This list of resources was complied by Adelaide Eveleigh Lancaster, Co-Founder and Director of Community and Collaboration for We Stories, which “uses the power of children’s literature to create conversation, change and hope in St. Louis, and a stronger, more equitable and inclusive future for all.”
BEGINNING AN EXPLORATION OF WHITENESS
Waking Up White by Debbie Irving (book)
White Like Me by Tim Wise (book)
White Like Me by Tim Wise (video)
Peggy McIntosh’s “Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” (article)
“Eula Biss” on On Being (podcast episode)
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BEGINNING A CONVERSATION WITH KIDS ABOUT RACE
Why Do It:
“Teaching Tolerance” from Slate
Books to Start With:
Shades of People by Shelley Rotner
All the Colors We Are by Katie Kissinger
The Skin You Live In by Michael J. Tyler
Amazing Grace by Mary Hoffman
Ron’s Big Mission by Rose Blue
VISIT EyeSeeMe Bookstore
The Longest Shortest Time: “How Not to Raise a Racist” (podcast episode)
This American Life: “Birds & Bees” (podcast episode)
Talk about Ruby Bridges with your children & watch real footage
Learn about the Children’s March together (documentary clips)
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SOME IMPORTANT HISTORY YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED
13TH (documentary)
https://www.netflix.com/title/80091741
“The Making of Ferguson” (article that applies to most every city and place in our nation)
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander (book)
Black Panther: Vanguard of the Revolution (PBS film)
http://www.pbs.org/…/the-black-panthers-vanguard-of-the-re…/
KKK profile on Southern Poverty Law Center Website
The Racist History of Portland, The Whitest City in America
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EXPLORATION OF ST. LOUIS HISTORY
Radio:
St. Louis in Black and White on St. Louis Public Radio
Short 15 minute segments about local history from sundown towns to Pruitt-Igoe to Percy Green and the Arch. They were produced pre-Ferguson.
We Live Here Podcasts
Videos & Documentaries:
Pruitt-Igoe Myth
Displaced & Erased: History of Clayton’s Black Neighborhood
EXHIBITS
#1 in Civil Rights @ Missouri History Museum
North Webster Historical Walking Tour
STL REGIONAL RESEARCH AND LEADERSHIP
For the Sake of All Report, Dr. Jason Purnell
Ferguson Commission Report, Ferguson Commissioners
Profiles of #stlchange on Forward Through Ferguson’s Facebook page
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PODCASTS
john a powell