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This Book is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work
Tiffany Jewell
Item #:
9780711245211
Price:
$14.99
This book helps readers to gain a deeper understanding of antiracism through 20 chapters that spark introspection, reveal the origins of the racism that we are still experiencing, and provide the tools needed to undo it, including language and phrases to interrupt and disrupt racism.
After examining the concepts of social identity, race, ethnicity, and racism, the book explores some of the ways that people of different races have been oppressed, from indigenous Americans and Australians being sent to boarding school to be “civilized” to a generation of Caribbean immigrants once welcomed to the UK being threatened with deportation by strict immigration laws. Readers will find hope in stories of strength, love, joy, and revolution that are part of our history, too, with such figures as the former slave Toussaint Louverture, who led a rebellion against white planters that eventually led to Haiti’s independence, and Yuri Kochiyama, who, after spending time in an internment camp for Japanese Americans during WWII, dedicated her life to supporting political prisoners and advocating reparations for those wrongfully interned.
This book is written for everyone who lives in this racialized society—including young people who don’t know how to speak up to the racist adults in their lives, children who have lost themselves by trying to fit into the dominant culture, those who have been harmed (physically and emotionally) because no one stood up for them when they couldn’t stand up for themselves, and their families, teachers, and administrators. With this book, be empowered to actively defy racism and xenophobia to create a community (large and small) that truly honors everyone.Book, 160 pages.
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