McAneney, Caitie
Summary: "In a time of increasing political and social tensions, students are sure to find themselves in complicated ethical situations. What happens if someone they know and love is racist? This book introduces readers to the concepts of prejudice and racism and gives them guidance on how to deal with these concepts in daily life. Readers will learn how to show their support for equality by celebrating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.8 MCABonner, Chantel
Summary: "A rhyming, read-aloud book with warm illustrations conveys a comforting, faith-filled message from a Black father and mother to their children who see visual representations of their faith, but question what it means when they don't see their skin color, their physical features, or their gender portrayed. "What about the angels, will they stop and stare, when they see that I may not have their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ensign Peak 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BONAsika, Uju
Summary: "Bringing Up Race is an important book, for all families, whatever their race or ethnicity. It's for everyone who wants to instill a sense of open-minded inclusivity in their kids, and those who want to discuss difference instead of shying away from toughquestions. Uju Asika draws on often shocking personal stories of prejudice along with opinions of experts, influencers, and fellow parents to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.4 ASINayani, Farzana
Summary: Nayani gives caregivers the tools for exploring race with their children. She offers practical guidance on how to initiate conversations; consciously foster racial identity development; discuss issues like microaggressions, intersectionality, and privilege; and intentionally cultivate a sense of belonging. In providing an overview of key issues and current topics relevant to raising multiracial...
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Atlantic Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 649 NAYChung, Nicole
Summary: "What does it mean to lose your roots--within your culture, within your family--and what happens when you find them? Nicole Chung was born severely premature, placed for adoption by her Korean parents, and raised by a white family in a sheltered Oregon town. From childhood, she heard the story of her adoption as a comforting, prepackaged myth. She believed that her biological parents had made...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Catapult 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHUNG, NICOLE CHUGill, Charlotte
Summary: "An award-winning writer retraces her dysfunctional, biracial, globe-trotting family's journey as she reckons with ethnicity and belonging, diversity and race, and the complexities of life within a multicultural household. Charlotte Gill's father is Indian. Her mother is English. They meet in 1960's London when the world is not quite ready for interracial love. Their union, a revolutionary act,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GILL, CHARLOTTE GILBaxley, Traci
Summary: As the global pandemic shuttered schools across the country in 2020, parents found themselves thrust into the role of teacher. After the murder of George Floyd and the ensuing Black Lives Matter protests, many also grappled with the responsibility to teach their kids about social justice-- with few resources to guide them. Baxley, a mother of five herself, suggests that parenting is a form of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Helsel, Carolyn B.
Summary: How do we raise the next generation to respect and learn from people who look or believe differently than they do? From two educators who are also moms comes a guide to help parents and other teachers navigate conversations about all kinds of diversity. This practical resource includes activities to build compassion and empathy among differing religions, classes, races, genders, abilities,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chalice Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649 HELNakazawa, Donna Jackson.
Summary: Counsels parents on how to build confidence and healthy esteem in their multi-racial children, offering advice on how to support a young person's sense of self in a color-conscious world and strategies on coping with discriminating behavior.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.157 NAKRamesh, Jaya
Summary: What if parenting were an act of social justice? In this part story-telling, part self-inquiry book, authors and therapists Jaya Ramesh and Priya Saaral situate parenting children of color with neurodivergence within the context of various interlocking systems of oppression including settler colonialism, White supremacy, ableism, and capitalism. These intersections engender isolation and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Parenting Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 649.7 RAMCarroll, Rebecca
Summary: "A stirring and powerful memoir from black cultural critic Rebecca Carroll recounting her struggle to overcome a completely white childhood in order to forge her identity as a black woman in America"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CARROLL, REBECCA CARKendi, Ibram X.
Summary: "The tragedies and reckonings around racism that have rocked the country have created a specific crisis for parents and other caregivers: how do we talk to our children about it? How do we guide our children to avoid repeating our racist history? While wework to dismantle racist behaviors in ourselves and the world around us, how do we raise our children to be antiracists? After he wrote the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 KENCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 KENHarrison, Valerie I.
Summary: "This book orients parents and communities of black children, including white adoptive parents, to the particular challenges and inequalities race brings to childhood. The authors present research, insight, and their own experience to guide parents to challenges related to education, health, safety, self-esteem, and community building"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Temple University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.145 HARGrimard, Gabrielle
Summary: Lila has just moved to a new town and can't wait to make friends at school. But on the first day, a boy points at her and shouts: "A crow! A crow! The new girl's hair is black like a crow!" The others whisper and laugh, and Lila's heart grows as heavy as a stone. The next day, Lila covers her hair. But this time, the boy points at her dark skin. When she covers her face, he mocks her dark eyes....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GRIWright, Marguerite A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jossey-Bass 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.82 WRIMoore, Tanisia
Summary: A child discovers his distinguished heritage through the achievements of Black leaders from sports, entertainment, law and leadership.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "A guide for white parents of transracially or transnationally adopted children"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021