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Social Justice Book Lists

July 18, 2021Books, Database Categories, General Anti-Racism Resources, Level 1 - Diversity Awareness, Levels, Resources for Instructors, Resources for Students, Source Type, Syllabi/Reading List/Resource Guidebook, children's books, social justice

Over 80 carefully selected lists of multicultural and social justice books for children, young adults, and educators. Access the source.

Guide for Selecting Anti-Bias Children’s Books

July 18, 2021Books, Database Categories, General Anti-Racism Resources, Level 3 - Anti-Racism and Social Justice, Levels, Other Resources, Resources for Instructors, Resources for Students, Source Type, Syllabi/Reading List/Resource Guidebias, book, children's books, parents

A guide created by Social Justice Books for selecting anti-bias children’s books. Access the source.

Book: “The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America” by Khalil Gibran Muhammad

July 18, 2021Authors/Creators, Books, Database Categories, General Anti-Racism Resources, Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Level 1 - Diversity Awareness, Levels, Source Typebook, history, racism

About: Lynch mobs, chain gangs, and popular views of black southern criminals that defined the Jim Crow South are well known. We know less about the role of the urban North in shaping views of race and crime in American… Read More

Book: “Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition” by Cedric J. Robinson

July 18, 2021Authors/Creators, Books, Cedric J. Robinson, Database Categories, General Anti-Racism Resources, Level 1 - Diversity Awareness, Levels, Source TypeBlack Marxism, book, revolution

About: In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand black people’s history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are incomplete and inaccurate. Marxist analyses tend to presuppose European models of… Read More

Book: “Waking Up White” by Debby Irving

July 17, 2021Authors/Creators, Books, Database Categories, Debby Irving, General Anti-Racism Resources, Level 1 - Diversity Awareness, Levelsanti-racism, awakening, awareness, book, white supremacy

Waking Up White by Debby Irving is an awareness book for those who are just beginning their awakening journey in racial awareness. This book is the non-fiction story of a White author’s experience waking up in a racially divided America…. Read More

Book: “Linguistic Justice” by April Baker-Bell

July 17, 2021April Baker-Bell, Authors/Creators, Books, Database Categories, General Anti-Racism Resources, Level 2 - Cultural Diversity, Levels, Resources for InstructorsBlack language, book, linguistic justice, pedagogy

This book is an excellent resources for instructors who want to enable linguistic justice in their classroom through their syllabus, lectures, and grading practices. UWM students and instructors have free access to her book online through the UWM library. About: “Bringing… Read More