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Racism-Challenging Resources:

 

Racism is prejudice multiplied by power used by persons of a dominant racial group  that excludes persons from nondominant racial groups from individual, cultural, and systemic resources (Chen-Hayes, Ockerman, & Mason, 2014). To help close achievement (and opportunity and attainment) gaps, I've highlighed in black below resources (including evidence-based classroom curricula) that every School Counselor can share with K-12 stakeholders via their School Counseling Program Advisory Councils, School Counseling Core Curriculum classroom lessons, planning for every student, group and individual counseling, and School Counseling Program website resource tabs for students, educators, and families:

 

  • #BlackLivesMatter: Hashtag for the movement resisting the dehumanization and racism facing Black persons of multiple cultural identities in the USA focused on equity and justice and ending police brutality, militariztion of police departments, and other oppressive practices www.blacklivesmatter.com/about
  • #CounselorsNotCops Hashtag to fight the #SchooltoPrisonPipeline challenging major USA cities including #NYC to hire more school counselors, fire police officers in schools, and promote restorative justice programs to support students of color in school not jail/imprison them
  • #Ferguson: Hashtag for posts related to ending the militarization of police; the harassment, assault and murder of young men of color by police; and the harassment and assault of journalists covering both issues
  • #HandsUpDontShoot: Hashtag organizing to challenge police brutality/violence that disproportionately ends the lives of poor young men of color, particularly poor young men of African descent in the USA including: Africa (LA, CA); Raymond Allen (TX); Wendell Allen (LA); Alonzo Ashley (CO);  Anthony Baez, (Bx, NYC); Bernard Bailey (GA); Jordan Baker (TX); Orlando Barlow (NV); Sean Bell (Queens, NYC); Rumain Brisbon (AZ); James Brissette & Ronald Madison (Hurricane Katrina aftermath, LA); Michael Brown, (MO); Aaron Campbell (OR); Kenneth Chamberlain, Sr., (NY); John Crawford (OH); Leonel Disla (Bx, NYC); Amadou Diallou (Bx, NYC); Nehemiah Dillard (FL); Patrick Dorismond (NYC, NY); Malcolm Ferguson (Bx, NY); Jonathan Ferrell (NC);  Ezell Ford (LA, CA); Eric Garner (Staten Island, NYC); Ramarley Graham (Bx, NYC); Oscar Grant (Oakland, CA); Kimani Gray (Bklyn, NYC); Jersey Green (IL); Akai Gurley (Brklyn, NYC); Dontre Hamilton (WI); Sheron Jackson (MD); Levar Jones (SC); Melvin Lawhorn (SC); Michael Lembhard (NY); Manuel Loggins, Jr. (CA); Antonio Martin (MO); Kendrec McDade (CA); Tendai Nhekairo (GA); Jerame Reid (NJ); Tamir Rice (OH); Desmond Rudolph (KY); Timothy Russell (OH); Justin Sipp (LA); Timothy Stansbury (Bklyn, NYC); Victor Steen (FL);  Jonnie Kamahi Warren (AL); Steven E. Washington (LA, CA); Stephon Watts (IL); Antonio Zambrano-Montes (WA); Ousmane Zongo (NYC)
  • #ICantBreathe: Hashtag of the last words spoken by Eric Garner, an African American father killed by a White police officer's illegal chokehold in Staten Island, NYC; the officer was not indicted by a grand jury for prosecution even though the county coroner labeled the death illegal. The hashtag is used as an organizing rally by persos who seek to end police brutality including violence toward young men of color
  • #OscarsSoWhite Hashtag protesting the historical exlusion of actors of color from awards; in 2015 no actors of color were nominated for awards for the first time in 20 years; Oscar voters are over 90% white and 75% male
  • #Racism Hashtag for organizing to affirm persons of color and mixed race persons oppressed by policies and practices of the European diaspora including those who challenge race-based oppression of all ages
  • #Sayhername Hashtag organzing to stop police abuse/violence/murder of Black women
  • 15 Infograpic Charts on the anniversary of the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act show racism continues in the USA http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/02/civil-rights-act-anniversary-racism-charts_n_5521104.html
  • 18 Million Rising: Asian American Pacific Islander  (AAPI) civic engagement and activism http://18millionrising.org/
  • 84 Books/Speeches Banned in 2012 in Tuscon, AZ by the school board when they closed the social justice education program focused on Mexican-American studies (annotated bibliography by doctoral candidate Elaine Romero): Abu-Jamal's Live from death row; Acuna's Occupied America: A history of Chicanos; Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto fist fight in heaven and Ten little Indians; Allende's Zorro; Anaya's The Anaya Reader and Bless me Ultima; Anzaldua's Borderlands La Frontera: The new mestiza; Appleby et al's The American Vision; Baca's Black mesa poems and A place to stand and Martin & Mediations on the South Valley and  Immigrants in our own land and selected early poems and Healing earthquakes and C-Train and thirteen Mexicans; Baldwin's The fire next time; Berliner & Biddle's The manufactured crisis: Myths, fraud, and the attack on America's public schools; Bigelow & Peterson's Rethinking Columbus: The next 500 years; Bjorkquist's Suffer smoke; Burciaga's Drink cultura: Chicanismo; Carlson & Hijuielos's  Cool salsa: Bilingual poems on growing of Latino in the United States and Red hot salsa: Bilingual poems on being young and Latino in the United States; Castillo's So far from God and Loverboys; Cavez's Address to the Commonwealth Club of California; Cisneros's House on Mango street and Women hollering creek; De La Pena's Mexican whiteboy; Delgado & Stefancic's The Latino condition: A critical reader and Critcal race theory: An introduction; Diaz's Drown; Duarte's Let their spirits dance; Espada's Zapata's discipline: Essays; Esquivel's Like water for chocolate; Friere's Pedagogy of the oppressed; Garcia's When living was a labor camp; Garcia's La Llorona: Our lady of deformities; Garcia-Camarillo et al's Cantos al sexto sol: Anthology of Aztlanahuac writing; Gilb's The magic of blood and Woodcuts of women; Gonzales's I am Joaquin/Yo SoyJoaquin and Message to Aztlan: Selected writings; Goodman et al's Saving our schools: The case for public education, saying no to 'No Child Left Behind'; Guevara's At the Afro-Asian conference in Algeria;  Hooks's Feminism is for everybody; Jimenez's The circuit: Stories from the life of a migrant child; Kozol's Savage inequalities: Children in America's schools; Martinez's Does anti-war have to be anti-racist too? and 500 anos del pueblo Chicano/500 years of Chicano history in pictures and  De colores means all of us: Latina views for a multi-colored Century; Montoya et al's Culture clash: Life, death, and revolutionary comedy; Munoz's Zigzagger; Rebolledo et al's Infinite divisions: An anthology of Chicano literature; Remy's United States government: Democracy in action; Rivera's ...y no se lo trago la tierra/"...And the earth did not devour him."; Rodriguez's Always running-La vida loca: Gang days in L.A.; Rodriguez's The x in la raza II and Justice: A question of race; and Codex Tamuanchan: On becoming human; Rosales's Dictionary of Latino civil rights history; Ruiz's Two badges: The lives of Mona Ruiz; Sandoval-Sanchez et al's Puro Teatro: A Latina anthology; Shakespeare's The tempest; Sheridan's Los Tucsonenses: The Mexican community in Tucson, 1854-1941;  Skolnick et al's Crisis in American institutions; Tafallo's Curandera; Takaki's A different mirror: A history of multicultural America; Tatum's Mexican American literature and New Chicana/Chicano writing; Thoreau's Civil disobedience; Urrea's By the lake of sleeping children and  Nobody's son: Notes from an American life and Into the beautiful North; and The devil's highway; Valdez's Zoot suit and other plays; Yolen's Twelve impossible things before breakfast: Stories; Zepeda's Ocean power: Poems from the desert; and Zinn's A people's history of the United States: 1492-present and Declarations of independence: Cross-examining American ideology and Voices of a people's history of the United States  http://www.librotraficante.com/annotatedBibliography.pdf
  • "A Class Divided,"the 1985 Frontline documentary showcasing Iowa elementary school teacher Jane Elliot's groundbreaking "blue-eyes/brown eyes" anti-racism day-long simulation  for elementary students and a reunion of her students 15 years later discussing how it changed their lives www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2zNHtx161Q
  • A Rotting Apple--Education Redlining in New York City: Schott Foundation study of inequitable opportunities facing NYC students of color and low-income students, recommends performing equity audits in every middle school and additional change http://schottfoundation.org/publications-reports/education-redlining
  • AAPIVoices: Digital articles, data, and information empoweringAsian Pacific Islander American voices: http://aapivoices.com
  • Advancement Project: Just democracy/racial justice www.advancementproject.org
  • Allianza: National Latino Alliance for the Elimination of Domestic Violence: Ending domestic violence in Latino communities www.dvalianza.org
  • Amazon Watch: Supporting indigenous peoples, protecting the Amazon amazonwatch.org...
  • American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee www.adc.org
  • American Indian and Indigenous Peoples Resource Directory www.indians.org...
  • American Indian Heritage Foundation www.indians.org
  • American Indian Tribal Listings (federally recognized) www.indians.org...
  • Applied Research Center: Popularizing the need for racial justice and preparing people to fight for it using new media www.arc.org
  • Arab American Institute: Nurturing and encouraging the direct participation of Arab Americans in political and civic life in the United States www.aaiusa.org/
  • Arte Sana:Preventing and intervening with sexual violence against Latinas (English, Español) http://www.arte-sana.com/
  • Asian American Center for Advancing Justice: promoting a fair and equitable society for all by working for civil and human rights and empowering APIs and other underserved communities. www.advancingjustice.org
  • Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund www.aaldef.org
  • Asian American Net www.asianamerican.net... 
  • Asian Nation: Asian American history, demographics, & issues www.asian-nation.org 
  • Asian Pacific American Ocean Harmony Alliance: Fighting for eco-justice in oceans including a shark-fin fishing ban http://www.apaoha.org/
  • Association of MultiEthnic Americans www.ameasite.org...
  • Black AIDS Institute: Stopping the AIDS pandemic in Black communities by engaging and mobilizing Black institutions and individuals in efforts to confront HIV www.blackaids.org
  • Black Excel: The college help network for Black students and other students of color for college scholarships and access/admissions information www.blackexcel.org
  • Black History Pages: www.blackhistorypages.com
  • Black Lives Matter: Rooted in the experiences of Black people in this country who actively resist our de-humanization, #BlackLivesMatter is a call to action and a response to the virulent anti-Black racism that permeates our society. Black Lives Matter is a unique contribution that goes beyond extrajudicial killings of Black people by police and vigilantes. It goes beyond the narrow nationalism that can be prevalent within Black communities, which merely call on Black people to love Black, live Black and buy Black, keeping straight cis Black men in the front of the movement while our sisters, queer and trans and disabled folk take up roles in the background or not at all.  Black Lives Matter affirms the lives of Black queer and trans folks, disabled folks, black-undocumented folks, folks with records, women and all Black lives along the gender spectrum.  It centers those that have been marginalized within Black liberation movements.  It is a tactic to (re)build the Black liberation movement. www.blacklivesmatter.com/about/
  • BMe (Black Male Engagement): A growing network of brothers committed to making our communities stronger in power and purpose exchanging ideas and resources to advance your work, and celebrate all that we do for our families and our future including creating and sharing success story videos http://www.bmecommunity.org/HOME/tabid/56/Default.aspx
  • Black Women's Blueprint: Securing social, political, and economic equality in the USA for Black women and girls www.blackwomensblueprint.org
  • Black Youth Project: Knowledge, voice, action (blog, research) http://research.blackyouthproject.com/about-us/
  • CASA Middle School's (Bx, NY) Solidarity and Anti-Violence Video for Ferguson, MO http://www.wnyc.org/story/bronx-middle-school-students-wont-be-silent-ferguson/
  • The Center for Media Justice: Communities historically marginalized from democracy defending rights to fair media access and accurate representation advancing strategic stories to transform the public narrative around race, class, and power using media justice frameworks www.centerformediajustice.org
  • Center for the Study of Race and Equity in Education: the Center aims to publish cutting-edge implications for education policy and practice, with an explicit focus on improving equity in P-12 schools, colleges and universities, and social contexts that influence educational outcomes www.gse.upenn.edu/equity/
  • Center for World Indigenous Studies www.cwis.org...
  • The Changing Faces of the USA: (National Geographic photomontage of Mixed Race USA residents and their ethnic/racial identy labels) http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2013/10/changing-faces/schoeller-photography
  • The Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derecho Civiles: Providing research to focus on equity in schools in terms of ethnicity and race www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu
  • College InSight: Data on college affordability, student debt, economic and racial diversity, and student success www.college-insight.org...
  • Color of Change www.colorofchange.org
  • Cuéntame: Latino instigators mycuentame.org...
  • Cultural Survival: Partnering with indigenous peoples www.culturalsurvival.org
  • Dignity in Schools: Ending pushout in K-12 schools supporting alternatives to zero-tolerance, punishment, and school removal policies, i.e., the school-to-prison pipeline. http://www.dignityinschools.org/
  • DNA Ancestry Project: Discover your deep ancestral roots www.genebase.com...
  • Early College High School Initiative: 240 public high schools in 28 states and D.C. combining academic rigor and the opportunity to save time and money to motivate for students  compressing the time it takes to complete a high school diploma and the first two years of college with a targeted focus on low-income youth, first-generation college goers, English language learners, students of color, and other young people underrepresented in higher education www.earlycolleges.org
  • Equal Justice Society: Restoring race equity issues to the national consciousness, building effective progressive alliances, and advancing the discourse on the positive role of government www.equaljusticesociety.org
  • Equity Assistance Centers: Funded by the U.S. Department of Education under Title IV of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. They provide assistance in  race, gender, and national origin equity to public schools to promote equal educational opportunities www.equityassistancecenters.org
  • Evaluation Tools for Racial Equity www.evaluationtoolsforracialequity.org
  • FIERCE: Building the leadership & power of LBGTQ youth of color www.fiercenyc.org...
  • First Voices Indigenous Radio (First Nations) www.firstvoicesindigenousradio.org
  • Friends of Pine Ridge Reservation http://www.friendsofpineridgereservation.org/
  • Gender, Race, and Inclusive Education Project: (Peggy McIntosh/Wellesley Centers for Women) www.wcwonline.org...
  • Global Black Experience Radio www.wbai.org...
  • Global Slavery Index https://www.globalslaveryindex.org/
  • The Hapa Project: Images and advocacy for and about mixed race persons of Asian Pacific Islander descent http://seaweedproductions.com/the-hapa-project/hapa-about/
  • Hawai'i: Independent and sovereign www.hawaii-nation.org...
  • Hyphen:  Asian America unabridged (blog/magazine)  www.hyphenmagazine.com/
  • Honor the Earth: Creating awareness and support forNative American environmental issues and to develop financial and political resources for the survival of sustainable Native communities www.honorearth.org
  • Idle No More: Calling all people in revolution to honor and fulfill Indigenous sovereignty that protects land and water and Mother Earth www.idlenomore1.blogspot.com
  • Indian Country Today www.indiancountrytoday.com 
  • Indigenous Environmental Network www.ienearth.org
  • Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community (IDVAAC): One size doesn't fit all in challenging interpersonal violence, elder abuse, child abuse, and community violence www.dvinstitute.org
  • International Indian Treaty Council/Consejo Internacional de Tratados Indios www.treatycouncil.org
  • International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs  www.iwgia.org
  • Latino USA www.latinousa.org...
  • League of United Latin American Citizens (English, Español)  www.lulac.org 
  • Loving Day Project: Celebrations of mixed-race, multiethnic, multiracial couples and families http://www.lovingday.org/
  • Mavin Foundation: The mixed race experience www.mavin.org
  • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People www.naacp.org
  • National Association for the Education of African American Children with Learning Disabilities (AACLD): Advocating for African American families with children who learn differently www.aacld.org/
  • National Black Justice Coalition www.nbjc.org
  • National Boys and Men of Color Institute: Uniting elders, experts, organizations and agencies improving the lives of boys and men of color and the well-being and health of communities  www.nationalboysandmenofcolorinstitute.org
  • National Compadres Network: Using "Un Hombre Noble" (A Noble Man) principles to strengthen traditional "compadre" extended family systems supporting the positive involvement of Latino males and reducing substance abuse, domestic violence, child abuse, teen pregnancy, gang violence, and other problems www.nationalcompadresnetwork.com
  • National Congress of American Indians www.ncai.org
  • National Council of La Raza www.nclr.org
  • National Guestworker Alliance: NGA works to ensure that (1) Guestworkers have the power to transform their workplaces from exploitative to dignified--and have the consciousness and organization to do this in partnership with local workers locked out of employment; (2) Guestworkers have the power to transform the terms of migration so that workers can arrive to the USA on a path to first-class citizenship, and (3) Guestworkers are progagonists in a vibrant social movement to expand the right to organize for all excluded workers reversing a long legacy of retaliation against workers of color who organize to win dignity and freedom. www.guestworkeralliance.org
  • National Latino Children's Institute www.ncli.org
  • National Latino Fatherhood & Family Institute: Strengths-based support for  Latinos and families by building on  Latino cultural identity, values, and traditions addressing child abuse, domestic violence, gang violence, school failure, illiteracy, teen pregnancy, and other issues www.nlffi.org
  • National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance www.nqapia.org
  • Native American Rights Fund: Applying laws and treaties to guarantee national and state governments live up to their legal obligations www.narf.org...
  • Native American Facts for Kids: An American Indian website for children and teachers www.native-languages.org 
  • Native American Rights Fund: Applying laws and treaties to guarantee national and state governments live up to their legal obligations www.narf.org... 
  • NativeWeb www.nativeweb.org 
  • New York State's Extreme School Segregation: Ineqality, Inaction, and a Damaged Future (paper from the Civil Rights Project by Drs. John Kuscera and Gary Orfield, 2014) http://civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/k-12-education/integration-and-diversity/ny-norflet-report-placeholder/Kucsera-New-York-Extreme-Segregation-2014.pdf
  • NorthEast Two-Spirit Society https://ne2ss.org
  • OCA: Embracing the hopes and aspirations of Asian Pacific Americans www.ocanational.org 
  • Presente.org: Advancing the interests and promoting the political empowerment of Latino communities with support of allies www.presente.org
  • Project RACE: Organizing for multiracial classification www.projectrace.com
  • RACE: Are we so different? www.understandingrace.org
  • The Racial Dot Map: One dot per person based on 2010 USA census data showing race/class patterns in housing http://www.coopercenter.org/demographics/Racial-Dot-Map#themap
  • Racial Equity: Funders for LBGTQ issues www.lgbtracialequity.org
  • Racism. No way. Anti-racism education www.racismnoway.com.au
  • Racism Review: Evidence-based research and analysis of “race,” racism, ethnicity, and immigration issues, especially as they undergird and shape U.S. society within a global setting and research and analysis on local, national, and global resistance to racial and ethnic oppression, including antiracist activism
  • Southern Education Foundation: Assuring fairness and excellence in P-16 public education especially for students of color and poor students  www.southerneducation.org
  • Stand Against Racism www.standagainstracism.org
  • Survival International: The movement for tribal peoples www.survivalinternational.org... 
  • Trace American Indian/Native Alaskan Ancestry www.doi.gov...
  • The Tracing Center on Histories and Legacies of Slavery https://www.tracingcenter.org
  • Transafrica: Justice for the African world--envisioning a world where Africans and people of African descent are self-reliant, socially and economically prosperous, and have equal access to a more just international system that strengthens independence and democracy www.transafrica.org
  • United Confederation of Taino People www.uctp.org
  • United National Indian Tribal Youth (UNITY): Native American youth making a difference in community service, heritage, healthy lifestyles, and the environment unityinc.org... 
  • United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples www.un.org...
  • The Urgency of Now--The Schott 50 state report on public education and Black (and Latino) males: Online interactive state data map & resources demonstrating both the pushout problem and lockout crisis http://blackboysreport.org/
  • Young Men of Color Initiative: To improve educational participation and increase college completion for young men of color in the USA and increase the national dialogue around the educational crisis facing young men of color http://advocacy.collegeboard.org/college-preparation-access/young-men-color-initiative and http://youngmenofcolor.collegeboard.org/
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