• Beverly Daniel Tatum, Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria?

This book outlines racial identity development and the challenges with having meaningful conversations on race.

• Kim Case, Deconstructing Privilege: Teaching and Learning as Allies in the Classroom

This edited collection explores best practices for effective teaching and learning about various forms of systemic group privilege such as that based on race, gender, sexuality, religion, and class.

• Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

This book is written as a letter to the author's teenaged son about the feelings, symbolism, and realities associated with being black in the United States.

• Natasha Bowens, The Color of Food

A book that tackles mainstream perceptions of farming, Bowens shares stories, past and present, of diverse farmers and explores critical issues that lie at the intersection of race and food.

• Paul Kivel, Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice

This book provides practical tools and advice for how white people can work as allies for racial justice.

• Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning

A national book award winner, Stamped from the Beginning presents how racist ideas were deliberated crafted by some of the nation's most brilliant thinkers, and chronicles activists working to dismantle oppressive systems.

• Brown University - Culturally Responsive Teaching

This compilation of short readings outlines seven aspects of culturally responsive teaching - “a pedagogy that recognizes the importance of including students' cultural references in all aspects of learning.”

• It's Pronounced Metrosexual – "The Genderbread Person"

This website offers a wealth of resources designed to help advance social equity. Specifically relevant to our work at the Edible Schoolyard is “The Genderbread Person,” an easy-to-understand “edu-graphic” of a fluid, non-binary model of gender and sexuality.

• White Noise Collective – Resource List

An extensive list of online readings mostly focused on issues of privilege and oppression in relation to race, gender, and the intersection between the two.

• Teaching Tolerance

A website that provides free resources for educators to create civil and inclusive school communities.

• White Noise Collective – Resource List

An extensive list of online readings mostly focused on issues of privilege and oppression in relation to race, gender, and the intersection between the two.

• Racial Equity Tools

This website supports individuals and groups working to achieve racial equity. Here you'll find tools, research, curricula, and ideas to advance justice and deepen one's own understanding around issues of race.

• Structural Racism Timeline

This website provides a timeline of recent events that demonstrate the existence of structural racism throughout institutions such as law enforcement, higher education, legislative bodies, and more.

• Center for Environmental Farming Systems Core Racial Equity Toolkit

This toolkit aims to provide a shared understanding, language, and analysis of structural racism as one of many root causes of food systems disparity.

• Dismantling Racism Works Web Workbook

A web-based workbook originally designed to support the Dismantling Racism Works basic workshop. Contains numerous resources exploring the history and impacts of racism, tools for responding to racist thought, analysis of current events, and more.

• Harvard University: Project Implicit – Personal Bias Test

Project Implicit offers a variety of personal bias tests online, including tests that relate to racial, gender, and sexuality bias - a great resource for becoming aware of unconscious bias.

• Paul Kivel - “Where Are You In The Class System?” Purdue University - Knowledge of Cultural Self-Awareness Assignment

This activity offers a framework for becoming aware of your own level of cultural self-awareness. They define cultural self-awareness as “at the minimum, understanding your own culturally determined identity, rules, and biases,” and eventually leading to a greater comfort with new cultural perspectives.