Important Readings

Developing a Liberatory Consciousness by Barbara Love

James Baldwin on Racism in America by Cheryl E. Matias

The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Souls of White Folk by W.E.B Du Bois

Teaching White Students Showed Me The Difference Between Power and Privilege by Kiese Laymon Anti-Racist Reading List by Ibram X. Kendi

Women of Color and Feminism: A History Lesson and Way by Anthea Butler

The Urgency of Intersectionality by Kimberle Crenshaw

Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced and Underprotected

Complicating “White Privilege”: Race, Poverty, and the Nature of the Knapsack by Paul Gorski

Teaching For Black Lives edited by Dyan Watson, Jesse Hagopian, and Wayne Au

Curricular Resources for Social Justice and ABAR Teaching

Zinn Ed Project

Facing History and Ourselves

Social Justice Stands

Abolitionist Teaching Network

Freire Project

Resources for Remote Learning

Toolkit for Transforming School Discipline in Remote and Blended Learning During COVID-19

9 Ways Online Teaching Should be Different from Face-to-Face

Social Media Accounts to Follow

ABAR Educators

@britthawthorne @britthawthorne_- teacher and ABAR educator with a Montessori lens

@josemedina1000 @JoseMedinaJr89- former teacher and principal with a focus on dual language, cultural consciousness, and equity

@educatorsforjustice @EdsForJustice - offers live conversations with education and ABAR experts

@hiphoped @TheRealHipHopEd

@lit_c.i.r.c.l.e - educators from Oakland providing lessons and reflections for being anti-racist in your pedagogy

@teachersforblacklives - “Teachers holding teachers accountable” with self-reflection questions, suggestions, and strategies for your educational spaces

@teachandtransform @teachntransform - teacher and ABAR expert Liz Kleinrock

@mariebeech - Social justice & anti-racism educator

Teaching and Reading Resources

@zinneducationproject @ZinnEdProject- inclusively supports the teaching of diverse peoples history

@theconciouskid @consciouskidlib - dedicated to educational equity and healthy racial identity development in youth

@blackgirlthatreads - book recommendations and reviews

@thestackspod @thestackspod_- book lists and thoughts on readings, interviews with authors, and a deeper dive into fiction and non-fiction books by diverse authors

@diversereads - Diverse picture book suggestions for the elementary classroom.

Social Justice/History Organizations

@theafrolatindiaspora - understanding and educating the African diaspora in the Americas and redefining Afrolatinidad

@blackhistoryforwhitepeople - lessons on Black history that have been left out of most textbooks and classrooms

@decolonizemyself - “A First Nations Perspective”

@socialstudies4socialjustice