We at the Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy and Schoenbaum Family Center are saddened and disturbed by the murder of George Floyd and of so many other Black men, women, and children in this country and by the accounts of aggression being witnessed against peaceful protestors including in our own city.
We are not only heartbroken about these events, but we are also committed to action, to educating ourselves and others about racism in America and to working towards making true and lasting changes to a broken system.
Our community is experiencing much pain, yet this heartbreak pales in comparison to the lived experience of Black people every day in the U.S. We commit to challenging racism where we see it in our communities, our workplace, and in ourselves, and examining the myriad ways in which non-Black people benefit from racial privilege. It must start with each and every one of us.
Our centers are committed to improving the well-being of young children, and an explicit commitment to anti-racism is a vital part of this work.
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Readings and Resources:
- Anti-Racist Reading List curated by Ibram X. Kendi
- Anti-Racism Resources (readings, books, podcasts, etc.)
- Code Switch Podcast
- Ohio State’s Multicultural Center’s Racism Tool Kit
- Outsmarting Human Minds Website
Books (reading list recommended by the Diversity Equity and Inclusion Facilitators Group):
- Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People (Banaji & Greenwald 2016)
- How to Be and Anti-Racist (Ibram X. Kendi, 2019)
- Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor (Layla F. Saad, 2020)
- Whistling Vivaldi (Claude M. Steele, OSU alum!, 2010)
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk about Racism (Robin DiAngelo, 2018)
- Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation (by Derald Wing Sue, 2010)
