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Title Not my idea : a book about whiteness / written and illustrated by Anastasia HIgginbotham
Author Higginbotham, Anastasia, author, illustrator.
Publication Info. New York : Dottir Press 2018.
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Location Call No. Status
 Fairview Shores  J FIC HIG    Check Shelves
 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Children's  J FIC HIG    Check Shelves
 South Creek  J FIC HIG    Check Shelves
 Southeast  J FIC HIG    Check Shelves
 West Oaks  J FIC HIG    Check Shelves
Description 64 pages : color illustrations ; 23cm
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.
"A necessary children's book about whiteness, white supremacy, and resistance. Important, accessible, needed." --Kirkus
Awards School Library Journal, starred review.
Subject Whites -- Race identity -- Juvenile fiction.
Racism -- Juvenile fiction.
Prejudices -- Juvenile fiction.
Genre Picture books.
ISBN 1948340003 (paperback)
9781948340007 (paperback) : $
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