Resources That Promote Equity
The Athens Regional Library System embraces diversity, inclusion, and social justice. These are a part of our organizational values and at the heart of our public services. We support the members of our communities who are in pain, those who are on a quest to educate themselves around the issues of race, and those wondering how to talk with children and young people about these issues. To help with those endeavors, we have developed the following list of resources. We will be adding to this list as the days go by. Much like the challenging events our communities have experienced over the last three months, the Library believes that we are in this together, and together we will see our way through.
Resources for
Books at Athens Regional Library System
- The path to ending systemic racism in the U.S., a TED talk featuring Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff, Rashad Robinson, Dr. Bernice King and Anthony D. Romero (Ted Talks>Playlists: Talks to Help You Understand Racism
- BookTV - CSPAN White Fragility Robin DiAngelo explored the challenges in discussing race with White Americans https://www.c-span.org/video/?447421-2/robin-diangelo-white-fragility
- From TED Talks: Talks to help you understand racism in America https://www.ted.com/playlists/250/talks_to_help_you_understand_r
- Dr. Bettina Love: Hip hop, grit, and academic success https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkZqPMzgvzg
- USC Race and Equity Center: National eConvening with 3,500 attendees. Moderated by Professor John Pascarella, USC Race and Equity Center Chied Academic Officer. Kathy Obear, Ted Mitchell, Ali Michael, Greg Schulz and Stephen Sachs were panelists. White People Talking to White People About Racism.
- 1619, a podcast from The New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/podcasts/1619-podcast.html
- Code Switch, a podcast from NPR, https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/
- Justice in America https://theappeal.org/topics/justice-in-america/
- Brené with Ibram X. Kendi on How to Be an Antiracist https://brenebrown.com/podcast/brene-with-ibram-x-kendi-on-how-to-be-an-antiracist/
- Throughline - American Police, a podcast from NPR https://www.npr.org/2020/06/03/869046127/american-police
Resources for Families and Children
- Anti-Racism Resources for all ages A Project of the Augusta Baker Endowed Chair at University of South Carolina Dr. Nicole A. Cooke, https://padlet.com/nicolethelibrarian/
- Race the Power of an Illusion: An online companion to the award-winning documentary series by California Newsreel discussing the origins, beliefs and consequences of what we call race. https://www.racepowerofanillusion.org/
- Embrace Race https://www.embracerace.org/
- Embrace.org: 31 Picture books to support conversations on race, racism, and resistance. https://www.embracerace.org/resources/26-childrens-books-to-support-conversations-on-race-racism-resistance
- Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture Talking About Race https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race
- Being Antiracist https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race/topics/being-antiracist
- Teaching Tolerance: a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center https://www.tolerance.org/
- Sesame Street/CNN Town Hall: Coming Together: Standing Up to Racism https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/06/app-news-section/cnn-sesame-street-race-town-hall-app-june-6-2020-app/
Reading lists:
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How Did We Get Here? 163 years of The Atlantic’s writing on race and racism in America https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2020/06/atlantic-reader-race-and-racism-us/
BLACK LITERATURE – PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE: A READING LIST from Pen America https://pen.org/black-literature-past-present-and-future-reading-list/
- The Diverse BookFinder is a comprehensive collection of children's picture books featuring Black and Indigenous people and People of Color, cataloged and analyzed trade picture books fitting these criteria, published since 2002. Diverse BookFinder | Identify & Explore Multicultural Picture Books
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Embrace.org: 31 Picture books to support conversations on race, racism, and resistance. https://www.embracerace.org/resources/26-childrens-books-to-support-conversations-on-race-racism-resistance
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School Library Journal: Social Justice: 15 Titles to address inequity, equality and organizing for young readers (middle grade) https://www.slj.com/?detailStory=great-books-social-justice-middle-grade
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Librarians Share a Black Lives Matter Comics Reading List
The American Library Association’s Graphic Novels and Comics Round Table and the Black Caucus of the American Library Association have curated a list of comics relating to the Black Lives Matter movement. The list contains both fiction and nonfiction titles, with selections aimed toward readers of all ages.
http://www.ilovelibraries.org/article/librarians-share-black-lives-matter-comics-reading-list
- Teen Guide to Social Justice Resources @ the Library, compiled by the staff of the Ocean County (N.J.) Library: https://padlet.com/OCLTeens/socialjustice
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