Fear and Rewriting Trayvon: Educator Thoughts.
Teaching Tolerance, August 1, 2013.
This conversation starter I wrote after Trayvon Martin’s murder also helps to spark conversation and action to counter racially disparate school discipline.
Author: Dana Chung
Race and Overreaction: On the Streets and in Schools.
The Atlantic, February 2, 2015.
This short, pointed conversation starter I wrote with Tanya Coke is a good pairing with the Carter et al. and Gregory et al. articles posted here, to spark conversation and work on issues of racially disparate school discipline.
Link here.
How Educators Can Eradicate Disparities in School Discipline. Discipline Disparities Series: Interventions
The Equity Project at Indiana University, March 2014.
This short piece walks through potential remedies for racial disparities in school discipline.
Link here.
You Can’t Fix What You Don’t Look At: Acknowledging Race in Addressing Racial Discipline Disparities.
Urban Education, August 4, 2016.
This piece is a conversation starter about race and discipline disparities– a key focus area for antiracism in school settings.
Link here.
From Shallow to Deep: Toward a Thorough Cultural Analysis of School Achievement Patterns.
Anthropology & Education Quarterly,
This is a short conversation starter for talking about culture, I also adapted it for Schooltalk’s Chapter 4 (Culture Talk). It’s a short read that helps us think critically about how talk about “other people’s cultures” is often shallow and underinformed.
Link here.
Some Myths about Race that Every Educator Needs to Unlearn
Wiley-Blackwell, 2020.
I wrote “Some Myths about Race that Every Educator Needs to Unlearn” as an updated chapter in RACE: Are We So Different?, which is a peer-reviewed companion volume to the American Anthropological Association’s museum exhibition and interactive website of the same title. Definitely check out this foundational material about race.
Link here.
Flipping Our Scripts about Undocumented Immigration
This is a #Schooltalking Conversation Starter I wrote, building on information about my own family as well as U.S. history. Folks have found it particularly useful for sparking discussions of immigration and race, including white people’s experiences.
Link here.
Introduction to Schooltalk
With The New Press’ permission, much of the intro to Schooltalk was released as a “conversation starter” by Teaching Tolerance Magazine, in 2017.
Here’s that article.
Feel free to share it, to see if the longer book can be of use in your school community.
“Words Matter: The Repercussions of What We Say – And Don’t Say – About Students” (NEA Today) is a short article on Schooltalk that can also help your school community consider its use.
Link here.
The Brief History of Race-Class Inequality from Chapter 2 of Schooltalk
From Schooltalk, 2017.
This is a short history of race-class inequality that includes personal details from my own family. I’ve seen it used successfully in professional development to get people thinking about race-class disparity — including in their own families.
Link here.
The Gallop Through History from Chapter 1 of Schooltalk
From Schooltalk, 2017.
This is a brief, accessible history of race categories and a “digest” of race/racism history. People have found it a really useful conversation-starter to ground a group of people in race’s history before starting work on race today.