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This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work by Tiffany Jewell
4.0
This Book is Anti-Racist is such a beautiful book, inside and out. It’s a petite paperback full of honest talk about race and racism, beautiful illustrations, and a bunch of thoughtful activities to get young people thinking about their own identities and the effects of race in our lives.
While it’s look and feel are very middle-grade, it’s a great learning tool for teens and adults, too, and could be a great resource for teachers of all these groups. A particularly good choice for the adult in your life who needs a book on anti-racism, has a limited attention span, and likes design.
The book is organized like a DIY anti-racism workshop (or like the ones I teach!) It starts with personal identity work and ends with anti-racists actions to take. While the chapters build on each other, you could easily use bits and pieces of this book to teach various concepts.
The greatest strength of this book, though, are the notebook activities. Like Ijeoma Oluo who wrote So, You Want To Talk About Race, Jewell understands that in order to be anti-racist, you can’t just read about it, you have to have experiences. Jewell therefore invites all her readers to create a notebook full of their personal reflections and learnings. She supplies excellent writing prompts and activities, and models them using stories from her own life.
In my favorite prompt, she asks readers to identify their superpowers and how they can be useful in activism. Her own superpowers include interrupting people and dancing. And yes, she does use both to create social change.
This Book is Anti-Racist is the kind of book that you may find yourself picking up again and again because it’s so readable & actionable & powerful & pretty & smart.
While it’s look and feel are very middle-grade, it’s a great learning tool for teens and adults, too, and could be a great resource for teachers of all these groups. A particularly good choice for the adult in your life who needs a book on anti-racism, has a limited attention span, and likes design.
The book is organized like a DIY anti-racism workshop (or like the ones I teach!) It starts with personal identity work and ends with anti-racists actions to take. While the chapters build on each other, you could easily use bits and pieces of this book to teach various concepts.
The greatest strength of this book, though, are the notebook activities. Like Ijeoma Oluo who wrote So, You Want To Talk About Race, Jewell understands that in order to be anti-racist, you can’t just read about it, you have to have experiences. Jewell therefore invites all her readers to create a notebook full of their personal reflections and learnings. She supplies excellent writing prompts and activities, and models them using stories from her own life.
In my favorite prompt, she asks readers to identify their superpowers and how they can be useful in activism. Her own superpowers include interrupting people and dancing. And yes, she does use both to create social change.
This Book is Anti-Racist is the kind of book that you may find yourself picking up again and again because it’s so readable & actionable & powerful & pretty & smart.