Your current reading list is amazing!
You know and we know that Black Lives Matter is a movement, not a moment. These three diverse titles have been top of your list this last week - from picking apart the concept of race, to getting the little ones involved, to a New York Times Bestseller. We love your choices - keep em coming!
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How To Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X Kendi
Not being racist is not enough. We have to be antiracist.
In this rousing and deeply empathetic book, Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the Antiracism Research and Policy Center, shows that when it comes to racism, neutrality is not an option: until we become part of the solution, we can only be part of the problem.
Using his extraordinary gifts as a teacher and story-teller, Kendi helps us recognise that everyone is, at times, complicit in racism whether they realise it or not, and by describing with moving humility his own journey from racism to antiracism, he shows us how instead to be a force for good. Along the way, Kendi punctures all the myths and taboos that so often cloud our understanding, from arguments about what race is and whether racial differences exist to the complications that arise when race intersects with ethnicity, class, gender and sexuality.
In the process he demolishes the myth of the post-racial society and builds from the ground up a vital new understanding of racism – what it is, where it is hidden, how to identify it and what to do about it.
**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**
'Could hardly be more relevant ... it feels like a light switch being flicked on' - OWEN JONES
You Can Do Anything (Hip and Hop) by Akala
Rhythmic, rhyming Hip-Hop inspired fun, for ages 2yrs+
Hip raps inspirational rhymes that help his friend Hop to achieve his dream of taking part in the Blueberry Hill bike race. The story teaches that you can achieve anything if you put your mind to it. Focus on your dreams and go!
Racism: A Very Short Introduction by Ali Rattansi
Racism: A Very Short Introduction incorporates the latest research to demystify the subject and to explore its history, science, and culture. But what actually is race? How has racism come to be so firmly established? Why do so few people actually admit to being racist? How are race, ethnicity, and xenophobia related? How has racism evolved since its earliest beginnings? It seems paradoxical that it still exists despite scientific discrediting of the notion of ‘race’ with the latest advances in genetics. From subtle discrimination in everyday life and scandals in politics, to incidents like lynchings in the American South, cultural imperialism, and ‘ethnic cleansing’, racism exists in many different forms, in almost every facet of society.
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