Resources to further pre and/or post-show discussions:
There’s LOTS here; please scroll all the way down the page to see a variety of resources.
Download and print our Educators Guide here:
odol-school-educators-guide-compressedHere are the Educational Objectives for One Drop of Love – the play, the performance film and our workshops:
1. Discover & analyze the connections between historical context and personal narrative and how they influence racial, class and gender identities
2. Critically examine the historical construction of race through the changing racial categories of the U.S. Census
3. Experience how social identity (race, gender, class, etc.) constructions affect our own well-being and our most intimate relationships
SHORT VIDEOS:
Yolanda Sealy-Ruiz: The archaeology of the self from Future for Learning on Vimeo.
Bryan Stevenson TED talk: We need to talk about an injustice
“How I Learned about the One-Drop Rule” playlist
One Drop of Love Q&A Playlist
What is ‘Intersectionality’?
Debbie Irving (author of Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race) TEDx talk
Aamer Rahman on Reverse Racism
The Unequal Opportunity Race
New York Times: #thisis2016 Asian-Americans Respond
Deconstructing White Privilege with Dr. Robin Di Angelo from GCORR
VIDEO LINKS:
New York Times: Conversations with Latinos on Race
ESSAYS/ARTICLES/BLOGS & BLOG POSTS/PODCASTS/STATEMENTS/REPORTS:
Racism has devastating effects on children’s health, pediatricians warnhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/health/racism-has-devastating-effects-on-childrens-health-pediatricians-warn/2019/08/02/ce5fc96a-b313-11e9-8f6c-7828e68cb15f_story.html?utm_term=.216292746f8e
Southern Poverty Law Center: Ten Ways to Fight Hate
The Cornerstone for Teachers: 10 Things Every White Teacher Should Know When Talking About Race
AP: How Saying You’re Multiracial Changes the Way People See You
Buzzfeed: How Not To Talk About Race and Genetics
Race has long been a potent way of defining differences between human beings. But science and the categories it constructs do not operate in a political vacuum.
Huffington Post: The Sugarcoated Language of White Fragility
Blavity: Why We Need to Know the Story of Whiteness
Scene on Radio Podcast series: Seeing White (this link takes you to the ‘Episodes’ page – be sure to look for the ‘Seeing White’ episodes)
The Lily: How I Came to Accept My Hard to Pronounce Name
Colorlines: Dos and Don’ts of Talking to Kids of Color about White Supremacy
Especially for White Educators with Black & Brown students: If You Think You’re Giving Students of Color a Voice, Get Over Yourself
Girl Mob: Love, Alone, Will Not Dismantle Racism
The Guardian: You can’t ignore racism and raise anti-racist children. You have to tackle it head-on
The Brookings Institute: “6 Charts Showing Race Gaps within the American Middle Class”
Ta-nehisi Coates: “The Case for Reparations”
Robin DiAngelo “White Fragility”
Yale National Initiative to Strengthen Teaching in Public Schools
“Native America: Understanding the Past through Things”
Kimberlé Crenshaw on Intersectionality: “I wanted to come up with an everyday metaphor that everyone can use”
New York Times: “Talking Across Racial Divides: 10 Ways to Encourage Civil Classroom Conversation on Difficult Issues”
*we recommend you include discussion on who gets to determine what ‘civil’ is
Peggy McIntosh “Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”
RAINN “How to respond to a survivor”
Twin Cities Daily Planet: “When white families avoid talking about race, families of color shoulder the burden of respectability”
New York Public Library’s “A Reading List for America”
The concept of names/naming + historical context are important to our show. Here’s an article on the importance of learning to properly pronounce student names: “What minority students hear when white teachers mispronounce their names”
Rad Fag: “Black People Have Every Right to Distrust You for Being Lightskinned”
School Library Journal’s #BlackLivesMatter Book List for Teens
Blog post: Nina Simone, Zoe Saldana, and Lightskinned Fragility
Bl0g post: You’re Not Colorblind and Neither is Your Kid
Blog post/Sermon: I, Racist
Report: U.S. Census Overview of Race and Hispanic Origin: 2010
The Guardian: Claudia Rankin: Why I’m spending $625,000 to study whiteness
Statement: American Anthropological Association Statement on “Race”
INTERACTIVE RESOURCES:
ProjectImplicit Implicit Bias Tests
Shared Google Document: Opportunities for White People in the Fight for Racial Justice
Pew Research Center: What Census Calls Us: A Historical Timeline
FILMS, TV AND SERIES TO WATCH/REFLECT ON:
TV mini series: America Divided
Documentary film: Dark Girls
Documentary film: Little White Lie
Documentary film: 13th
Animated feature: Zootopia
Netflix Series: Master of None
OWN Series: Queen Sugar
ORGANIZATIONS/EVENTS TO JOIN/SUPPORT:
Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice Innovation
White People Challenging Racism: Moving from Talk to Action
Border Crossers: Building Racial Justice in Education
BOOKS (be sure these are included in your school’s library):
The Half Has Never Been Told by Edward E. Baptist
Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics and Big Business Recreate Race in the Twenty-first Century by Dr. Dorothy R. Roberts
How Race Survived U.S. History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon by David R. Roediger
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter
White by Law by Ian Haney López