If you are hoping to supplement your knowledge on integration and desegregation in schools, reading these books or following some of these pages on social media will help you stay current and give you insight into how these issues are being explored locally and nationally. Kansas City is not alone in this, we can learn and grow by following the examples of other cities who are further along on this journey.
National Education Resources
Recommended Reading
White Kids: Growing up with privilege in a racially divided America by Margaret A. Hagerman
Raising White Kids: Bringing up Children in a Racially Unjust America by Jennifer Harvey
White Fragility: Why it’s so hard for white people to talk about race by Robin DiAngelo
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum
Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race by Debby Irving
Podcasts
Have You Heard
Integrated Schools
On Facebook
New York Appleseed
Austin for Integrated Schools
Sheff Movement for Quality Integrated Education
Network for Public Education
ASID-NYC Alliance for School Integration and Desegregation
LAUSD Moms for Neighborhood Schools
HISD Parent Advocates
NAEYC’s Diversity & Equity Education
National Coalition on School Diversity
Chalkbeat
On Twitter
Nikole Hannah-Jones
National Coalition on School Diversity
Local Kansas City Education Sources
Recommended Reading
Complex Justice: The Case of Missouri v. Jenkins by Joshua M. Dunn
Podcasts
Wide Ruled
On Facebook
Metro Organization for Racial and Economic Equity MORE2
KC TIF Watch
Missouri Education Legislative Advocacy
Missouri School Boards’ Association
On Twitter
Mara Williams, KC Star
Elle Moxley, KCUR
KCPT Education