Talking with Children and Teens about Racism

Racism and Intolerance

by Spilsbury, Louise

Book - 2018

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The Day You Begin

by Woodson, Jacqueline

Book - 2018

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Let's Talk About Race

by Lester, Julius

Book - 2004

Offers readers a poetic introduction to the topic of race as the differences and unique features of races are celebrated while discussing the important bond everyone shares with one another as human beings through many common similarities. (NoveList) Offers readers a poetic introduction to the topic of race as the differences and unique features of races are celebrated while discussing the important bond everyone shares with one another as human beings through many common similarities. (NoveList) Show less

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Something Happened in Our Town

A Child's Story About Racial Injustice

by Celano, Marianne

Book - 2018

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Hands Up!

by McDaniel, Breanna J.

Book - 2019

"A young girl lifts her hands up in a series of everyday moments before finally raising her hands in resistance at a protest march." (NoveList) Also available as an e-book. "A young girl lifts her hands up in a series of everyday moments before finally raising her hands in resistance at a protest march." (NoveList) Also available as an e-book. Show less

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Soldier for Equality

José De La Luz Saénz and the Great War

by Tonatiuh, Duncan

Book - 2019

Describes the life and accomplishments of Jose de la Luz Saenz, who helped create the League of United Latin American Citizens, the oldest Latino civil rights organization. (NoveList) Available in several different formats. Describes the life and accomplishments of Jose de la Luz Saenz, who helped create the League of United Latin American Citizens, the oldest Latino civil rights organization. (NoveList) Available in several different formats. Show less

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The Breaking News

by Reul, Sarah Lynne

Book - 2018

When devastating news rattles a young girl's community, she tries her hardest to respond to it as compassionately and positively as possible. (NoveList) When devastating news rattles a young girl's community, she tries her hardest to respond to it as compassionately and positively as possible. (NoveList) Show less

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Separate Is Never Equal

Sylvia Mendez & Her Family's Fight for Desegregation

by Tonatiuh, Duncan

eBook - 2014

"Years before the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education, Sylvia Mendez, an eight-year-old girl of Mexican and Puerto Rican h...Show more "Years before the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education, Sylvia Mendez, an eight-year-old girl of Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage, played an instrumental role in Mendez v. Westminster, the landmark desegregation case of 1946 in California." (NoveList) Also available in print and DVD. Show less

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Where Are You From?

by Méndez, Yamile Saied

Book - 2019

When other children and their parents keep asking a young girl where she is from, she puts the same question to her grandfather who describes the land and people from which her family originated. (NoveList) Also available in Spanish edition. When other children and their parents keep asking a young girl where she is from, she puts the same question to her grandfather who describes the land and people from which her family originated. (NoveList) Also available in Spanish edition. Show less

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Ron's Big Mission

by Blue, Rose

Book - 2008

One summer day in 1959, nine-year-old Ron McNair, who dreams of becoming a pilot, walks into the Lake City, South Carolina, public library and insists on ...Show more One summer day in 1959, nine-year-old Ron McNair, who dreams of becoming a pilot, walks into the Lake City, South Carolina, public library and insists on checking out some books, despite the rule that only white people can have library cards. Includes facts about McNair, who grew up to be an astronaut. (NoveList) Show less

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Marisol McDonald Doesn't Match

by Brown, Monica

Book - 2011

Marisol McDonald is a nonconformist, Peruvian-Scottish-American with brown skin and red hair, and she knows exactly what she likes. Polka dots with stripe...Show more Marisol McDonald is a nonconformist, Peruvian-Scottish-American with brown skin and red hair, and she knows exactly what she likes. Polka dots with stripes? Absolutely! Writing in both print and cursive at the same time? Why not? Playing soccer while simultaneously pretending to be a pirate and a princess? It's the best! But when she is teased by her classmates because she never matches, Marisol decides to give blending in a go...with unhappy, but thankfully temporary, results. (NoveList) Show less

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Stolen Words

by Florence, Melanie

Book - 2017

A look at the intergenerational impact of Canada's residential school system that separated Indigenous children from their families and the beautiful, healing relationship between a little girl and her grandfather. (NoveList) A look at the intergenerational impact of Canada's residential school system that separated Indigenous children from their families and the beautiful, healing relationship between a little girl and her grandfather. (NoveList) Show less

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Kimotinâniwiw Itwêwina

by Florence, Melanie

Book - 2019

A look at the intergenerational impact of Canada's residential school system that separated Indigenous children from their families and the beautiful, healing relationship between a little girl and her grandfather. (NoveList) A look at the intergenerational impact of Canada's residential school system that separated Indigenous children from their families and the beautiful, healing relationship between a little girl and her grandfather. (NoveList) Show less

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Happy in Our Skin

by Manushkin, Fran

Book - 2015

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The Other Side

by Woodson, Jacqueline

Book - 2001

Two girls, one white and one black, gradually get to know each other as they sit on the fence that divides their town. (NoveList) Two girls, one white and one black, gradually get to know each other as they sit on the fence that divides their town. (NoveList) Show less

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The Case for Loving

The Fight for Interracial Marriage

by Alko, Selina

Book - 2015

A tribute to the example of the Loving family describes how they were arrested in mid-twentieth-century Virginia for violating laws against interracial ma...Show more A tribute to the example of the Loving family describes how they were arrested in mid-twentieth-century Virginia for violating laws against interracial marriage and argued their case all the way to the Supreme Court, prompting a landmark civil rights triumph. (NoveList) Show less

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We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices

Book - 2018

A collection of art, essays, letters, poems, and stories celebrates standing up against prejudice and racism, and includes entries by such authors as Kwame Alexander, Kat Williams-Garcia, Jacqueline Woodson, and Jason Reynolds. (NoveList) A collection of art, essays, letters, poems, and stories celebrates standing up against prejudice and racism, and includes entries by such authors as Kwame Alexander, Kat Williams-Garcia, Jacqueline Woodson, and Jason Reynolds. (NoveList) Show less

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Not My Idea

A Book About Whiteness

by Higginbotham, Anastasia

Book - 2018

A white child sees a TV news report of a white police officer shooting and killing a black man. "In our family, we don't see color," his mother ...Show more A white child sees a TV news report of a white police officer shooting and killing a black man. "In our family, we don't see color," his mother says, but he sees the colors plain enough. An afternoon in the library's history stacks uncover the truth of white supremacy in America. Racism was not his idea and he refuses to defend it. (NoveList) Show less

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The Other America, speech by Dr. Martin Luther King

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Given less than a month before his assassination, this speech by Dr. King discusses racism (systemic and personal), protests, and riots. "So however ...Show more Given less than a month before his assassination, this speech by Dr. King discusses racism (systemic and personal), protests, and riots. "So however difficult it is during this period, however difficult it is to continue to live with the agony and the continued existence of racism, however difficult it is to live amidst the constant hurt, the constant insult and the constant disrespect, I can still sing we shall overcome. We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice." Show less

Racism Explained to My Daughter

by Ben Jelloun, Tahar

Book - 1999

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Between the World and Me

by Coates, Ta-Nehisi

Book - 2015

In these essays written as a series of letters to his teenage son, Coates discusses race and racism in personal and the historical contexts, while directly addressing how race has shaped America with its attendant and tremendous cost of black lives. In these essays written as a series of letters to his teenage son, Coates discusses race and racism in personal and the historical contexts, while directly addressing how race has shaped America with its attendant and tremendous cost of black lives. Show less

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Good Talk

A Memoir in Conversations

by Jacob, Mira

Book - 2018

This graphic novel is a memoir written as a series of conversations between the author and her husband and young mixed-race child about race in America. This graphic novel is a memoir written as a series of conversations between the author and her husband and young mixed-race child about race in America. Show less

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Breathe

A Letter to My Sons

by Perry, Imani

Book - 2019

"Sharing her thoughts on motherhood, particularly being the mother of black boys in America, Perry (African American studies, Princeton Univ.) presen...Show more "Sharing her thoughts on motherhood, particularly being the mother of black boys in America, Perry (African American studies, Princeton Univ.) presents her adolescent sons Issa and Freeman with reflections on striving to live a good life. She writes of pleasures, pains, and possibilities; successes and challenges; and the injustices of the culture they must navigate as young black men and, later, adults." (Booklist) Also available as an e-book. Show less

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A Young People's History of the United States

by Stefoff, Rebecca

Book - 2007

To give your discussions some historical context, try sharing and reading this book with your tweens and teens. To give your discussions some historical context, try sharing and reading this book with your tweens and teens. Show less