Race Matters: Teaching Resources Around Race: Non-Fiction Titles
This LibGuide is a culmination of a library department collegial circle on constructive race conversations. The purpose of this LibGuide is to provide BRMS and CRMS teachers with vetted anti-racism resources. These resources can be used for one's own pers
Race Matters...middle and YA level non-fiction for teaching around race
Historical Events
This list includes middle grade and young adult nonfiction titles about specific historical events related to race in the United States.
28 Days by ISBN: 9781596438200Publication Date: 2015-01-13
A Dream of Freedom by ISBN: 0439576784Publication Date: 2004-10-01
A Few Red Drops by ISBN: 9780544785137Publication Date: 2018-01-02
Freedom Riders by ISBN: 9780792241737Publication Date: 2005-12-27
The Freedom Summer Murders by ISBN: 0545477255Publication Date: 2014-04-29
Freedom Walkers by ISBN: 9780823420315Publication Date: 2006-10-01
Little Rock Girl 1957 by ISBN: 0756544408Publication Date: 2011-07-01
Locked up for Freedom by ISBN: 9781467785976Publication Date: 2017-08-01
Loving vs. Virginia by ISBN: 9781452125909Publication Date: 2017-01-31
Lunch Counter Sit-Ins by ISBN: 9780756558789Publication Date: 2018-08-01
Remember by ISBN: 9780618397402Publication Date: 2004-05-03
This Promise of Change by ISBN: 9781681198521Publication Date: 2019-01-08
A Wreath for Emmett Till by ISBN: 9780618397525Publication Date: 2005-04-04
You Can Fly by ISBN: 9781481449397Publication Date: 2017-07-04
Social Justice
This list includes middle grade and young adult non-fiction titles about social justice movements and activism.
#BlackLivesMatter: Protesting Racism by ISBN: 9781532119293Publication Date: 2019-08-01
Lifting As We Climb by ISBN: 9780451481542Publication Date: 2020-04-21
March: Book One by ISBN: 1603093001Publication Date: 2013-08-13
March: Book Three by ISBN: 9781603094023Publication Date: 2016-08-02
March: Book Two by ISBN: 9781603094009Publication Date: 2015-01-20
The March Against Fear by ISBN: 9781426326660Publication Date: 2017-01-03
Nobody Gonna Turn Me 'Round by ISBN: 9780763619275Publication Date: 2006-10-10
Resist by ISBN: 9780062796257Publication Date: 2018-09-25
Rise up! the Art of Protest by ISBN: 9781623541507Publication Date: 2020-03-03
We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices by ISBN: 9780525580430Publication Date: 2018-09-04
Structural Racism
This list includes middle grade and young adult non-fiction titles about the systemic racism in American society, government, and institutions.
Black Lives Matter by ISBN: 9781624038983Publication Date: 2015-12-15
Dark Sky Rising by ISBN: 9781338262049Publication Date: 2019-01-29
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by ISBN: 9780316453691Publication Date: 2020-03-10
This Book Is Anti-Racist by ISBN: 9780711245211Publication Date: 2020-01-07
Adult Nonfiction
Between the World and Me by ISBN: 9780812993547Publication Date: 2015-07-14
Caste (Oprah's Book Club) by ISBN: 9780593230251Publication Date: 2020-08-04
How to Be an Antiracist by ISBN: 9780525509288Publication Date: 2019-08-13
So You Want to Talk about Race by ISBN: 9781580056779Publication Date: 2018-01-16
Stamped from the Beginning by ISBN: 9781568585987Publication Date: 2017-08-15
