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1. I‘m grateful for Ibram X. Kendi and his powerful books. He‘s one of the major targets of anti-CRT rhetoric, but he just keeps doing his thing.👏🏽👏🏽
2. Not at the moment, but I have in the past
3. Worked through this one with Maya in 2020 ans we both learned and grew from it.
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"What we do not know, our lack of information and knowledge, contributes to our prejudices and biases."

Privilege is the benefit you receive due to how close you are to the dominant culture.

Though this is geared to children and young people, I think it‘s a great read for adults. And it should probably be required reading in schools! It explains racism and prejudice really well, and also how to do better.

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#booked2021 #antiracismbook
#pop21 - a book found on a Black Lives Matter reading list
#tbrdeckofcards - black cover

It's targeted at middle-schoolers. Pro: glossary of terms, writing suggestions, and language to use when calling someone out or in.

#equitycommittee #antiracist #publicschools #teachersoflitsy #bookmail
This is the book our committee chose (after much deliberation) to begin our work with teachers in the district (K-12). The hope is that it will be less threatening for some than other books we have read.

Treating myself to an afternoon read complete with raspberry truffles.

This idea of redistributing or spending your privilege resonates

This book should be required reading. I learned so much while reading this book. I loved that after each chapter it had an activity to do to reenforce what was learned doing the chapter. It also showed you ways to put what you learned into action.

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I have been looking for a book to use for my new social justice and activism unit. Though this book may be geared towards students younger than my seniors, but I think it does a great job explaining terms and helping students begin to understand their relationship with race. I think it also also for students to use this book to stem from to other forms of discrimination.

I know I have said this before regarding other books, but I will say it again, This 👏🏻books👏🏻 needs 👏🏻to be👏🏻required reading. Even if you aren‘t in the education field, you need to. It‘s powerful, and it simply and concisely states what racism is and how to combat it. I read it over ebook on Sora and highlighted so many good phrases and paragraphs.

Made my first book display for the HS library! It‘s Books that have been made into A movie / show 🎥🍿

If you are a teacher...read this.

If you have upper elementary, middle school, or high school kids...read this w/ your kids.

Scratch that, everyone should read it! It‘s an easily accessible place to start for those on the journey to learn to unpack their privilege, understand intersectionality and identity, and identify how to move forward on the lifelong journey of being anti-racist. Anywhere you are on that path, you can learn from this book.

I really liked this (as evidenced by the many 🦜 tabs!). So effectively written for a young audience, and the bright colors and inclusive art featured on the cover are present on every page. I love how it defines and explains racism and related concepts in such succinct and memorable ways, and I also love how it makes room for joy in antiracism work.

I‘m working on selecting a summer read aloud. This won‘t be it. But it has wonderful ideas for community discussions in the coming year.

Concepts are very clearly explained for middle grade readers. I learned a lot and commit to learning more.

A good book to dive into with older children to help take action toward an anti-racist world we all so desperately need! I loved the activities and thought-provoking questions at the end of each chapter. The content was presented in a simple and concrete way. I‘m glad I‘ll have this on hand as my kids get older to continue the conversation in a meaningful and action-based way.

Switching up my reading choices for this week for obvious reasons.

This is the book Maya and I are reading together in June for our summer #motherdaughterbookclub. We‘re doing a #chapteraday since each chapter has a corresponding activity.

Chapter 1 explored the meaning of “dominant culture” and asked Who Am I?

Maya also learned some new terms I hadn‘t realized she didn‘t know, including cisgender, neurodiverse, and neurotypical.

This is a great book for middle and high schoolers!