Resources on Racism for Parents, Children, Educators & Others

Having a strong commitment to equity at PCA America, we are continuously working to integrate an equity-lens across all our work and practices. Along with our official statement on racism, the following growing resource list is intended to aid others as they work to integrate an equity-lens into child maltreatment prevention work as professionals, parents, and members in the community.

This list will be updated periodically as more resources become available.

For Parents
For Children
For Educators
For All Adults

For Parents

Podcasts

• Talking Race With Young Children (NPR)
• TED Radio Hour – Mary Bassett: How Does Racism Affect Your Health? (KVPR)
• Fare of the Free Child (Raising Free People)
• Raising White Kids with Jennifer Harvey (Integrated Schools)
• How White Parents Can Talk To Their Kids About Race (NPR)

Videos

• Ways to Talk to Kids About Race and Protests (Today)

Articles/Publications

• How to Talk to Your Kids About Protests and Racism (CNN)
• Racism and Violence: How to Help Kids Handle the News (Child Mind Institute)
• How to talk to kids about racism: An age-by-age guide (Today’s Parent)
• 5 Tips for Talking with Children and Teenagers About Hate Incidents (Anti-Defamation League & National PTA)
• Strategies for Talking About Race with Young Children (Adapted from Courageous Change)
• Parents Face Talks with Kids on Racism (Chicago Tribune)
• Talking to Kids About Discrimination (American Psychological Association)
• Talking to Children about Racism: The Time is Now (Healthy Children)
• White parents teach their children to be colorblind. Here’s why that’s bad for everyone. (Washington Post)
• Teaching Your Child About Black History (PBS)
• The Conscious Kid (Subscription)

For Children

Videos

• Sesame Street Racism Town Hall (CNN & Sesame Street)
• 10 Kid-Friendly Black History Movies that Tackle Racism (Mother Mag)
• 20 great movies for families to watch in honor of Black History Month (USA Today)
• The ABCs of Racial Literacy (Sesame Street)

Books

• Social Activism Diverse Book List by Grade (Lee and Low Books)
• 30 books to help you talk to your kids about racism (Today’s Parent)
• Early Childhood Anti-Bias Education Booklists (Social Justice Books)
• Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners (Common Sense Media)
• The Books Can Help Explain Racism and Protests to Your Kids (The New York Times)
• Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You (Ages 12 & Up) (Ibram X. Kendi)

For Educators

Podcasts

• Teaching While White

Articles/Publications

• Guide for Selecting Anti-Bias Children’s Books (Teaching for Change)
• White Fragility in Students (Teaching While White)
• 50 states, 50 different ways of teaching America’s past (CBS News)
• Teaching Juneteenth (Teaching Tolerance)
• When Bad Things Are Happening (Teaching Tolerance)

For All Adults

Podcasts

• Brené with Ibram X. Kendi on How to Be an Antiracist (Brene Brown)
• The Culture Inside (NPR)
• Seeing White (Scene on Radio)
• 1619 (The New York Times)

Videos

• A Conversation on Race (The New York Times)
• The 13^th by Ava DuVernay (Netflix)
• Urgency of Intersectionality (Ted Talk)
• How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Discussing Race (Ted Talk)
• The Danger of a Single Story (Ted Talk)
• Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers (National LGBTQ Task Force)
• How to Build an Antiracist World with Ibram X. Kendi (Ted Talk)
• Ibram X. Kendi, Robin Diangelo discuss race in America (CBS News)
• How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion”: Peggy McIntosh (Ted Talk)
• Dr. Robin DiAngelo discusses ‘White Fragility’ (Seattle Channel on YouTube)
• Equity in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation Webinar Series – Center of Excellence for Infant & Childhood Mental Health Consultation

Books

• How to Be an Antiracist (Ibram X. Kendi)
• Between the World and Me (Young Adult/Adult) (Ta-Nehisi Coates)

Articles/Publications

• How to Increase Your Empathy (SixSeconds)
• Guide to Allyship
• Racism is Real (Vox)
• White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack (Peggy McIntosh)
• The 1619 Project (The New York Times)
• Syllabus: 21-Day Racial Equity Habit-Building Challenge © (American Bar Association)
• Antiracism Training (Driep)
• Talking About Race (National Museum of African American History and Culture) 
• The Equity Journey – Nonprofit Leadership Alliance
• How Decades of Racist Housing Policy Left Neighborhoods Sweltering (The New York Times)