Race & Culture
Race & Culture
Rise Up!: How You Can Join the Fight Against White Supremacy
Supplier: Henry Holt & Company This urgent book explores the roots of racism and its legacy in modern day, all while empowering young people with actionable ways they can help foster a better world and become antiracists.Why are white supremacists...
$19.99
Slay
Supplier: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019!“Gripping and timely.” —People“The YA debut we’re most excited for this year.” —Entertainment Weekly“A book that knocks you off your feet while dropping the kind of knowledge that’ll...
$18.99
Slave Day (Reprint)
Supplier: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers From the creator of Veronica Mars comes a timely novel that looks at a high school fundraising tradition of auctioning off students as “slaves.”At Robert E. Lee High School, the traditional fundraising event is...
$14.29
$10.99
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-Winning Stamped from the Beginning
Supplier: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers The #1 New York Times bestseller and a USAToday bestseller! A timely, crucial, and empowering exploration of racism--and antiracism--in AmericaThis is NOT a history book.This is a book about the here and now.A book to help us...
$18.99
The Black Lives Matter Movement
Supplier: Referencepoint Press "Black Lives Matter was born in July 2013 after a jury exonerated the killer of an unarmed black youth named Trayvon Martin. Since that time it has become known as a formidable, often controversial, civil rights movement...
$31.95
The Burning: Black Wall Street and the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 (Young Readers)
Supplier: Henry Holt & Company One of the worst acts of racist violence in American history took place in 1921, when a White mob numbering in the thousands decimated the thriving Black community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma.The Burning recreates Greenwood...
$19.99
The Cost of Knowing
Supplier: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Four starred reviews!Dear Martin meets They Both Die at the End in this gripping, evocative novel about a Black teen who has the power to see into the future, whose life turns upside down when...
$18.99
The Day Tajon Got Shot
Supplier: Shout Mouse Press, Inc. Meet Tajon. Tajon is sixteen and black. He's tall and skinny, and he has dreadlocks. Tajon works hard and tries his best to be good. He does O.K. in school. He has plans. He's determined....
$14.99
The Killing of George Floyd
Supplier: Abdo Publishing This title takes a look at George Floydâs death at the hands of police, explores the history of police brutality in the United States, and examines the national and global response to his death. Features include a...
$37.07
The Problem with the Other Side
Supplier: Soho Teen A searing YA debut that follows the joys, complexities, and heartbreaks of an interracial romance between high school sophomores that blossoms during a volatile school electionUly would rather watch old Westerns with his new girlfriend, Sallie, than get...
$18.99
The Other Talk: Reckoning with Our White Privilege
Supplier: Atheneum Books Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Brendan Kiely starts a conversation with white kids about race in this accessible introduction to white privilege and why allyship is so vital.Talking about racism can be hard, but...Most kids of color...
$18.99
The Taking of Jake Livingston
Supplier: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers An Instant New York Times Bestseller!Get Out meets Holly Jackson in this YA social thriller where survival is not a guarantee.Sixteen-year-old Jake Livingston sees dead people everywhere. But he can't decide what's worse: being a...
$17.99
This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work
Supplier: Frances Lincoln Ltd #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERRecommended by Oprah's Book Club, ESSENCE, We Need Diverse Books, ellentube, Brit + Co, PureWow, Teen Vogue, Time, New York, USA TODAY, and TODAY.comNow available: This Book Is Anti-Racist Journal, a guided journal with more than 50 activities to support...
$14.99
The Voting Booth
Supplier: Disney-Hyperion From Stonewall Award-winning author Brandy Colbert comes an all-in-one-day love story perfect for fans of The Sun is Also A Star. Marva Sheridan was born ready for this day. She’s always been driven to make a difference in the...
$18.99
This Is My America
Supplier: Random House Books for Young Readers "Incredible and searing." --Nic Stone, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dear MartinThe Hate U Give meets Just Mercy in this unflinching yet uplifting first novel that explores the racist injustices in the American justice system.Every week, seventeen-year-old Tracy Beaumont...
$17.99
Together: An Inspiring Response to the "Separate-But-Equal" Supreme Court Decision That Divided America
Supplier: Paul Dry Books "An ambitious account of the legacies of Plessy and Ferguson . . . Undeniably timely and representative of the necessary work ahead."―Kirkus Reviews“Amy Nathan’s well-researched and beautifully written book makes clear the history of racism that...
$14.95
We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide
Supplier: Bloomsbury YA This young adult adaptation of the New York Times bestselling White Rage is essential antiracist reading for teens.An NAACP Image Award finalistA Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the YearA NYPL Best Book for TeensHistory texts often teach that the United States...
$19.99
Tyler Johnson Was Here
Supplier: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers A young man searches for answers after the death of his brother at the hands of police in this striking debut novel, for readers of The Hate U Give.When Marvin Johnson's twin, Tyler, goes...
$38.08
$28.00
When They Call You a Terrorist (Young Adult Edition): A Story of Black Lives Matter and the Power to Change the World
Supplier: Wednesday Books Patrisse Khan-Cullors' and asha bandele's instant New York Times bestseller, When They Call You a Terrorist is now adapted for the YA audience with photos and journal entries!A movement that started with a hashtag--#BlackLivesMatter--on Twitter spread across the nation and then...
$18.99
When You Look Like Us
Supplier: Quill Tree Books “A high-speed story that will draw teens in and keep them turning pages until they reach the unpredictable and thrilling ending. A must for YA collections.” (School Library Journel) A timely, gripping teen novel about a boy...
$17.99
Why We Fly
Supplier: Sourcebooks Fire From the New York Times bestselling authors of I'm Not Dying with You Tonight comes a story about friendship, privilege, sports, and protest. With a rocky start to senior year, cheerleaders and lifelong best friends Eleanor and Chanel have a lot...
$17.99
Who Put This Song On?
Supplier: Delacorte Press "Unflinchingly irreverent, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartbreakingly honest." —Elizabeth Acevedo, National Book Award winner and New York Times bestselling author of The Poet XIn the vein of powerful reads like The Hate U Give and The Poet X, comes poet Morgan Parker's pitch-perfect novel about...
$18.99
Charlie Takes His Shot: How Charlie Sifford Broke the Color Barrier in Golf
PUBLISHER: Albert Whitman & Company Charlie Sifford loved golf, but in the 1930's only white people were allowed to play in the Professional Golf Association. Sifford had won plenty of Black tournaments, but he was determined to break the color...
$7.99
Swing Sisters: The Story of the International Sweethearts of Rhythm
PUBLISHER: Holiday House Back in 1909, not far from Jackson, Mississippi, Dr. Laurence Clifton Jones opened a special place for orphans named Piney Woods Country Life School. Dr. Jones loved music and wanted the children to love it too. In...
$8.99
Flying Free: How Bessie Coleman's Dreams Took Flight
PUBLISHER: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Based on Karyn Parson's critically acclaimed Sweet Blackberry video series comes the story of Bessie Coleman, the first African American female to earn her pilot's license. Before Bessie Coleman blazed a high trail...
$18.99
Swish!: The Slam-Dunking, Alley-Ooping, High-Flying Harlem Globetrotters
PUBLISHER: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers The true story of the high-flying Harlem Globetrotters -- the team that changed basketball forever.In this book you will find one-finger ball-spinning, rapid-fire mini-dribbling, and a ricochet head shot! You will find skilled...
$17.99
One Step Further: My Story of Math, the Moon, and a Lifelong Mission
PUBLISHER: National Geographic Kids A 2021 Publishers Weekly Black History Month pick!This inspirational picture book reveals what is was like for a young black mother of three to navigate the difficult world of the 1950s and 60s and to succeed...
$17.99
Drama High: Culture Clash
Supplier: Kensington Publishing Corporation Ever since she discovered a love for drag racing, it's full speed ahead for Jayd Jackson. . .Fed up with the way her school's handling CulturalAwareness Day, Jayd and her crew decide to form the first...
$16.00
Link-Up 2 Lift-Up: Sorting Through Our Culture Kingdom for Our Future Generations (Paperback)
$16.99
Link-Up 2 Lift-Up: Sorting Through Our Culture Kingdom for Our Future Generations (Paperback)
LINK-UP 2 LIFT-UP: Sorting through Our Culture Kingdom for Our Future Generations is written using emic perspectives to respond to the problems that still negatively impact descendants of slaves in the United States of America. This short and sweet like...
$16.99
THE ISIS PAPERS: THE KEYS TO THE COLORS + WILLIE LYNCH LETTER FREE
The Isis Papers: The Keys to the Colors is a collection of essays by Dr. Francis Cress Welsing, a physician specializing in general and child psychiatry, focusing on the global system of White supremacy and strategies for coping with racism...
$22.00
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