Racism

Kendl weaves an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science with his own personal story of awakening to antiracism.

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Guides readers of all races through subjects ranging from police brutality and cultural appropriation to the model minority myth in an attempt to make the seemingly impossible possible: honest conversations about race, and about how racism infects every aspect of American life.

Explores the counterproducive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain

racial inequality.

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The author argues that straight talk about our racial identities is essential if we are serious about communicating across racial and ethnic divides and pursuing antiracism.

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An eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian, and female that exposes how white America's love affair with "diversity" so often falls short of its ideals.

Honest graphic novel about starting over at a new school where diversity is low and the struggle to fit in is real. (Ages 9-12)

A moving story of the author's childhood, told in verse. (ages 10+)

(non-fiction) In a series of essays, written as a letter to his son, Coates confronts the notion of race in America and how it has shaped American history, many times at the cost of black bodies and lives. (ages teen -adult)

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When devastating news rattles a young girl's community, her teacher tells the class to look for the helpers - the good people working to make things better in big and small ways. (ages 4-8)

I'm not Dying With You Tonight by Kimberly Jones

(fiction) Follows two teen girls - one black, one white, - who have to confront their own assumptions about racial inequality as they rely on each other to get through the violent race riot that has their city on fire with civil unrest. (ages 14-17)