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Racism. Juvenile literature.
Prejudices. Juvenile literature.
Ethnicity. Juvenile literature.
Racism.
Prejudices.
Ethnicity.
Gr 5 Up-Writer and educator Jewell successfully combines personal experience and social and historical issues in this colorful and informative guidebook. Each chapter contains exercises to help readers conceive of their own identities, recognize how society allocates power to certain people, and learn how individuals can stand up to injustice while keeping themselves safe from harm. Durand's vivid, dynamic illustrations are as crucial to the book as the text itself. Though the formatting, which involves pull quotes, font changes, shifting columns, and other graphic elements, may be confusing to some young readers, the information is written clearly and thoughtfully. Concepts like institutional racism and internalized inferiority are relayed in concise language without talking down to the audience. Several terms are underlined and defined in the glossary. Footnotes and a bibliography also appear in the back matter. A further reading list includes a mix of adult, teen, and children's materials. The work will particularly resonate with fans of Anastasia Higginbotham's Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness . VERDICT A visually exciting and well-crafted antiracist guide for all children. A work that fills a much-needed gap between the feel-good but vague messages of empathy and acceptance in some picture books, and the advanced terminology and theory in young adult nonfiction on racial justice. Recommended for any juvenile nonfiction collection. Madison Bishop, Plymouth Public Library, Plymouth, MA
ALA Booklist (Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 CST 2020)How does one relate the complexities of racism to young people? In her debut nonfiction title, Jewell gives tweens and teens the background information and language to understand how racism was created, how it continues to work, and why it's important to fight against it. The author begins with a thorough overview of identity, intersectionality, privilege, ethnicity, and other concepts necessary to recognize the dominant culture and those who have been marginalized. Accompanied by vibrant digital artwork featuring real and imagined people of color, the short, dense chapters continue with descriptions of key individuals and events in racist history from around the world and culminate with myriad strategies to take action against racism, both individually and in solidarity with others. Throughout the primer, Jewell interjects insight from her own life as a biracial cisgender woman and offers related, thought-provoking activities. Although geared for YA readers, adult collaboration may be necessary to help unpack the volume of information and some of its difficult issues, as well as provide context for select activities.
Publishers Weekly (Fri Oct 06 00:00:00 CDT 2023)Using clear, compelling language, Jewell employs four sections to deftly explain progressive understandings of identity, history, action, and solidarity as tools to encourage antiracist reflection, thought, and action. From the author-s note introducing the idea that -racism is a problem, a very serious problem,- to the volume-s explorations of -spending that privilege- and -calling out and calling in,- Jewell offers readers at various points in their activist journeys a necessary primer on antiracist thinking (a glossary helpfully defines underlined terms used throughout, including
Starred Review for Publishers Weekly (Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 CST 2020)
School Library Journal Starred Review (Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 CST 2020)
ALA Booklist (Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 CST 2020)
Publishers Weekly (Fri Oct 06 00:00:00 CDT 2023)
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Recommended by Oprah's Book Club, ESSENCE, We Need Diverse Books, ellentube, Brit + Co, PureWow, Teen Vogue, Time, New York, USA TODAY, and TODAY.com
Also available: This Book Is Anti-Racist Journal, a guided journal with more than 50 activities to support your anti-racism journey
Who are you? What is racism? Where does it come from? Why does it exist? What can you do to disrupt it? Learn about social identities, the history of racism and resistance against it, and how you can use your anti-racist lens and voice to move the world toward equity and liberation.
“In a racist society, it’s not enough to be non-racist—we must be ANTI-RACIST.” —Angela Davis
Gain a deeper understanding of your anti-racist self as you progress through 20 chapters that spark introspection, reveal the origins of racism that we are still experiencing, and give you the courage and power to undo it. Each lesson builds on the previous one as you learn more about yourself and racial oppression. An activity at the end of every chapter gets you thinking and helps you grow with the knowledge. All you need is a pen and paper.
Author Tiffany Jewell, an anti-bias, anti-racist educator and activist, builds solidarity beginning with the language she chooses—using gender neutral words to honor everyone who reads the book. Illustrator Aurélia Durand brings the stories and characters to life with kaleidoscopic vibrancy.
After examining the concepts of social identity, race, ethnicity, and racism, learn about some of the ways people of different races have been oppressed, from indigenous Americans and Australians being sent to boarding school to be “civilized” to a generation of Caribbean immigrants once welcomed to the UK being threatened with deportation by strict immigration laws.
Find hope in stories of strength, love, joy, and revolution that are part of our history, too, with such figures as the former slave Toussaint Louverture, who led a rebellion against white planters that eventually led to Haiti’s independence, and Yuri Kochiyama, who, after spending time in an internment camp for Japanese Americans during WWII, dedicated her life to supporting political prisoners and advocating reparations for those wrongfully interned.
Learn language and phrases to interrupt and disrupt racism. So, when you hear a microaggression or racial slur, you'll know how to act next time.
This book is written for EVERYONE who lives in this racialized society—including the young person who doesn’t know how to speak up to the racist adults in their life, the kid who has lost themself at times trying to fit into the dominant culture, the children who have been harmed (physically and emotionally) because no one stood up for them or they couldn’t stand up for themselves, and also for their families, teachers, and administrators.
With this book, be empowered to actively defy racism and xenophobia to create a community (large and small) that truly honors everyone.
WAKING UP: UNDERSTANDING AND GROWING INTO MY IDENTITIES
Chapter 1: Who Am I?
Chapter 2: What Are My Social Identities?
Chapter 3: What Is Race? What Is Ethnicity?
Chapter 4: What Is Racism? (Personal)
Chapter 5: What Is Racism? (Institutional)
OPENING THE WINDOW: MAKING SENSE OF THE WORLD
Chapter 6: Prejudice Is Personal
Chapter 7: The History We Carry
Chapter 8: Knowing Our History
Chapter 9: We Are Our History
CHOOSING MY PATH: TAKING ACTION AND RESPONDING TO RACISM
Chapter 10: Disrupt!
Chapter 11: Take Action!
Chapter 12: Interrupt!
Chapter 13: Solidarity
Chapter 14: Calling In And Calling Out
HOLDING THE DOOR OPEN: WORKING IN SOLIDARITY AGAINST RACISM
Chapter 15: Spending That Privilege
Chapter 16: Allyship
Chapter 17: Building Relationships
Chapter 18: Love Yourself
Chapter 19: How We Grow
Chapter 20: Our Freedom