Dismantling White Privilege
Matthew and Jenn discuss anti-bias education, understanding our own white privilege, and listening to and learning about the challenges that many marginalized communities face.
This episode is sponsored by:
Book Riot’s Read Harder 2020 Challenge
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RELEVANT LINKS:
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
The Fire This Time edited by Jesmyn Ward
BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW:
Picture Books:
A Is For Activist by Innosanto Nagara
Not My Idea: A Book about Whiteness (Ordinary Terrible Things) by Anastasia Higginbotham
Nino Wrestles The World by Yuyi Morales
The Dinosaur Department Store by Richard Merritt and Lily Murray
Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story about Racial Injustice by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, and Ann Hazzard; illustrated by Jennifer Zivoin
Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation by Duncan Tonatiuh
Middle Grade:
This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Work by Tiffany Jewell; illustrated by Aurelia Durand
The Season of Styx Malone by Kekla Magoon
We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices edited by Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson
Let us know what books or topics you’ve been sharing this week, or if you have a suggestion or book recommendation for an upcoming episode. Find us on email (kidlitthesedays@bookriot.com), Twitter (@MatthewWinner and @jennIRL), or Instagram (@MatthewCWinner and @iamjennIRL).
