Local STAMPED discussion attendees rec further resources
The slogan shown here was an idea repeated at the recent STAMPED event. Image credit: unsplash.com/@echaparro
Attendees at the recent discussion of this year’s community One Book, Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds, recently recommended these further resources:
Books
Between the World and Me by TaNehisi Coates
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin D’Angelo
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X Kendi
How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
Right Color, Wrong Culture: The Type of Leader Your Organization Needs to Become Multiethnic by Bryan Loritts
Be the Bridge: Pursuing God's Heart for Racial Reconciliation by LaTasha Morrison
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America by Heather Cox Richardson
For children
Stamped (For Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You by by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi; Adapted by Sonja Cherry-Paul; Illustrated by Rachelle Baker
Also, if you are in possession of one of the Read To Succeed copies of STAMPED, the organization asks that you please pass it along after reading - and keep the conversation going!
Video
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man, a series with Emmanuel Acho
Podcasts
Talking about Whiteness, an episode of the OnBeing podcast
In the News
Tennessean article “Tennessee Education Department releases guidance for schools navigating around new critical race theory law”
Washington Post article “Tennessee could withhold millions from schools found to violate guidelines on teaching critical race theory”
Chalkbeat Tennessee article “Critical conversations: Panelists to discuss the Tennessee legislation’s ban on critical race theory” (this event is past, but the article has some helpful information and links)
Brookings Institute blog: “Why are states banning critical race theory?”