Nicole and Matthew discuss racial literacy and implementing an anti-biased/anti-racist framework in schools, with help from a bookshelf playlist of stories to keep folks talking. Joining is special guest Tiffany Jewell, a Black biracial writer, twin, first generation American, cisgender woman, an antiracist educator and consultant, mama, and author of This Book is Anti-Racist.

This episode is sponsored by:

Hey YA, Book Riot’s own podcast about all things young adult lit

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Nevertell by Katharine Orton

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RELEVANT LINKS:

Tiffany Jewell (website)

#antiracistbookclub (Instagram)

Some Things Are Just For Us (article from Medium)

Racism Is Terrible. Blackness Is Not. (article from The Atlantic)

Lifting as We Climb: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box by Evette Dionne

BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW: MIDDLE GRADE:

This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do The Workby Tiffany Jewell; illustrated by Aurelia Durand

Recommended podcasts and Podcasts Episodes:

Hope and Hard Pills

Code Switch

Race Traitor

Revisionist History (Epsiode – Miss Buchanan’s Period Of Adjustment)

Sporkful (Episode – When White People Say Plantation)

Teaching While White

Two Dope Teachers and a Mic

Unlocking Us (Episode – Brené with Ibram X. Kendi on How to Be an Antiracist)

Unprisoned

1619 Podcast

WHERE TO FIND CHILDREN’S BOOKS DURING QUARANTINE

• Your local library– Even as libraries are closing for the quarantine, they have aton of e-books, resources, and movies for kids.
• Epic!– Epic! is the Leading Digital Library for Kids 12 & Under
• Susan Tan’s Authors EverywhereYouTube channel
• How Kids’ Lit Is Responding to the Coronavirus
• Read, Wonder, and Learn – Favorite Authors & Illustrators Share Resources for Learning Anywhere
• COVID-19 Resources compiled by We Need Diverse Books
• Resources for Online PreK-12 Teaching During COVID and Beyond
• Little free libraries– There may be free books in a free library just around the corner from you. Give a book, get a book, and remember to wash those hands!

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