Social Justice
Below are a variety of resources, links, and information to increase your knowledge on race, privilege, and social justice.
PCHS Community Days Site
Click Here for a link to PCHS Community Days website to see a Pali student-made statement and video addressing anti-racism, and additional resources for teachers, parents, and families.
What Racism Looks Like
Racism occurs on all levels: systemic, institutional, interpersonal, and internalized. Institutional racism involves the policies, laws, and practices that provide different access to services and opportunities of society by race.
For children and families, it effects where they live, the quality of education they receive, income, types of food they have access to, exposure to pollutants, access to clean water, access to health care, and the types of interactions they have with law enforcement and the criminal justice system.
White Privilege
From National Museum of African American History & Culture: Talking About RaceSince white people in America hold most of the political, institutional, and economic power, they receive advantages that nonwhite groups do not. These benefits and advantages, of varying degrees, are known as white privilege.
“White privilege is like an invisible weightless knapsack of special provisions, maps, passports, code books, visas, clothes, tools, and blank checks.” - Peggy McIntosh
Anti-Racist Tools + Tips
Being a Better Ally
www.psychology.uga.edu/coping-racial-traumaLook for opportunities to speak and act
If you are in a position of power, use it to address injustice and intolerance
Amplify voices that may be marginalized before speaking for them
Have conversations about racial trauma and racism - don't shy away or feel that it's taboo!
If you have privileges, reflect on them with an eye toward growth, not guilt
Support anti-racist organizations and businesses owned by people of color (POC)
Engage in action and support leaders who promote anti-racist ideals
Books and Media
Readings (links provide additional information on access):
Unequal City: Race, Schools and Perceptions of Injustice by Carla Shedd (NASP national book read)
“White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack,” by Peggy McIntosh
“Waking Up White” by Debby Irving
White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria by Beverly Daniel Tatum
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Bettina Love
Podcasts and News Media
New York Times Podcast “1619” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/podcasts/1619-podcast.html
YouTube Stand Against Racism Content https://www.youtube.com/user/YouTube
Child Mind Institute, Race and Violence: How to Help Kids Handle the News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob-togu12HU
Life and Privilege Explained in a $100 Race https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K5fbQ1-zps
NPR: Code Switch https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/
NPR: Talking Race with Young children: https://www.npr.org/2019/04/24/716700866/talking-race-with-young-children
The Atlantic: What Anti-Racist Teachers Do Differently: https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2020/06/how-be-anti-racist-teacher/613138/
Netflix: When They See Us - https://www.netflix.com/title/80200549
Netflix: 13th https://www.netflix.com/title/80091741