GAC General Meeting: Book and Media (BAM!) Discussion Group

Here are a few resources I've tracked down, most of them from Mandi. Please add more resources that you find useful and inspirational!

Podcasts

• Throughline podcast on school segregation, https://www.npr.org/2019/07/24/744884767/milliken-v-bradley
• Nice White Parents, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/podcasts/nice-white-parents-serial.html

Videos

• Critical Whiteness Studies - Cheryl Matias (gotta look in the mirror ;), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzpuOBhmrGs&t=1s
• Eve Ewing and Ta Nehisi Coates - discussion (school closures in Chicago and critiques all kinds of education stuff. p.s. jeffco closes schools without warning too), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCuZFD4CX2M

Books

• Cutting School - Noliwe Rooks (segre-nomics of education, how people profit off school segregation and racist ideas about intelligence)
• Talking to Strangers - Daniella Allen (History of school desegregation and democratic entrenchment in education, how to fix it)
• EcoJustice Education - Martusewicz, et al. (how culture of domination harms everyone through the -isms and is systematically destroying life on earth)
• You Can’t Teach What You Don’t Know - Gary Howard (white people need to be culturally competent before being teachers)
• Teaching to Transgress - bell hooks (just read it, blow your mind)

Articles specific to School Board elections in Jeffco and Douglas County, Colorado

• https://meamatters.com/2015/12/04/will-the-koch-brothers-target-your-school-board-next/
• https://www.coloradoindependent.com/2017/12/01/americans-for-prosperity-douglas-county-school-board/

More Articles

• New Yorker Article - Alec MaGillis (covers the length white people went to in the 60s and are going to now in order to protect and privilege their children), https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/10/05/the-students-left-behind-by-remote-learning
• This Supreme Court Case Made School District Lines A Tool For Segregation, https://www.npr.org/2019/07/25/739493839/this-supreme-court-case-made-school-district-lines-a-tool-for-segregation
• Kill all the School Boards - Matt Miller, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/01/first-kill-all-the-school-boards/306579/

There's also this guide on equity from the National School Boards Association: https://www.nsba.org/-/media/NSBA/File/center-for-safe-schools-reimagining-school-board-leadership-guide-2021.pdf