Tools and Resources for Doing the Work
Personal Interpersonal Work is the Individual and Small Group work aimed at examining our perceptions, biases and understanding of racial issues in it’s current and historical context.
Personal & interpersonal Tools:
A good beginning place
Open, direct and uncomfortable conversations about race with white America to educate and inform on racism, systemic racism, social injustice, rioting, and the hurt African Americans are feeling today.
Resources for those beginning their journey
Privilege Inventory:
Goal of Document:
Understand white privilege
Who should use this:
Teachers, Administrators, Students
Summary of Stages of Racial Identity Development
Goal of Document:
Summarize several frameworks that to describe stages of racial and ethnic identity development
Who should use this:
Teachers, Administrators
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
Goal of Document:
Understand white privilege
Who should use this:
Teachers, Administrators, Students
Resources for Accountability and Actions for Black Lives
Goal of Document:
Resources for Accountability and Actions for Black Lives
Who should use this:
Teachers, administrators, Students
Community Inventory
Goal of Document:
This document allows folks to examine their own community and the diversity within it.
Who should use this:
Teachers, students, Administrators
Teacher Resources: Talking about Race & Racism in your Classroom
Goal of Document:
This is a resource guide with a Jesuit lens that gives context to talking about race and racism in your classroom.
Who should use this:
Teachers
Factuality - the game
Goal of Document:
Provide a “crash course” in systemic racism in the United States
Who should use this:
High School Teachers, Educators, Students, Parents, Administrators
Fostering Civil Discourse: A Guide for Classroom Conversations
Goal of Document:
How to set the stage for tough conversation in your classroom
Who should use this:
teacher
example for discussions around race
Goal of Document:
provide an example of the way parishes can foster discussions and examinations of privilege
Who should use this:
faith formation directors, individuals
Black in America: I am tired
Goal of Document:
reflection on being black and catholic in america
Who should use this:
individuals
My Arms Are Empty: A Song of Lamentation for Ahmaud Arbery
Goal of Document:
a poem by joseph a. brown reflecting on ahmaud arbery’s death in light of the crucifixion
Who should use this:
individuals
Our Baptismal Call to Social Justice: A Conversation with Fr. Joseph A. Brown
Goal of Document:
examining how to wake up to one’s white privilege and use it to do anti-racism work
Who should use this:
individuals
"I Couldn't Hear Nobody Pray"
Goal of Document:
a reflection on the myriad ways racism stretches into american life
Who should use this:
individuals
Resources for those beginning & progressing toward the middle of their journey
Harvard’s Implicit Bias test
Goal of Document:
Analyze your implicit biases
Who should use this:
Teachers, Administrators, Students
Anti-Racism Resources
Goal of Document:
Resources for white people, including parental focus
Who should use this:
Teachers, Administrators, Students, parents
Anti-Racist Educator Self Examination Questionnaire + Rubric
Goal of Document:
Anti-Racist Educator Self Examination Questionnaire + Rubric
Who should use this:
Teachers, Administrators, Professional Development
Anti-Racist Student Self Examination Questionnaire + Rubric
Goal of Document:
Anti-Racist Student Self Examination Questionnaire
Who should use this:
students
So you want to talk about race: Invitation
Goal of Document:
a 4 session summer program
Who should use this:
Faculty, students
So you want to talk about race: Discussion board prompts
Goal of Document:
a 4 session summer program
Who should use this:
Faculty, students
So you want to talk about race: Google Slidedeck
Goal of Document:
a 4 session summer program
Who should use this:
Faculty, students
Community Practice
Goal of Document:
Has white people examine their biases, open the floor for POC to say their view to allow whites to learn more of the role they play.
Who should use this:
Teachers, Administrators, students
Resources for those in the middle of their journey
7 Circles of Whiteness
Goal of Document:
White faculty members to reflect about the different frameworks of whiteness as it relates to racial justice
Who should use this:
administrators, teachers
Keeping Vigil with Wisdom
Goal of Document:
how white allies should be “accomplices” and not feel threatened if their allyship is critiqued or seemingly ignored.
Who should use this:
everyone
Resources for those in the middle of their journey & deepening in their understanding
#BlackCatholics Syllabus
Goal of Document:
a collection of resources related to Black Catholics in the United States
Who should use this:
Administrators, teachers, students
Schomburg Center’s Black Liberation Reading List
Goal of Document:
essential titles selected by the Schomburg Center
Who should use this:
Administrators, teachers, students
A Reading list on the Issues of Race
Goal of Document:
reading list from harvard university
Who should use this:
Administrators, teachers, students
Resources for those deepening in their understanding
“Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You”
Goal of Document:
An Educator's Guide to “Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You”
Who should use this:
teachers, students
Flowchart of resources
Goal of Document:
Graphic Flowchart of resources by categories
Who should use this:
Administrators, teachers, students
I’m Not Welcome Here
Goal of Document:
encourage people to empathize & to imagine themselves being called racial slurs or other “harmless” racial profiles.
Who should use this:
everyone
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