The following message was shared by PUSD staff from Millennium and Piedmont High Schools
Millennium and Piedmont High School Communities:
Many members of our community came out on Wednesday in a show of solidarity and support for racial justice. We know that violence at the hands of police and protests impact our families differently, and our hearts go out to our families who are members of the African American community, and other communities who have suffered from a legacy of racism in this country. We are striving to ensure that our school communities are anti-racist, and there is much work ahead.
If school were in session, we would no doubt be holding class conversations to help our students process their questions and feelings. With that in mind, we are providing a list of resources for families and students. We encourage you to consider adding something from the list to your summer reading and discussing it as a family. We are each grappling with our role and responsibilities around creating a more just and equitable society. We look forward to continuing this work together with you all in the fall.
In partnership,
Shannon Fierro, Adam Littlefield, Irma Muñoz & Erin Igoe
Books
- How to Be an Antiracist | Ibram X. Kendi, 2019
- White Fragility | Robin J. Diangelo, June 26, 2018
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race/ | Beverley Daniel Tatum, 2017
- White Rage | Carol Anderson, 2017
- Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race | Renni Eddo-Lodge, 2017
- Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates, 2015
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness | Michelle Alexander, 2010
- The World That Made New Orleans | Ned Sublette, 2008
- Heavy: An American Memoir | Kiese Laymon, 2018
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Maya Angelou, 1969
- Just Mercy | Bryan Stevenson, 2014
- Me and White Supremacy | Layla F. Saad, 2020
- Raising our Hands | Jenna Arnold, 2020
- Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love, and So Much More | Janet Mock, 2014
- Sister Outsider | Audrey Lord, 1984
- So You Want to Talk About Race | Ijeoma Oluo, 2018
- The Bluest Eye | Toni Morrison, 1970
- The Fire Next Time | James Baldwin, 1962
- The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century | Grace Lee Boggs, Scott Kurashige, and Danny Glover, 2011
- The Warmth of Other Suns | Isabel Wilkerson, 2010
- This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color | Roasrio Morales, 1984
- Women, Race, and Class | Angela Davis, 1981
- Are Prisons Obsolete? | Angela Davis, 2003
- Black Marxism: The Making of Black Radical Tradition | Cedric Robinson, 1983
- Wretched of the Earth | Frantz Fanon, 1961
- Black Skin, White Masks | Frantz Fanon, 1952
- Common Ground | J. Anthony Lukas, 1985
- Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race | Debby Irving, 2014
Articles:
- For Our White Friends Desiring to Be Allies | Courney Ariel, Aug. 16, 2017
- 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice | Corinne Shutack, Aug. 13, 2017
- The Souls of White Folk | Stephen Jamal Leeper, Dec. 22, 2016
- What Do We Do With White Folks? | Anthony James Williams, Feb. 4, 2019
- White People Have No Culture | Lorena Wallace, Feb. 19, 2018
- White Fragility | The Conscious Kid
- Food Has Always Been Political | Adam Rapaport, May 31, 2020
- The White Space | Elijah Anderson, 2015
- White Supremacy Culture, From Dismantling Racism: A Workbook for Social Change | Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun, 2001
- Why White People Freak Out When They’re Called Out About Race | Sam Adler-Bell, Mar 10, 2015
- The Sugarcoated Language of White Fragility | Anna Kegler, Jul. 22, 2016
- My White Friend Asked Me to Explain White Privilege | Lori Lakin Hutcherson, Sep. 8, 2017
- The Intersectionality Wars | Jane Coaston, May 28, 2019
- Who Gets to Be Afraid in America | Ibram X. Kendi, May 12, 2020
- A Timeline of Events That Led to the 2020 ‘Fed Up’-rising | Michael Harriot, May 30, 2020
- “We are not okay. And you shouldn’t be either.” | Meg K. Guilford, May 31, 2020
- Remember, No One Is Coming to Save Us | Roxane Gay, May 30, 2020
- Op-Ed: Kareem Abdul Jabbar: Don’t understand the protests? What you’re seeing is people pushed to the edge | Kareem Abdul Jabbar, May 30, 2020
- How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change | Barack Obama, Jun. 1, 2020
- White People: This Is How To Check Your Privilege When Asking People Of Color For Their Labor | Sophia Stephens, July 30, 2018
- How Not To Be An Ally | Dr. Kim Case, April 19, 2019
- How To Be An Ally If You Are a Person With Privilege | Frances E. Kendall, Ph.D., 2003
- White Anti-Racism: Living The Legacy | Flinn, Norman, Patel and Robles