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We encourage you to explore, engage, and educate yourself on these important issues with the following resources:
- A Detailed List of Anti-Racism Resources
- Racial Equity Tools, Arts and Culture: racialequitytools.org
- Racial Equity Tools Glossary
- Anti-Racism Resources
- Dismantling Racism Works Web Workbook
- Race: The Power of An Illusion
- Grantmakers in the Arts "Racial Equity in Arts Philanthropy: Statement of Purpose and Recommendations for Action"
- Unconscious Bias Education and Training
- AWAKE to WOKE to WORK: Building a Race Equity Culture
- White Supremacy Culture
- The People's Institute for Survival and Beyond
- "Your Black Colleague May Look Like They're Okay - Chances Are They're Not" by Danielle Cadet
- White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- How Diversity Makes Us Smarter by Katherine W. Phillips
Race, Ballet, and American Dance
- The Equity Project: Increasing the Presence of Blacks in Ballet
- Memoirs of Blacks in Ballet: MoBBallet.org
- International Association of Blacks in Dance: iabdassociation.org and iabdassociation.org/page/Books
- Craig Phillips, African American Ballet Dancers Who Made History
- Brenda Dixon Gottschild, The Black Dancing Body: A Geography from Coon to Cool
- Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance: Dance and Other Contexts
- Brenda Dixon Gottschild, Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina: A Biohistory of American Performance
- Thomas DeFrantz, Dancing Many Drums: Excavations in African American Dance
- Thomas DeFrantz, Dancing Revelations: Alvin Ailey’s Embodiment of African American Culture
- Thomas DeFrantz, Black Performance Theory
- Nyama McCarthy-Brown, Dance Pedagogy for a Diverse World: Culturally Relevant Teaching in Theory, Research and Practice
- Nyama McCarthy-Brown, “Dancing in the Margins: Experiences of African American Ballerinas” - behind a JSTOR paywall, but you may have access through a library
- Joann Wheeler Kealiinohomoku, “An Anthropologist Looks at Ballet as a Form of Ethnic Dance”
- Susan Manning, Modern Dance, Negro Dance: Race in Motion
- Anthea Kraut, Choreographing Copyright: Race, Gender, and Intellectual Property Rights in American Dance
- Mark Franko, The Work of Dance: Labor, Movement, and Identity in the 1930s
- Mark Franko, Dancing Modernism, Performing Politics
- Julia L. Foulkes, Modern Bodies: Dance and American Modernism from Martha Graham to Alvin Ailey
- Clare Croft, Dancers as Diplomats: American Choreography in Cultural Exchange
- Naima Prevots, Dance for Export: Cultural Diplomacy and the Cold War
- Phil Chan, Final Bow for Yellowface
- Rebekah J. Kowal, Dancing the World Smaller: Staging Globalism in Mid-Century America
- Andrea Harris, Making Ballet American: Modernism Before and Beyond Balanchine
Families may consider the following resources for discussing current events related to the death of George Floyd.
Anti-Defamation League: lessons, table talks, and books:
- Table Talk: George Floyd, Racism, and Law Enforcement
- Middle School Level Lessons
- Books filter by topic
- Talking to Kids about Racism and Justice - Oakland Library
- 100 Race Conscious Things You Can Say to Your Child - Conversation Starters
Talk to white children about race: