Recognize! : an anthology honoring and amplifying Black life

Author

Wade Hudson

Call Number

• J RECO (CEN, EAS, OSH, WSQ)

Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Crown Books for Young Readers, [2021]

Physical Description

xvii, 186 pages : illustrations (color) ; 21 cm

Audience

Grades 4-6. Crown Books for Young Readers.

Summary

"An anthology featuring over thirty Black authors and illustrators to honor Black life past, present, and future"--

Contents

• Foreword / Miracle child / Coloring outside the lines / James Baldwin's great debate / Black lives have always mattered / Famous blerds in history / Passing on the legacy / Storms and sunshine of my life / At our kitchen table / Isn't it obvious? / Slave mother / Joy lives in you / Witness / You are-- / Excerpt from What to the slave is the Fourth of July? / Black boy reading / Self-reflection / Black butterfly / Treatment of the Little Rock Nine, Central High School, 1957 / Darnella Frazier, eyewitness / How to be an activist / My hero is a Black cowboy / Drumbeat, ring shout, roll call, cypher / Interview with DeRay Mckesson
• Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune's last will and testament / Claiming my space / Freedom in music / Back to myself / Recognize! / Devil in the flowers / Texts / Your breath is a song