Abraham X
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Abraham X
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Writer Abraham X He was reading a lot of books to his five-year-old daughter Iman. And when he chooses those books, he makes sure that they include many types of people.
“I’m so excited now because her favorite color right now is rainbow,” he says. “And so I feel like we’re doing something right because I’m constantly emphasizing and appreciating this kind of human rainbow.”
Kendi is the author Sealed from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racial Ideas in America. He also produced a youth version of this work, called Chapter Book كتاب sealed for children. So while we discuss summer reading of current events, we asked him to recommend a few other books for younger readers about race.
But since we’re going to be talking about books about race for teens, I also wanted to ask Kendi about Controversy unfolds over the teaching of race in schools. “It was tragic for me to watch,” Kennedy says. “Because unfortunately we live in a society of racial inequality, and our kids are trying to figure out why. They’re seeing, you know, let’s say darker people who are more likely to be homeless or incarcerated or poor, and they’re trying to figure out what’s causing this situation? And if we don’t actively educate them, It’s because of racism, so what are they going to conclude? The way we can protect them is by actively teaching them about racism. And so I think it’s dangerous not to teach children why there is inequality in our society.”
On whether anti-racist education means being told whites equal terrible
Any good teacher who will teach about racism, as well as its history, will teach people of different races who have been involved in the abolitionist struggles, who have been involved in the civil rights movement, and who are trying to create a fair and just society. Today. So what the white student will learn is, they will learn about the white slave owner and the abolitionist, and they will learn why they both said what they said and did what they did, and they will learn which one morally has the right and just position.
About whether these lessons are better taught at home
I think these lessons are better taught everywhere. And I think when our teachers teach it and parents teach it, you know, aunts and uncles and grandparents and cousins and friends, and we’re just so focused on ensuring that this next generation of Americans can see groups of different looks on an equal footing and that they can ultimately eradicate the scourge of racism. faced by this nation. We are collectively focused on that. I mean, that’s what makes me excited. And that’s why I’m so excited about books being produced today that can allow us as parents, caregivers, and educators to facilitate these conversations.
Kendi القراءة Reading Recommendations
Dear Martin And the Dear Justiceby Nick Stone
Dear Martin The movie is about an African American teenager who goes to a private school, and really struggles with his own identity. And so he ended up, in the book, writing a series of daily entries exploring Martin Luther King’s life to truly understand his own identity. And, you know, I think teens everywhere – especially black teens – are constantly trying to understand who they are. second book الكتاب Dear Justice, one of Justyce’s imprisoned friends, writes to Justyce…about what really happened, why he is innocent, but more importantly about the juvenile justice system. You know, I love when books encourage young people to write and express themselves, and these two books definitely do.
brown girl dreamingWritten by Jacqueline Woodson
This book is really a poetic memoir of her life and upbringing in South Carolina and New York. And it is truly a book that allows young people to truly explore what it means to be a child, and especially a child in this world. But I think what I found really cool about this book is why I can’t wait for it [my daughter] You read it one day, you know, because with this text you can only tell how much Jacqueline loved stories and storytelling even though she struggled to read as a child.
The tenth poetby Elizabeth Acevedo
Elizabeth Acevedo is clearly one of the most talented writers of our generation, writing about the character…Xiomara, who has all these frustrations as she grows in herself, learning to pour these frustrations and these feelings into poems. She reads it to herself and wants to perform it, knowing her arrogant caretakers won’t approve of her, but that’s her outlet, that’s how she wants to talk and share, and in the end she refuses to be silent.
I’m not your perfect Mexican daughterAnd the by Erika L. Sánchez
Well, I think one of the things I try to teach my daughter is the beauty of humanity is our imperfections. And, you know, I think Juan Felipe Herrera spoke of this book as a perfect book on imperfection. And I don’t know if I mean, I feel like citing his statement. I don’t know if there is a better way to describe, you know, I’m not your perfect Mexican daughter.
It is truly a book in many ways about two sisters, and one sister who is seen by her mother as an exemplary child. And the other child is seen as much less than the ideal child – to be a diplomat. Then the “ideal child” tragically dies. Then the “imperfect” child begins to learn more about her and begins to discover that in many ways she was imperfect, just as she was.
Black friend: being a white person is betterWritten by Joseph Frederick
I think Frederick is very open about this book about it being a text for young white people who want to be better, who want to be anti-racist, who want to be people who strive to recognize and even eliminate structures of racism. And just as many white adults are beginning to realize that this is an important thing, so are many white teens,
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