Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Once again, our community is outraged following the police killing of an unarmed Black man—Daunte Wright. The trauma of Mr. Wright’s death is amplified by the backdrop of the horrifying, damning testimony in the Derek Chauvin trial for the death of George Floyd.
We at NACAC condemn the killing of Black men and other BIPOC individuals at the hands of the police. We affirm that Black lives matter. And we continue to examine our own role in the child welfare system, which is deeply affected by racism that harms children and parents of color. As that ever-important work continues, we call on our community here at home and across North America to come together to support children, especially children of color, traumatized by police violence, injustice, and racism.
NACAC encourages all families to continue having conversations with their children, extended family, and friends about the ongoing impact of race, social injustice, and police violence. One way to help is to share resources such as those we compiled below.
Explaining Police Killings of Black People/Other Racial Incidents
- Reminders for White Parents Talking to their Kids about Police Killing Black People
- Talking to Children After Racial Incidents – Penn Graduate School of Education
- Talking with Children About Racism, Police Brutality and Protests – Aha! Parenting
- Supporting Kids of Color in the Wake of Racialized Violence (podcast from Embrace Race)
Understanding the Uprising
Fighting Hate
- The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Ten Ways to Fight Hate
- Anti-Racism for Kids 101: Starting to Talk about Race
Talking about Race and Racism
- Talking About Race from the Museum of African American History and Culture
- How to talk to your children about protests and racism
- 10 Ways to Start a Conversation about Race
- Before You Check In On Your Black Friend, Read This
Understanding Race or Racism
- My White Friend Asked Me on Facebook to Explain White Privilege. I Decided to Be Honest
- Seeing White (podcast)
- My Story, My Truth (documentary)
- White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Nation’s Divide
- “I Don’t See Color”
- Ask the White Guy: ‘I Have Black Friends’ Doesn’t Mean You Aren’t Racist
- Think you’re not racist? Research uncovers our secret prejudices, and ways to overcome them
- The ‘Some of My Best Friends Are Black’ Defense
- Why “I’m not racist” is only half the story | Robin DiAngelo | Big Think
- What I am learning from my white grandchildren — truths about race
- I’m Not a Racist… Am I? (movie)
Being Antiracist
- Antiracism resources — compiled by Sarah Sophie Flicker, Alyssa Klein in May 2020
Transracial Parenting
- The Personal is Political: Racial Identity and Racial Justice in Transracial Adoption
- Transracial Adoption: Love Is Just the Beginning
- Seven Tasks for Parents: Developing Positive Racial Identity
History of Racism and Civil Rights
- Strength In Numbers: F. W. Woolworth’s Lunch Counter Sit-ins & The Freedom Ride
- ‘I Had a Right to Be at Central’: Remembering Little Rock’s Integration Battle
- Like Trump, JFK faced riots. Here’s what he did to stop the violence in Birmingham in 1963.
Disproportionality in Child Welfare and Other Systems
- Racial Disproportionality and Disparity in Child Welfare (from Child Welfare Information Gateway)
- Disproportionality in Child Welfare (from NICWA)
- Disparities and Disproportionality in Child Welfare: Analysis of the Research
- Child Welfare is Not Exempt from Structural Racism and Implicit Bias — article and TEDtalk
- Race and Poverty Bias in the Child Welfare System: Strategies for Child Welfare Practitioners
- Racial Disparities in Child Welfare & Minnesota Child Welfare Reform
- Caught podcast
- Report finds disproportionate sentencing along racial lines in Arizona
- The Color of Justice: Racial and Ethnic Disparity in State Prisons
- Employment Opportunities: Do Race and Ethnicity Matter?
- Credit scores in America perpetuate racial injustice. Here’s how
Resources for Professionals
- Annie E. Casey Foundation resources on race and equity
- The Center for the Study of Social Policy’s resources on race and equity
- The National Child Welfare Workforce Institute’s resources on racial equity
- Introduction to the Results Count™ Path to Equity
- Being antiracist in clinical practice
Resources for White Parents to Raise Anti-Racist Children (from the Evanston Public Library):
- Podcasts:
- Article:
- The Conscious Kid on Instagram
News Source Run by African Americans
Reading Lists
Books for Kids Ages 4 – 8
- Something Happened in Our Town by Ann Hazzard, Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins; available on You Tube
- A Kids Book About Racism by Jelani Memory
- Momma Did You Hear the News? by Sonya Whittacker Gragg
Books for Kids Ages 8 – 12
- One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
- A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramee
Books for Teens
- This Book is Anti-racist by Tiffany Jewell
- Dear Martin by Nic Stone
- Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely
Books for Adults
- The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- The Grace of Silence by Michele Norris
- A Choice of Weapons by Gordon Parks
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- Autobiography of Malcolm X
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
- Makes Me Wanna Holler by Nathan McCall
- Mississippi Solo & South of Haunted Dream by Eddy Harris
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Beverly DiAngelo
- How to Be an Anti-racist by Ibram X. Kendi
- Stamped: Racism, Antiracism,and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
- Racism without Racists: Colorblind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
- My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem
- A Journey by Nikki Giovanni
- books by Langston Hughes
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Iljeoma Oluo
- White Rage by Carol Anderson
- The Very Good Gospel by Lisa Sharon Harper
- The Half Has Never Been Told by Edward E. Baptist
- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
- All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung
