We hope you’ll find these handouts, articles, lists, videos, etc. to be helpful in learning about and discussing race and equity issues. If you have a resource you’d like to see added to this page, please email equity@cedarparkpta.org

Articles

• Avoiding Racial Equity Detours
• Western States Center’s Dismantling Racism Resource Book
• How Well-Intentioned White Families Can Perpetuate Racism
• A Person Can’t Be ‘Diverse’
• Your kids are learning about race right now—make sure they’re learning the right things
• Talking Race With Young Children
• Listen to Black Women
• White people assume niceness is the answer to racial inequality. It’s not.

Handouts

• They’re not too young to talk about race!
• 10 Tips for Teaching and Talking to Kids About Race

Poetry

• The Contract Says: We’d Like the Conversation to be Bilingual by Ada Limón
• You are in the dark, in the car… by Claudia Rankine

Books

These are available to borrow from the Cedar Park library!

• So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo
• White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo
• Raising White Kids, Jennifer Harvey
• Being the Change, Sara Ahmed
• We Got This, Cornelius Minor

For Kids

Picture Books Celebrating Diversity

• All-of-a-Kind Family Hanukkah, by Emily Jenkins and Paul O. Zelinsky
• Alma and How She Got Her Name, by Juana Martinez-Neal
• The Day You Begin, by Jacqueline Woodson and Rafael López
• Don’t Touch My Hair! by Sharee Miller
• Julián Is a Mermaid, by Jessica Love
• Mommy’s Khimar by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow and Ebony Glenn
• Night Job, by Karen Hesse and G. Brian Karas.
• The Name Jar, by Yangsook Choi
• Apple Pie 4th of July, by Janet S. Wong
• Seaside Dreams, by Janet Bates
• Allie’s Basketball Dream, by Barbara E. Barber and Daryl Ligasan
• Big Bushy Mustache, by Gary Soto
• Grace for President, by Kelly DiPucchio
• Peter’s Chair, Ezra Jack Keats
• Drawn Together, by Minh Lê. and Dan Santat
• Dreamers, by Yuyi Morales
  

Chapter books

• Almost Zero, by Nikki Grimes
• Freddie Ramos Springs into Action, by Jacqueline Jules
• Max Loves Muñecas, by Zetta Elliott
• My Name is Maria Isabel, by Alma Flor Ada
• Ruby Lu series, by Lenore Look
• Jada Jones series, by Kelly Starling Lyons

Podcasts

• Scene on Radio’s “Seeing White” series