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Black Lives Matter: Books to Start a Conversation
Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices with Marley Dias
How to Raise an Anti-Racist: Parent Resource Guide Booklist
Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices with Marley Dias
How to Raise an Anti-Racist: Parent Resource Guide Booklist
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The author introduces the concept of race as only one component in an individual's or nation's "story."
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During 2020, widespread protests rooted in the call-and-response tradition of the Black community gained worldwide attention in the wake of high-profile wrongful deaths of Black people. From the founders to watershed moments, follow the activists and organizers on their journeys and discover the ways that protest has been fundamental to American democracy, eventually making meaningful change.
4) The NAACP
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The Child's World
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Offers a brief introduction to the history of the NAACP and its efforts to end discrimination.
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"Even though slavery had ended in the 1860s, African Americans were still suffering under the weight of segregation a hundred years later. They couldn't go to the same schools, eat at the same restaurants, or even use the same bathrooms as white people. But by the 1950s, black people refused to remain second-class citizens and were willing to risk their lives to make a change"--
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Publisher
Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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This book explores differences in reporting about people of different races, as well as why representation in all levels of media is important to combat systemic racism. Racial bias, both implicit and explicit, is easy to see in American news media.
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[Ko Kim]
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"We Are Gems helps readers to critically question microaggressions against Asian Americans through self-love and solidarity with Black and Indigenous-led movements for justice and healing. It is a joyous celebration of Asian Americans and our history"--Amazon.com.
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Cherry Lake Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"The Racial Justice in America: AAPI Excellence and Achievement series celebrates Asian achievement and culture, while exploring racism in a comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate way. In the Vibrant Neighborhoods book, students learn more about America's Asian communities from Little Manila during the 1940s to Chinatowns and Koreatowns and other Asian American enclaves scattered across the country. Series is written by Virginia Loh-Hagan, a prolific...
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Publisher
Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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This book explores the history of police violence in the United States and how Americans are calling for change. From the Civil Rights Movement to the present day, Americans have protested against police brutality.
From the Civil Rights Movement to the present day, Americans have protested against police brutality. Protesting Police Violence in Modern America explores the history of police violence in the United States and how Americans are calling...
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Publisher
Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
This book explores how the US criminal justice system perpetuates inequality, from the police's origins as slave patrols to the school-to-prison pipeline. The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, and there is great racial inequality in the criminal justice system.
Author
Publisher
The Child's World
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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The Civil Rights Movement was a time of drastic change in America. From the end of Reconstruction, when blacks were denied their rights in the South, through the Montgomery bus boycott and Dr. Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech, to the election of the first black president of the United States, witness the events that forever changed the way we look at race.
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Dottir Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Black Lives Matter: Books to Start a Conversation
How to Raise an Anti-Racist: Parent Resource Guide Booklist
How to Raise an Anti-Racist: Parent Resource Guide Booklist
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A white child sees a TV news report of a white police officer shooting and killing a black man. "In our family, we don't see color," his mother says, but he sees the colors plain enough. An afternoon in the library's history stacks uncover the truth of white supremacy in America. Racism was not his idea and he refuses to defend it.
"A necessary children's book about whiteness, white supremacy, and resistance. Important, accessible, needed." --
Author
Publisher
Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
This book explores the history of racism and how these inequalities are still visible today. From slavery to Jim Crow segregation, racism has a long, deeply rooted history in the United States.
From slavery to Jim Crow segregation, racism has a long, deeply rooted history in the United States. The History of Racism in America explores this history and how these inequalities are still visible today. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back...
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Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Linda Barrett Osborne shows the day to day experiences of African Americans in the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, a time of a deeply divided racially segrated United States of America. The information gleaned from photographs and interviews shows an America who used the labor and military service of a previously enslaved people but refused equality or recognition of that which was evident. The author presents a painful and powerful...
Author
Publisher
Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
This book explores the government's response to protests and policies introduced by legislators to combat police violence. Americans are fighting back against police violence, calling for police departments to be reformed and, in some cases, abolished.
Americans are fighting back against police violence, calling for police departments to be reformed and, in some cases, abolished. Politicians at local, state, and national levels have responded in...
Author
Publisher
Cherry Lake Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Students will learn about Asian-Black solidarity and discover how the cooperation can help dismantle harmful racism in America. This series explores the issues specific to the AAPI community in a comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate way. Series is written by Virginia Loh-Hagan, a prolific author, advocate, and director of the San Diego State University Asian Pacific Islander Desi American Resource Center. Developed in conjunction with educator,...
Author
Publisher
Cherry Lake Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The Racial Justice in America: Histories series explores moments and eras in America's history that have been ignored or misrepresented in education due to racial bias. Jim Crow and Policing explores the unjust laws and law enforcement policies Black people have faced in a comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate way. Developed in conjunction with educator, advocate, and author Kelisa Wing to reach children of all races and encourage them to approach...
Author
Publisher
Cherry Lake Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The Racial Justice in America: Histories series explores moments and eras in America's history that have been ignored or misrepresented in education due to racial bias. Atrocities in Action explores the various forms of violent and cruel oppression Black people have endured over the years in a comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate way. Developed in conjunction with educator, advocate, and author Kelisa Wing to reach children of all races and...
Author
Publisher
Cherry Lake Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The Racial Justice in America: Histories series explores moments and eras in America's history that have been ignored or misrepresented in education due to racial bias. Desegregation and Integration explores the intents and effects of both concepts--especially as it relates to schools and education--in a comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate way. Developed in conjunction with educator, advocate, and author Kelisa Wing to reach children of all...
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