Ideal Bookshelf 1165: Antiracist YA
In May 2020, you told Jane, via Instagram, all sorts of books to read to become antiracist and to make us all better people, and she made it into several Ideal Bookshelf sets, including this one for Young Adult readers. It includes books about racism (particularly in the US) and how to be antiracist, but also about what it’s like to be made to feel different and other or to be welcomed and included with love ❤️. (Most of the books have Black main characters, but other experiences are included as well, such as being in a Japanese internment camp in America during WWII.) 5% of the revenue from sales of this print will be donated to the Equal Justice Initiative. Founded in 1989 by Bryan Stevenson (author of Just Mercy), the EJI "is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society." Please visit their website to learn more about them. First offered in June 2020 Archival pigment ink print on fine art paper Based on original paintings by Jane Mount LIST OF BOOKS A Different Mirror (for Young People): A History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki & Rebecca Stetoff A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi All American Boys by Jason Reynolds & Brendan Kiely All the Stars Denied by Guadalupe García McCall An Indigenous People's History of the United States (for Young People) by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, adapted by Jean Mendoza & Debbie Reese Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi Dear Martin by Nic Stone Fire From the Rock by Sharon Draper Hearts Unbroken by Cynthia Leitich Smith Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi I Am Alfonso Jones by Tony Medina, illustrated by Stacey Robinson & John Jennings I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Internment by Samira Ahmed It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime (Adapted for Young Readers) by Trevor Noah Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults): A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson Kindred: A Graphic Novel by Octavia E. Butler, adapted by Damian Duffy, illustrated by John Jennings March Book One by John Lewis & Andrew Aydin, illustrated by Nate Powell Monster: A Graphic Novel by Walter Dean Meyers, adapted by Guy A. Sims, illustrated by Dawud Anyabwile Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson Slay by Brittney Morris Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi Swing by Kwame Alexander Tell Me Who You Are by Winona Guo & Priya Vulchi The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas They Called Us Enemy by George Takei with Justin Eisinger & Steven Scott, illustrated by Harmony Becker This Book Is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell & Aurélia Durand Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom by Lynda Blackmon Lowery Warriors Don't Cry by Melba Patillo Beals We Are Not Yet Equal by Carol Anderson, illustrated by Tonya Bolden