Books like Not my idea by Anastasia Higginbotham

The Hate U Give tracks 16‑year‑old Starr Carter, a Black teenager from a poor Bronx neighborhood who attends an elite private school, as she confronts police violence, social media battles, and community turmoil after witnessing her friend’s shooting.

A powerful story of a Black family's battle for dignity, family, and land in Depression‑era Mississippi, seen through the eyes of eight‑year‑old Cassie Logan.

Ibram X. Kendi’s *How to Be an Antiracist* explains racism as a powerful system that creates false hierarchies and offers a guide—drawing on ethics, history, law, and science—to help readers confront and dismantle racial injustice in society and themselves.

Ijeoma Oluo’s guide gives Americans—and people of color—clear, practical tools to discuss race, privilege, police brutality, and micro‑aggressions, making the complex racial landscape accessible and actionable for all readers.

A tense and emotionally charged continuation of the Noughts & Crosses trilogy, exploring the fallout of a mixed‑heritage family in a racially divided society.

Rashad and Quinn wrestle with the aftermath of a police assault that sparks intense racial debate, told through their alternating perspectives.

Adam Rutherford explores how human genomes reveal our shared history, from ancient origins to modern diversity, reshaping our understanding of evolution, migration, and the genetic roots of humanity.

In a bustling Australian apartment building, teenage Hazel Green stands up against a tenant’s hateful remarks toward the devoted caretaker, Mr. Egozian, sparking a confrontation that tests prejudice, courage, and community bonds.

A 1941 Mississippi drama in which a black youth, assaulted by two white boys, turns the tables with a tire iron and seeks escape with Cassie's help.

A clear guide for young readers that explains the nature of racism, its historical roots, and current efforts to confront discrimination.

An anthology of 96 pages, featuring original art and prose by fifty diverse creators, that gives children a voice against racism and prejudice.

In this unflinching look at white supremacy, George Lipsitz argues that racism is a matter of interests as well as attitudes, a problem of property as well as pigment. Above and beyond personal prejudice, whiteness is a structured advantage that produces unfair gains and unearned rewards for whites while imposing impediments to asset accumulation, employment, housing, and health care for minorities. Reaching beyond the black/white binary, Lipsitz shows how whiteness works in respect to Asian Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans.Lipsitz delineates the weaknesses embedded in civil rights laws, the racial dimensions of economic restructuring and deindustrialization, and the effects of environmental racism, job discrimination and school segregation. He also analyzes the centrality of whiteness to U.S. culture, and perhaps most importantly, he identifies the sustained and perceptive critique of white privilege embedded in the radical black tradition. This revised and expanded edition also includes an essay about the impact of Hurricane Katrina on working class Blacks in New Orleans, whose perpetual struggle for dignity and self determination has been obscured by the city's image as a tourist party town.

A concise exploration of 20th‑century white racism, the struggles of African and Asian peoples, and the evolving attitudes in Europe and North America toward a multiracial future.

In 1926 South Carolina, nine‑year‑old Darby Carmichael writes a story for the local paper that champions racial equality, sparking debate in Marlboro County.

Thirteen‑year‑old Maleeka, who feels self‑conscious about her very dark skin, meets a new teacher with a distinctive birthmark and discovers the power of self‑acceptance and genuine friendship.

Fourteen-year-old Henry hikes Mount Katahdin with his best friend and dog, but a Cambodian refugee accused of Franklin's death changes the course of their journey.