Social/Racial Justice Culture Corner

Teachers/Community Leaders

• Not Light, But Fire by Matthew R. Kay
• Leading Diverse Communities by Cherie R. Brown
• Rac(e)ing to Class: Confronting Poverty and Race in Schools and Classrooms by Dr. Richard Milner
• Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas Blackmon
• The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children by Gloria Ladson-Billings
• The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class are Undermining the American Dream by Sheryll Cashin
• Reducing Prejudice and Stereotyping in Schools by Walter Stephan
• The Fight For Equality: The U.S. Civil Rights Movement by Carole Marsh
• Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do by Claude M. Steele
• A Kids Book About Racism by Jelani Memory

Adult

• The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
• Deep Denial: The Persistence of White Supremacy in United States History and Life by David Billings
• Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul by Eddie Glaude Jr.
• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
• Place Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America by Sheryll Cashin
• The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter
• The New Jim Crow: Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (suitable for high school)
• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria by Beverly Daniel Tatum
• White Fragility: Why it’s so Hard for White People to Talk about Race by Robin DiAngelo (suitable for high school)
• White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
• The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

High School

• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
  Lesson from Little Rock by Terrence Roberts
• Monster by Walter Dean Myers
• The Beautiful Struggle: A Memoir by Ta-Nehesi Coates
• The Skin I’m In by Sharon G. Flake
• The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
• Forged by Fire by Sharon M. Draper
• The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely

Middle School

• Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, Ibram X. Kendi (suitable for high school)Dear Martin by Nic Stone (suitable for high school)
• Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
• Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison (suitable for upper elementary)
• Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes
• The Forgotten Girl by India Hill Brown
• Becoming Kareem: Growing Up On and Off the Court by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
• The Crossover by Kwame Alexander
• Dear Martin by Nic Stone
• Freewater by Amina Luqman-Dawson
• New Kid by Jerry Craft (appropriate for upper elementary)
• Swim Team by Johnnie Christmas (appropriate for upper elementary)
• The Crossover by Kwame Alexander (appropriate for upper elementary)

Pre-K/Elementary School

• The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist by Cynthia Levinson
• All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold
• Martin’s Big Words by Doreen Rappaport and Bryan Collier
• Skin Like Mine by Latashia M. Perry
• Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Pena
• Let it Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkey
• Something Happened in Our Town by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, and Ann Hazzard
• Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by Carole Boston Weatherford
• I, Too, Am America by Langston Hughes
• Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold
• Big by Vashti Harrison
• Hair Love by Matthew Cherry
• Sulwe by Lupita Nyong’o and Vashti Harrison

Website with other selections

• https://www.vocabulary.com/articles/tips-and-tricks/project-lit-communitys-2019-2020-book-selections/
• Anti-Racism for Kids 101: https://booksforlittles.com/racial-diversity/
• The Children’s March, Teaching Tolerance

Websites

• 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice: https://medium.com/equality-includes-you/what-white-people-can-do-for-racial-justice-f2d18b0e0234
• Resources for White People to Learn and Talk About Race and Racism: https://blog.fracturedatlas.org/resources-for-white-people-to-learn-and-talk-about-race-and-racism-5b207fff4fc7
• “Why is this happening?”:  An introduction to police brutality from 100 Year Hoodie
• Zinn Education Project’s teaching materials– https://hastingsnow.com/anti-racism-resources
• Anti-Racism Project: https://www.antiracismproject.org/events
• Learning for Justice Magazine https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/archive

Videos/Film

• 13^th (Ava DuVernay) Netflix
• When They See Us (Ava DuVernay) Netflix
• The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr) Hulu with Cinemax
• Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu) Available to rent
• Just Mercy (Destin Daniel Cretton) Available to rent
• American Son (Kenny Leon) Netflix
• 4 Little Girls Documentary by Spike Lee
• I Am Not Your Negro (James Baldwin documentary) Available to rent

• The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

Toolkits

• Racial Equity Impact Assessment Toolkit- https://www.raceforward.org/practice/tools/racial-equity-impact-assessment-toolkit
• Safe@School- https://www.safeatschool.ca/resources/resources-on-equity-and-inclusion/racism/tool-kits-and-activities
• 15+ Tools and Resources to Challenge Racism- https://www.compasspoint.org/blog/15-tools-and-resources-challenge-racism

Podcasts

• Podcasts that address race and racism head-on- https://about.radiopublic.com/2019/02/27/podcasts-that-address-race-and-racism-head-on/

High School

• Tiger Girl by May-Lee Chai
• Wait For Me by An Na
• Up From the Sea by Leza Lowitz
• Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok

Middle School

• Step Up to the Play Maria Singh by Uma Krishnaswami
• Blackbird Fly by Erin Entrada Kelly
• Project Mulberry by Linda Sue Park
• American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
• Stanford Wong Flunks Big-Time by Lisa Yee
• The Thing About Luck by Cynthia Kadohata
• They Called US the Enemy by George Takei
• Displacement by Kiki Hughes
• Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai

Pre-K/Elementary School

• Surfer of the Century: The Life of Duke Kahanamoku by Ellie Crowe and Richard Waldrep
• Maya Lin: Artist-Architect of Light and Lines by Jeanne Walker Harvey and Dow Phumiruk
• Sky High: The True Story of Maggie Gee by Marissa Moss and Carl Angel
• Sixteen Years in Sixteen Seconds: The Sammy Lee Story by Paula Yoo and Dom Lee
• Shining Star: The Anna May Wong Story by Paula Yoo and Lin Wang
• Hush! A Thai Lullaby by Minfong Ho

Movies/TV

• Kim’s Convenience (Netflix)
• Parasite (Hulu)
• Tigertail

Books

Adult/Community

• Disabling Characters: Representations of Disability in Young Adult Literature (Disability Studies in Education) by Patricia A. Dunn
• Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space (Exploded Views) by Amanda Leduc
• Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
• The Survival Guide for Kids with Autism Spectrum Disorders (And Their Parents) by Elizabeth Verdick and Elizabeth Reeve, M.D.
• The Asperkid’s (Secret) Book of Social Rules: The Handbook for Tweens and Teens with Aspberger Syndrome by Jennifer Cook O’AToole
• Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew by Ellen Notboh

High School

• The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a 13-Year-Old Boy with Autism by Naoki Higashida
• Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s by John Elder Robinson
• When Mr. Dog Bites by Brian Conaghan
• The Sound of Letting Go by Stasia Ward Kehoe

Middle School

• Hello, Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly
• We Could Be Heroes by Margaret Finnegan (suitable for upper elementary)
• Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper
• El Deafo (Graphic Novel Memoir) by Cece Bell
• Wonder by R.J. Palacio
• The Meaning of Maggie by Megan Jean Sovern
• Mascot by Antony John
• Firegirl by Tony Abbott
• Song for a Whale by Lynne Kelly
• Blind by Rachel Dewoskin
• A Blind Guide to Stinkville by Beth Vrabel
• The War that Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
• OCDaniel by Wesley King
• The Goldfish Boy by Lisa Thompson

Pre-K/Elementary School

• We’re Different, We’re the Same by Bobbi Kates and Joe Mathieu
• Yes I Can! A Girl and Her Wheelchair by Kendra J. Barrett, Jacqueline B. Toner, Clair A. B. Freeland
• Since We’re Friends: An Autism Picture Book by Celest Shally
• Anxious Ninja: A Children’s Book About Managing Anxiety and Difficult Emotions

by Mary Nhin

• Playing and Learning Together Meeting Mimi: A Story about Different Abilities by Francie Dolan
• Special People, Special Ways by Arlene Maguire

Websites

• Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
• Disability Rights (PA)
• Jan Accommodation Network
• National Business and Disability Council
• National Center for Accessible Media
• National Organization on Disability

Podcasts

• Xceptional Leaders with Mai Ling Chan
• Disability Matters
• An Apple a Day
• The Accessible Stall
• Disability News

Movies/TV

• Wonder
• The Brooke Ellison Story
• The Theory of Everything
• Sesame Street: Meet Julia
• Finding Nemo
• On the Way to School
• Where Hope Grows

Books to Empower Girls

• Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History by Vashti Harrison
• Grace for President by Kelly DiPucchio
• Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World by Kate Pankhurst
• Ada Twist, Scientist by Andrea Beaty
• The Name Jar by Yangsook Choi
• Women in Science by Rachel Ignotofsky
• Malala’s Magic Pencil by Malala Yousafzai
  Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
• Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

Books

Adult/Community

• The Lost Cellos of Lev Aronson by Frances Brent
• Rescue Board by Rebecca Erbelding
• The Girl in the Cellar: Surviving the Holocaust in Nazi-Occupied Poland by Gerda Krebs Seifer
• Ravensbruck: Life and Death in Hitler’s Concentration Camp for Women by Sarah Helm
• The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
• The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick
• Ordinary Men: Reserve Polica Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning
• Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
• Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
• Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder

High School

• Night by Elie Wiesel
• Train by Danny M. Cohen
• Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi
• The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman
• This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski
• Salvaged Pages by Alexandra Zapruder
• The Last Jew of Treblinka by Chil Rajchman

Middle School

• Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
• Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
• Four Perfect Pebbles by Lila Perl
• Maus 1 and 2 by Art Spiegelman (graphic novel)
• Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
• Prisoner B-3087 by Alan Gratz
• The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson
• The Cage by Ruth Minsky Sender
• The Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yole
• What the Night Sings by Vesper Stamper
• Anna and the Swallow Man by Gavriel Saviet
• Survivors Club: The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz by Michael Bornstein and Debbie Bornstein Holinstat

Pre-K/Elementary School

• The Tree in the Courtyard: looking Through Anne Frank’s Window by Jeff Gottesfeld
• The Harmonica by Tony Johnston
• Benno and the Night of Broken Glass by Meg Wiviott
• The Champion of Children: The Story of Janusz Korczak by Tomek Bogacki (upper elementary)

Websites

• Centre for Holocaust Education: www.holocausteducation.org.uk
• Echoes and Reflections: www.echoesandreflections.org/the-lessons/lessons-components
• Facing History and Ourselves: www.facinghistory.org
• Yad Vashem- for Educators: www.yadvashem.org
• USC Shoah Foundation- The Institute for Visual History and Education: https://sfi.usc.edu

Resources for Educators

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum    www.ushmm.org
• Nazi Propaganda (for teachers)  https://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/ww2era.htm

Adult/Community

• The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer
• Shadowshaper by Daniel Jose Older (suitable for high school)
• The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
• Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina by Raquel Cepeda
• When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago
• Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano

High School

• I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sanchez
• The Lightning Dreamer: Cuba’s Greatest Abolitionist by Mararita Engle
• Hurricane Dancers: The First Caribbean Pirate Shipwreck by Margarita Engle
• The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (suitable for 7^th and 8^th grade students)
• The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle for Freedom by Margarita Engle
• In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez

Middle School

• The Dreamer by Pam Munoz Ryan (upper elementary)
• The Everything I Have Lost by Sylvia Zeleny
• I Lived on Butterfly Hill by Marjorie Agosin
• Moon Within by Aida Salazar
• They Call me Guero: A Border Kid’s Poems by Cinco Puntos
• Marcus Vega Doesn’t Speak Spanish by Pablo Cartaya

Pre-K/Elementary School

• Max Love Munecas! By Zetta Elliott
• Dreamers by Yuyi Morales
• Alma and How She Got Her Name by Juana Martinez-Neal
• Mango, Abuela, and Me by Meg Medina
• Separate is Never Equal: Sylvia Mende and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh
• Ada’s Violin: The Story of the Recycled Orchestra of Paraguay by Susan Hood
• Si Se Puede Yes We Can Janitor Strike in LA by Diana Cohn and Francisco Delgado

Toolkits

• Latino Center Smithsonian https://latino.si.edu/learn/teaching-and-learning-resources

Websites

• Latinos for Education https://www.latinosforeducation.org

Podcasts

• DeColores Radio https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/de-colores-radio/id1244903280

Movies/TV

• The Book of Life
• The Latino List
• Like Water for Chocolate
• McFarland USA
• My Family
• Quinceanera
• Dora The Explorer
• East Los High
• Coco

Adult/Community Books

• This is How it Always Is: A Novel by Laurie Frankel
• Less (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): A Novel by Andrew Sean Greer
• The Book of Pride: LBGTQ Heroes Who Changed the World by Mason Funk
• Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown
• History is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera

High School

• The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper
• We Are Okay by Nina LaCour
• Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality by Sarah McBride
• Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz
• Odd One Out by Nic Stone
• Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
• Hot Dog Girl by Jennifer Dugan

Middle School

• Drum Roll, Please by Lisa Jenn Bigelow
• Gay and Lesbian History for Kids: The Century Long Struggle for LGBT Rights by Jerome Pohlen
• Hurricane Child by Kheryn Callender
• The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang

Pre-K/Elementary School

• Donovan’s Big Day by Leslea Newman
• I Am Jazz by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings
• Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag by Rob Sanders
• Stella Brings the Family by Miriam B. Schiffer
• Love Makes a Family by Sophie Beer
• Julian Is A Mermaid by Jessica Love
• And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson
• My Two Moms and Me by Michael Joosten
• Daddy, Papa, and Me by Leslea Newman
• The Yellow Square of Stonewall by Sonny Dean

• One Equals Many by Sonny Dean (this book fits many categories)

Websites

• Gender Spectrum: https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/summer-2013/the-gender-spectrum    
• My Pronouns: https://www.mypronouns.org   
• National Center for Transgender Equality: https://transequality.org
• Safe Zone Project: https://thesafezoneproject.com

Podcasts

• Still Processing
• Making Gay History
• One from the Vaults
• To L and Back: An L Word Podcast
• Nancy
• The Read

Movies/TV

• Everything Sucks!
• The Fosters
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower
• Queer Eye
• Philadelphia
• Rent

Socioeconomic Books

• Maddi’s Fridge by Lois Brandt
• A Chair for My Mother by Vera Williams
• Fly Away Home by Eve Bunting
• The Lady in the Box by Ann McGovern
• Lives Turned Upside Down: Homeless Children in Their Own Words and Photographs by Jim Hubbard
• The Lunch Thief by Anne C. Bromley
• A Shelter in Our Car by Monica Gunning
• Those Shoes by Maribeth Boelts

Books for Adults

• Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America by Linda Turado
• When Work Disappears by William Julius Wilson
• Where Are You in the Class System?by Paul Kivel

Websites

• National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth (NAEHCY) –

Adult/Community

• Rethinking Columbus by Bill Bigelow and Bob Peterson
• An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Debbie Reese

High School

• Dreaming in Indian: Contemporary Native American Voicesby Lisa Charleyboy
• Code Talker Storiesby Laura Tohe
• Give Me Some Truthby Eric Gansworth
• Blue Horses Rush Inby Luci Tapahonso
• House of Purple Cedarby Tim Tingle
• The Lesser Blessedby Richard Van Camp
• Waterlilyby Ella Cara Deloria, Susan Gardner, and Raymond J. Demallie
• Fighter in Velvet Gloves: Alaska Civil Rights Hero Elizabeth Peratrovich by Annie Boochever and Roy Peratrovich
• A Name Earned (Pathfinders) by Tim Tingle

Middle School

• If I Ever Get Out of Here by Eric Gansworth
• The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (suitable for high school)
• The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich (suitable for upper elementary)
• Hidden Roots by Joseph Bruchac
• In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse by Joseph Marshall III
• Three Feathers by Richard Van Camp
• My Name is Seepeetza by Shirley Sterling

Pre-K/Elementary School

• Fall in Line, Holden by Daniel W. Vendever
• I Am Not a Number by Jenny Kay Dupuis and Kathy Kacer (upper elementary)
• This Land is My Land by George Littlechild
• We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom
• Skysisters by Jan Bourdeau Waboose
• When I Was Eight by Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton
• We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga by Traci Sorell

Websites

• Indian Law Resource Center https://indianlaw.org/issues
• The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition https://boardingschoolhealing.org
• The Conestoga-Susquehannock https://www.conestogasusquehannocktribe.com

Toolkits

• Lessons on Native Americans/Education World https://www.educationworld.com/a_special/native_americans.shtml

News/Podcasts

• 8 Native American News Sites We Love for Honoring Culture & Diversity https://mediablog.prnewswire.com/2019/11/13/native-american-heritage-month-top-native-american-news-sites/
• My Favorite Native American Podcasts https://www.powwows.com/my-favorite-native-american-podcasts/

Parents/Community

• The Spiritual Child by Dr. Lisa Miller
• Ethics for the New Millenium by The Dalai Lama
• One World, Many Religions by Mary Pope Osborne
• What Do You Believe? By DK Publishing

High School

• Does My Head Look Big in This? By Randa Abdel-Fattah
• Your Voice is All I Hear by Leah Scheir
• Playing with Matches by Suri Rosen
• Saints and Misfits by S.K. Ali
• Blaze by Hope Bolinger

Middle School

• The New Recruit (The Mission League) by Jill Williamson
• All-American Muslim Girl by Nadine Jolie Courtney
• Becoming Brianna by Terri Libenson

Pre-K/Elementary School

• Irving Berlin: The Immigrant Boy Who Made America Sing
• A Moon for Moe and Me by Jane Breskin Zalben
• But…Who is Allah? By Bachar Karroum and Tanja Varcelija
• The Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family by Ibthaj Muhammad

Websites

• American Jewish World Service
• Islamic Society of North America
• Jehovah’s Witnesses
• Jews for Racial and Economic Justice