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• The Black Friend

  on Being a Better White Person

  Joseph, Frederick (Activist),

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  Frederick Joseph call up race-related anecdotes from his past, explaining why they were hurtful and how he might handle things now. Touching on everything from cultural appropriation to power dynamics, "reverse racism" to white privilege,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Boarding Schools

  Bruegl, Heather,

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  Learn how education and government policy impacted generations of Indigenous families. Readers will understand the legacy of boarding schools on Indigenous cultures and the resilience of those cultures today.

• Caste

  the Origins of Our Discontents : Adapted for Young Adults

  Wilkerson, Isabel,

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  Caste in not only about race or class; it is about power--which groups have it and which do not. Isabel Wilkerson explores historical social hierarchies, including those in India and Nazi Germany, and explains how perpetuating these rankings…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Color of a Lie

  Johnson, Kim, 1979-

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  Two worlds. Two different versions of himself. Calvin knows how to pass for white. He's done it plenty of times. For his friends in Chicago, when they wanted food but weren't allowed in a restaurant. For work, when he and his dad traveled for the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Colorblind

  a Story of Racism

  Harris, Johnathan,

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  When Johnathan Harris was just eight years old, he and his brothers were roughed up and handcuffed by police officers. The experience left young Johnathan full of anger, suspicion, and hatred. As Johnathan tells us in Colorblind, his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be

  a Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption

  Gibney, Shannon,

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  Gibney strikes an intriguing balance between memoir and fantasy in this kaleidoscopic portrait that chronicles both her real-life childhood as Shannon Gibney and an alternate imagined life as Erin Powers, her birth name. Erin Powers navigates…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How I Resist

  Activism and Hope for a New Generation

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  In How I Resist, readers will find hope and support through voices that are at turns personal, funny, irreverent, and instructive. Candor and passion radiate from the 30 voices raised in this trenchant and timely compendium of interviews, essays,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I'm Still Here

  Loving Myself in a World Not Made for Me

  Brown, Austin Channing,

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  Austin Channing Brown's first encounter with race in America came at age seven, when she discovered her parents named her Austin to trick future employers into thinking she was a white man. For students navigating a time of racial hostility, and for…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Stealing Little Moon

  the Legacy of the American Indian Boarding Schools

  Jones, Dan SaSuWeh, 1951-

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  Thousands of Indigenous children were forcibly sent to attend boarding schools specifically created by the government to teach them the ways of white society and punish them for observing their own cultures. Little Moon There Are No Stars Tonight…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Take the Mic

  Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance

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  This anthology features fictional stories--in poems, prose, and art--that reflect a slice of the varied and limitless ways that readers like you resist every day. Take the Mic's powerful collection of stories features work by literary luminaries and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Unequal

  a Story of America

  Dyson, Michael Eric,

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  Interconnected stories present a picture of racial inequality in America, showing systemic discrimination in all areas of society and showing the unbroken line of Black resistance to this inequality.

• We Are Your Children Too

  Black Students, White Supremacists, and the Battle for America's Schools in Prince Edward County, Virginia

  Pearson, P. O'Connell (Patricia O'Connell),

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  In 1954, after the passing of Brown v Board, one county in southern Virginia chose to close its public schools rather than integrate. Those public schools stayed closed for five years. This was the reality of the people of Prince Edward County. Some…Read moreRead more of this annotation