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1) Race talk and the conspiracy of silence: understanding and facilitating difficult dialogues on race
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"Learn to talk about race openly, honestly, and productively. Most people avoid discussion of race-related topics because of the strong emotions and feelings of discomfort that inevitably accompany such conversations. Rather than endure the conflict of racial realities, many people choose instead to avoid the topic altogether, or remain silent when it is raised. Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues...
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"In The Identity-Conscious Educator: Building Habits and Skills for a More Inclusive School, author Liza A. Talusan provides educators a framework for exploring and understanding identity. When educators build knowledge about identity and engage in self-reflection, they can effectively and purposefully foster the habits and skills of an identity-conscious practice and create a more inclusive school environment. This book explores issues of race, social...
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Based on extensive research this volume explores how school are places where racial conflicts often remain hidden at the expense of a healthy school climate and the well-being of students of color. Most schools fail to act on racial microaggressions because the stress of negotiating such conflicts is extremely high due to fears of incompetence, public exposure, and accusation, Instead of facing these conflicts head on, schools perpetuate a set of...
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What's Race Got to Do with It? Social Disparities and Student Success: Ten years after Skin Deep, campuses still struggle to attain diversity, create equity, close achievement gaps, and enhance student success for everyone. California Newsreel has produced this new tool to support your diversity goals. Despite 15 years of diversity programs and initiatives, many of our discussions about race remain mired in confusion. Even a casual observer can't...
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Documentary. Shows how veteran elementary teacher Claire Oglesby addresses issues of respect, diversity and community-building in her first and second grade classroom at the public school in Westminster West, Vermont. Each year, the whole school carries out an integrated, in-depth study of another culture which lasts for the entire second half of the school year, involving students, parents and community members. This year the focus is on the study...
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This book examines culturally responsive practices, interventions, and supports for educators that can be utilized in school settings. "In Cultivating Genius, Dr. Gholdy E. Muhammad presents a four-layered equity framework--one that is grounded in history and restores excellence in literacy education. This framework, which she names Historically Responsive Literacy, was derived from the study of literacy development within 9th-century Black literacy...
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"Every year, hundreds of thousands of young people pack their bags to study or volunteer abroad. Well-intentioned and curious Westerners-brought up to believe that international travel broadens our horizons-travel to low-income countries to learn about people and cultures different from their own. But while travel abroad can provide much-needed perspective, it can also be deeply unsettling, confusing, and discomforting. Travelers can find themselves...
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For twenty-five years, Debby Irving sensed inexplicable racial tensions in her personal and professional relationships. As a colleague and neighbor, she worried about offending people she dearly wanted to befriend. As an arts administrator, she didn't understand why her diversity efforts lacked traction. Then in 2009, one "aha" moment launched an adventure of discovery and insight that drastically shifted her worldview and upended her life plan. [provided...
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Deborah Rivas-Drake is professor of psychology and education at the University of Michigan. Adriana J. Umaña-Taylor is professor of education in the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
A guide to the latest research on how young people can develop positive ethnic-racial identities and strong interracial relations
Today's young people are growing up in an increasingly ethnically and racially diverse society. How do we help them navigate this...
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In The Souls of Black Folks, W.E.B. DuBois writes that the question whites want to ask him is: "How does it feel to be a problem?" In The Heart of Whiteness, Robert Jensen writes that it is time for white people in America to self-consciously reverse the direction of that question and to fully acknowledge that in the racial arena, they are the problem.
While some whites would like to think that we have reached "the end of racism" in the United States,...
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Learn about Alaska's unique indigenous people who have lived thousands of years in a subsistence economy and unconquered. See how today's Alaska Native people exhibit remarkable resilience and adaptability despite the arrival of foreigners to Alaska in the mid-1700s, who sought natural resources and brought death and disease that claimed many indigenous lives. Clear descriptions, facts, charts, lists, and maps tell about the 230 Alaska Native tribes...
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