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Diverse YA Reads
JCLS Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Committee: Great Reads
SO MLK Day--Further Reading for Teens
Talking about Race & Racism with Young People
JCLS Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Committee: Great Reads
SO MLK Day--Further Reading for Teens
Talking about Race & Racism with Young People
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Told from two viewpoints, Atlanta high school seniors Lena and Campbell, one black, one white, must rely on each other to survive after a football rivalry escalates into a riot.
2) Seeing red
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English
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When twelve-year-old Frederick "Red" Porter's father dies in 1972, his mother wants to sell their automobile repair shop and move her two sons back to Ohio, but Red is desperate to stop the sale even if it means unearthing some dark family secrets in a Virginia rife with racial tensions.
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"When Rowan finds a skeleton on her family's property, investigating the brutal, century-old murder leads to painful discoveries about the past. Alternating chapters tell the story of William, another teen grappling with the racial firestorm leading up to the 1921 Tulsa race riot, providing some clues to the mystery"--
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2018.
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English
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Books for Teen and Tween Activists
Civil Rights, Racism, and Talking About Race as a White Person
SO MLK Day--Further Reading for Teens
The Perks of Being Left Off the Time Best of YA List
Civil Rights, Racism, and Talking About Race as a White Person
SO MLK Day--Further Reading for Teens
The Perks of Being Left Off the Time Best of YA List
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"This ... young adult adaptation brings her ideas to a new audience. When America achieves milestones of progress toward full and equal black participation in democracy, the systemic response is a consistent racist backlash that rolls back those wins. We Are Not Yet Equal examines five of these moments: The end of the Civil War and Reconstruction was greeted with Jim Crow laws; the promise of new opportunities in the North during the Great Migration...
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Candlewick Press
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English
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Writing from the perspective of a friend, Frederick Joseph offers candid reflections on his own experiences with racism and conversations with prominent artists and activists about theirs?creating an essential read for white people who are committed anti-racists and those newly come to the cause of racial justice.
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Español
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Este libro nos acompaña como lectores a través de la identificación del racismo en toda su variedad de manifestaciones al tiempo que nos hace visibles las formas en las que hemos interiorizado estas ideas y nos permite contrastarlas con una aproximación plenamente antirracista. Si bien Kendi habla de su experiencia y perspectiva como hombre negro estadounidense, sus descripciones de las dinámicas de agresión y resistencia resultan inmensamente...
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Banned Books Week: Nonfiction
Books for Teen and Tween Activists
Civil Rights, Racism, and Talking About Race as a White Person
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Books for Teen and Tween Activists
Civil Rights, Racism, and Talking About Race as a White Person
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"A history of racist and antiracist ideas in America, from their roots in Europe until today, adapted from the National Book Award winner Stamped from the Beginning"--
"The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. Racist ideas are woven into the fabric of this country, and the first step to building an antiracist America is acknowledging America's racist past and present. This book...
13) Out of Darkness
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A Michael L. Printz Honor Book
"This is East Texas, and there's lines. Lines you cross, lines you don't cross. That clear?" New London, Texas. 1937. Naomi Vargas and Wash Fuller know about the lines in East Texas as well as anyone. They know the signs that mark them. They know the people who enforce them. But sometimes the attraction between two people is so powerful it breaks through even the most entrenched color lines. And the consequences can...
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Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"Going beyond the story of America as a country "discovered" by a few brave men in the "New World," Indigenous human rights advocate Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz reveals the roles that settler colonialism and policies of American Indian genocide played in forming our national identity. The original academic text is fully adapted by renowned curriculum experts Debbie Reese and Jean Mendoza, for middle-grade and young adult readers to include discussion topics,...
15) Glory be
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English
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In the summer of 1964 as she is about to turn twelve, Glory's town of Hanging Moss, Mississippi, is beset by racial tension when town leaders close her beloved public pool rather than desegregating it.
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DC Comics
Pub. Date
2009
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English
Description
Lee Wagstaff is the daughter of a black sharecropper in the depression-era town of Charon, Mississippi. When Lily Westmoreland, her white playmate, is snatched by agents of an evil creature known as Bog, Lee's father is accused of kidnapping. Lee's only hope is to follow Lily's trail into a fantastic and frightening alternate world.
18) Into white
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Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"LaToya Williams lives in Montgomery, Alabama, and attends a mostly white high school. It seems as if her only friend is her older brother, Alex. Toya doesn t know where she fits in, but after a run-in with another student, she wonders if life would be different if she were . . . different. And then a higher power answers her prayer: to be anything but black. Toya is suddenly white, blond, and popular. Now what?"
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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The New York Times bestseller, now adapted for a new generation of young readers, leaders, thinkers, and activists. A groundbreaking call to action that examines how racism affects and harms all of us and how we need to face it head-on, together.
20) Dare me
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2013.
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English
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Ben a high school senior and his buddies Ricky and John pull an amazing stunt, which they post anonymously on YouTube, hoping for web celebrity. What comes their way is a contract promising them money if they continue to do ever-more-dangerous dares.
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