Consider the listed books as suggestions for a book study, informed discussion, or personal edification. Additional articles are included to help engage your mind and support thought that is centered around equity and anti-racism.
Book Recommendations

Achieving Equity in Gifted Programming: Dismantling Barriers and Tapping Potential
By April Wells
Belonging Through a Culture of Dignity: The Keys to Successful Equity Implementation
By Floyd Cobb, John J. Krownapple, and Brenda Campbell Jones
Bright, Talented, & Black: A Guide for Families of African American Gifted Learners
By Joy Lawson Davis
Culturally Diverse and Underserved Populations of Gifted Students
By Alexinia Y. Baldwin and Sally M. Reis
Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students
By Zaretta Hammond
Excellence Through Equity: Five Principles of Courageous Leadership to Guide Achievement for Every Student
By Alan M. Blankstein, Pedro Noguera, and Lorena Kelly
How to Be an Antiracist
By Ibram X. Kendi
Increasing Diversity in Gifted Education: Research-Based Strategies for Identification and Program Services (A CEC-TAG Educational Resource)
By Monica Felder, Gloria Taradash, Elise Antoine, Mary Cay Ricci, Marisa Stemple, and Michelle Byamugisha
In Search of the Dream: Designing Schools and Classrooms that Work for High Potential Students from Diverse Cultural Backgrounds
By Carol Ann Tomlinson, Donna Y. Ford, Sally M. Reis, Christine J. Briggs, and Cindy A. Strickland
In the Eyes of the Beholder: Critical Issues for Diversity in Gifted Education
By Diane Boothe, Ph.D., and Julian Stanley Ph.D.
The Many Faces of Giftedness: Lifting the Masks
By Alexinia Y. Baldwin and Wilma Vialle
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
By Layla F. Saad
Multicultural Gifted Education
By Donna Y. Ford, Ph.D.
Poor Students, Rich Teaching: Seven High-Impact Mindsets for Students from Poverty
By Eric Jensen
Reaching New Horizons: Gifted and Talented Education for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students
By Jaime A. Castellano and Eva Díaz
Recruiting and Retaining Culturally Different Students in Gifted Education
By Donna Y. Ford, Ph.D.
Reversing Underachievement Among Gifted Black Students
By Donna Y. Ford, Ph.D.
Special Populations in Gifted Education: Understanding Our Most Able Students from Diverse Backgrounds
By Jaime Castellano and Andrea Dawn Frazier
This Book is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work
By Tiffany Jewell
Unfinished Business: Closing the Racial Achievement Gap in Our Schools
By Pedro A. Noguera and Jean Yonemura Wing
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
By Robin DiAngelo and Michael Eric Dyson
Young, Gifted and Black: Promoting High Achievement Among African-American Students
By Theresa Perry, Claude Steele, and Asa Hilliard III
Equity Articles

Access to Gifted Education is a Social Justice Issue
Anti-Blackness and the way forward for K-12 schooling
Anti-excellence dog whistles in the education media
Balancing excellence and equity: A twenty-first-century struggle of gifted education
Beyond Deficit Thinking: Providing Access for Gifted African American Students
Black Lives Matter in Gifted Programs
Black Lives Matter in Gifted Programs: Action Steps and Additional Resources
The Case for Gifted Education as an Equity Issue
Civil Rights Data Collection. Data Snapshot: College and Career Readiness
Covering gifted education through an equity lens
Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students in Gifted Education: Recruitment and Retention Issues
A Culturally Responsive Equity-Based Bill of Rights for Gifted Students of Color
Equity and Excellence: Providing Access to Gifted Education for Culturally Diverse Students
Equity in Education: Children Who are Overlooked for Gifted and Talented Education
Expanding the View of Giftedness
Gifted Black Girl – Uninterrupted
Gifted Education as a Vehicle for Enhancing Social Equality
Gifted education in America is finally moving past its legacy of inequality
How to advance equity in gifted education
How to Talk to Your Kids About Anti-Racism: A List of Resources
Identifying Gifted Children from Diverse Populations
Identifying Gifted and Talented English Language Learners
Identifying gifted and talented students with equity proves difficult
Increasing Diversity in Gifted Education Programs in Virginia
Increasing Equity in Gifted Education Programs and Services
Issues in Giftedness: What Won’t Fix Inequity
Is There a Gifted Gap? Gifted Education in High-Poverty Schools
Is your school interested in excellence and equity? New OCR-data is a must-have resource
Local norms improve equity in gifted education
Mind the (Other) Gap: The Growing Excellence Gap in K-12 Education
NAGC Denounces Racism and Stands for Social Justice
Office of Civil Rights State and National Estimations
Overlooked Gems: A National Perspective on Low-Income Promising Learners
Perceptions Mired in Mythology
Perspectives on Equity in Gifted Education
The Quest for Equity in Gifted Education
Reconciling the Field’s Many Motivations
A Strategy for Overcoming Equity Issues in Gifted Programs
Talent on the Sidelines: Excellence Gaps and America’s Persistent Talent Underclass
Toolkit: Systemic Implementation of Equity
The Value of Culturally Responsive Teaching in Distance Learning
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