Anti-Racism
PAUSD is committed to equity and our mission to create and sustain a climate where all students, staff, and families feel valued and respected. Our communities of color are experiencing a great deal of pain and outrage right now and it is important that they know that the attitudes and actions behind the recent racist incidents and violence do not represent our values. As a community we can help our children to understand what is contributing to the racial violence in our country and to address social injustice, racism, learn how to make lasting change in a democracy.
The four agreements for a courageous conversation
● Stay Engaged:
○ Don’t Let your heart and mind check out!
● Expect to experience Discomfort:
○ Agree to experience discomfort so that we can deal with issues of race in an honest way.
● Speak Your Truth:
○ Be honest about your thoughts, feelings and opinions. Say them in a way that is true for you.
● Expect and Accept Non-closure:
○ Accept that you will not reach closure in your understandings about race and race relations. There is no such thing as a “quick fix.”
(Singleton, G. “Courageous Conversations about Race”)
From Developing Self Care through Racial Equity presentation
21 day equity challenge!!!
In case you missed it the first time around, head to https://www.paequitychallenge.com/ to learn more about an amazing opportunity to engage in meaningful discourse with family, friends, and anyone else about what equity means, how to challenge current systems of oppression, and promote a more unified future.
Below are some amazing resources to help you support others, and understand better, all that is happening. Please feel free to reach out to the Wellness Team for more information and support.
You will find both Websites and Book Lists below! Just keep scrolling!
Websites by topic
Educating others
Multiculturalism and Psychotherapy
The Assaulted Sense of Self (6 minutes)
Making Talking About Race Our Work (4 minutes)
Conversation points white people need to dig into and be discussing from ACA
Five points of discussion for conversations about racial injustice
Cultural Competence (article by Dr. Laura Brown)
Informing Children
Talking to Kids About Discrimination
Your Kids Aren’t Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup
Talking With Children About Racism, Police Brutality and Protests
Racism and Violence: How to Help Kids Handle the News
31 Children’s Books to Support Conversations on Race, Racism, and Resistance
Resources for Talking About Race, Racism and Racialized Violence With Kids
Talking Race With Young Children
Raising White Kids' Author On How White Parents Can Talk About Race
media resources
Black History Movies That Tackle Racism
11 Anti-Racist Accounts That Are Worth Following
MTV Decoded YouTube Channel
Great Reads
Name - Author
Books
A is for Activist - Innosanto Nagara
AntiRacist Baby - Ibram X Kendi
Hands Up - Breanna J. McDaniel
Ghost Boys - Jewell Parker Rhodes
A Good Kind of Trouble - Lisa Moore Ramee
Piecing Me Together - Renee Watson
All American Boys - Jason Reynolds
How it Went Down - Kekla Magoon
Stamped - Jason Reynolds
Let's Talk about Race - Julius Lester
Not My Idea - Anastasia Higginbotham
Something Happened in Our Town - Marianne Celano
The Undefeated - Kwame Alexander
This Book is Anti-Racist - Tiffany Jewell
So You Want to Talk about Race - Ijeoma Oluo
The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander
Name - Author
Online articles
Beyond the Golden Rule - Dana Williams
My Grandmother’s Hands - Resmaa Menakem
White Fragility - Robin DiAngelo
Me and White Supremancy: Combat Racism, Change the World and Become a Good Ancestor - Layla Saad
So You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo
Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Social Justice - Paul Kivel
Witnessing Whiteness - Shelly Tochluk
Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race - Derald Wing Sue
The Emperor Has No Clothes: Teaching about Race and Racism to People Who Don't Want to Know (Educational Leadership for Social Justice) - Tema Jon Okun
Towards the Other America: Anti-Racist Resources for White People Taking Action for Black Lives Matter - Chris Crass
Understanding White Privilege: Creating Pathways to Authentic Relationships Across Race (Teaching/Learning Social Justice) - Frances Kendall
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics, Revised and Expanded Edition - George Lipsitz
How I Shed My Skin: Unlearning the Racist Lessons of a Southern Childhood - Jim Grimsley
Everyday White People Confront Racial and Social Injustice: 15 Stories - Eddie Moore, Marguerite W. Penick-Parks, Ali Michael
Understanding and Dismantling Racism: The Twenty-First Century Challenge to White America - Joseph Barndt
Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race - Debby Irving
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness - Michelle Alexander
Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Paulo Freire