Racial Equity Nonfiction YA Books
A list highlighting our racial history, memoirs of individuals affected by racial injustice, and ideas on how to move forward.
Next PageThe sum of us : how racism hurts everyone : adapted for young readers - McGhee, Heather C.,
Summary: "This book, edited for young readers, is a call to action. McGhee examines how damaging racism is not only to people of color but also to white people. She offers hope and real solutions so that we...
Contents: An old story : the zero-sum hierarchy -- Racism drained the pool -- Going without -- Ignoring the canary -- No one fights alone -- Never a real democracy -- Living apart -- The same sky -- The...
How to be a (young) antiracist - Kendi, Ibram X.,
Summary: We can let racism stand, or we can stand against it. Readers will follow a young Kendi as he learns (and unlearns) lessons that help shape his understanding racism. Kendi's concept of antiracism...
Contents: A brief word before we begin... -- Definitions : why they matter (just like Black lives do) -- Of two minds : dueling consciousness -- Power (aka : the thing that makes race a thing) -- Biology --...
Me and white supremacy : young readers' edition - Saad, Layla F.,
Summary: "From the author of the New York Times bestselling book ME AND WHITE SUPREMACY comes the young readers' edition that teaches readers how to explore and understand racism and white supremacy and how...
Contents: Part I: Introduction. How to use this book -- A little about me! -- A little about you! -- What is white supremacy? -- Part II: Exploring white supremacy. White privilege -- White fragility -- Tone...
Ink knows no borders : poems of the immigrant and refugee experience
Summary: "With authenticity, integrity, and insight, this collection of poems addresses the many issues confronting first- and second- generation young adult immigrants and refugees, such as cultural and...
Contents: Departure: July 30, 1984 /Joseph O. Legaspi --Immigrant /Lena Khalaf Tuffaha --First light /Chen Chen --Origin/Adoption /Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello --Dear America /Sholeh Wolpé --Second attempt...
Apple : skin to the core : a memoir in words and pictures - Gansworth, Eric, 1965-
Summary: "The term "Apple" is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly "red on the outside, white on the inside." Eric Gansworth is telling his story in Apple (Skin to...
Contents: Apple Records -- The red album -- Dog Street. Side A ; Side B -- Get back -- Liner notes.
An indigenous peoples' history of the United States for young people - Reese, Debbie, 1959-
Summary: "Going beyond the story of America as a country "discovered" by a few brave men in the "New World," Indigenous human rights advocate Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz reveals the roles that settler colonialism...
Separate no more : the long road to Brown v. Board of Education - Goldstone, Lawrence, 1947-
Summary: An evocative chronicle of the battle that led to America's landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling shares insights into the abuses of the "separate but equal" system and how such courageous...
Contents: Prologue: The end of a long wait -- Separate -- Land of Lincoln -- Resistance -- From the ashes of Springfield -- To the courts -- The red summer -- Passing the torch: The new Negro movement -- The...