Resources
This resource page is a work in progress. If you have a resource that you think would be helpful to list here, please email it to me at info@bravelittlesteps.com
Workbooks
The Racial Healing Handbook, by Anneleise Singh
“The Racial Healing Handbook offers practical tools to help you navigate daily and past experiences of racism, challenge internalized negative messages and privileges, and handle feelings of stress and shame. You’ll also learn to develop a profound racial consciousness and conscientiousness, and heal from grief and trauma. Most importantly, you’ll discover the building blocks to creating a community of healing in a world still filled with racial microaggressions and discrimination.”
Books: Amplifying and Listening to Black Voices
So You Want to Talk About Race, by Ijeoma Oluo
How to be an Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, by Joy DeGruy
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria, by Beverly Daniel Tatum
I’m Still Here, by Austin Channing Brown
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, by Carol Anderson
Articles and Blogs
Podcasts
There are many, many booklists for kids about race and diversity online that are easy to find. And please, go find them and get them for your family.
Here, I’m mostly going to list a few of the books that we own and love and feature brown and black children going about everyday life or aspiring to their dreams. White children see themselves reflected in books constantly, and their value is always being confirmed by the dominant culture. It’s important for white children to see black and brown families living life, going on adventures, being in nature, and having feelings.
Toys
Multicultural Markers and Crayons I cannot emphasize this enough: we must not only give white children these kinds of markers and crayons, but we also need to model using them to draw and color in a variety of skin tones. If your child is very little and doesn’t color in faces yet, get some construction paper in different skin tone shades. Make sure that not every stick figure gets drawn on the default piece of white paper.