LibGuides: Resources for Becoming Actively Anti-Racist: Background

Addressing Implicit Bias

Harvard’s Project Implicit
Syllabus for White People to Educate Themselves
Racial Equality Tools
Unconscious Bias Resources, UC- San Francisco
Helping Courts Address Implicit Bias, National Center for State Courts
Who, Me? Biased?, NY Times
How to Overcome our Biases? Walk Boldly Towards Them, TED Talk with Vernā Myers

Victims of Police Misconduct

This is not a complete list - it is not even close to being a complete list - of black people killed by police or white people acting as vigilantes (as in the cases of Trayvon Martin and Ahmaud Arbery). According to Mapping Police Violence, based on data collected in 2019, black Americans were nearly three times more likely to die from police than white Americans. Further, black Americans were nearly 1.5 times more likely to be unarmed before their death. See Willem Roper, Black Americans 2.5X More Likely Than Whites to Be Killed By Police, Statista (June 2, 2020).

George Floyd
George Floyd, 46, died after being arrested by police outside a shop in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Footage of the arrest on 25 May shows a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, kneeling on Mr Floyd's neck while he was pinned to the floor.
Breonna Taylor
Breonna Taylor was fatally shot in her apartment by Louisville police on March 13
Ahmaud Arbery
Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old black man, was chased by armed white residents of a South Georgia neighborhood. They were arrested months later.
Alton Sterling
Two white officers were arresting Alton B. Sterling after responding to a call about an armed man. The officers had Mr. Sterling pinned to the ground when at least one of them shot him.
Philando Castile
Philando Castile was shot behind the wheel of a car in Falcon Heights, Minnesota after being pulled over by an officer. Castile's girlfriend and her young daughter were also in the car.
Tamir Rice
Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy, was shot and killed by a Cleveland police officer responding to a 911 call reporting a person pointing a gun — which turned out to be a toy pistol missing its orange safety cap.
Eric Garner
Eric Garner, a 43-year-old father of six who was unarmed at the time, argued with police about why he was being arrested. To corral Garner, one officer used a chokehold, a technique banned by the NYPD. Several others helped drag him to the ground. Garner, who had a history of health problems, died soon after.
Sandra Bland
Questions have surrounded the death of Sandra Bland, a 28-year-old black activist, since she was found hanged in a Texas police cell in July 2015 after she was arrested during a traffic stop.
Oscar Grant
The death of Oscar Grant, a young father, was one of the first major US police brutality cases in which cellphone footage went viral, prompting widespread outrage years before the Black Lives Matter movement.
The officer who shot Grant in the back, Johannes Mehserle, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in a rare criminal trial over a killing by law enforcement.
Samuel Dubose
Ray Tensing, a 25-year-old University of Cincinnati cop who is white, fatally shot 43-year-old Dubose, an African-American, in the head on July 19 during a routine traffic stop for missing his front license plate.
Trayvon Martin
George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer fatally shot Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager, and was later acquitted.
Walter Scott
A white police officer in North Charleston, S.C., was charged with murder after a video surfaced showing him shooting in the back and killing an apparently unarmed black man while the man ran away.
Terence Crutcher
Terence Crutcher was unarmed when he was fatally shot by a white Tulsa, Oklahoma, police officer responding to a stalled vehicle.
Michael Brown
Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was killed by a police officer in a St. Louis suburb, sparking protests around the nation.

Talking to Children about Race

Books

Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners: books for children and young adults
Let's Talk About Race | Julius Lester & Karen Barbour
Antiracist Baby | Ibram X. Kendi & Ashley Lukashevsky
Something Happened in Our Town: A Child's Story About Racial Injustice | Marianne Celano, PhD, ABPP, Marietta Collins, PhD, & Ann Hazzard, PhD, ABPP & Jennifer Ziovin
It's Okay to Be Different | Todd Parr
Malcolm Little: The Boy who Grew up to be Malcolm X | Ilyasah Shabazz
The Undefeated | Kwame Alexander

Podcasts

Fare of the Free Child
‘Five Pandemic Parenting Lessons with Cindy Wang Brandt’ | Parenting Forward Podcast

Articles

PBS’s Teaching Your Child About Black History Month
The Conscious Kid: follow them on Instagram and consider signing up for their Patreon

Watch

CNN/Sesame Street Town Hall about Racism (toddlers)
Let's Talk about Race | The Tutu Teacher (kindergarten)

Statistics

Mapping Police Violence
Mapping Police Violence is a nonprofit organization that tracks police killings using data sourced from three crowdsourced databases - FatalEncounters.org, the U.S. Police Shootings Database and KilledbyPolice.net. By searching social media, obituaries, criminal records databases, police reports and other sources, Mapping Police Violence has identified the race of 90 percent of all victims in the database.
Statista - Hate crime in the U.S
Statista is a subscription service available to the BLS community that publishes data and statistics on a broad range of topics. Its section on hate crime in the U.S. focuses on racially motivated, religiously motivated, and sexual-orientation, gender, and gender identity motivated hate crimes. According to the data on Statista, black Americans are the most victimized racial or ethnic group. (see https://www.statista.com/statistics/737690/number-of-racist-hate-crime-victims-in-the-us-by-race/)