DRAGON DEIB RESOURCES

We’ve created this page — a compilation of resources about diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) — to help our community navigate our immediate and long-term DEIB goals as an institution, as well as to help all of us cope with, learn about, and process recent events of racism and xenophobia. We are well on our way to creating a blueprint of the hard work ahead as we bring our DEIB initiatives to life and create a space for our community to learn and grow.

At Speyer, we believe in being accountable to each other. Let us learn, make choices, and take action.

NOTE: This resource page — just like the DEIB work within our Speyer community and the community beyond 925 Ninth Avenue — is constantly in progress. We will be adding to this page and enhancing it as we move through this space of learning together.

JUNETEENTH RESOURCES FOR PARENTS AND EDUCATORS

• A Brief History of Juneteenth: Including Resources for Teachers and Home School Parents (Democracy & Me)

• How and Why to Discuss Juneteenth with Your Children (Washington Post)

• National Museum of African American History & Culture: Juneteenth

• Juneteenth at the NYPL

ANTI-SEMITISM RESOURCES FOR PARENTS AND EDUCATORS

• How to Talk to Kids About Anti-Semitism and Why It’s Important (Parents Magazine)

• How to Talk to Children About Anti-Semitism (including book suggestions) (PJ Library)

• Helping Children Cope With Frightening News (for younger children from Child Mind Institute)

• Facing History and Ourselves: Antisemitism and Religious Intolerance (Facing History)

• A Convenient Hatred: The History of Antisemitism (Facing History)

• Talking to Kids about Discrimination (APA)

• Broad resource celebrating the contributions of Jewish Americans

• Book List from Jewish Book Council

PARENT RESOURCES AND REACTIONS TO VIOLENCE AGAINST THE AAPI COMMUNITY

Read

• Teach Your Kids to Resist Hatred Toward Asians (NY Times)

• What This Wave of Anti-Asian Violence Reveals About America (Opinion Piece from NY Times)

• Lesson of the Day: A Rise in Attacks on Asian-Americans (NY Times)

• Attacks on Asian-Americans in New York Stoke Fear, Anxiety and Anger (NY Times)

• The Covid-19 era's anti-Asian racism isn't new. I learned this the hard way. (NBC News; Opinion piece by Bee Vang, actor and activist)

• On Anti-Asian Hate Crimes: Who Is Our Real Enemy? (Medium)

• Parent Guide Helps Asian Families Address Racism During the Pandemic (Parents.com)

• Re-imagining safety, belonging, and justice in the wake of anti-Asian violence (Brookings)

• Talking to kids about xenophobia (National Geographic)

• Asian American Experiences of Racism during COVID-19 (NYU)

• COVID-19 Resources To Fight Bullying And Hate (Act to Change)

• 13 Books for Kids that Celebrate All Things Asian (Read Brightly)

• Collection of Children’s Books featuring AAPI Characters and Cultures (First Book Marketplace) 

• This Isn't Just a Problem for North America (Time)

• There were 3,800 anti-Asian racist incidents, mostly against women, in past year (NBC)

• ‘Model Minority’ Myth Again Used as a Racial Wedge Between Asians & Blacks (NPR)

• History of US Racism Against Asian Americans (The Conversation)

• Learn about the diversity of Asian cultures and the unique socio-economic issues within each community (Pew Research Center)

Listen

• The Missing History of Asian America – WNYC Studios reports on Asian Americans made into scapegoats and violence follows.

• Screams And Silence - History of anti-Asian racism and spikes in the past year

• ​​​​​​The cost of racism for Asian businesses - Post Reports on the economic cost of racism for Asian businesses

Donate/Learn (Non-Profit Organizations)

• ​​​​​​​Hate is a Virus

• Stand Against Hatred

• NY Magazine Highlights 68 Ways to Support Asian Communities

• Heart of Dinner  - Delivering love to Asian elders throughout NYC, one meal at a time. 

•  Send Chinatown Love - Crowdfunding platform that donates all of its proceeds to cash-only, Asian-owned small businesses that have been disproportionately impacted by COVID. 

•  Welcome to Chinatown  - Supports Chinatown businesses in an effort to preserve NYC’s Chinatown neighborhood

• Stop AAPI Hate  - Tracks and responds to incidents of hate, harrasment, discrimination and child bullying against Asian Americans and Pacific Islands in the U.S.

• Asian Americans Writers Workshop  - Committed to creating, publishing, developing and disseminating creative writing by Asian Americans, and to providing an alternative literary arts space at the intersection of migration, race, and social justice. 

Watch

• Asian Americans - PBS documentary film series

• Sesame Street Video - Talking to Asian American children about race

• Minari – A story of Korean immigrants settling in 1980s Arkansas

• Stop the Hate: The rise in violence against Asian Americans - ABC News Special​​​​​​​

Participate 

• Stop AAPI Hate 

• Bystander Intervention Training

• SafeWalks - Community safety initiative offering accompanied walks to local area residents who feel unsafe.

• Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience  - Take a virtual tour of the Wing Luke Museum in Seattle

PARENT RESOURCES AND ARTICLES ON UNDERSTANDING RACIAL INJUSTICE

Talk to your children about race

• Coming Together: Standing Up to Racism (CNN and Sesame Street Town Halls for Kids & Families)

• Your Kids Aren’t Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup

• These Books Can Help You Explain Racism & Protest to Your Kids (NY Times)

• Something Happened in Our Town: A Child's Story about Racial Injustice by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, and Ann Hazard

• How to Talk to Your White Children about George Floyd (From Dr. James)

• How to Raise a Black Son in America (TED Talk by Clint Smith from 2018)

• Talking to Children After Racial Incidents (Interview with Dr. Howard Stevenson)

• Raising Race Conscious Children (Resource for adults to support conversations about race with children)

• George Floyd. Ahmaud Arbery. Breonna Taylor. What do we tell our children? (USA Today article about unpacking the most recent murders of Black Americans)

• Talking to Kids About the Riots, Racism, and Law Enforcement (In Light of George Floyd’s Killing in Minneapolis) (Betsy Brown Braun)

Educate yourself, Educate others

• The 1619 Project (An audio series from The Times observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery)

• Anguish & Action (Obama Foundation)

• Why U.S. Needs Black Lives Matter Movement Today (NPR)

• Why All Parents Should Talk to Their Kids About Social Identity 

• Embrace Race (provides lists of webinars, action items, books, etc. Some webinars include “Supporting Kids of Color in The Wake of Racialized Violence” and “How do I make sure I’m not raising the next Amy Cooper” among many others)

• More Anti-Racism Resources (Community Google Doc)

• Reflections from a Token Black Friend (Medium)

• Showing Up For Racial Justice (Through community organizing, mobilizing, and education, SURJ moves white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for justice with passion and accountability)

• ‘Mom, Why Don’t You Have Any Black Friends?’ (Medium)

Movies/TV/Videos about Racial Injustice

• 13th (Ava DuVernay) - Netflix, Youtube

• Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee) – For rent on Youtube/Amazon Prime

• When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) - Netflix

• The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr.) – Hulu w/Cinemax

• If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) - Hulu

• Dear White People (Justin Simien) – Netflix

• Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982 – 1992 (John Ridley) – Netflix

• Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton) – Youtube, Amazon Prime

• I Am Not Your Negro (Raoul Peck) – Amazon Prime

• Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man Pt:1 (Emmanuel Acho)

• How We Can Start to Heal the Pain of Racial Division (Ruby Sales) - Ted Talk