Social Justice Book Lists
Over 80 carefully selected lists of multicultural and social justice books for children, young adults, and educators. Access the source.
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Guide for Selecting Anti-Bias Children’s Books
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
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
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
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
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