Research Guides: 2021-2022 One Book: Talking About Race

Online Resources

Talking About Race Portal
A robust, and well-organized site of tools and guidance; a perfect place to start.
Speak Up: Responding to Everyday Bigotry
A Framework for Leading Classroom Conversations About Race
The 10 R's of Talking About Race: How to Have Meaningful Conversations
The Race Card Project
The Race Card Project is a place where people share their personal experiences with race in the form of six-word essays.
7 Reasons Why 'Colorblindness' Contributes to Racism Instead of Solves It

Reference Sources Exploring Issues Involving Race

Books

The Racial Healing Handbook by Anneliese A. Singh
ISBN: 1684032709
Publication Date: 2019-08-01
A powerful and practical guide to help you navigate racism, challenge privilege, manage stress and trauma, and begin to heal. Healing from racism is a journey that often involves reliving trauma and experiencing feelings of shame, guilt, and anxiety. This journey can be a bumpy ride, and before we begin healing, we need to gain an understanding of the role history plays in racial/ethnic myths and stereotypes. In so many ways, to heal from racism, you must re-educate yourself and unlearn the processes of racism. This book can help guide you. 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. This book is not just about ending racial harm--it is about racial liberation. This journey is one that we must take together. It promises the possibility of moving through this pain and grief to experience the hope, resilience, and freedom that helps you not only self-actualize, but also makes the world a better place.

Videos

TED Talk: Why It's So Hard to Talk About the N-Word Historian Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor leads a thoughtful and history-backed examination of one of the most divisive words in the English language: the N-word. Drawing from personal experience, she explains how reflecting on our points of encounter with the word can help promote productive discussions and, ultimately, create a framework that reshapes education around the complicated history of racism in the US.
TED Talk: Color Blind or Color Brave The subject of race can be very touchy. As finance executive Mellody Hobson says, it's a "conversational third rail." But, she says, that's exactly why we need to start talking about it. In this engaging, persuasive talk, Hobson makes the case that speaking openly about race — and particularly about diversity in hiring -- makes for better businesses and a better society.
Talks at Google: So You Want to Talk About Race Ijeoma Oluo is one of the most influential people in Seattle, according to Seattle Magazine. She's also the Editor-At-Large at The Establishment - a media platform run and funded by women. In her new book "So you want to talk about race", she demonstrates that her remarkable writing abilities by bringing clarity and insight to hyper-charged issues facing America.
TED Talk: What it takes to be Racially Literate Over the last year, Priya Vulchi and Winona Guo traveled to all 50 US states, collecting personal stories about race and intersectionality. Now they're on a mission to equip every American with the tools to understand, navigate and improve a world structured by racial division. In a dynamic talk, Vulchi and Guo pair the personal stories they've collected with research and statistics to reveal two fundamental gaps in our racial literacy -- and how we can overcome them.
TEDx: How to Have a Voice and Lean Into Conversations About Race In this talk Amanda Kemp discusses her process for seeking to understand others and dialogue on discussions about race and other sensitive issues. Dr. Amanda Kemp is a Stanford University graduate and the creator of the H.E.A.R.T. System for Racial Justice and Mindful Living. A Master Teacher and artist, Dr. Kemp has helped over 25,000 people cultivate racial justice and compassion.
NY TImes: Conversations on Race (YouTube Playlist) Series of 7 videos from the New York times interviewing groups of people on the topic of race.
TED Talk: The power of vulnerability Brené Brown studies human connection -- our ability to empathize, belong, love. In a poignant, funny talk at TEDxHouston, she shares a deep insight from her research, one that sent her on a personal quest to know herself as well as to understand humanity. A talk to share.
Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man, is a safe place to have the uncomfortable conversations about race that many white people have never been able to have. But enough is enough- I want to remove the barriers for why we’ve never had these conversations. I want to provide a free space for curious white people to answer the questions they’ve always had but have been too nervous to ask.

Podcasts

Still Processing: The N-Word
In this episode the hosts discuss their complicated feelings about the N-Word.
Code Switch: Race. In Your Face. (NPR)

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