Middlebury College Resources
Many at the College and elsewhere have already been doing a great deal of work to help with providing excellent antiracist resources.
Middlebury College Libraries has put together an antiracist reading guide that can be accessed here:
https://middlebury.libguides.com/antiracism
From the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (circulated in the summer of 2020)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/143vJ8VThwfDBcW7dvFwAJo6n36ES2KZEWUIXu_XrAPs/edit
Resources from other Colleges and Universities
https://dtei.uci.edu/antiracist-pedagogy-reading-list/ (antiracist pedagogy reading list from UC-Irvine)
https://wheatoncollege.edu/academics/special-projects-initiatives/center-for-collaborative-teaching-and-learning/anti-racist-educator/ (antiracist educator resources for Wheaton College)
https://libguides.usc.edu/c.php?g=744325&p=5908931 (antiracist pedagogy guide from USC)
Resources from a variety of sources:
Teacher Learning
§ Black Lives Matter At School
§ Handout about Micro-Agressions from Witnessing Whiteness
§ Racial Equity - Vermont NEA Teacher Resources
§ Calling Out vs. Calling in: a guide from the VT NEA
§ Black Lives Matter Instructional Library - Click on each book to hear a read-aloud
§ Education and Criminalization: do BlackLivesMatter in school? Resource List Curated by Subini Ancy Annamma, Ph.D
§ Black-Owned Bookstores to Support when ordering books
§ We Are Teachers Anti-Racist Teaching Resource List
§ 10 Ways Well-Meaning White Teachers bring Racism Into Our Schools (2015)
§ “Dear White Teachers: You can’t love your black students if you don’t know them” (2019)
§ Resource List for Anti-Racist Teaching from St. Mary’s College
§ Tools for Educators when Responding to the Nationwide Uprisings (2020)
§ Education Liberation Network
§ Youth Risk Behavior Survey 2019 Data/Report
From Dr. Bettina Love:
§ An essay for teachers who understand racism is real (June 2020)
§ "Teachers, We Cannot Go Back to the Way Things Were"
§ "White Teachers Need Anti-Racist Therapy"
§ "How Schools Are 'Spirit Murdering' Black and Brown Students"
§ "Dear White Teachers: You Can't Love Your Black Students If You Don't Know Them"
§ "'Grit Is in Our DNA': Why Teaching Grit Is Inherently Anti-Black"
§ There is nothing fragile about racism (8/24/20), a critical perspective on White Fragility
§ Calling In vs. Calling Out (when and how to use different ways of addressing inappropriate or racist ideas)
§ GSA Organizing Toolkit: Although this focuses on organizing a gender and sexuality advisory group, p. 12 addresses how to center racial justice in this work
§ Holy Cross’s list of anti-racist educational resources
§ Talking about Race from the National Museum of African American History
§ General advice for talking to students on “days after” current events that they may need help interpreting and processing (Alyssa Dunn, Jan21)
§ Back To Freedom School Podcast (hosted by Infinite Clucleasure and Voices for Vermont’s Children (November/December 2020)
§ Serial: Nice White Parents (5 episodes, 1 hr each, highly recommended) Summer 2020
§ Reading List for Nice White Parents podcast
§ 10 Things Every White Teacher Should Know When talking about Race (30 min)
§ 5 podcasts to listen to about race in America
§ Ladygang podcast: White Privilege
§ Ladygang Podcast: The Stacks
Scene on Radio’s Season 2: Seeing White: https://www.sceneonradio.org/seeing-white/
This is a 14-part podcast season that examines race and racism in the US
§ Brene Brown and Austin Channing Brown - episode
§ The Language of Power and Inequality in Education and Leadership (28 minutes, BBC Radio 4 Word of Mouth - Iesha Small)
§ What happens to culturally responsive teaching when it is online (27 minute podcast)
§ 1619 Podcast - 5-episode podcast from the NYT and Nikole Hannah-Jones about racist policies from 1619 (when the first slave ship arrived in the US) to present day
§ All My Relations - Matika Wilbur (Swinomish and Tulalip) and Adrienne Keene (Cherokee Nation) explore various topics facing Native peoples today
Webinars and Videos
§ How to create anti-racist Virtual Classrooms (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObJk0vJmma0&feature=youtu.be) 1 hr 17 minute webinar, August 2020
§ Responding to Racial Bias and Microaggressions in Online Environments (1 hour webinar, April 2020, Dr. Frank Harris III & Dr. J. Luke Wood, San Diego State Univ).
§ Empowering Educators: A Convening on Racial Equity in Education (3 hrs 47 minutes) from the Anti Racist Research & Policy Center, August 2020)
§ Ibram X. Kendi: How to Build an Anti-Rcist Movement (50 minute video)
§ Repurposing Our Pedagogies: a 90 minute webinar about abolitionist teaching.
§ TedX Playlist related to race and racism