Teaching about Race and Racism Across the Disciplines

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 20.02.04

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Learning Objectives
  4. Teacher Background Knowledge
  5. Teaching Strategies
  6. Classroom Activities
  7. Resources
  8. Appendix on Implementing District Standards
  9. Endnotes

Centering Race in Literary Studies in the Kindergarten Classroom

Katherine Swann

Published September 2020

Tools for this Unit:

Resources

Student Resources

Artell, Mike. 2001. Petite Rouge: A Cajun Red Riding Hood. Penguin Books.

This is one of the read aloud for the students to compare.

Bearden, Romare. 2003. Li’l Dan, The Drummer Boy: A Civil War Story. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.

This is one of the read aloud for the students to be exposed to additional perspectives.

Daly, Niki. 2006. Pretty Selma: A Little Red Riding Hood Story from Africa. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

This is one of the read aloud for the students to compare.

Harvey, Jeanne. 2011. My Hands Sing the Blues: Romare Bearden’s Childhood Journey. Two Lions.

This is one of the read aloud for the students to be exposed to additional types of books.

Kosteki-Shaw, Jenny Sue. 2011. Same, Same but Different. Henry Holt and Company.

This is a book to allow the students to start a discussion about race and colorblindness.

Maillard, Kevin Noble. 2019. Fry Bread. Roaring Brook Press.

This is one of the read aloud for the students to be exposed to additional perspectives.

Marshall, James. 1987. Red Riding Hood. Puffin Books.

This is one of the read aloud for the students to compare.

Young, Ed. 1989. Lon Po Po: A Red Riding Hood Story from China. Philomel Books.

This is one of the read aloud for the students to compare.

Teacher Resources

Blake, Felice. “Why Black Lives Matter in the Humanities.” In Seeing Race Again, edited by Kimberle Williams Crenshaw, Luke Charles Harris, Daniel Martinez HoSang, and George Lipsitz, 307–26. University of California Press, 2019.

This Article is a good resource to regarding the importance of the black lives matter in humanities.

Boggs, Grace Lee, Scott Kurashige, Danny Glover, and Immanuel Wallerstein. The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century. Berkeley, UNITED STATES: University of California Press, 2012. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/yale-ebooks/detail.action?docID=919284.

In this book, the chapter entitled A Paradigm Shift in Our Concept of Education gives information about different types of schools and how to change out we educate our students.

Brown, Keffrelyn D., and Anthony L. Brown. “Teaching K-8 Students about Race: African Americans, Racism, and the Struggle for Social Justice in the U.S.” Multicultural Education 19, no. 1 (2011): 9–13.

This book is a prime source for use when looking for ways to change how we see race.

Castro-Atwater, Sheri A. “Color-Blind Racial Ideology in K-12 Schools.” In The Myth of Racial Color Blindness: Manifestations, Dynamics, and Impact, 207–25. Washington, DC, US: American Psychological Association, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1037/14754-013.

This article is an insightful discussion of the threat of color-blind ideology on students.

Husband, Terry. But I Don’t See Color: The Perils, Practices, and Possibilities of Antiracist Education. Sense Publishers, 2016.

This book is a great resource to use when looking for background information while teaching this unit. 

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