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Race in America has been avoided in children's education for too long. What Is Anti-Racism? explores the idea of actively working against racism 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 race issues with open eyes and minds. Includes 21st Century Skills and content, as well as a PBL activity across the Racial Justice in America series. Also includes a table of contents, glossary, index, author biography, sidebars, educational matter, and activities. A...

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Race in America has been avoided in children's education for too long. What Is Anti-Racism? explores the idea of actively working against racism 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 race issues with open eyes and minds.

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Stamped for Kids Racism, Anti-Racism and You

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Stamped for Kids Racism, Anti-Racism and You

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Stamped (for Kids) - Cherry-Paul, Sonja, - "A chapter book adaptation of Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning "Stamped from the Beginning"--

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Charisma's Turn-  A Story of Girls and Their Gifts by Monique Couvson a graphic novel on Hoopla Digital

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Charisma's Turn-  A Story of Girls and Their Gifts by Monique Couvson a graphic novel on Hoopla Digital

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hoopla has over half a million audiobooks, ebooks, picture books, comics, movies, television shows, and music albums! We make them easy to access on a wide range of browsers, streaming devices and even downloading on mobile devices all with your library card.

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Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement 1954-1985

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Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement 1954-1985

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Produced by Blackside, EYES ON THE PRIZE tells the definitive story of the civil rights era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of...

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Produced by Blackside, EYES ON THE PRIZE tells the definitive story of the civil rights era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of...

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Download or stream Something Happened in Our Town by Marianne Celano, Donald Moses, Leslie Green for free on hoopla. Following a police shooting, two families - one White and one Black - discuss the event, its afterma | hoopladigital.com

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Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness is a picture book about racism and racial justice, inviting white children and parents to become curious about racism, accept that it's real, and cultivate justice.

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Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness is a picture book about racism and racial justice, inviting white children and parents to become curious about racism, accept that it's real, and cultivate justice.

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Skin Again - San Francisco Public Library

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Intersection Allies - San Francisco Public Library

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Intersection Allies We Make Room for All (Book) : Johnson, Chelsea : The nine interconnected characters proudly describe themselves and their backgrounds, involving topics that range from a physical disability to language brokering, offering an opportunity to take pride in a personal story and connect to collective struggle for justice.

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"Grow to be an antiracist. Antiracist Baby is always learning, changing, and growing. Antiracist Baby stays curious about all people and isn't all-knowing."

"Open your eyes to all skin colors. Antiracist Baby learns all the colors, not because race is true. If you claim to be color-blind, you deny what's right in front of you."

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Antiracist Baby - San Francisco Public Library

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"Grow to be an antiracist. Antiracist Baby is always learning, changing, and growing. Antiracist Baby stays curious about all people and isn't all-knowing." "Open your eyes to all skin colors. Antiracist Baby learns all the colors, not because race is true. If you claim to be color-blind, you deny what's right in front of you."

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Publisher: [New York] : Listening Library (Audio), 2020

Call Number: EAUDIOBOOK OVERDRIVE

Characteristics: 1 online resource (1 sound file (04 min., 06 sec.)) : digital digital,rdatr audio file,rdaft

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Antiracist Baby (Downloadable Audiobook) : Kendi, Ibram X. : From the National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist comes a fresh new audiobook that empowers parents and children to uproot racism in our society and in ourselves, now with added discussion prompts to help listeners recognize and reflect on bias in their daily lives.Featured on Good Morning America, NPR's Morning Edition, CBS This Morning, and more!Take your first steps with Antiracist Baby!

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Publisher: [Boston, Mass.] : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2020

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Characteristics: 1 online resource (1 sound file (04 hr., 14 min., 30 sec.)) : digital digital,rdatr audio file,rdaft

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Stamped Racism, Antiracism, and You (Downloadable Audiobook) : Reynolds, Jason : A timely, crucial, and empowering exploration of racism--and antiracism--in America. This is NOT a history book. This is a book about the here and now. A book to help us better understand why we are where we are.

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This Book is Anti Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work

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This Book Is Anti-Racist : 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work (eBook) : Jewell, Tiffany

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The Colors of Us - San Francisco Public Library

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The Colors of Us (Book) : Katz, Karen : Seven-year-old Lena and her mother observe the variations in the color of their friends' skin, viewed in terms of foods and things found in nature.

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Let's Talk About Race - San Francisco Public Library

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Let's Talk About Race (Book) : Lester, Julius : In this story, the author introduces the concept of race as only one component in an individual's or nation's "story."The author introduces the concept of race as only one component in an individual's or nation's "story."

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"This is how we all begin: small and happy in our skin." Starting with a close-up of a baby being tickled by doting parents, this joyful celebration of human skin zooms out to show a lively urban neighbourhood filled with people of various ages, genders, abilities, religions, and (of course) skin colours. Young readers are treated to a rhyming run-down of all the things skin can do (such as itching, healing, and growing) before being refocused on the family from the beginning, now all tuckered out from a boisterous block party. For another upbeat look at human diversity, pick up George Shannon's One Family or Shelley Rotner's photo-illustrated Shades of People. Picture books newsletter September 2015.

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"This is how we all begin: small and happy in our skin." Starting with a close-up of a baby being tickled by doting parents, this joyful celebration of human skin zooms out to show a lively urban neighbourhood filled with people of various ages, genders, abilities, religions, and (of course) skin colours.

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Ruth's story is fiction, but The Green Book and its role in helping a generation of African American travelers is historical fact. Can Ruth's family finally make a safe journey from Chicago to Alabama?

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Ruth's story is fiction, but The Green Book and its role in helping a generation of African American travelers is historical fact. Can Ruth's family finally make a safe journey from Chicago to Alabama?

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An ALA Notable Book, this powerful debut by playwright Calvin A. Ramsey touches on a little-known moment in American history with elegance, compassion and humanity. Set in the 1950s, Ruth and the Green Book follows a young girl as she and her family set out from Chicago on a road trip to Alabama. But Ruth soon learns that the open road isn't open to all. Encountering numerous "whites only" businesses that refuse them service, Ruth and her parents are left with few options for places to eat and sleep-until they come across the "Green Book," a guide to establishments friendly to African Am...

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An ALA Notable Book, this powerful debut by playwright Calvin A. Ramsey touches on a little-known moment in American history with elegance, compassion and humanity. Set in the 1950s, Ruth and the Green Book follows a young girl as she and her family set out from Chicago on a road trip to Alabama.

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Because of You John Lewis by Andrea Pinkney audio book

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Ten-year-old Tybre Faw is obsessed with history and the civil rights movement, and he devours every book he can find on the subject. When he learns of Con...

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The foremost diverse children's authors--including Jason Reynolds, Jacqueline Woodson, and Kwame Alexander--share answers to the question, "In this divisive world, what shall we tell our children?" in this powerful collection, published in partnership with Just Us Books.

Featuring poems, letters, personal essays, songs, and other works from such industry leaders as Jacqueline Woodson (Brown Girl Dreaming), Jason Reynolds (All American Boys), Kwame Alexander (The Crossover), Andrea Pippins (I Love My Hair), Sharon Draper (Out of My Mind), Rita Williams-Garcia (One Crazy Summer), Ellen Oh (cofounder of We Need Diverse Books), and more, this anthology empowers the nation's youth to listen, learn, and build a better tomorrow.

Audiobook Table of Contents:
Foreword by Ashley Bryan, read by Dominic Hoffman
Introduction by Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson, read by the authors
What Shall We Tell You? by Wade Hudson, read by the author
The Golden Rule by Carole Boston Weatherford, read by Soneela Nankani
A Thousand Winters by Kwame Alexander, read by Guy Lockard
We, the People by Rita Williams-Garcia, read by January LaVoy
Prayers of the Grandmothers by Sharon M. Draper, read by Adenrele Ojo
You Are Here. by Denise Lewis Patrick, read by N'Jameh Camara
Words Have Power by Ellen Oh, read by Jennifer Lim
Kindness Is a Choice by Jacqueline Woodson, read by Adenrele Ojo
To Find a Friend by Joseph Bruchac, read by Darrell Dennis
Get on Board, introduction read by Cheryl Willis Hudson, song performed by Paul Robeson (courtesy of Concord Music Group)
You Can Change the World by Bernette G. Ford, read by Bahni Turpin
Next by Lesa Cline-Randsome, read by January LaVoy
Drumbeat for Change by Kelly Starling Lyons, read by Bahni Turpin
The Art of Mindfulness by Evelyn Coleman, read by N'Jameh Camara
One Day Papí Drove Me to Schoo l by Tony Medina, read by Kyla Garcia
It Helps to Look at Old Front Page Headlines by Marilyn Nelson, read by Jennifer Lim
All Nations Are Neighbors and I Wonder by Margarita Engle, read by Kyla Garcia
When I Think of You by Sharon G. Flake, read by Bahni Turpin
a day of small things by Tonya Bolden, read by Adenrele Ojo
Dark-Brown Skin Is Beautiful by Eleanora E. Tate, read by Bahni Turpin
here is a poem of love and hope: by Arnold Adoff, read by Dominic Hoffman
We've Got You by Pat Cummings, read by January LaVoy
How to Pass the Test by Hena Khan, read by Soneela Nankani
Where Are the Good People? by Tameka Fryer Brown, read by January LaVoy
You Can Do It by Jabari Asim, read by Sullivan Jones
Tell It in Your Own Way by Roy Boney Jr., read by Darrell Dennis
"What Songs Will Our Children Sing?" music and lyrics by Curtis Hudson
You Too Can Fly by Zetta Elliott, read by Bahni Turpin
Advice . . . (I'm Old-School Like That) by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich, read by N'Jameh Camara
A Talkin'-To by Jason Reynolds, read by Guy Lockard

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We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices - San Francisco Public Library

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We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices (Downloadable Audiobook) : The foremost diverse children's authors--including Jason Reynolds, Jacqueline Woodson, and Kwame Alexander--share answers to the question, In this divisive world, what shall we tell our children? in this powerful collection, published in partnership with Just Us Books.

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The foremost diverse children's authors--including Jason Reynolds, Jacqueline Woodson, and Kwame Alexander--share answers to the question, "In this divisive world, what shall we tell our children?" in this powerful collection, published in partnership with Just Us Books.

Featuring poems, letters, personal essays, songs, and other works from such industry leaders as Jacqueline Woodson (Brown Girl Dreaming), Jason Reynolds (All American Boys), Kwame Alexander (The Crossover), Andrea Pippins (I Love My Hair), Sharon Draper (Out of My Mind), Rita Williams-Garcia (One Crazy Summer), Ellen Oh (cofounder of We Need Diverse Books), and more, this anthology empowers the nation's youth to listen, learn, and build a better tomorrow.

Audiobook Table of Contents:
Foreword by Ashley Bryan, read by Dominic Hoffman
Introduction by Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson, read by the authors
What Shall We Tell You? by Wade Hudson, read by the author
The Golden Rule by Carole Boston Weatherford, read by Soneela Nankani
A Thousand Winters by Kwame Alexander, read by Guy Lockard
We, the People by Rita Williams-Garcia, read by January LaVoy
Prayers of the Grandmothers by Sharon M. Draper, read by Adenrele Ojo
You Are Here. by Denise Lewis Patrick, read by N'Jameh Camara
Words Have Power by Ellen Oh, read by Jennifer Lim
Kindness Is a Choice by Jacqueline Woodson, read by Adenrele Ojo
To Find a Friend by Joseph Bruchac, read by Darrell Dennis
Get on Board, introduction read by Cheryl Willis Hudson, song performed by Paul Robeson (courtesy of Concord Music Group)
You Can Change the World by Bernette G. Ford, read by Bahni Turpin
Next by Lesa Cline-Randsome, read by January LaVoy
Drumbeat for Change by Kelly Starling Lyons, read by Bahni Turpin
The Art of Mindfulness by Evelyn Coleman, read by N'Jameh Camara
One Day Papí Drove Me to Schoo l by Tony Medina, read by Kyla Garcia
It Helps to Look at Old Front Page Headlines by Marilyn Nelson, read by Jennifer Lim
All Nations Are Neighbors and I Wonder by Margarita Engle, read by Kyla Garcia
When I Think of You by Sharon G. Flake, read by Bahni Turpin
a day of small things by Tonya Bolden, read by Adenrele Ojo
Dark-Brown Skin Is Beautiful by Eleanora E. Tate, read by Bahni Turpin
here is a poem of love and hope: by Arnold Adoff, read by Dominic Hoffman
We've Got You by Pat Cummings, read by January LaVoy
How to Pass the Test by Hena Khan, read by Soneela Nankani
Where Are the Good People? by Tameka Fryer Brown, read by January LaVoy
You Can Do It by Jabari Asim, read by Sullivan Jones
Tell It in Your Own Way by Roy Boney Jr., read by Darrell Dennis
"What Songs Will Our Children Sing?" music and lyrics by Curtis Hudson
You Too Can Fly by Zetta Elliott, read by Bahni Turpin
Advice . . . (I'm Old-School Like That) by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich, read by N'Jameh Camara
A Talkin'-To by Jason Reynolds, read by Guy Lockard

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We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices (Downloadable Audiobook) : The foremost diverse children's authors--including Jason Reynolds, Jacqueline Woodson, and Kwame Alexander--share answers to the question, In this divisive world, what shall we tell our children? in this powerful collection, published in partnership with Just Us Books.

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Fifty of the foremost diverse children's authors and illustrators--including Jason Reynolds, Jacqueline Woodson, and Kwame Alexander--share answers to the question, "In this divisive world, what shall we tell our children?" in this beautiful, full-color keepsake collection, published in partnership with Just Us Books.

What do we tell our children when the world seems bleak, and prejudice and racism run rampant? With 96 lavishly designed pages of original art and prose, fifty diverse creators lend voice to young activists.

Featuring poems, letters, personal essays, art, and other works from such industry leaders as Jacqueline Woodson (Brown Girl Dreaming), Jason Reynolds (All American Boys), Kwame Alexander (The Crossover), Andrea Pippins (I Love My Hair), Sharon Draper (Out of My Mind), Rita Williams-Garcia (One Crazy Summer), Ellen Oh (cofounder of We Need Diverse Books), and artists Ekua Holmes, Rafael Lopez, James Ransome, Javaka Steptoe, and more, this anthology empowers the nation's youth to listen, learn, and build a better tomorrow.

A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2018!
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We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices (eBook) : Fifty of the foremost diverse children's authors and illustrators--including Jason Reynolds, Jacqueline Woodson, and Kwame Alexander--share answers to the question, In this divisive world, what shall we tell our children? in this beautiful, full-color keepsake collection, published in partnership with Just Us Books.

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The Antiracist Writing Workshop is a call to create healthy, sustainable, and empowering artistic communities for a new millennium of writers. Inspired by June Jordan 's 1995 Poetry for the People, here is a blueprint for a 21st-century workshop model that protects and platforms writers of color. Instead of earmarking dusty anthologies, imagine workshop participants Skyping with contemporary writers of difference. Instead of tolerating bigoted criticism, imagine workshop participants moderating their own feedback sessions. Instead of yielding to the red-penned judgement of instructors, imagine work...

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The Antiracist Writing Workshop is a call to create healthy, sustainable, and empowering artistic communities for a new millennium of writers. Inspired by June Jordan 's 1995 Poetry for the People, here is a blueprint for a 21st-century workshop model that protects and platforms writers of color.

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Watch the entire CNN/Sesame Street racism town hall | CNN

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CNN's Van Jones and Erica Hill partner with "Sesame Street" for Coming Together: Standing Up to Racism, a town hall for kids and families. Watch the town hall in its entirety below:

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National Museum of African American History and Culture

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Talking about race, although hard, is necessary. We are here to provide tools and guidance to empower your journey and inspire conversation.

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Teaching about Race, Racism and Police Violence

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Our country's system of policing has a history of violence that disproportionately steals the lives of Black, Indigenous and other people of color along with individuals with disabilities. And despite years of protests, the Black Lives Matter movement, efforts for police reforms, and ongoing cries for justice, we continue to witness and mourn people killed and brutalized by police.

These acts of violence-along with the often lack of accountability-damages trust and affects young people across the United States, prompting parents, caregivers, educators and communities to seek resources on how to address these subjects at home or in the classroom.

The resources below can help spur much-needed discussion around implicit bias and systemic racism, but they can also help inspire us all to enact the changes that will create a more just society.

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Discussing Race, Racism and Police Violence

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Our country's system of policing has a history of violence that disproportionately steals the lives of Black, Indigenous and other people of color along with individuals with disabilities. And despite years of protests, the Black Lives Matter movement, efforts for police reforms, and ongoing cries for justice, we continue to witness and mourn people killed and brutalized by police.

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Author came to visit our 7th graders this year!

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Publisher: Ashland : Hachette Book Group, 2018
[New York] : Hachette Book Group, [2018]

Call Number: EAUDIOBOOK OVERDRIVE

Characteristics: 1 online resource (1 sound file (2 hr., 53 min., 53 sec.)) : digital digital,rda audio file,rda

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Ghost Boys - San Francisco Public Library

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Ghost Boys (Downloadable Audiobook) : Rhodes, Jewell Parker : A heartbreaking and powerful story about a black boy killed by a police officer, drawing connections through history, from award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes.Only the living can make the world better. Live and make it better.

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The Conscious Kid

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﻿ As early as 3-6 months, babies notice and respond differently to people based on race (Kelly et al., 2005). By age 3, children categorize and express bias based on race, and may even use racist language intentionally (Van Ausdale and Feagin, 2001). Before your child can talk, they are already learning about the world, and about race, through your actions.

Who is coming over to the house to visit? Who do they see when they are out and about in the neighborhood? What music are they hearing? What kind of artwork is hanging up on the walls? Are the main characters in the books they read predominantly white? How about the shows and movies they are watching? What race is their pediatrician, principal, and teacher?

Be intentional about seeking out, valuing, and supporting creators, authors, colleagues, neighbors, professionals, and educators of color. You can tell kids "Black Lives Matter" and to value "diversity", but it won't mean much unless your actions show it.

It is important to name whiteness and for white people to identify as "white". Not naming or claiming the word "white" masks whiteness, white supremacy, and white privilege, power, and history as members of the dominant racial group. When white kids learn about racism, they may experience being white as a source of shame or guilt (Tatum, 2017). Share with them examples of white people who have utilized their power and privilege to take action against racism and oppression, and how they can commit to doing the same (Tatum, 2017). Ask them their ideas on how they can speak up and take action against racism and support them in incorporating this as an ongoing practice and action.

We can't fix a problem until we name it. Naming systems of inequity, such as white supremacy and racism, is key to disrupting their impact on the development of young children. Naming not only brings about an awareness of longstanding, systematic racism, but positively affirms the identities and resistance of oppressed communities (Freire, 1970; Ladson-Billings & Tate,1995; Richerme, 2016). Naming also empowers young children with the vocabulary and shared language needed to identify inequity and take action on their own as they become more experienced around issues of race and social justice.

Having open conversations with children about race creates opportunities to provide them with accurate information so that when they see stereotypes or hear misinformation, they have their own foundation of factual knowledge and understanding from which to draw (Tatum, 2017). Shaming, shushing, or shutting down young children for asking questions about race, even if they make a comment that is inaccurate or racist, doesn't make the questions go away, it just means they go unanswered and unchecked (Tatum, 2017).

A best-practice approach is to probe deeper on the assumptions behind the questions and comments so you can understand your child's thought process, provide factual information and answers, and correct any misinformation (Tatum, 2017). If you get asked a question that you are not sure how to answer, you can model that it's okay not to have all the answers, ways to go about obtaining the information (i.e. do an internet search/look it up), and even do this together (Tatum, 2017).

While having conversations with young children, make sure you aren't the only one talking. Interact with children and hear their perspectives and how they are perceiving and taking in events and issues. Kids interacting and speaking about issues of race is a sign that they are engaged in the topic and that deep learning is taking place.

Black and Brown caregivers can work to find spaces of resilience, continue to strengthen our understanding of race and resistance, and process our own race-related stress and trauma. Racism impacts the mental, physical, and emotional health of our kids, however, if we are intentional and addressing it adequately, race can become a framework of dignity and resilience. When speaking of Black communities and communities of color, conversations about race are not a choice. These conversations begin at birth, and can be a tool for both survival and persistence. Deepening our critical understanding around experiences of race that we endure helps to create resistance and navigational capital that can be passed down to future generations (Yosso, 2005).

If you are white, can you talk about and explain what that means? And not only what it means, but the ways in which you perpetuate and benefit from white supremacy at the expense of Black people and people of color. While it's important to not put the responsibility of your education about race on the shoulders of Black and Brown communities, it is still important to value and compensate the expertise and experiential knowledge of people of color.

There is a specific and pressing need to have conversations about anti-Blackness with children. No matter where you are on the globe, when speaking of racial hierarchies, Blackness is at the bottom. This is mainly because of colorism that intersects with race. Even within communities of color, the darker the skin (or cultural practice or associated with dark skin), the more negative the perceptions are of that person or practice. And it's not just a matter of perception: darker-skinned people experience limitations on social, economic, educational, and relational opportunities based on skin color. Darker-skinned girls are three times more likely to be suspended from school than their lighter-skinned peers, dark-skinned women are less likely to be married, darker-skinned Black people are perceived as less intelligent, and darker-skinned Black men make less money then lighter-skinned Black men (Greenidge, 2019; Goldsmith, 2007).

Blackness intersects with all communities, including communities of color. The anti-Blackness within each of our individual communities perpetuates white supremacy and the continued violence against the Black community, and it is everyone's responsibility to resist it (Park, 2020).

When speaking to children about race, it's important for white people and non-Black people of color to communicate positive affirmations about Blackness and identify and speak up against the anti-Blackness present in themselves and their communities.

Racism is not limited to the individual choices of "bad people." It is structural and embedded into all aspects of society, including laws, institutional policies, dominant cultural norms, and our very own consciousness.

"Without a structural analysis of racism, it is impossible to understand why, and the extent to which, race continues to matter. Understanding structural racism helps change the conversation from one of individual culpability to one in which we are all heavily influenced by our position within a system of racial stratification" (Michael and Bartoli, 2014).

The Unequal Opportunity Race is a short educational video produced by the African American Policy Forum (founded by Kimberlé Crenshaw and Dr. Luke Charles Harris)to demonstrate how inequity is built into the very framework of our society. This video is a great visual way to teach kids about structural racism.

Research shows that Black kids and kids of color have better psychological, physiological, behavioral, and academic outcomes when parents instill a combination of pride and preparation in their children: pride in their sense of identity and preparation for discrimination experiences and threats to their safety and well-being (Okeke-Adeyanji, et al., 2014). Preparing youth for the bias and racist experiences they will inevitably face can buffer against the negative impact of racism and should include strategies for coping and taking action. Not having these conversations with Black children and children of color can lead to more distress due to the shock of unexpected racism (Dunbar, 2017).

Beyond conversation, when children of color are committed to, and supported in, taking action against racial inequity, research shows that it can replace feelings of isolation and self-blame for their experiences, and increase academic engagement and achievement (El-Amin and Seider, et al., 2017).

It's important for children of all races, including white children, to see positive affirmations and narratives surrounding people of color, and Blackness in particular. Research shows that messaging surrounding race, whether it be positive or negative, shape children's racial attitudes (Wilson, 2014).

It's not enough for kids to know how to talk about or identify racism, they need to know what they can do about it (Tatum, 2017). Provide children with models and examples of the work that people of all races are doing towards racial equity and start to engage them in actions they can start taking. If they enter their preschool or elementary classroom and see that all of the books only feature white characters, ask them why they think that is, and what might be done to change it. Brainstorm and work together on ways to address inequitable representation, for example, by writing a letter to the teacher or school administrator to advocate that the classroom materials and curriculum acknowledges and reflects that over 50% of children in the United States are children of color and that 88.5% of the global population are people of color.

Talking to kids about race is a means, not an end. It should be done with a goal of moving towards action and disrupting individual, internalized, and structural racism.

What you say as a parent is not nearly as important as what you do-and everything you do, from where you choose to live, work, eat, travel, shop, enroll your child in school; who you choose to spend time with; and what you choose to read, watch, listen to, play, and buy-are all teaching your kids about race and who and what you value, regardless of what you say or what your intentions are (Hagerman, 2018). More importantly, the actions you take on a daily basis are either reinforcing or disrupting racism. Hold yourself accountable as the primary teacher and model for your children on race and racism. Equity has to become a daily practice in all actions and interactions.

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How to Talk to Kids About Race - the conscious kid

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﻿ As early as 3-6 months, babies notice and respond differently to people based on race (Kelly et al., 2005). By age 3, children categorize and express bias based on race, and may even use racist language intentionally (Van Ausdale and Feagin, 2001).

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Two poets, one white and one black, explore race and childhood in this must-have collection tailored to provoke thought and conversation.

How can Irene and Charles work together on their fifth grade poetry project? They don't know each other . . . and they're not sure they want to. Irene Latham, who is white, and Charles Waters, who is black, use this fictional setup to delve int...

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Two poets, one white and one black, explore race and childhood in this must-have collection tailored to provoke thought and conversation. How can Irene and Charles work together on their fifth grade poetry project? They don't know each other . . . and they're not sure they want to.

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How can Irene and Charles work together on their fifth grade poetry project? They don't know each other . . . and they're not sure they want to. Irene Latham, who is white, and Charles Waters, who is black, use this fictional setup to delve into different experiences of race in a relatable way, exploring such topics as hair, hobbies, and family dinners. Accompanied by artwork from acclaimed illustrators Sean Qualls and Selina Alko (of The Case for Loving: The Fight for Interracial Marriage), this remarkable collaboration invites readers of all ages to join the dialogue by putting their own words to the...

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How can Irene and Charles work together on their fifth grade poetry project? They don't know each other . . . and they're not sure they want to. Irene Latham, who is white, and Charles Waters, who is black, use this fictional setup to delve into different experiences of race in a relatable way, exploring such topics as hair, hobbies, and family dinners.

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Did you know that James West invented the microphone in your cell phone? That Fred Jones invented the refrigerated truck that makes supermarkets possible? Or that Dr. Percy Julian synthesized cortisone from soy, easing untold people's pain? These are just some of the black inventors and innovators scoring big points in this dynamic look at several unsung heroes who shared a desire to improve people's lives. Offering profiles with fast facts on flaps and framed by a funny contemporary story featuring two feisty twins, here is a nod to the minds behind the gamma elect...

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Did you know that James West invented the microphone in your cell phone? That Fred Jones invented the refrigerated truck that makes supermarkets possible? Or that Dr. Percy Julian synthesized cortisone from soy, easing untold people's pain?

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From award-winning and bestselling author, Jewell Parker Rhodes comes a powerful coming-of-age story about two brothers, one who presents as white, the other as black, and the complex ways in which they are forced to navigate the world, all while training for a fencing competition.
Framed. Bullied. Disliked. But I know I can still be the best.

Sometimes, 12-year-old Donte wishes he were invisible. As one of the few black boys at Middlefield Prep, most of the students don't look like him. They don't like him either. Dubbing him "Black Brother," Donte's teachers and classmates make it clear they wish he were more like his lighter-skinned brother, Trey.

When he's bullied and framed by the captain of the fencing team, "King" Alan, he's suspended from school and arrested.

Terrified, searching for a place where he belongs, Donte joins a local youth center and meets former Olympic fencer Arden Jones. With Arden's help, he begins training as a competitive fencer, setting his sights on taking down the fencing team captain, no matter what.

As Donte hones his fencing skills and grows closer to achieving his goal, he learns the fight for justice is far from over. Now Donte must confront his bullies, racism, and the corrupt systems of power that led to his arrest.

Powerful and emotionally gripping, Black Brother, Black Brother is a careful examination of the school-to-prison pipeline and follows one boy's fight against racism and his empowering path to finding his voice.

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Black Brother, Black Brother - San Francisco Public Library

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Black Brother, Black Brother (eBook) : Rhodes, Jewell Parker : From award-winning and bestselling author, Jewell Parker Rhodes comes a powerful coming-of-age story about two brothers, one who presents as white, the other as black, and the complex ways in which they are forced to navigate the world, all while training for a fencing competition.

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Publisher: [Ashland] : Hachette Book Group, 2020

Call Number: EAUDIOBOOK OVERDRIVE

Characteristics: 1 online resource (1 sound file (04 hr., 38 min., 37 sec.)) : digital digital,rdatr audio file,rdaft

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Black Brother, Black Brother - San Francisco Public Library

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Black Brother, Black Brother (Downloadable Audiobook) : Rhodes, Jewell Parker : From award-winning and bestselling author Jewell Parker Rhodes comes a powerful coming-of-age story about two brothers, one who presents as white, the other as black, and the complex ways in which they are forced to navigate the world, all while training for a fencing competition.Donte wishes he were invisible.

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Brown Girl Dreaming - San Francisco Public Library

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Brown Girl Dreaming (eBook) : Woodson, Jacqueline : In vivid poems that reflect the joy of finding her voice through writing stories, an award-winning author shares what it was like to grow up in the 1960s and 1970s in both the North and the South."Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse.

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8th grade book this year at Aptos

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All American Boys - San Francisco Public Library

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All American Boys (eBook) : Reynolds, Jason : When sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend.

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Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster Audio, 2015
New York, NY : Simon & Schuster Audio, [2015]

Call Number: EAUDIOBOOK OVERDRIVE

Characteristics: 1 online resource (1 sound file (6 hr., 35 min., 25 sec.)) : digital digital,rda audio file,CD audio,rda

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All American Boys - San Francisco Public Library

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All American Boys (Downloadable Audiobook) : Reynolds, Jason : In an unforgettable new novel from award-winning authors Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely, two teens--one black, one white--grapple with the repercussions of a single violent act that leaves their school, their community, and, ultimately, the country bitterly divided by racial tension.A bag of chips.

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7th grade Aptos read this year.Dr Rhodes visited us in May.

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Ghost Boys - San Francisco Public Library

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Ghost Boys (Downloadable Audiobook) : Rhodes, Jewell Parker : After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till.

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When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson dies from two gunshot wounds, his community is thrown into an uproar. Tariq was black. The shooter, Jack Franklin, is white. In the aftermath of Tariq's death, everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the events line up. Day by day, new twists further obscure the truth. Tariq's friends, family, and community struggle to make sense of the tragedy, and to cope with the hole left behind when a life is cut short. In their own words, they grapple for a way to say with certainty: This is how it went down.

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When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson dies from two gunshot wounds, his community is thrown into an uproar. Tariq was black. The shooter, Jack Franklin, is white. In the aftermath of Tariq's death, everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the events line up. Day by day, new twists further obscure the truth.

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Things That Make White People Uncomfortable

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Things That Make White People Uncomfortable

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For Young People

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Michael Bennett is a Super Bowl Champion, a three-time Pro Bowl defensive end, a fearless activist, a feminist, an organizer, and a change maker. He's also one of the most humorous athletes on the planet, and he wants to make you uncomfortable. Bennett adds his voice to discussions of racism and police violence, Black athletes and their relationship to powerful institutions like the NCAA and the NFL, the role of protest in history, and the responsibilities of athletes as role models to speak out against injustice. Following in the footsteps of activist-athletes from Muhammad Ali to Colin Kaepe...

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Things That Make White People Uncomfortable

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Michael Bennett is a Super Bowl Champion, a three-time Pro Bowl defensive end, a fearless activist, a feminist, an organizer, and a change maker. He's also one of the most humorous athletes on the planet, and he wants to make you uncomfortable.

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Resist. 35 Profiles of Ordinary People Who Rose Up Against Tyranny and Injustice

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Resist. 35 Profiles of Ordinary People Who Rose Up Against Tyranny and Injustice

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"Most readers will find stories they haven't heard before in this volume and will discover new inspiration from the familiar. Despite their subjects' renown, they are presented so that their strength is inspiring rather than overwhelming. A resource to enrich the shelves of every home and library."

- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

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A perfect tool for young readers as they grow into the leaders of tomorrow, Veronica Chambers's inspiring collection of profiles-along with Senator Cory Booker's stirring foreword-will inspire readers of all ages to stand up for what's right. You may only be one person, but you have the power to change the world.

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Perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier and Gene Luen Yang, New Kid is a timely, honest graphic novel about starting over at a new school where diversity is low and the struggle to fit in is real, from award-winning author-illustrator Jerry Craft.

Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life. But instead of sending him to the art school of his dreams, his parents enroll him in a prestigious private school known for its academics, where Jordan is one of the...

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Perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier and Gene Luen Yang, New Kid is a timely, honest graphic novel about starting over at a new school where diversity is low and the struggle to fit in is real, from award-winning author-illustrator Jerry Craft. Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life.

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NEWBERY MEDAL WINNER

Perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier and Gene Luen Yang, New Kid is a timely, honest novel about starting over at a new school where diversity is low and the struggle to fit in is real, from award-winning author-illustrator Jerry Craft. Seventh grader Jordan Banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life. But instead of sending him t...

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NEWBERY MEDAL WINNER Perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier and Gene Luen Yang, New Kid is a timely, honest novel about starting over at a new school where diversity is low and the struggle to fit in is real, from award-winning author-illustrator Jerry Craft.

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Resist.35 Profiles of Ordinary People Who Rose Up Against Tyranny and Injustice

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Resist.35 Profiles of Ordinary People Who Rose Up Against Tyranny and Injustice

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A perfect tool for young readers as they grow into the leaders of tomorrow, Veronica Chambers's inspiring collection of profiles-along with Senator Cory Booker's stirring foreword-will inspire readers of all ages to stand up for what's right. You may only be one person, but you have the power to change the world. Before they were activists, they were just like you and me. From Frederick Douglass to Malala Yousafzai, Joan of Arc to John Lewis, Susan B. Anthony to Janet Mock-these remarkable figures show us what it means to take a stand and say no to injustice, even when it would be far easier to s...

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A perfect tool for young readers as they grow into the leaders of tomorrow, Veronica Chambers's inspiring collection of profiles-along with Senator Cory Booker's stirring foreword-will inspire readers of all ages to stand up for what's right. You may only be one person, but you have the power to change the world.

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Lunch Counter Sit Ins. How Photographs Helped Foster Peaceful Civil Rights Protests

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Lunch Counter Sit Ins. How Photographs Helped Foster Peaceful Civil Rights Protests

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Lunch Counter Sit-ins - San Francisco Public Library

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Lunch Counter Sit-ins How Photographs Helped Foster Peaceful Civil Rights Protests (eBook) : Smith-Llera, Danielle : On point historical photographs combined with strong narration bring the saga of the Woolworth lunch counter sit-ins in the early 1960s to life. Readers will learn about the four brave college students who started it all, as well as the many who came after.

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Sixteen award-winning children's book artists illustrate the civil rights quotations that inspire them in this stirring and beautiful book. Featuring an introduction by Harry Belafonte, words from Eleanor Roosevelt, Maya Angelou, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. among others, this inspirational collection sets a powerful example for generations of young leaders to come. It includes illustrations by Selina Alko, Alina Chau, Lisa Congdon, Emily Hughes, Molly Idle, Juana Medina, Innosanto Nagara, Christopher Silas Neal, John Parra, Brian Pinkney, Greg Pizzoli, Sean Qualls, Dan Sant...

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Sixteen award-winning children's book artists illustrate the civil rights quotations that inspire them in this stirring and beautiful book. Featuring an introduction by Harry Belafonte, words from Eleanor Roosevelt, Maya Angelou, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. among others, this inspirational collection sets a powerful example for generations of young leaders to come.

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Celebrated author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator Floyd Cooper provide a powerful look at the Tulsa Race Massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in our nation's history. The book traces the history of African Americans in Tulsa's Greenwood district and chronicles the devastation that occurred in 1921 when a white mob attacked the Black community....

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Celebrated author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator Floyd Cooper provide a powerful look at the Tulsa Race Massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in our nation's history. The book traces the history of African Americans in Tulsa's Greenwood district and chronicles the devastation that occurred in 1921 when a white mob attacked the Black community.

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Take a Stand! Classroom Activities That Explore Philosophical Arguments That Matter to Teens

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Take a Stand! Classroom Activities That Explore Philosophical Arguments That Matter to Teens

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Take a Stand! (grades 9-12) helps teens develop critical thinking skills by examining debates on issues directly relevant to their lives (that you won't find in most classroom materials). Each chapter: * Covers an important topic relating to electronics, sex, mental health, and relationships.

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Our Skin A First Conversation About Race

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Our Skin A First Conversation About Race

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Based on the research that race, gender, consent, and body positivity should be discussed with toddlers on up, this read-aloud board book series offers adults the opportunity to begin important conversations with young children in an informed, safe, and supported way.

Developed by experts in the fields of early childhood and activism against injustice, this topic-driven board book offers clear, concrete language and beautiful imagery that young children can grasp and adults can leverage for further discussion.

While young children are avid observers and questioners of their world, adults often shut down or postpone conversations on complicated topics because it's hard to know where to begin. Research shows that talking about issues like race and gender from the age of two not only helps children understand what they see, but also increases self-awareness, self-esteem, and allows them to recognize and confront things that are unfair, like discrimination and prejudice.

This first book in the series begins the conversation on race, with a supportive approach that considers both the child and the adult. Stunning art accompanies the simple and interactive text, and the backmatter offers additional resources and ideas for extending this discussion.

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Our Skin : A First Conversation About Race - San Francisco Public Library

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Our Skin : A First Conversation About Race (eBook) : Madison, Megan : Based on the research that race, gender, consent, and body positivity should be discussed with toddlers on up, this read-aloud board book series offers adults the opportunity to begin important conversations with young children in an informed, safe, and supported way.

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Our Skin, A First Conversation About Race

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Our Skin, A First Conversation About Race

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Publisher: [New York] : Listening Library (Audio), 2021

Call Number: EAUDIOBOOK OVERDRIVE

Characteristics: 1 online resource (1 audio file (13 min., 10 sec.)) : digital digital,rdatr audio file,rdaft

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Our Skin A First Conversation About Race (Downloadable Audiobook) : Madison, Megan : Based on the research that race, gender, consent, and body positivity should be discussed with toddlers on up, this read-aloud board book series, now adapted for audio, offers adults the opportunity to begin important conversations with young children in an informed, safe, and supported way.

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Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

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"Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring out who your targets are, always being concerned about power, always being concerned about how you're going to actually build power in order to be able to push your issues, in order to be able to get the target to actually move in the way that you want to."

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A Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Some Americans cling desperately to the myth that we are living in a post-racial society, that the election of the first Black president spelled the doom of racism. In fact, racist thought is alive and well in America--more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues in Stamped from the Beginning, if we have any hope of grappling with this stark reality, we must first understand how racist ideas were developed, disseminated, and enshrined in American society. In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire s...

"An engrossing and relentless intellectual history of prejudice in America...The greatest service Kendi (provides) is the ruthless prosecution of American ideas about race for their tensions, contradictions and unintended consequences."

- The Washington Post

"To structure his book, which he spent three years writing, Kendi built it around five major American intellectual figures: Puritan leader Cotton Mather, founding father Thomas Jefferson, abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, African-American scholar W.E.B. Du Bois and activist Angela Davis. While showing the reader each of them grappling with questions of race, Kendi places them in the wider...

- Tampa Bay Times

"In this tour de force, Kendi explores the history of racist ideas-and their connection with racist practices-across American history. Racism is the enduring scar on the American consciousness. In this ambitious, magisterial book, Kendi reveals just how deep that scar cuts and why it endures, its barely subcutaneous pain still able to flare."

- Kirkus (starred review)

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Some Americans cling desperately to the myth that we are living in a post-racial society, that the election of the first Black president spelled the doom of racism. In fact, racist thought is alive and well in America--more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X.

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The Book Itch Freedom, Truth & Harlem's Greatest Bookstore

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The Book Itch Freedom, Truth & Harlem's Greatest Bookstore

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Lewis's dad said he had an itch he needed to scratch-a book itch. How to scratch it? He started the National Memorial African Bookstore. It became a center of black culture and a home to activists like Malcolm X.

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Lewis's dad said he had an itch he needed to scratch-a book itch. How to scratch it? He started the National Memorial African Bookstore. It became a center of black culture and a home to activists like Malcolm X.

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White Like Me, based on the work of acclaimed anti-racist educator and author Tim Wise, explores race and racism in the US through the lens of whiteness and white privilege. In a stunning reassessment of the American ideal of...

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White Like Me, based on the work of acclaimed anti-racist educator and author Tim Wise, explores race and racism in the US through the lens of whiteness and white privilege. In a stunning reassessment of the American ideal of...

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With a new preface and updated chapters, White Like Me is one-part memoir, one-part polemical essay collection. It is a personal examination of the way in which racial privilege shapes the daily lives of white Americans in every realm: employment, education, housing, criminal justice, and elsewhere. Using stories from his own life, Tim Wise demonstrates the ways in which racism not only burdens people of color, but also benefits, in relative terms, those who are "white like him." He discusses how racial privilege can harm whites in the long run and make progressive social change less likely....

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With a new preface and updated chapters, White Like Me is one-part memoir, one-part polemical essay collection. It is a personal examination of the way in which racial privilege shapes the daily lives of white Americans in every realm: employment, education, housing, criminal justice, and elsewhere.

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Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? and Other Conversations About Race

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Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? and Other Conversations About Race

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"Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" - San Francisco Public Library

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"Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?" And Other Conversations About Race (eBook) : Tatum, Beverly Daniel : "The classic, bestselling book on the psychology of racism-now fully revised and updated Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups.

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Publisher: New York : Random House Audio, [2020]

Call Number: CD 305.5122 WILK

Characteristics: 12 audio discs (approximately 14 1/2 hours) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in digital,rdatr optical,rdarm audio file,rdaft CD audio

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Caste The Origins of Our Discontents (Audiobook CD) : Wilkerson, Isabel : The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken caste system that has shaped America and shows how people's lives today are still defined by a hierarchy of human divisions.

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Racial Justice in America: Topics for Change, Anti-Racism, The Black Lives Matter Movement, White Privilege

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Racial Justice in America: Topics for Change, Anti-Racism, The Black Lives Matter Movement, White Privilege

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Topics on race in America have been avoided in children's education for too long-allowing racist systems to continue to thrive. Racial Justice in America: Topics for Change explores current questions around race in comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate ways. Developed in conjunction with educator, advocate, and author Kelisa Wing to reach children of all races and encourage them to approach race issues with open eyes and minds. Topics on race in America have been avoided in children's education for too long-allowing racist systems to continue to thrive. Racial Justice in America: Topic...

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Topics on race in America have been avoided in children's education for too long-allowing racist systems to continue to thrive. Racial Justice in America: Topics for Change explores current questions around race in comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate ways.

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Your Life Matters - San Francisco Public Library

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Your Life Matters (Book) : Singleton, Chris : Empowering and validating, Your Life Matters reassures Black children everywhere that no matter what they hear, no matter what they experience, no matter what they're told, their lives matter.

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The Biography of African American Environmentalist MaVynee Betsch

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Saving American Beach : The Biography of African American Environmentalist Mavynee Betsch - San Francisco Public Library

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Saving American Beach : The Biography of African American Environmentalist Mavynee Betsch (eBook) : King, Heidi Tyline : This heartfelt picture book biography illustrated by the Caldecott Honoree Ekua Holmes, tells the story of MaVynee Betsch, an African American opera singer turned environmentalist and the legacy she preserved.

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A beautiful alphabet picture book that presents key names, moments, and places in Black history with text lyrically written by poet Rio Cortez. This is an opportunity for children to learn their ABCs to the sound of words beyond apple, boy, and cat, and an opportunity for young thinkers to prepare for big ideas.

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A beautiful alphabet picture book that presents key names, moments, and places in Black history with text lyrically written by poet Rio Cortez. This is an opportunity for children to learn their ABCs to the sound of words beyond apple, boy, and cat, and an opportunity for young thinkers to prepare for big ideas.

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AKA Humans Can't Eat Golf Balls

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Here is the story of a child born at the dawn of a social movement.

At first the protests were in small villages and at universities. But then they spread. People drew sustenance from other social movements in other countries. And then the unthinkable happened.
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Here is the story of a child born at the dawn of a social movement. At first the protests were in small villages and at universities. But then they spread. People drew sustenance from other social movements in other countries. And then the unthinkable happened.

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Encyclopedia of Black Comics - San Francisco Public Library

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Encyclopedia of Black Comics (eBook) : Howard, Sheena C. : The Encyclopedia of Black Comics, focuses on people of African descent who have published significant works in the United States or have worked across various aspects of the comics industry.

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White Girls - San Francisco Public Library

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White Girls (eBook) : Als, Hilton : "This book will change you."-Chicago Tribune White Girls is about, among other things, blackness, queerness, movies, Brooklyn, love (and the loss of love), AIDS, fashion, Basquiat, Capote, philosophy, porn, Eminem, Louise Brooks, and Michael Jackson.

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This Is My America - San Francisco Public Library

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This Is My America (eBook) : Johnson, Kim : While writing letters to Innocence X, a justice-seeking project, asking them to help her father, an innocent black man on death row, teenaged Tracy takes on another case when her brother is accused of killing his white girlfriend.

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8 starred reviews ∙ William C. Morris Award Winner ∙ National Book Award Longlist ∙ Printz Honor Book ∙ Coretta Scott King Honor Book ∙ #1 New York Times Bestseller!

Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shoot...

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8 starred reviews ∙ William C. Morris Award Winner ∙ National Book Award Longlist ∙ Printz Honor Book ∙ Coretta Scott King Honor Book ∙ #1 New York Times Bestseller! Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends.

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Publisher: New York ; London : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, [2017]

Call Number: EBOOK AXIS 360

Characteristics: 1 online resource (xvii, 345 pages) : illustrations, maps text file,rda

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The Color of Law - San Francisco Public Library

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The Color of Law A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (eBook) : Rothstein, Richard : Presents a history of the modern American city, arguing that local, state, and federal governments reinforced neighborhood segregation with racial zoning, public housing that segregated previously mixed communities, and offering subsidies and tax-exemptions to businesses and institutions who endorced segregation.

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In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation-that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies. Rather, The Color of Law incontrovertibly makes clear that it was de jure segregation-the laws and policy decisions passed by local, state, and federal governments-that actually promoted the discriminatory patterns that continue to this day....

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In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation-that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies.

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A is for Activist is an ABC board book written and illustrated for the next generation of progressives: families who want their kids to grow up in a space that is unapologetic about activism, environmental justice, civil rights, LGBTQ rights, and everything else that activists believe in and fight for.

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A is for Activist is an ABC board book written and illustrated for the next generation of progressives: families who want their kids to grow up in a space that is unapologetic about activism, environmental justice, civil rights, LGBTQ rights, and everything else that activists believe in and fight for.

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"...a much appreciated addition to classroom and home libraries. It provides straight forward information for children, teachers, and parents that answers the often asked and hard-to-answer questions about how we get our skin color. All The Colors We Are, through a positive exploration and celebration of skin color differences, takes the power out of the prevailing color bias. The written text...

- Ellie Nolan, Director, Helen Gordon Development Center, Portland State University

"What a nice way to help parents and teachers begin and extend children's conversations about skin color."

- Carol Brunson Phillips, Council for Early Childhood Recognition

"Preschoolers are curious and construct their own 'theories' about the differences in skin colors. All the Colors We Are wonderfully takes up the challenge to provide scientifically accurate explanations that are meaningful at their developmental stage. It is a welcome and needed contribution to children's literature about diversity issues."

- Louise Derman Sparks, author of Anti-Bias Curriculum

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All the Colors We Are/Todos Los Colores De Nuestra Piel

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Colorful photographs and engaging English/Spanish text showcase the beautiful diversity of skin color. This twentieth anniversary edition offers young children a simple, scientifically accurate explanation for how we get our skin color. Understanding melanin frees children from myths and stereotypes and helps celebrate one of the ways we are special and different from one another-our skin color.

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Me and White Supremacy Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

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Me and White Supremacy Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor

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Based off the original workbook, Me and White Supremacy teaches readers how to dismantle the privilege within themselves so that they can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of color, and in turn, help other white people do better, too.

When Layla Saad began an Instagram challenge called #meandwhitesupremacy, she never predicted it would spread...

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Based off the original workbook, Me and White Supremacy teaches readers how to dismantle the privilege within themselves so that they can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of color, and in turn, help other white people do better, too.

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Book One spans John Lewis' youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., the birth of the Nashville Student Movement, and their battle to tear down segregation through nonviolent lunch counter sit-ins, building to a stunning climax on the steps of City Hall. Many years ago, John Lewis and other student activists drew inspiration from the 1958 comic book Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story. Now, his own comics bring those days to life for a new audience, testifying to a movement whose echoes will be heard for generations.

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Book One spans John Lewis' youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., the birth of the Nashville Student Movement, and their battle to tear down segregation through nonviolent lunch counter sit-ins, building to a stunning climax on the steps of City Hall.

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White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide 

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White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide 

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National Book Critics Circle Award Winner New York Times Bestseller USA Today BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year A Boston Globe Best Book of 2016 A Chicago Review of Books Best Nonfiction Book of 2016 From the Civil War to our combustible present, acclaimed historian Carol Anderson reframes our continuing conversation about race, chronicling the powerful forces opposed to black progress in America. As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, and media commentators across the ideological spectrum referred to the angry response of African Americans as "black rage," historian Carol Anderson wrote a remarkable op-ed in The Washington Post suggesting that this was, instead, "white rage at work. With so much attention on the flames," she argued, "everyone had ignored the kindling." Since 1865 and the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, every time African Americans have made advances towards full participation in our democracy, white reaction has fueled a deliberate and relentless rollback of their gains. The end of the Civil War and Reconstruction was greeted with the Black Codes and Jim Crow; the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision was met with the shutting down of public schools throughout the South while taxpayer dollars financed segregated white private schools; the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 triggered a coded but powerful response, the so-called Southern Strategy and the War on Drugs that disenfranchised millions of African Americans while propelling presidents Nixon and Reagan into the White House, and then the election of America's first black President, led to the expression of white rage that has been as relentless as it has been brutal. Carefully linking these and other historical flashpoints when social progress for African Americans was countered by deliberate and cleverly crafted opposition, Anderson pulls back the veil that has long covered actions made in the name of protecting democracy, fiscal responsibility, or protection against fraud, rendering visible the long lineage of white rage. Compelling and dramatic in the unimpeachable history it relates, White Rage will add an important new dimension to the national conversation about race in America.

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White Rage : The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide - San Francisco Public Library

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White Rage : The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (eBook) : Anderson, Carol, Ph.D.

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White Fragility:Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism 

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White Fragility : Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism - San Francisco Public Library

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White Fragility : Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (Downloadable Audiobook) : DiAngelo, Robin J. : The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.

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When They Call You a Terrorist:A Story of Black Lives Matter and the Power to Change the World

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When They Call You a Terrorist:A Story of Black Lives Matter and the Power to Change the World

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This program is read by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and includes a bonus conversation

The emotional and powerful story of one of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter and how the movement was born. When They Call You a Terroristby Patrisse Khan-Cullors &, asha bandele is the essential audiobook for every conscientious American.** ...

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This program is read by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and includes a bonus conversation The emotional and powerful story of one of the co-founders of Black Lives Matter and how the movement was born.

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Hands Up! - San Francisco Public Library

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Hands Up! (Book) : McDaniel, Breanna J. : "A young girl lifts her hands up in a series of everyday moments before finally raising her hands in resistance at a protest march"-- Provided by publisher.

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Great book to use for Character Education traits of Perserverence and Courage. Short descriptions and art collage pictures of people who never gave up - no names though, so kids will have to guess or do a bit of research. Best for older ages, about 7 years and up.

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Giant Steps to Change the World - San Francisco Public Library

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Great book to use for Character Education traits of Perserverence and Courage. Short descriptions and art collage pictures of people who never gave up - no names though, so kids will have to guess or do a bit of research. Best for older ages, about 7 years and up.

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Filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, Remember This House. It is a journey into black history that connects the Civil Rights movement to #BlackLivesMatter. It questions black representation in Hollywood and beyond and examines the lives and assassinations of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.

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Filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, Remember This House. It is a journey into black history that connects the Civil Rights movement to #BlackLivesMatter. It questions black representation in Hollywood and beyond and examines the lives and assassinations of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.

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The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone And How We Can Prosper Together

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The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone And How We Can Prosper Together

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When I heard Heather McGhee on the radio months ago I had high hopes for her book. Unfortunately, those hopes were dashed by the book's actual contents.

The bare premise of McGhee's book-that racism hurts everyone-is sound, I would argue even essential. However, in McGhee's hands it is just another weapon to advance her own elite self-interest in the guise of anti-racism. McGhee sees racism where other explanations are far more cogent. In McGhee's tautology White people are just too damned racist and stupid to support policies that enlightened beings such as herself want and their failure to do so just proves how racist and stupid they are.

For example, in her account of the 2017 failure of Nissan workers in Canton, Ohio to vote in a union she patronizingly and sanctimoniously racializes the vote: "I had been naive to think that the benefits of the union would be obvious to [W]hite workers ... A [W]hite worker starting a job on the line would quickly learn the unwritten racial rules ... They could be satisfied with a slightly better job that set them just above the Black guys on the line, more satisfied by a taste of status than they were for a real pension, better healthcare, or better wages for everyone." (p. 120).

However, this is conjecture or, better yet, projection on the part of the status-hungry McGhee. She offers no concrete evidence of the existence of a White hierarchy in the Nissan plant nor any evidence from White workers that White workers actually think the way she asserts they think. Instead, she relies on academics and a handful of Black workers to construct the racist narrative she inflicts upon White workers.

It's worth noting here that this year Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama voted overwhelmingly-by a vote of 1,798 to 738-against unionizing despite (or perhaps, in part, because of) the exhortations of Black Lives Matter. As *The Guardian* reported (3/21/2021): "An estimated 85% of the workers at the Amazon warehouse in Bessemer are Black ..." But poor Heather McGhee has only two tools in her toolbox to understand this defeat. They are, as she writes on page 113: "bare-knuckle anti-union tactics by corporations and job insecurity."

These are, of course, explanations worthy of consideration but consider also that in the early days of the American union movement workers faced-over and over again-actual, live bullets fired by corporate thugs. Yet, they still created a powerful union movement.

I submit, dear reader, that these days American workers are also less supportive of unions due to two related factors McGhee omits: American unions are deeply corrupt and anti-democratic (see e.g. Robert Fitch's 2006 *Solidarity for Sale: How Corruption Destroyed the Labor Movement and Undermined America's Promise* <https://web.archive.org/web/20060901011800/http://www.solidarityforsale.com/>).

McGhee also fails to reject racism where it indisputably exists. She tacitly acknowledges affirmative action as a case of "the interests of [W]hite people ... pitted against those of people of color" (p. 14) but she does not interrogate affirmative action's manifest societal failures or how it came to be. Instead, she glibly elides any concerns that affirmative action might be inequitable to White people or counterproductive to the long-term goal of building a fair, decent, and just society. McGhee asserts that "the interests of [W]hite people" à la "structural racism" always win out. Yet, decades after its inception, affirmative action still exists, giving the lie to McGhee's assertion. If its impact is as negligible as McGhee would have readers believe then the principled position would be to oppose, rather than defend, it.

In sum, McGhee reveals herself to be another in a long line of elite race grifters who profit from exploiting, contriving, and advancing racism. Readers are not discouraged from reading McGhee's book but exhorted to do so, as always, with their critical thinking skills fully engaged.

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The Sum of Us - San Francisco Public Library

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The Sum of Us What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together (eBook) : McGhee, Heather C. : "Heather C. McGhee's specialty is the American economy--and the mystery of why it so often fails the American public.

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Walls and Mirrors: Mexican American, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity

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Walls and Mirrors: Mexican American, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity

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Walls and Mirrors - San Francisco Public Library

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Walls and Mirrors Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the Politics of Ethnicity (Book) : Gutiérrez, David : Covering more than one hundred years of American history, Walls and Mirrors examines the ways that continuous immigration from Mexico transformed--and continues to shape--the political, social, and cultural life of the American Southwest.

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Bird Uncaged: An Abolitionist's Freedom Song

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Bird Uncaged: An Abolitionist's Freedom Song

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Bird Uncaged - San Francisco Public Library

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Bird Uncaged An Abolitionist's Freedom Song (eBook) : Peterson, Marlon : From a leading prison abolitionist, a moving memoir about coming of age in Brooklyn and surviving incarceration--and a call to break free from all the cages that confine us. Marlon Peterson grew up in 1980s Crown Heights, raised by Trinidadian immigrants.

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Beyond Survival: Strategies and stories from the Transformative Justice Movement

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Beyond Survival: Strategies and stories from the Transformative Justice Movement

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Transformative justice seeks to solve the problem of violence at the grassroots level, without relying on punishment, incarceration, or policing. Community-based approaches to preventing crime and repairing its damage have existed for centuries. However, in the putative atmosphere of contemporary criminal justice systems, they are often marginalized and operate under the radar. Beyond Survival puts these strategies front and center as real alternatives to today's failed models of confinement and "correction." ...

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Transformative justice seeks to solve the problem of violence at the grassroots level, without relying on punishment, incarceration, or policing. Community-based approaches to preventing crime and repairing its damage have existed for centuries. However, in the putative atmosphere of contemporary criminal justice systems, they are often marginalized and operate under the radar.

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Revolutionary Suicide - San Francisco Public Library

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Revolutionary Suicide (eBook) : Newton, Huey P. : Presents the memoir of founding Black Panther member Huey P. Newton in which he describes the inner circle of the revolutionary organization and covers his childhood in Oakland, Calif., struggles within the system, and confinement in the Alameda County Jail.

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When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson dies from two gunshot wounds, his community is thrown into an uproar. Tariq was black. The shooter, Jack Franklin, is white. In the aftermath of Tariq's death, everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the events line up. Day by day, new twists further obscure the truth. Tariq's friends, family, and community struggle to make sense of the tragedy, and to cope with the hole left behind when a life is cut short. In their own words, they grapple for a way to say with certainty: This is how it went down.

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When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson dies from two gunshot wounds, his community is thrown into an uproar. Tariq was black. The shooter, Jack Franklin, is white. In the aftermath of Tariq's death, everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the events line up. Day by day, new twists further obscure the truth.

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Edited by National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi and featuring some of the most acclaimed, bestselling black authors writing for teens today-Black Enough is an essential collection of captivating stories about what it's like to be young and black in America. Black is...sisters navigating their relationship at summer camp in Portland, Oregon, as written by Renée Watson. Black is... three friends walking back from the community pool talking about nothing and everything, in a story by Jason Reynolds. Black is...Nic Stone's bougie debutante dating a boy her momma would never approve...

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Edited by National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi and featuring some of the most acclaimed, bestselling black authors writing for teens today-Black Enough is an essential collection of captivating stories about what it's like to be young and black in America. Black is...sisters navigating their relationship at summer camp in Portland, Oregon, as written by Renée Watson.

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Edited by National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi and featuring some of the most acclaimed, bestselling black authors writing for teens today-Black Enough is an essential collection of captivating stories about what it's like to be young and black in America. Black is...sisters navigating their relationship at summer camp in Portland, Oregon, as written by Renée Watson. Black is... three friends walking back from the community pool talking about nothing and everything, in a story by Jason Reynolds. Black is...Nic Stone's bougie debutante dating a boy her momma would never approve...

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Edited by National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi and featuring some of the most acclaimed, bestselling black authors writing for teens today-Black Enough is an essential collection of captivating stories about what it's like to be young and black in America. Black is...sisters navigating their relationship at summer camp in Portland, Oregon, as written by Renée Watson.

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"Powerful, wrenching." -JOHN GREEN, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down

"Raw and gripping." -JASON REYNOLDS, New York Times bestselling coauthor of All American Boys

"A must-read!" -ANGIE THOMAS, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hate U Give

Raw, captivating, and undeniably real, Nic Stone joins industry giants Jason Reynolds and Walter Dean Myers as she boldly tackles American race relations in this stunning #1 New York Times bestselling debut, a William C. Morris Award Finalist.

Justyce McAllister is a good kid, an honor student, and always there to help a friend--but none of that matters to the police officer who just put him in handcuffs. Despite leaving his rough neighborhood behind, he can't escape the scorn of his former peers or the ridicule of his new classmates.

Justyce looks to the teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for answers. But do they hold up anymore? He starts a journal to Dr. King to find out.

Then comes the day Justyce goes driving with his best friend, Manny, windows rolled down, music turned up-- way up, sparking the fury of a white off-duty cop beside them. Words fly. Shots are fired. Justyce and Manny are caught in the crosshairs. In the media fallout, it's Justyce who is under attack.

"Vivid and powerful." -Booklist, Starred Review

"A visceral portrait of a young man reckoning with the ugly, persistent violence of social injustice." - Publishers Weekly

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Dear Martin - San Francisco Public Library

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Dear Martin (eBook) : Stone, Nic : Powerful, wrenching. -JOHN GREEN, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down Raw and gripping. -JASON REYNOLDS, New York Times bestselling coauthor of All American Boys A must-read!

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Practical Activities to Help You Challenge Privilege, Confront Systemic Racism, and Engage in Collective Healing

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Practical Activities to Help You Challenge Privilege, Confront Systemic Racism, and Engage in Collec

Healing from racism is a journey that often involves reliving trauma and experiencing feelings of shame, guilt, and anxiety. This journey can be a bumpy ride, and before we begin healing, we need to gain an understanding of the role history plays in racial/ethnic myths and stereotypes. In so many ways, to heal from racism, you must re-educate yourself and unlearn the processes of racism.
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Healing from racism is a journey that often involves reliving trauma and experiencing feelings of shame, guilt, and anxiety. This journey can be a bumpy ride, and before we begin healing, we need to gain an understanding of the role history plays in racial/ethnic myths and stereotypes.

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Pushout:the Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools Video Project

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Pushout:the Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools Video Project

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Inspired by the groundbreaking book of the same name by Monique W. Morris, Ed.D, PUSHOUT: THE CRIMINALIZATION OF BLACK GIRLS IN SCHOOLS takes a deep dive into the lives of Black girls and the practices, cultural beliefs and...

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Pushout: the Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools

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Inspired by the groundbreaking book of the same name by Monique W. Morris, Ed.D, PUSHOUT: THE CRIMINALIZATION OF BLACK GIRLS IN SCHOOLS takes a deep dive into the lives of Black girls and the practices, cultural beliefs and...

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Told by the activists and leaders who live and breathe this movement for justice, WHOSE STREETS? is an unflinching look at the Ferguson uprising. When unarmed teenager Michael Brown is killed by police and left lying in the...

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Told by the activists and leaders who live and breathe this movement for justice, WHOSE STREETS? is an unflinching look at the Ferguson uprising. When unarmed teenager Michael Brown is killed by police and left lying in the...

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Stranger Fruit: An Investigation into the Death of Michael Brown

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Stranger Fruit: An Investigation into the Death of Michael Brown

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What really happened on August 9th, 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri? That afternoon, Officer Darren Wilson killed 18-year-old Michael Brown. 'STRANGER FRUIT' is the unraveling of what took place, told through the eyes of Mike...

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What really happened on August 9th, 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri? That afternoon, Officer Darren Wilson killed 18-year-old Michael Brown. 'STRANGER FRUIT' is the unraveling of what took place, told through the eyes of Mike...

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Racism, White Denial and the Cost of Inequality

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For years, acclaimed author and speaker TIM WISE has been electrifying audiences on the college lecture circuit with his deeply personal take on whiteness and white privilege. In this spellbinding lecture, the author of White...

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For years, acclaimed author and speaker TIM WISE has been electrifying audiences on the college lecture circuit with his deeply personal take on whiteness and white privilege. In this spellbinding lecture, the author of White...

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On a Friday night after a long week at work, Calvin Davis joined his family in Southwest Washington, DC for an informal gathering. Still wearing scrubs from his job at Children's National Medical Center, Calvin caught up with...

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On a Friday night after a long week at work, Calvin Davis joined his family in Southwest Washington, DC for an informal gathering. Still wearing scrubs from his job at Children's National Medical Center, Calvin caught up with...

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This film documents the increasingly common conversation taking place in homes across the country between parents of color and their children, especially sons, about how to behave if they are ever stopped by the police.

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This film documents the increasingly common conversation taking place in homes across the country between parents of color and their children, especially sons, about how to behave if they are ever stopped by the police.

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This documentary welcomes dialogue around racial inequality, policing, and the Criminal Justice System by focusing on Eric Garners case. We hope viewers will increase their understanding of issues plaguing Black and Brown...

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This documentary welcomes dialogue around racial inequality, policing, and the Criminal Justice System by focusing on Eric Garners case. We hope viewers will increase their understanding of issues plaguing Black and Brown...

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White Privilege in America

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White Like Me, based on the work of acclaimed anti-racist educator and author Tim Wise, explores race and racism in the US through the lens of whiteness and white privilege. In a stunning reassessment of the American ideal of...

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White Like Me, based on the work of acclaimed anti-racist educator and author Tim Wise, explores race and racism in the US through the lens of whiteness and white privilege. In a stunning reassessment of the American ideal of...

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Distinguished historian John H. Bracey Jr. offers a provocative analysis of the devastating economic, political, and social effects of racism on white Americans. In a departure from analyses of racism that have focused...

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How Racism Harms White Americans | Kanopy

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Distinguished historian John H. Bracey Jr. offers a provocative analysis of the devastating economic, political, and social effects of racism on white Americans. In a departure from analyses of racism that have focused...

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American Denial: The Truth is Deeper Than Black and White

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American Denial: The Truth is Deeper Than Black and White

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In his 1944 study of the 'Negro Problem' in America, Gunnar Myrdal posed a simple, disturbing question: How can Americans espouse a belief in liberty, equality and equal opportunity while enabling openly racist Jim Crow...

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In his 1944 study of the 'Negro Problem' in America, Gunnar Myrdal posed a simple, disturbing question: How can Americans espouse a belief in liberty, equality and equal opportunity while enabling openly racist Jim Crow...

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This documentary shows that segregation has been as virulent and persistent in the North as in the South and that it too has resulted from deliberate public policies based in deep-rooted racial prejudice. The film uses the...

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This documentary shows that segregation has been as virulent and persistent in the North as in the South and that it too has resulted from deliberate public policies based in deep-rooted racial prejudice. The film uses the...

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The unanimous overruling of Plessy v. Ferguson, declaring segregation in public schools unconstitutional.

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The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross

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The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross

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Written and presented by Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., director of W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University, this six-hour series explores the evolution of the...

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Written and presented by Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., director of W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University, this six-hour series explores the evolution of the...