Sacramento City Unified School District Implements “The Anti-Racist Classroom”

On September 29, 2020, Sacramento City Unified School District adopted “The Anti-Racist Classroom” program, which states on its website:

Sacramento City Unified School District is committed to a sustained journey of explicit and purposeful learning, reflection, and practice of eradicating systemic racism in our schools. While acknowledging there is no right path, we urge our community and educators to stay the course in having difficult conversations, even when it is uncomfortable.

The program recommends multiple resources, including the following books:

• Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor, by Layla F. Saad
• 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
• Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, by Ibram X. Kendi

And Podcasts:

• United States of Anxiety
• Shine Brighter Together
• 1619
• All My Relations
• While Indigenous
• Nice White Parents