Beyond Heroes And Holidays: A Practical Guide to K-12 Anti-Racist, Multicultural Education and Staff Development

This book renews my hope that schools may find ways to address their debilitating legacy of racism. It's a toolkit for unpacking years of personal, institutional, and historical baggage that will allow you to bring up hard issues in constructive ways. It moves past "celebrating diversity" to understand why differences translate into access to privilege and power, while others cause discrimination and injustice. With many practical strategies for creating dialogue and real change in schools, I'm left hopeful that we might move to a higher ground of mutual understanding and join in a common struggle for justice in school and out.