful insight into the challenges of trying to talk to white people about racism. Like the book, this guide is primarily focused on raising the consciousness and increasing the cross-racial skills of white people. In so doing, many of the questions will be specific to them. Yet while the work of this text is primarily focused on the role that white people play within the system of racism, people of color are exposed to the same messages and must also consider how those messages have impacted them and the resultant role they may play. This dynamic is colloquially described as "assimilation" (or "acting white") and is described in scholarship as "collusion." These terms refer to people of color upholding values and behaviors that negatively impact their own and other groups of color and ultimately support white supremacy. There are many pressures to collude, the foremost of which is that there are rewards for conformity with the system. If we behave in ways that the dominant group finds favorable, we will likely receive benefits (or at least minimize penalties) in our daily interactions with them. As you study the dynamic of white fragility, consider your role and responsibilities in relation to collusion and adapt questions accordingly and as needed.

The dynamics of white fragility are familiar in all societies in which white people hold institutional power and/or have a white settler colonial history, including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, and South Africa. While the book focuses on the specific sociopolitical context of the US, it is for you to reflect on how these dynamics manifest in your specific sociopolitical context. For white people who did not grow up in the US but live in the US now, consider how US-based racial dynamics (and globally circulating US cultural stories and images) shape your current ideas about race, your life, and cross-racial relationships.

For all readers
The chapter questions are intended to deepen your reflection and understanding of the chapters and constructively inform your response to white fragility.

Keep the following principles in mind. You may need to return to them on occasion, so consider posting them in the room or having them available on cards:

1. A strong opinion is not the same as informed knowledge.

2. There is a difference between

3. We have a deep interest in denying the forms of oppression that benefit us. We may also have an interest in denying forms of oppression that harm us. For example, people of color can deny the existence of racism and even support its structures. This denial may keep them from feeling overwhelmed by the daily slights or protect them from the penalties of confronting white people on racism. However, regardless of the reason, this denial still benefits whites at the group level, not people of color.

4. Racism goes beyond individual intentions to collective group patterns.

5. We don't have to be aware of racism in order for it to exist.

6. Our racial position (whether we identify as white, a person of color, or multiracial) will greatly affect our ability to see racism. For example, if we swim against the "current" of racial privilege, it's often easier to recognize, while it's harder to recognize if we swim with the current.

7. Putting our effort into protecting rather than expanding our current worldview prevents our intellectual and emotional growth.

[1] Adapted from Anika Nailah and Robin DiAngelo
[2] Excerpted from Robin DiAngelo and Ozlem Sensoy, "Calling In: Strategies for Cultivating Humility and Critical Thinking in Antiracism Education," About the Guide Authors

Özlem Sensoy is an associate professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University in Canada. She is the co-author (with Robin DiAngelo) of the award-winning book,

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Welcome to the Diversity Deep Dive Podcast. In this podcast, you will hear insights and uplifting stories of resilience and perseverance against the odds. We will share meaningful dialogue to positively impact diversity and inclusion by dispelling stereotypes, tackling biases, and providing best practices to achieve greater cultural competence. Join us as we break some glass and disrupt the way we think about diversity and inclusion.

Welcome to the Diversity Deep Dive Podcast. In this podcast, you will hear insights and uplifting stories of resilience and perseverance against the odds. We will share meaningful dialogue to positively impact diversity and inclusion by dispelling stereotypes, tackling biases, and providing best practices to achieve greater cultural competence. Join us as we break some glass and disrupt the way we think about diversity and inclusion.

Phenomenal Show

Very engaging and kept my interest. Keep up the fantastic work! (is there a way to connect with you?)

Diversity and Inclusion at Work!!

What a great show! I like how the show is completely saturated and dripping with insight and information on how to integrate D&I concepts and practices into community, business and industry. It's dense and delightfully accessible at the same time. Can't wait for the next one!!

Amazing

This was really an eye opener! I enjoyed learning more about women in the STEM workforce and how they overcome the male stereotype. The Podcast was also spot on with Latinos breaking barriers and how they keep America well detailed.

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Welcome to the Diversity Deep Dive Podcast. In this podcast, you will hear insights and uplifting stories of resilience and perseverance against the odds. We will share meaningful dialogue to positively impact diversity and inclusion by dispelling stereotypes, tackling biases, and providing best pra...

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A seismic shift has taken place in the world of work. Workplace culture continues to adapt and respond - as it always has done - to the wider world. Covid turned our working lives upside down; Black Lives Matter and the #MeToo movement challenged and changed our expectations of what a responsible and inclusive business looks and feels like. Society, culture and work now overlap in ways we have not seen before. The reWorked podcast provides a space to explore how business can respond to this complex, and sometimes contested, landscape. We speak to leading thinkers and doers about their ideas for what an inclusive workplace looks like in 2023. Listen below and on all your usual podcast platforms.

A seismic shift has taken place in the world of work. Workplace culture continues to adapt and respond - as it always has done - to the wider world. Covid turned our working lives upside down; Black Lives Matter and the #MeToo movement challenged and changed our expectations of what a responsible and inclusive business looks and feels like. Society, culture and work now overlap in ways we have not seen before. The reWorked podcast provides a space to explore how business can respond to this complex, and sometimes contested, landscape. We speak to leading thinkers and doers about their ideas for what an inclusive workplace looks like in 2023. Listen below and on all your usual podcast platforms.

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‎reWorked: the Workplace Inclusion Podcast on Apple Podcasts

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A seismic shift has taken place in the world of work. Workplace culture continues to adapt and respond - as it always has done - to the wider world. Covid turned our working lives upside down; Black Lives Matter and the #MeToo movement challenged and changed our expectations of what a responsible an...

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We help organizations develop customized diversity and inclusion initiatives that advance strategic objectives within the legal margins. The purpose of Littler's podcasts is to provide helpful information for employers, addressing the latest developments in labor and employment relations. They are not a substitute for experienced legal counsel and do not provide legal advice or attempt to address the numerous factual issues that arise in any employment-related issue.

We help organizations develop customized diversity and inclusion initiatives that advance strategic objectives within the legal margins. The purpose of Littler's podcasts is to provide helpful information for employers, addressing the latest developments in labor and employment relations. They are not a substitute for experienced legal counsel and do not provide legal advice or attempt to address the numerous factual issues that arise in any employment-related issue.

Excellent resource

I recently stumbled across this podcast. I love the intelligent conversation and guidance. Each topic is carefully discussed yet gets to the point! Thank you!

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‎Littler Inclusion, Equity & Diversity Podcast on Apple Podcasts

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Bringing our history to life through the voices of the people who lived it.

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‎The Will To Change: Uncovering True Stories of Diversity & Inclusion on Apple Podcasts

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Listen to Disability Matters on Spotify. Competitive employment and empowerment for people with disabilities is the emphasis of this show. Broadcast live and captioned in real-time for individuals who are deaf and hard of hearing, we discuss how people with disabilities can secure career opportunities, and how employers, organizations and individuals can support employment and empowerment of people with disabilities.

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Listen to Race at Work with Porter Braswell on Spotify. Race is a topic many of us struggle to talk about at work, yet it shapes so many of our career experiences and outcomes. But host Porter Braswell (Jopwell) is on a mission to create a safe space to share those stories - and learn from them.

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A More Beautiful Way with Bethaney Wilkinson

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Listen to A More Beautiful Way with Bethaney Wilkinson on Spotify. A More Beautiful Way is an exploration of what it takes to slow down, create sacred space, and bring healing hearts, minds & bodies to the work of social change.

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Listen to Diversity: Beyond the Checkbox on Spotify. A weekly podcast delivering diverse insights and perspectives from global leaders in business, executive education and diversity & inclusion. Hosted by award-winning content creator, author, speaker, certified diversity executive and cofounder of The Diversity Movement, Jackie Ferguson.

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Alex Fidler, age eight, remembers a lot of things about Joel Blecha's first-grade class at Chicago's Francis W. Parker School-but mostly she remembers becoming friends with a man with dwarfism.

Her year in Blecha's class included rides on mass transit, field trips to the zoo and a visit to a job site where Mr. Blecha got squirted by water from a broken pipe. But Alex most vividly recalls a visit to the nonprofit Access Living, where she met some friendly people who happened to have disabilities.

"One of them had dwarfism. One of them needed to have, like, bigger font so they could see better. One of them had cerebral palsy," says Alex, now in second grade. "But they weren't different. They just needed some things so they could get around better."

This kind of statement makes Blecha happy. An enthusiastic and self-described "outside-the-walls" teacher, Blecha has built a social studies curriculum for first-graders that centers on accessibility for people with disabilities-what Blecha calls "beautiful differences."

It's a good fit at Parker School, an independent pre-K to 12 private school serving Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood. The school represents core values of community and diversity; its ethos opens with the sentence, "We are deliberately composed of a diverse group of people so that we can learn how to honor the dignity and experience of every human being."

But when the topics of diversity and civil rights come up, many people first think about race, gender or sexual orientation; people with disabilities can be overlooked.

"One of the unexpected joys of this accessibility curriculum is the number of parents saying, 'I never knew this stuff!'" Blecha says. "'I'm learning this stuff right along with my kid.'"

An Idea Born on the El Train

Blecha came to Parker School in 2011 after 10 years in the New York public school system. He spent the summer of 2012 riding Chicago's public transportation, taking in the city's famous architecture and mining ideas for a social studies curriculum.

One day, while navigating some stairs with a stroller-bound toddler, Blecha had what he calls a "light bulb moment." For someone with a disability, those stairs would be tough-if not impossible-to manage.

"Six- and 7-year-olds have this real strong sense of justice," Blecha says. "I wanted to kind of channel that in a social justice lens. I thought accessibility, learning about how people move around the city with disabilities, would be a great way to teach social studies."

An Eye-Opening Partnership

Blecha had an idea, but he needed help. He discovered Access Living, a nonprofit organization that helps Chicagoans with disabilities live engaged, independent lives.

The organization provides direct services to about 1,200 people; education and outreach are priorities, so Blecha's proposed partnership seemed mutually beneficial. Working with Access Living connected him to their staff-most of whom have disabilities-and allowed students to meet the people they were learning about. Meanwhile, Access Living had an opportunity to reach an important segment of the population: early-childhood learners.

"Part of what we do to make more systemic change is to try and change mindsets," says Gary Arnold, the public relations coordinator for Access Living. "What we learned last year is a great audience for that is very young people. ... It was almost like we could see it happening in real time, the information being absorbed by these kids and what kind of impact that had."

A Curriculum of Accessibility

Blecha's accessibility curriculum started by inviting visitors to his classroom. This made a deep impression, especially when a woman with cerebral palsy told the students that as a little girl she liked to ice skate and dress up for Halloween. Her story helped students understand that, while she was physically different, she wanted the same things as everyone else: to have fun, make friends and be independent. Blecha also introduced students to people with disabilities within their school community. His students met with a ninth-grade Parker student who has muscular dystrophy and an eighth grader with a congenital upper-limb deficiency. Both talked to the class about their disabilities and challenges.

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Alex Fidler, age eight, remembers a lot of things about Joel Blecha's first-grade class at Chicago's Francis W. Parker School-but mostly she remembers becoming friends with a man with dwarfism. Her year in Blecha's class included rides on mass transit, field trips to the zoo and a visit to a job site where Mr. Blecha got squirted by water from a broken pipe.

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Best-selling author and coaching expert, Elena Aguilar, shares her wisdom about coaching, leading teams, and designing and facilitating transformational professional development.

Try It On: Supercharge Your Learning

Best-selling author and coaching expert, Elena Aguilar, brings weekly tips, tools, and wisdom to educators with one goal: to help you thrive.

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The Bright Morning Podcast: Best-selling author and coaching expert, Elena Aguilar, brings weekly tips, tools, and wisdom to educators with one goal: to help you thrive.

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"Do the Work" is a podcast hosted by Brandon Kyle Goodman, about race and our personal relationships. Each episode is an intimate conversation between two people who know each other well - family, old friends, lovers or colleagues. We bring them together so they can finally have a real conversation about race, and we can all learn how to be anti-racist in our daily lives. We all have bias; let's talk about it!

"Do the Work" is a podcast hosted by Brandon Kyle Goodman, about race and our personal relationships. Each episode is an intimate conversation between two people who know each other well - family, old friends, lovers or colleagues. We bring them together so they can finally have a real conversation about race, and we can all learn how to be anti-racist in our daily lives. We all have bias; let's talk about it!

So helpful

Thank you for sharing these conversations. Deeply impactful and so important to bring about lasting change.
I'm pretty new to anti-racism so it's been helpful for me to start framing and having the difficult conversations with my family and friends.

Advancing My Understanding of Intersectionality

This series is fantastic - I'm only half way through, but I really appreciate how every episode is advancing my understanding of intersectionality. Hopefully there will be many more seasons as I'm already afraid of missing the series and I'm only half way done. Great work!

Anti-Racism 101

What a wonderful podcast for everyone trying to get their arms around being a better ally. Each episode takes on a discrete issue, using understandable real-life examples to teach. Easy to understand, moving, and illuminating.

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‎"Do the Work" is a podcast hosted by Brandon Kyle Goodman, about race and our personal relationships. Each episode is an intimate conversation between two people who know each other well - family, old friends, lovers or colleagues. We bring them together so they can finally have a real conversation...

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The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights launched "Pod for the Cause" podcast to expand the conversation on critical civil and human rights challenges of our day: census, justice reform, policing, education, fighting hate & bias, judicial nominations, fair courts, voting rights, media & tech, economic security, immigration, and human rights. Through this expanded dialogue, we want to spur activism that drives change in our communities and country. Be sure to SUBSCRIBE to the show on your favorite podcast app and leave a 5-star review.

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights launched "Pod for the Cause" podcast to expand the conversation on critical civil and human rights challenges of our day: census, justice reform, policing, education, fighting hate & bias, judicial nominations, fair courts, voting rights, media & tech, economic security, immigration, and human rights. Through this expanded dialogue, we want to spur activism that drives change in our communities and country. Be sure to SUBSCRIBE to the show on your favorite podcast app and leave a 5-star review.

Impactful message!

I just listened to "Will Our Lives Still Matter" and loved it. The discussion perfectly captured how this is both a difficult and hopeful time. I left inspired by the idea that maybe, just maybe, there's the tiniest chance that we are at the precipice of real change. Only if we work hard, only if we're the voice in the room challenging the status quo, only if we vote, and only if we call our nations leaders and demand equality. Daunting challenges, but we have the power to move the needle. Thank you for the powerful message and let's keep hope alive!

Amazing

Amazing podcast for our generations to stay informed! Get out and vote. Make a difference. Thank you for helping change the world.

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‎The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights launched "Pod for the Cause" podcast to expand the conversation on critical civil and human rights challenges of our day: census, justice reform, policing, education, fighting hate & bias, judicial nominations, fair courts, voting rights, media & t...

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This podcast focuses on supporting educators with the tools and resources necessary to ensure equity at their school. On this podcast, listeners can expect to hear interviews and stories from voices of equity in education today.

This podcast focuses on supporting educators with the tools and resources necessary to ensure equity at their school. On this podcast, listeners can expect to hear interviews and stories from voices of equity in education today.

Very though provoking

This podcast always has great discussions. It provides educators with valuable knowledge. Dr. Eakins asks great questions and really prompts his guests to provide solutions to foster equity in schools.

Getting My Education

Every episode challenges, engages, and changes my way of thinking. Thank you, Doc! This podcast is a must for all educators- especially white folks like me who need our perspective shifted, our vocabulary modified, and our awareness heightened. I can't recommend this enough.

Love the advocacy

So many great ideas here! I heard some episodes awhile ago, but I just came back to it and am catching up. I love that this is shedding light on small and big problems. It's so nice to feel like someone understands the issues in education and is willing to dig deeper than bandaid solutions. I appreciate the balance of big picture ideas and useful strategies.

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This podcast focuses on supporting educators with the tools and resources necessary to ensure equity at their school. On this podcast, listeners can expect to hear interviews and stories from voices of equity in education today. This podcast focuses on supporting educators with the tools and resources necessary to ensure equity at their school.

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Be Antiracist imagines what an antiracist society might look like and how we all can play an active role in building one. Dr. Ibram X. Kendi is the author of How to Be an Antiracist, the book that spurred a nationwide conversation redefining what it means to be antiracist, and in this podcast, he guides listeners how they can identify and reject the racist systems hiding behind racial inequity and injustice. Alongside notable guests, Dr. Kendi continues his journey towards building a just and equitable world and proposes how we can all help create it with him.

Be Antiracist imagines what an antiracist society might look like and how we all can play an active role in building one. Dr. Ibram X. Kendi is the author of How to Be an Antiracist, the book that spurred a nationwide conversation redefining what it means to be antiracist, and in this podcast, he guides listeners how they can identify and reject the racist systems hiding behind racial inequity and injustice. Alongside notable guests, Dr. Kendi continues his journey towards building a just and equitable world and proposes how we can all help create it with him.

Wonderful addition to reading Dr Kendi's books!

I am so grateful to have free access to Dr Kendi's podcast episodes - much like hearing an audiobook recorded by the author, hearing experts introduce, frame, and build contexts and concepts is "next level." Dr Kendi and other expert voices in our current culture provide white people like my family an opportunity to learn things which have been intentionally left out of our history classes and our family stories, which in turn leaves us ignorant of the racist hallmarks and foundations of our present-day social, political, and business institutions. Learning and unlearning are happening together. It is not enough to "not be racist" - it is imperative to be antiracist. Thank you Dr Kendi and Puskin for creating and sharing this podcast!

Ignore the detractors

1-star reviews are seeking only to be divisive. This podcast is insightful, honest, poignant, and seeds you to a myriad of other books and podcasts to expand your thinking.

Fantastic

And a must listen for white folks.

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‎Be Antiracist with Ibram X. Kendi on Apple Podcasts

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Be Antiracist imagines what an antiracist society might look like and how we all can play an active role in building one. Dr. Ibram X. Kendi is the author of How to Be an Antiracist, the book that spurred a nationwide conversation redefining what it means to be antiracist, and in this podcast, he gu...

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Intersectionality Matters! is a podcast hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw, an American civil rights advocate and a leading scholar of critical race theory.

Intersectionality Matters! is a podcast hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw, an American civil rights advocate and a leading scholar of critical race theory.

If I could only reply to others reviews

At _2020Unties_if that's even right but I always check out reviews to get a pulse on what a podcast is so I can listen an make my own decisions...but I haven't even heard this one yet an was blown away by the complaint that this podcast only talks on black people and black and white issues and how it's disappointing that it doesn't represent the country....welp did you see the title an the description of this podcast before you listened or made that wild statement???
Reading is fundamental...

Always informative.

I always learn a lot.

Powerfully informative

This podcast is compelling and very important. Every single episode presents a lesson on how we mitigate the disease of racism and achieve true liberation. Exceptional!

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‎Intersectionality Matters! on Apple Podcasts

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Intersectionality Matters! is a podcast hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw, an American civil rights advocate and a leading scholar of critical race theory.

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The past is never past. Every headline has a history. Join us every week as we go back in time to understand the present. These are stories you can feel and sounds you can see from the moments that shaped our world.

The past is never past. Every headline has a history. Join us every week as we go back in time to understand the present. These are stories you can feel and sounds you can see from the moments that shaped our world.

Eiffel 65 'I'm blue' - Rund Abdelfatah Remix

Can someone please remix the Eiffel 65 'I'm blue' song and replace the chorus with Rund Abdelfatah?

"I'm rund abdelfatah, ab del fa tah,

Ab del fa tah, ab del fa tah....etc"

Poor History

First off, I do like the reporting style of the podcast in that the podcast continually engages the listener throughout the show. However, I categorically disagree with and dislike the historical approach this podcast takes. I am a current history major that focuses on non-western state development in the modern period. I've listened to several episodes, and the one I take most fault with is the episode focusing on Hong Kong. For one, the podcast team chose to go to a professor of political science at Notre Dame for a HISTORICAL explication of Hong Kong's origin when Notre Dame has a special chair history professor (Professor Koll) that focuses on the history of modern China, which encompasses the very timeframe this podcast episode discusses. I have personally taken a class offered by Professor Koll on the history of modern China, and this class encompassed the timeframe of that this episode does, even starting before it with the origins of European colonizers in China. In this regard, I question the choice of guests/experts the podcast chooses to include. Also, the very essence of this podcast, explaining the present through the past, based itself on a poor approach to history and historical analysis. Going to the past to look for an explanation of the present will lead to cherry-picked and self-serving narratives. The past is the past. We can try to learn as much as we can about the whole, objective past, but we will only ever recover bits of all of what happened. Much of what "led" to any present situation is circumstantial and could've gone in a myriad of directions. Painting a image of the past that garners a crystal clear path from point A to point B misses the nuance of what actually occurred. Overall, this podcast really stretches what history, or at least good history, is when it claims to be a history podcast. While certainly engaging and entertaining, I would advise any listener to take what is said with a heavy grain of salt and investigate matters further for more information and conflicting viewpoints, of which I'm sure there are many for any topic this podcast discusses but fails to mention

I feel smart again😂

No seriously though... I feel smart again! So much knowledge I've lost over the years (sorry I wasn't thinking about the Chin Dynasty and planned obsolescence in my 20s) and this is a great way to educate myself on new topics, and build on my existing baseline. I have newborn twins so I can't exactly sit down and read, so listening to these podcasts has been a life saver. Keep me coming!

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‎The past is never past. Every headline has a history. Join us every week as we go back in time to understand the present. These are stories you can feel and sounds you can see from the moments that shaped our world.

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What's CODE SWITCH? It's the fearless conversations about race that you've been waiting for. Hosted by journalists of color, our podcast tackles the subject of race with empathy and humor. We explore how race affects every part of society - from politics and pop culture to history, food and everything in between. This podcast makes all of us part of the conversation - because we're all part of the story. Code Switch was named Apple Podcasts' first-ever Show of the Year in 2020.

What's CODE SWITCH? It's the fearless conversations about race that you've been waiting for. Hosted by journalists of color, our podcast tackles the subject of race with empathy and humor. We explore how race affects every part of society - from politics and pop culture to history, food and everything in between. This podcast makes all of us part of the conversation - because we're all part of the story. Code Switch was named Apple Podcasts' first-ever Show of the Year in 2020.

A podcast that will make you a better person

I find this highly entertaining and highly informative. I appreciate y'all's style and production and have learned a lot I will carry with me. Also great book recommendations!

Learning a lot

Super informative. Down to earth conversations and really hits home on many issues. Look forward to a new episode all the time

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‎What's CODE SWITCH? It's the fearless conversations about race that you've been waiting for. Hosted by journalists of color, our podcast tackles the subject of race with empathy and humor. We explore how race affects every part of society - from politics and pop culture to history, food and everythi...

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GOAL: “Children will demonstrate self-awareness, confidence, family pride and positive social identities” (Derman-Sparks et al., 2020, p. 15). 

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GOAL: “Children will demonstrate self-awareness, confidence, family pride and positive social identities” (Derman-Sparks et al., 2020, p. 15). 

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GOAL: Children will demonstrate empowerment and the skills to act, with others or alone, against prejudice and/or discriminatory actions (Derman-Sparks et al., 2020, p. 17).

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GOAL: Children will demonstrate empowerment and the skills to act, with others or alone, against prejudice and/or discriminatory actions (Derman-Sparks et al., 2020, p. 17).

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GOAL: “Children will increasingly recognize injustice, have language to describe unfairness, and understand that unfairness hurts” (Derman-Sparks et al., 2020, p. 16).

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GOAL: “Children will increasingly recognize injustice, have language to describe unfairness, and understand that unfairness hurts” (Derman-Sparks et al., 2020, p. 16).

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GOAL: “Children will express comfort and joy with human diversity; accurate  language for human differences; and deep, caring human connections” (Derman-Sparks et al., 2020, p. 15).

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GOAL: “Children will express comfort and joy with human diversity; accurate  language for human differences; and deep, caring human connections” (Derman-Sparks et al., 2020, p. 15).

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Without LGBTQ history, there is no American history. From Learning for Justice and hosts Leila Rupp and John D'Emilio, Queer America takes listeners on a journey that spans from Harlem to the Frontier West, revealing stories of LGBTQ life we should have learned in school.

This podcast is produced in partnership with University of Wisconsin Press, publishers of Understanding and Teaching U.S. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History. It is the first book designed for high school and university teachers who want to integrate LGBTQ history into their standard curriculum.

Listen to each episode individually, or subscribe for automatic downloads using:

Queer America is an exploration of the history of sexual identity and gender identity in the United States. Leila Rupp and John D'Emilio host this new podcast from Learning for Justice-a resource to help educators integrate LGBTQ history into their curriculum.

From the Gold Rush to the Cold War, Historian Daniel Hurewitz offers strategies for integrating LGBTQ History into your curriculum. He shares lesson examples from U.S. history and insights from educators already teaching queer history in their classrooms.

In a fascinating conversation with host Leila J. Rupp, historian and writer Genny Beemyn brings us inspiring-and surprising-stories of trans and gender nonconforming figures, from the Frontier West to the modern civil rights movement and beyond.

Lessons from the classroom-from high stakes testing to critical thinking skills-professor Emily Hobson & public school teacher Felicia Perez discuss their experiences and practical advice to help you incorporate LGBTQ History.

We're passing love notes across time. Historian Susan K. Freeman takes a deep dive into the history of women who loved women-and offers ways for educators to connect love letters to lessons on culture, women's rights movements and literary themes.

Lifelong partnerships between women existed long before the legalization of gay marriage. Susan K. Freeman continues her exploration of the spaces they found-in their words, their societies and their homes-for same-sex intimacy.

"If we teach only about the Red Scare, we're only telling part of the story of the Cold War." Historian David K. Johnson explores the systemic firing of gay government employees and the consequences of a homophobic culture that still endure today.

World War II plunged a double-edged sword into the heart of the U.S. queer community. Historian Susan Freeman examines how the war brought gay men and lesbians together, and the ways it isolated them from the right to serve and benefit from their service.

What can the private lives of public figures like Eleanor Roosevelt and J. Edgar Hoover tell us about their impact on U.S. history? Historian Claire Potter helps us navigate the relationships among identity, power and actions-and why we must teach them.

Don't start-or stop-with Stonewall. To understand not just LGBTQ history but all post-war U.S. history, students must see the 1960s in context. In this episode, Amnesty International's Ian Lekus dives into the minority-rights revolutions of the 1960s.

The revolution was intersectional. Amnesty International's Ian Lekus returns to discuss ways educators can highlight the many identities of 1960s activists and help students understand the roles LGBTQ people played in movements you already teach.

"Inequality directly affected the scope of the epidemic." Historian Jennifer Brier and CAARAC founder Shakita Jones discuss the history and structural discrimination surrounding AIDS, and how to approach these difficult conversations in the classroom.

Queer characters have existed on screen since the era of silent film. But do they have a starring role in your syllabus? Scholars Sharon Ullman and Nicholas Syrett offer concrete strategies for teaching LGBTQ history through films and documentaries.

On our season finale, join Learning for Justice Senior Writer Cory Collins and hosts Leila Rupp and John D'Emilio as they offer concrete tips for creating LGBTQ-inclusive classrooms and taking themes from this podcast into our daily practice.
Read the Best Practices for Serving LGBTQ Students Guide

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Watch the episodes from Asian Americans, a five-part film series that delivers a bold, fresh perspective on a history that matters today, more than ever.