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Anti-Racist Resources

This guide is designed to share anti-racist resources and expand anti-racism work within Highline College and our community.

Black Minds Matter: Readings

Black Minds Matter Recommended Course Readings (from a 5-Session Webinar Series)

Seminar Syllabus
The syllabus for the Black Minds Matter webinar (five sessions)

Session 1 - Video and Readings

Black Minds Matter 2020 - Week 1 (video)
This video is part one of the five part series, Black Minds Matter. Facilitated by J. Luke Wood, Ph.D. and Donna Y Ford, Ph.D. Guest speakers include Dr. Tyrone C. Howard and Shante Needham. (2 hours 18 minutes)

Why Black Lives (and Minds) Matter: Race, Freedom Schools & the Quest for Educational Equity
article from the Journal of Negro Education (2016)
Beyond the Schoolhouse: Overcoming Challenges and Expanding Opportunity for Black Youth in LA County
A policy report from the UCLA Black Male Institute (2019)
Black Minds Matter: Supporting the Educational Success of Black Children in California
article from The Journal of Negro Education (2016)
The Social Funding of Race: The Role of Schooling
article from the Peabody Journal of Education (2017)
From the Achievement Gap to the Education Debt: Understanding Achievement in U.S. Schools
article from the Educational Researcher (2006)
Niggers No More: A Critical Race Counter-narrative on Black Male Student Achievement at Predominantly White Colleges and Universities
article from the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education ((2009)
‘‘#Literate Lives Matter’’: Black Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening in the 21st Century
article from Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice (2016)

Session 2 - Video and Readings

Black Minds Matter 2020 - Week 2 (video)
This video is part two of the five part series, Black Minds Matter. Facilitated by J. Luke Wood, Ph.D. and Donna Y Ford, Ph.D. Our guest speakers include Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings, Dr. Ivory Toldson, and Gwen Carr. (2 hours 3 minutes)

Boyz to men? Teaching to restore Black boys’ Childhood
article from Race Ethnicity and Education (2011)
More than a Metaphor: The Contribution of Exclusionary Discipline to a School-to-Prison Pipeline
report from the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy (2014)
Altering the Pipeline to Prison and Pathways to Postsecondary Education
report from the Office of Community College Research and Leadership (2016
Unmasking the Inequitable Discipline Experiences of Urban Black Girls: Implications for Urban Educational Stakeholders
article from The Urban Review (2011)
Black Males in Kindergarten: The Effect of Social Skills on Close and Conflictual Relationships with Teachers
article from The Journal of African American Males in Education (2016)
The Penalty of Being a Young Black Girl: Kindergarten Teachers’ Perceptions of Children’s Problem Behaviors and Student–Teacher Conflict by the Intersection of Race and Gender
article from The Journal of Negro Education (2018)
Developing a School-Based Youth Court: A Potential Alternative to the School to Prison Pipeline
article from the Journal of Law and Education (2011)

Session 3 - Readings

Beyond Deficit Thinking: Providing Access for Gifted African American Students
article from the Roeper Review (2002)
Another Look at the Achievement Gap: Learning from the Experiences of Gifted Black Students
article in Urban Education (2008)
Editor's Comment: "Acting Black": What Black Kids Think About Being Smart and Other School-Related Experiences
article from The Journal of Negro Education (2010)
Capitalizing on Leadership Capacity: Gifted African-American Males in High School
article from Roeper Review (2008)
Are Black Girls Not Gifted? Race, Gender, and Resilience
article by Venus E. Evans-Winters (Illinois State University) in the Interdisciplinary Journal of Teaching and Learning (2014)
To Prove-Them-Wrong Syndrome: Voices from Unheard African-American Males in Engineering Disciplines
article from the Journal of Men's Studies (2003)
Apprehension to Engagement in the Classroom: Perceptions of Black Males in the Community College
article from the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 2014

Session 4 - Readings

Pathologizing Culture in Early Childhood Education: Illuminating Microaggressions from the Narratives of the Parents of Black Children
article from The Western Journal of Black Studies, (2019)
Coping with Gendered Racial Microaggressions among Black Women College Students
article from the Journal of African-American Studies (2013)
Challenging Racial Battle Fatigue on Historically White Campuses: A Critical Race Examination of Race-Related Stress
chapter from the book Faculty of Color: Teaching in Predominately White
Colleges and Universities (2006)
Framing African American Students' Success and Failure in Urban Settings: A Typology for Change
article from Urban Education (2008)
Exploring Challenges That Threaten to Impede the Academic Success of Academically Underprepared Black Males at a HCBU
article from the Journal of College Student Development (2009)
''Assume the Position . . . You Fit the Description'' : Psychosocial Experiences and Racial Battle Fatigue Among African American Male College Students
article from American Behavioral Scientist (2007)
Out-of-School Time and African American Students: Linking Concept to Practice (Editor's Commentary)
article from The Journal of Negro Education (2015)

Session 5 - Readings

Other People’s Daughters: Critical Race Feminism and Black Girls’ Education
article from Educational Foundations (2010)
Three Paths, One Struggle: Black Women and Girls Battling Invisibility in U.S. Classrooms
article from The Journal of Negro Education (2016)
Black in the Rainbow: “Quaring” the Black Gay Male Student Experience at Historically Black Universities
article from the Journal of African American Males in Education (2013)
Exploring Complexities of Multiple Identities of Lesbians in a Black College Environment
article from Complexities of Multiple Identities (2008)
Understanding and Reversing Underachievement, Low achievement, and Achievement Gaps Among High-Ability African American Males in Urban School Contexts
article from The Urban Review (2013)
Clean Corners and Algebra: A Critical Examination of the Constructed Invisibility of Black Girls and Women in Mathematics
article from The Journal of Negro Education (2016)
“Cool Posing” On Campus: A Qualitative Study of Masculinities and Gender Expression Among Black Men at a Private Research Institution
article from The Journal of Negro Education (2011)
Black Undergraduate Women and the Politics of Disposability: A Critical Race Feminist Perspective
article from The Journal of Negro Education (2016)