Anti-Racism Research & Resource Guide

• How to Hold a Better Class Discussion

  Written by: Jay Howard | The Chronicle of Higher Education | 2019
• Interrogating Your Discipline, and Other Ways Into Anti-Racist Teaching

  By Beth McMurtrie | The Chronicle of Higher Education | 2020
• Op-Ed: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Don’t understand the protests? What you’re seeing is people pushed to the edge

  By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | LA Times | 2020
• The Emotional, Uncomfortable Classroom

  By Jasmine Harris | Inside Higher Ed | 2018
• What ‘white folks who teach in the hood’ get wrong about education

  PBS Newshour | 2016
• White Fragility, Anti-Racist Pedagogy, and the Weight of History

  By Justin Gomer and Christopher Petrella | Black Perspectives | 2017

• Antiracist Pedagogy: Definition, Theory, and Professional Development

  By D.M. Blackwell | Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy | 2005
• Examining Primarily White Institutions of Higher Education: Black Student Experience in the 1960s.

  By Oluwashola Gbemi | Apenglow | 2016
• Sidelines and separate spaces: making education anti-racist for students of color

  By D.M. Blackwell | Race Ethnicity and Education | 2010

• Anti-Racism in Higher Education: A Model for Change

  By Allison N. Ash, Redgina Hill, Stephen N. Risdon,
  Alexander Jun | Anti-Racism in Higher Education | 2020
• Barriers and Strategies by White Faculty Who Incorporate Anti-Racist Pedagogy

  By Jennifer Akamine Phillips, Nate Risdon, Matthew Lamsma, Angelica
  Hambrick, Alexander Jun | Incorporating Anti-Racist Pedagogy in the College Classroom | 2019
• A Talk to Teachers

  James Baldwin was a noted writer best known for his novels on sexual and personal identity and his essays on civil rights in the United States. “A Talk to Teachers”© 1963 by James Baldwin was originally published in The Saturday Review .
• Teaching Race, Racism, and Racial Justice: Pedagogical Principles and Classroom Strategies for Course Instructors

  By M. Brielle Harbin, Amie Thurber, Joe Bandy | Teaching Race. Racism, and Racial Justice | 2019

• The Anti-Racist Educator Podcast

  The Anti-Racist Educator is run by a collective of educators of colour and based in Scotland. As an online learning platform, The Anti-Racist Educator aims to critically challenge racism by exploring teaching, discussing ideas and sharing learning resources for all to use.​
• Milliken v. Bradley | Throughline: NPR | 36 min.

  "This week, segregation in Detroit public schools and the impact of a Supreme Court case that went far beyond that city."
• Teaching While White Podcast

  Teaching While White seeks to move the conversation forward on how to be consciously, intentionally, anti-racist in the classroom.

• ERIC (EBSCO)

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  Index of journal articles, reports, studies and other gray literature related to education. Coverage: 1966-April 2025.  If there is trouble accessing ERIC Documents (ED numbers) please use the ERIC Archive. 

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  Contains annotated references to educational materials including journal articles, books, theses, curriculi, conference papers, standards and guidelines, and science education resources.

• Social Science Research Network

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  The SSRN eLibrary consists of two parts: an Abstract Database containing abstracts on over 114,700 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over 86,500 downloadable full text documents in Adobe Acrobat pdf format.

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  Though most materials are free, some may require purchase to download.

• Teacher Reference Center

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  Provides indexing and abstracts for over 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator trade journals to assist professional educators. ** Users may experience access issues due to ongoing development of the EBSCO platform.

• #Charlestonsyllabus
• Hard Truths - The Education Trust

  A national nonprofit that works to close opportunity gaps that disproportionately affect students of color and students from low-income families.
• OpenMind

  OpenMind is a free, interactive educational platform designed to depolarize classrooms and foster mutual understanding across differences. It teaches essential concepts from social and moral psychology to help students cultivate intellectual humility and open-mindedness while equipping them with the skills for civil and constructive dialogue.
• Race - The Power of Illusion

  Online companion to the documentary series.
• Speaking Truth and Acting with Integrity: Confronting Challenges of Campus Racial Climate

  American Council on Education | 2018
• Talking About Race

  Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Teaching Ideas and Resources to Help Students Make Sense of the George Floyd Protests
• Teaching Race: Pedagogy and Practice

  Toolkit from Vanderbilt University
• Teaching Tolerance

  Lots of resources, lesson plans, etc. focused on tolerance.
• There Is No Apolitical Classroom: Resources for Teaching in These Times

  National Council of Teachers of English Resource Guide
• Zinn Education Project