Anti-Racism/Anti-Bias Resources

Land Acknowledgement: Shoreline Cooperative Preschool acknowledges that we are located on the unceded land of the Duwamish People, the first people of Seattle, and honors the Duwamish Tribe, their ancestral heritage, and the land with gratitude. If you are so moved, you may pay rent to the Duwamish at https://duwamishtribe.networkforgood.com/projects/35157-real-rent-duwamish. To begin learning more about the Indigenous land you personally live on, please visit www.native-land.ca.

Shoreline Cooperative Preschool Anti-Bias/Anti-Racism Policy:

We at Shoreline Cooperative Preschool recognize that biases for or against racial/ethnic backgrounds, culture, language, gender expression, sexual orientation, family structure, cognitive or physical ability, economic class, immigration status, and religion affect how every person (staff, parent, child) experience privilege and oppression. We are committed to broadening representation in classroom media (art, play, reading, and music), and continual self reflection and admission of bias with intention to grow and change for a more equitable learning environment. We also recognize that understanding, acknowledging and working to eliminate biases and oppression is a perpetual learning process for us all. Different people can be at different stages in the learning process, and as a community create opportunities for learning and assist each other in the learning process. We are dedicated to integrating ongoing ABAR education at all levels of the school community. We are committed, collectively and individually, to actively support community efforts to overcome oppression and establish justice.
You can reach the Shoreline Cooperative Preschool ABAR committee at abar@shorelinecooperativepreschool.org

Check out our Bookshop page for inclusive book recommendations for kids and parents.

A few top anti-racism resources for kids and adults:

Below are many more resources on how families can understand and work to overcome racism in America, specifically centered on anti-black racism and white supremacy.

For Children

For Adults

Take Action
Racist Seattle Businesses

Black-Owned Etsy Shops

Intentionalist: Database of diverse-owned small businesses 

75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice

Text FLOYD to 55156 to demand all four officers involved with Floyd’s death be charged and arrested

Call DA Michael Freeman at 612-324-4499 to demand all four officers be charged and arrested

Contact your congresspeople and ask them to support Reps Pressley and Omar’s resolution condemning police brutality
Donate
Black Visions Collective

Reclaim the Block

Know Your Rights Camp

Campaign Zero

Black Lives Matter

Communities United Against Police Brutality

NAACP Legal Defense Fund

ACLU

Black Mama’s Bail Out

Equal Justice Initiative

Duwamish Tribe Rent

The Loveland Foundation
Learn
Mapping Police Violence

African American History: From Emancipation to Present (Open Yale Course)
Read
An Antiracist Reading List 

Listening to Black Voices Amid Murder, Violence, Protest, and Pandemic

Smithsonian – National Museum of African American History & Culture: Talking About Race

Self-Care Tips for Black People Who Are Struggling With This Very Painful Week

White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo

How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

What Does It Mean To Be White? by Robin DiAngelo

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

Divided Sisters by Midge Wilson and Kathy Russell

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

They Can’t Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Fatal Invention by Dorothy Roberts

Locking Up Our Own by James Forman

The Miner’s Canary by Lani Guiner and Gerald Torres

The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

Remember, No One is Coming to Save Us

The Average Black Family Would Need 228 Years to Build the Wealth of a White Family Today

How Seattle Gave Up on Busing and Allowed Its Public Schools to Become Alarmingly Resegregated

Coalition of Anti Racist Whites Resources
Listen
1619 (NYT)

About Race

Code Switch (NPR)

Intersectionality Matters! Hosted by Kimberle Crenshaw

Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast

Pod For The Cause (Leadership Conf on Civil & Human Rights)

Pod Save The People (Crooked Media)

Seeing White

Parenting Forward podcast episode “Five Pandemic Parenting Lessons with Cindy Wang Brandt”

Fare of the Free Child Podcast
Watch
Mixed-ish (ABC)

13th (Netflix)

American Son (Netflix)

Dear White People (Netflix)

King in the Wilderness (HBO)

See You Yesterday (Netflix)

The Hate You Give (Cinemax)

When They See Us (Netflix)

Just Mercy (YouTube, Amazon Prime)

Richard Rothstein: The Color of Law (YouTube)

Oregon’s Black Pioneers (YouTube)

Raising Anti Racist Kids (YouTube)

Abolitionist Teaching and the Future of Our Schools (YouTube)

Ijeoma and Ahamafule Oluo Juneteenth Conversation (KCLS Listen/Watch)
Local Organizations
Families of Color Seattle (FOCS) – connecting families and building community for POC and mixed-race families