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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Classrooms are training grounds for students to learn how to respond positively to diverse environments. Every day, they interact with people who look different, come from different places, and have different preferences. This program explores the many types of diversity and the perils of stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination. We also discuss ways to express curiosity in others while respecting the differences that make every person interesting,...
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Publisher
Tundra
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"On this airplane...Someone travels solo, two travel as one, three return and four set out. In this simple and moving book, a young family takes a plane to their new home. While onboard, they encounter all the people you meet on a plane: a bookworm, a businessperson, tourists, crying babies and daydreamers...all with their own stories, all heading somewhere special." -- Inside front cover.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
We often feel uncomfortable dealing with people who are different. Who is "different?" People from other cultures or social classes, other generations, or people with physical disabilities. This program shows how to overcome this communication barrier.
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Language
English
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Every culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive? In The Wayfinders, renowned anthropologist, winner of the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize, and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis leads us on a thrilling journey to celebrate the wisdom of the world's indigenous cultures. In Polynesia we set sail with navigators whose ancestors settled the Pacific ten centuries before Christ. In...
Author
Publisher
BenBella Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"How to Have Difficult Conversations About Race equips you with the skills you need to make crucial conversations about race easier and more productive"--
Avoiding a situation is not the same as choosing neutrality. Remaining silent on racial inequality--ignoring the news, social media posts, and more--will not make the issues go away. If you want a more equitable workplace--and a more equitable world--it is necessary to have conversations about...
12) It lives inside
Publisher
Decal Neon
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Desperate to fit in at school, Sam rejects her East Indian culture and family to be like everyone else. However, when a mythological demonic spirit latches onto her former best friend, she must come to terms with her heritage to defeat it.
13) A world together
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Series
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A picture book about unity for people around the world"--
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Race. A four-letter word. The greatest social divide in American life, a half-century ago and today. During that time, the U.S. has seen the most dramatic demographic and cultural shifts in its history, what can be called the colorization of America. But the same nation that elected its first Black president on a wave of hope--another four-letter word--is still plunged into endless culture wars. How do Americans see race now? How has that changed--and...
16) Big feelings
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A group of kids express a multitude of feelings and discover they are not alone"--
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
From award-winning actress and political activist America Ferrera comes a vibrant and varied collection of first person accounts from prominent figures about the experience of growing up between cultures. Ranging from the heartfelt to the hilarious, their stories shine a light on a quintessentially American experience and will appeal to anyone with a complicated relationship to family, culture, and growing up.
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Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
College presidents and deans of admission have opened their doors--and their coffers--to support a more diverse student body. But is it enough just to let them in? In The Privileged Poor, Anthony Jack reveals that the struggles of less privileged students continue long after they've arrived on campus. In their first weeks they quickly learn that admission does not mean acceptance. In this bracing and necessary book, Jack documents how university policies...
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Language
English
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Everybody has a bellybutton, Everybody has a nose, Everybody has a mouth, Everybody has toes. Everybody has hair . . . Some have black or brown or blonde or red, Some have gray or silver on their head. The different colors all aglow . . . Make everybody special, like a rainbow. Everybody Has a Belly Button is a timeless and delightful book for babies and toddlers that teaches our youngest readers about skin color, equality, and equity in...
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