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Teaching for Change carefully selects the best multicultural and social justice books for children, young adults, and educators. Learn about our criteria for selecting titles. Feedback on these lists and suggestions for additional titles are welcome. Most of the books on these lists are linked for more information or purchase to Powells, an independent, union labor bookstore. Titles with reviews on this site are noted with an asterisk(*).

500 Years of Chicana Women's History/500 Anos de La Mujer Chicana

By Elizabeth Martinez

Beyond Heroes and Holidays: A Practical Guide to K-12 Anti-Racist, Multicultural Education and Staff Development

By Enid Lee (Editor), Deborah Menkart (Editor), Margo Okazawa-Rey (Editor)

Conscious Women Rock the Page: Using Hip-Hop Fiction to Incite Social Change

By Marcella Runell Hall

Americanah

By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Blacks

Gwendolyn Brooks

The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde

By Audre Lorde

The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks

By Gwendolyn Brooks, Elizabeth Alexander (Editor)

The God of Small Things

By Arundhati Roy

A Raisin in the Sun and the Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window

By Lorraine Hansberry

Selected Poems

By Gwendolyn Brooks

A Tale for the Time Being

By Ruth Ozeki

Tell Me a Riddle, Requa I, and Other Works

By Tillie Olsen, Laurie Olsen (Foreword by), Rebekah Edwards (Introduction by)

The Vagina Monologues

By Eve Ensler

Well-Read Black Girl

By Glory Edim

Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Revolution

By Alix Olson (Editor), Eve Ensler (Foreword by)

Angela Davis: An Autobiography

Angela Y. Davis

Assata: An Autobiography

By Assata Shakur

Crazy Brave

By Joy Harjo

Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson

By Barbara Ransby

Freedom's Teacher: The Life of Septima Clark

By Katherine Mellen Charron

From Selma to Sorrow

By Mary Stanton

Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom

By Catherine Clinton

Heartbeat of Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Yuri Kochiyama

By Diane C. Fujino

I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala

By Rigoberta Menchu

Jessie de La Cruz: Profile of a United Farm Worker

By Gary Soto

Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie

By Rachel Corrie

Living for Change: An Autobiography

By Grace Lee Boggs

Living My Life, Vol. 1

By Emma Goldman

The Long Shadow of Little Rock

By Daisy Bates, Clayborne Carson (Afterword by), Eleanor Roosevelt (Foreword by)

Lucy Parsons: An American Revolutionary

By Carolyn Ashbaugh

Mankiller: A Chief and Her People

By Wilma Mankiller, Michael Wallis

Mi Mundo Adorado

By Sonia Sotomayor

My Name Is Rachel Corrie

By Rachel Corrie, Alan Rickman (Editor), Katharine Viner (Editor)

Narrative of Sojourner Truth

By Olive Gilbert

Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memoir

By Dorothy Height

Pauli Murray: Autobiography Black Activist Feminist Lawyer

By Pauli Murray

Princess Noire: The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone

By Nadine Cohodas

Proud Shoes

By Pauli Murray

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

By Jeanne Theoharis

Soon We Will Not Cry: The Liberation of Ruby Doris Smith Robinson

By Cynthia Griggs Fleming

A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story

By Elaine Brown

This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer

By Kay Mills

To Be Young, Gifted and Black

By Lorraine Hansberry

To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells

By Mia Bay

Unbought and Unbossed: Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition

By Shirley Chisholm, Shola Lynch (Afterword by), Donna Brazile (Foreword by)

Unbowed: A Memoir

By Wangari Maathai

Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde

By Alexis De Veaux

The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life and Legacy of Frances Perkins—Social Security, Unemployment Insurance, and the Minimum Wage

By Kirstin Downey

500 Years of Chicana Women's History/500 Anos de La Mujer Chicana

By Elizabeth Martinez

Are Prisons Obsolete?

By Angela Y. Davis

At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance—A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Pow

By Danielle L. McGuire

But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies

By Gloria T. Hull (Editor), Patricia Bell Scott (Editor), Barbara Smith (Editor)

A Dolores Huerta Reader

By Mario T. Garcia (Editor)

Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Vision (Second Edition)

By Barbara Ransby

Every Day Is a Good Day: Reflections by Contemporary Indigenous Women

Wilma Mankiller

Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

By Bell Hooks

From Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism

By Patricia Hill Collins

Hands On The Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts By Women In SNCC

Edited by Judy Richardson, et al.

Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

By Margot Lee Shetterly

Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement

By Janet Dewart Bell

Lucy Parsons: Freedom, Equality & Solidarity: Writings & Speeches, 1878-1937

By Parsons Lucy

Montgomery Bus Boycott: Women Who Started It

By Jo Ann Gibson Robinson, David J. Garrow (Contribution by)

The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century

By Grace Lee Boggs, Scott Kurashige, Danny Glover (Foreword by)

No Fear: A Whistleblower's Triumph Over Corruption and Retaliation at the EPA

By Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, Walter E. Fauntroy (Afterword by), Noam Chomsky (Foreword by)

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America

By Barbara Ehrenreich

Reclaiming Our Space

By Feminista Jones

Silent Spring

By Rachel Carson, Linda Lear (Introduction by), Edward O. Wilson (Afterword by)

Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America

By Melissa V. Harris-Perry

The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom

By Barbara Smith

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

By Audre Lorde, Cheryl Clarke (Foreword by)

Undaunted by the Fight: Spelman College and the Civil Rights Movement, 1957-1967

By Harry G. Lefever

The Challenge for Africa

By Wangari Maathai

Circle of Love Over Death: The Story of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo

By Matilde Mellibovsky, Matthew Proser (Translator), Maria Proser (Translator)

The Crunk Feminist Collection

By Brittney C. Cooper (Editor), Susana M. Morris (Editor), Robin M. Boylorn (Editor)

The Dominican Republic

By Anne Gallin (Editor), Ruth Glasser (Editor), Jocelyn Santana (Editor)

Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace

By Vandana Shiva

Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers

By Arundhati Roy

The Green Belt Movement: Sharing the Approach and the Experience

By Wangari Maathai

The Madame Curie Complex: The Hidden History of Women in Science

By Julie Des Jardins

Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed

Carlo Petrini, Jamey Lionette

Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire

By Arundhati Roy

Revolutionizing Motherhood: The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo

By Marguerite Guzman Bouvard

Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development

By Vandana Shiva

War Talk

By Arundhati Roy

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