For parents
- The Anti-Racism Project’s Book List
- How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD
- The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs
- Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
- Raising White Kids by Jennifer Harvey
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Olou
For kids
- Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners
- The awards are given to outstanding African American authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults that demonstrate an appreciation of African American culture and universal human values.
- EmbraceRace’s Children’s Book List for Anti-Racist Activism
- This list is curated to include reading material that can initiate conversations with children about race, racism, and what it means to resist oppression.
- The Conscious Kid’s 41 Children’s Books to Support Conversations on Race, Racism, and Resistance
- The Conscious Kid is “an educational nonprofit that equips parents and educators with tools they can use to support racial identity development, critical literacy, and equitable practices in their homes and classrooms.”
- Note: Users need a membership to access this list.
Best for babies and toddlers
- Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi
- A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara
- Woke Baby by Mahogany L. Browne
- “More More More,” Said the Baby by Vera B. Williams
- We’re Different, We’re the Same (Sesame Street) by Bobbi Kates
Best for younger children
- Black is a Rainbow Color by Angela Joy
- IntersectionAllies: We Make Room for All by Chelsea Johnson, LaToya Council, and Carolyn Choi
- Black Brother Black Brother by Jewell Parker Rhodes
- This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work by Tiffany Jewell
- We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices: Words and Images of Hope by Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson (editors)
- Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice by Mahogany L. Browne
- Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness by Anastasia Higginbotham
- Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Let’s Talk About Race by Julius Lester
- A Kid’s Book About Racism by Jelani Memory
Best for young adults
- This is My America by Kim Johnson
- Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi & Yself Salaam
- Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You: A Remix by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
- I’m Not Dying With You Tonight by Gilly Segal and Kimberly Jones
- When I Was the Greatest by Jason Reynolds
- On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
- Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults) : A True Story of the Fight for Justice by Bryan Stevenson
- All American Boys by Jason Reynolds
- Dear Martin by Nic Stone
Yard Report, the website devoted to reporting Harvard University rot (“You’re going to need a bigger boat!”) get the pointer for flagging the above, and writes in conclusion,
“None of this is subtle. Harvard is using its institutional authority to promote materials that treat white people—including children—as inherently suspect. If a university published a reading list framing Blackness as a pathology requiring correction, the backlash would be immediate and total. The same standard should apply here. Harvard’s administration should remove this page and fire whoever approved it. It’s about time Harvard answered to the American people.”
I completely agree. My diploma from this apparently completely untrustworthy institution has been turned face-to-the-wall in the hallway to my office for years now, and is on floor level so it is effectively out of my sight. Clearly, this is still not exile enough. I’m considering burying it in the back yard.
Ethics Alarms 
I ran across and article recently making the point that DEI titles have been removed from colleges, but the infrastructure remains. No one’s been fired, they’ve all just been given new titles and administer differently titled departments and programs. The camel is inside the tent and tearing up everything.
The people that wrote that nonsense are delusional morons.
I think it’s very clear that Harvard doesn’t want any person to come to Harvard if they engage in any kind of critical thinking or happen to be a Conservative or Republican and, let’s be completely honest, this is the perfect way of accomplishing that task. Any college that puts this kind of crap on their website would actively encourage their students to openly persecute anyone that falls outside their preferred progressive mold. Their new incoming student mod is either you fit inside our social mold or go somewhere else. Didn’t their student mold used to be something like the best of the best students from across the United States, if you weren’t at the top of your class then you probably shouldn’t bother to apply?
What critical thinker, Conservative, or Republican would actually want to be immersed in that kind of cesspool of indoctrination and brainwashing when there are plenty of other fine colleges to choose from? Don’t actively discriminate against critical thinkers, Conservatives, or Republicans just make sure they know damn well that they are not welcome.
Other than the obvious name “Harvard”, what does Harvard truly have anymore that other prominent colleges don’t have?
The other prominent colleges have the exact same thing Harvard does. It used to be called racial segregation, then diversity, and now it is ‘affinity’. They are exactly the same. Even MIT eliminated test scores for a few years so they could discriminate in admissions. The administrators even at MIT are such true believers in this that they couldn’t see how this would result in disaster.
The driving force for all of this has always been the desire to be noble. Not in the moral sense, but in the legally and societally superior to others sense. Democrats have always tarred their detractors as ignorant and/or poor. The Democrats are the noble elite, their opponents are the ignorant masses. This is a powerful driving force and why so many people are so dedicated to anything and everything the Democratic Party says. They want to be the ‘cool’ kids and it doesn’t matter who they have to kill to do it. The dedicated Democrats that I know would rather die than be cast out of the orthodox Democratic circle.
Yeah, verily, Michael. Politics have replaced, and become, religion. They neutered organized religion so being a Democrat could become people’s religion. It’s a modern-day Reformation.
“Delusional” is defined as “delusional disorder is a type of mental health condition in which a person can’t tell what’s real from what’s imagined.” See, https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/9599-delusional-disorder. “Moron” is a term once used in psychology and psychiatry to denote mild intellectual disability. See, Wikipedia.
I realize that your comment is not a clinical diagnosis but these people are not delusional. They truly believe and promote this ideology as an attack against U.S. culture, history, and world standing. If you can characterize the U.S. as morally wrong since its inception (see, 1619 Project, for example), then you delegitimize its current standing. That is the idea of “stolen lands.”
At its core, this website promotes a hard left, Marxist agenda intended to write off about 60 % of the population, treating them as not even second class citizens. Marxist breaks it down to oppressor v. the oppressed. The oppressed are morally superior; the oppressors lmust be destroyed.
jvb
I understand the clinical definitions and I have no intention of leaning towards clinical diagnosis, I generally prefer the non clinical definitions, they are simpler, so I’ve been using the common definitions I found some years ago.
Delusional: firmly believing things that are not true, real, or rational, often characterized by self-deception or being misled.
Moron: a foolish or stupid person.
Tangent…
Has anyone other than Jack and I noticed that definitions of some commonly used words have been morphing in the 21st century, especially since 2008? I think progressives are intentionally trying to bastardize definitions to change the social understanding so that understanding matches progressive narratives and undermines arguments against their gaslighting nonsense.
Bastardize: change (something) in such a way as to lower its quality or value, typically by adding new elements.
Jack wrote back in December 2020…
To expand on my bastardization tangent above…
From my observations in the 21st century; the following must be how the progressive left thinks about how they bastardize things in the English language.
Progressive Magical Thinking
Progressive Magical Thinking is much like Liberal Magical Thinking in that when an Liberal thinks a thought, any thought, then that thought is automatically considered logical and should be presented as truth; but, Progressive Magical Thinking expands the basic Liberal Magical Thinking definition to include, if a Liberal can find something (anything) in print, digital, or video that agrees with them, then it’s considered proof that the thought is absolute fact.
General Magical Thinking Example: The girl in the French Model State Farm TV commercial saying “they can’t put anything on the internet that isn’t true” is a perfect representation of how this kind of Magical Thinking works when your own extreme bias makes you stupid.
They misspelled “indigenous” …
Indeed. Good catch.
jvb