Opening Your Eyes to Diversity, Race and Social Justice - Titles for all agesLike this list

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• So You Want to Talk About Race

  Oluo, Ijeoma,

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  Adult Non-Fiction: "A current, constructive, and actionable exploration of today's racial landscape, offering straightforward clarity that readers of all races need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divide."

• Stamped

  Racism, Antiracism, and You

  Reynolds, Jason,

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  Teen Non-Fiction: "A history of racist and antiracist ideas in America, from their roots in Europe until today."

• Hands Up!

  McDaniel, Breanna J.,

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  Picture Book: This triumphant picture book recasts a charged phrase as part of a black girl's everyday life--hands up for a hug, hands up in class, hands up for a high five--before culminating in a moment of resistance at a protest march.

• Between the World and Me

  Coates, Ta-Nehisi,

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  Adult Non-Fiction: "In this extended open letter to his young son, Samori, Atlantic national correspondent and senior editor Coates reflects further on his unlikely road to manhood and escape from the maw of America's tradition—nay,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Internment

  Ahmed, Samira,

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  Teen Fiction: "A terrifying, futuristic United States where Muslim-Americans are forced into internment camps, and seventeen-year-old Layla Amin must lead a revolution against complicit silence"

• Brown Girl Dreaming

  Woodson, Jacqueline

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  Youth Biography: "The author shares her childhood memories and reveals the first sparks that ignited her writing career in free-verse poems about growing up in the North and South"

• Just Mercy

  a Story of Justice and Redemption

  Stevenson, Bryan,

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  Adult Non-Fiction: The founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama recounts his experiences as a lawyer working to assist those desperately in need, reflecting on his pursuit of the ideal of compassion in American…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Good Talk

  a Memoir in Conversations

  Jacob, Mira, 1973-

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  Graphic Novel Memoir: Jacob's sophomore effort is a graphic memoir about race and family, set against the backdrop of the 2016 election and told through a series of conversations with the author's biracial six-year-old son

• The Day You Begin

  Woodson, Jacqueline,

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  Picture Book: Woodson imagines being "an only" in the classroom—what it's like to be the only one with an accent ("No one understands the way words curl from your mouth"), the only one who stayed home during summer vacation ("What good is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Solitary

  Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement. My Story of Transformation and Hope

  Woodfox, Albert,

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  Adult Nonfiction: "Woodfox's shocking memoir of his years in prison, mostly under solitary confinement, is a testament to the human spirit and a scathing indictment of the justice system."

• Dear Martin

  Stone, Nic,

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  Teen Fiction: Written as a mixture of script-style dialogues, third-person narrative, and letters to Martin Luther King Jr., the novel explores high school senior Justyce McAllister's confrontations with racism and his search for identity…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Night Is Yours

  Zachariah, Abdul-Razak,

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  Picture Book: Debut author Zachariah and illustrator Bobo team up to bring an affirmation of Blackness and celebration of night.

• How to Be An Antiracist

  Kendi, Ibram X.,

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  Adult Non-Fiction: Combines ethics, history, law, and science with a personal narrative to describe how to move beyond the awareness of racism and contribute to making society just and equitable.

• Monday's Not Coming

  Jackson, Tiffany D.,

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  Teen Fiction - Galvanized by real-life accounts of black girls whose disappearances went unnoticed, the author depicts a young African American teen unwilling to let her best friend fall through the cracks.

• Last Stop on Market Street

  de la Peña, Matt,

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  Picture Book: A young boy yearns for what he doesn't have, but his nana teaches him to find beauty in what he has and can give, as well as in the city where they live.

• How We Fight for Our Lives

  a Memoir

  Jones, Saeed,

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  Adult Memoir: Haunted and haunting, Jones's memoir tells the story of a young, black, gay man from the South as he fights to carve out a place for himself, within his family, within his country, within his own hopes, desires, and fears.

• We Are Not Yet Equal

  Understanding Our Racial Divide

  Anderson, Carol (Carol Elaine),

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  Teen Non-Fiction: "It is time to rethink America." Adapted from Anderson's bestselling White Rage, this book summons young people to bear witness to the devastatingly expansive strategies white citizens have taken up to preserve the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hair Love

  Cherry, Matthew A.,

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  Picture Book: Tender and empowering, Hair Love is an ode to loving your natural hair-and a celebration of daddies and daughters everywhere.

• Homegoing

  Gyasi, Yaa,

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  Adult Fiction: Stretching from the tribal wars of Ghana to slavery and Civil War in America, from the coal mines in the north to the Great Migration to the streets of 20th century Harlem, Yaa Gyasi's has written a modern masterpiece, a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Proud

  My Fight for An Unlikely American Dream

  Muhammad, Ibtihaj, 1985-

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  Adult Biography: As the only woman of color and the only religious minority on the U.S. women's saber team, she had to push past stereotypes, misconceptions, and negativity to find her own path to success and Olympic Glory.