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Not my idea : a book about whiteness
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York, NY : Dottir Press, 2018.
Physical Description
64 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Summary
A white child sees a TV news report of a white police officer shooting and killing a black man. "In our family, we don't see color," his mother says, but he sees the colors plain enough. An afternoon in the library's history stacks uncover the truth of white supremacy in America. Racism was not his idea and he refuses to defend it.
Subjects
- White people > Race identity > Juvenile literature.
- Racism > Juvenile literature.
- Prejudices > Juvenile literature.
- African Americans > Social conditions > Juvenile literature.
- Denial (Psychology) > Juvenile literature.
- White people > Race identity.
- Racism > United States.
- Prejudices > United States.
- African Americans > Social conditions.
- Denial (Psychology)
- United States > Race relations > Juvenile literature.
- United States > Race relations.