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- A First Conversation About Race
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 13 mins
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Publisher's summary
Based on the research that race, gender, consent, and body positivity should be discussed with toddlers on up, this read-aloud board-book series, now adapted for audio, offers adults the opportunity to begin important conversations with young children in an informed, safe, and supported way.
Developed by experts in the fields of early childhood and activism against injustice, this topic-driven audiobook offers clear, concrete language that young children can grasp and adults can leverage for further discussion.
While young children are avid observers and questioners of their world, adults often shut down or postpone conversations on complicated topics because it's hard to know where to begin. Research shows that talking about issues like race and gender from the age of two not only helps children understand what they see, but also increases self-awareness, self-esteem, and allows them to recognize and confront things that are unfair, like discrimination and prejudice.
This first book in the series begins the conversation on race, with a supportive approach that considers both the child and the adult.
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"This accessibly written, adroit primer prompts the youngest readers to consider how skin tone relates to race and ethnicity, societal treatment, and justice. An ideal conversation starter for any child.” (Publishers Weekly, starred review)
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In How We Can Win, Jones delves into the impacts of systemic racism and reveals how her formative years in Chicago gave birth to a lifelong devotion to justice. Here, in a vital expansion of her declaration, she calls for Reconstruction 2.0, a multilayered plan to reclaim economic and social restitutions - those restitutions promised with emancipation but blocked, again and again, for more than 150 years. And, most of all, Jones delivers strategies for how we can effect change as citizens and allies while nurturing ourselves in the fight against a system that is still rigged.
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Valid points made, but contradictory as well...
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By: Kimberly Jones
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The Opposite of Hate
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As a progressive commentator on Fox News and now CNN, Sally Kohn has made a career out of bridging intractable political differences, learning how to talk civilly to people whose views she disagrees with passionately. Famously "nice", she even gave a TED Talk about what she termed emotional correctness. But these days, even Kohn has found herself wanting to breathe fire at her enemies. It was time, she decided, to look into the ugliness erupting all around us.
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Profoundly insightful, important, and digestible.
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The Lies That Bind
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We all know how identities - notably, those of nationality, class, culture, race, and religion - are at the root of global conflict, but the more elusive truth is that these identities are created by conflict in the first place. In provocative, entertaining chapters, Kwame Anthony Appiah interweaves keen-edged argument with engrossing historical tales and reveals the tangled contradictions within the stories that define us.
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Not full of SJW nonsense
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How to Be Black
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Beyond memoir, this guidebook offers practical advice on everything from "How to Be the Black Friend" to "How to Be the (Next) Black President" to "How to Celebrate Black History Month". This is a humorous, intelligent, and audacious guide that challenges and satirizes the so-called experts, purists, and racists who purport to speak for all Black people. With honest storytelling and biting wit, Baratunde plots a path not just to blackness, but one open to anyone interested in simply "how to be".
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Funny yet insightful!
- By Theodore on 02-15-12
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- Pam, Jacey, and Christa
- 01-05-22
love this book.
amazing author and read so beautifully.
thank you for helping folx have these conversations with their kids. Much love.
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- Emily
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Opposite effect of what I was looking for
I was working on children’s books about inclusion which this book seemed like a great fit at first. But as the book progressed it was apparent that it seemed to single out a race and made them bad. The book spoke of all the bad things about racism, which I agree there are a lot of bad things, but I felt it was a little heavy for a children’s book. Also the solutions to racism offered were not any actions a child can take. It doesn’t seem helpful to the young child encountering racism right now. It doesn’t help mold kids not to be racist. This is an important subject, but the authors of this book made the content for older children with the pictures for younger ones.
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