This text provides educators with the necessary background information and framework to hold difficult conversations about race, privilege, and equity.
Singleton, Glen E. 2015. Courageous Conversations About Race: A Field Guide for Achieving Equity in Schools. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.
A guide designed to assist local and state leaders in initiating critical conversations within their schools and communities about disproportionality.
National Education Association (2007).
Moving from disorientation and denial into awakening and active participation, Hill uses this text (in the context of Christian beliefs and behaviors) to tell a story that allows white people to be part of the equity solution.
Hill, Daniel. 2017. White Awake: An Honest Look at What it Means to be White. Downers Green, IL: InterVarsity Press.
Defining white fragility as an active barrier to equity, the author describes the historical and current effects of prevailing paradigms with a call to consciousness and action.
DeAngelo, Robin. 2018. White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism. Boston: Beacon Press
The book explores how racial identities manifest in public settings and how the expression of identity is received and understood by others. The book is useful for practitioners who seek to gain clarity on how to understand and talk about racial differences in honest and effective ways.
Tatum, B. Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? Basic Books: New York, 2003.
