Reading into Racism: Bias in Children's Literature and Learning Materials Book

Loved it. These are stories that we HAVE to hear, that DEMAND being told. It is not an easy read, but this is what I love about literature: its ability to make politics personal, and to transform our abstract conceptions of social conflict into something very real and visceral and relevant. Not only was I moved by every single poem and essay and speech and excerpt, but I also greatly expanded my to-read list because now I want to read more work by many of the authors in this collection (e.g., Chris Abani, Chenjerai Hove, Ken Saro-wiwa, many others) and learn more about the political conflicts and social injustices that they are/were writing about.