Our KMS PTSA Statement:
The murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery are yet further examples of the systemic racism that continues to permeate this country. The Kenmore Middle School PTSA stands in solidarity with our black students, families and community members as we move to disrupt the injustices that continue to cause harm and dehumanize our black communities. We hear you, we see you, we value you, we love you. To non-black, anti-racist allies, reach out and support black folx in the way THEY need to be supported. We have also provided resources below to support families in having conversations regarding race and racism, and to continue the learning. Let’s do better for our students, our families, and our country. People are crying out for real change to happen. #BlackLivesMatter
Resources:
#BlackLivesMatter: K-8 Distance Learning Activities for Justice for George Floyd
Allyship Actions for Asians to Show Up for the Black Community Right Now
Your Kids Aren’t Too Young To Talk About Race
Raising Race Conscious Children
Deconstructing White Privilege with Dr. Robin DiAngelo
Following Resource List credit to Victoria Alexander #AmplifyMelanatedVoices
Anti-Racist Starter Kit:
Stamped from the Beginning - Ibram X Kendi
A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn (There is a "young people's" version for elementary and middle school readers)
White Fragility - Robin DiAngelo
So you want to talk about race - Ijeoma Oluo
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness - Austin Channing Brown
Me and White Supremacy - Layla F Saad
Stamped - Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi
Anti-Racist Intermediate Kit:
The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America - Anders Walker
The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander
The Condemnation of Blackness - Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Dying of Whiteness - Jonathan Metzl
A Different Mirror - Ronald Takaki
How to be an Antiracist - Ibram X Kendi
How the South Won the Civil War - Heather Cox Richardson
Anti-Racist Topic Specifics:
Evicted - Matthew Desmond
Nobody - Marc Lamont Hill
Lies My Teacher Told Me - James W Loewen
Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria - Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD
The Color of Law - Richard Rothstein
Blackballed - Darryl Pinkney
Lies My Teacher Told Me - James W. Loewen
Anti-Racist Literature - Biographies, Nonfiction, Novels, and Personal Narratives:
The Warmth of Other Sons - Isabel Wilkerson
The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin
Malcolm X - Alex Haley
Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
Killing Rage: Ending Racism - bell hooks
Becoming - Michelle Obama
An American Marriage - Tayari Jones
A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota - Sun Yung Shin (Editor)
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother - James McBride
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption - Bryan Stevenson
The Myth of Race - Robert Sussman
Anti-Racist Literature - Black Feminism:
How We Get Free - Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Black Feminist Thought - Patricia Hill Collins
Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism - bell hooks
Bad Feminist - Roxane Gay
Eloquent Rage - Brittney Cooper
In Search of Our Mothers Gardens - Alice Walker
Sister Outsider - Audre Lorde
Women, Race & Class - Angela Y Davis
Assata: An Autobiography - Assata Shakur
To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe - Akwugo Emejulu and Francesca Sobande
Anti Racist List Black LGBTQ+:
Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin
Zami - Audre Lorde
Real Life - Brandon Taylor
Unapologetic A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements - Charlene A Carruthers
No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies - E. Patrick Johnson
Since I Laid My Burden Down - Brontez Purnell
The Other Side of Paradise - Staceyann Chin
No Ashes in the Fire - Darnell L. Moore
The Summer We Got Free - Mia McKenzie
Black Like Me - John Howard Griffin
Rising Out of Hatred - Eli Saslow
Black On Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity - C. Riley Snorton