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Teaching for Change carefully selects 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. Titles with reviews on this site are noted with an asterisk(*).

More recommended titles: Early Childhood: Learning About Economic Class

A lesson on housing from our Zinn Education Project: How Red Lines Built White Wealth: A Lesson on Housing Segregation in the 20th Century

Article from our D.C. Area Educators for Social Justice: High School Students' Fight for School District Equity Fueled by a Classroom Unit on Gentrification.

Africville

By Shauntay Grant and Eva Campbell (Illustrator)

Alejandria Fights Back! / ¡La Lucha de Alejandria!

By Leticia Hernández-Linares,  The Rise-Home Stories Project, and  Robert Liu-Trujillo (Illustrator)

The Fair Housing Five & the Haunted House

By the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center

Kapaemahu *

By Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson, and Daniel Sousa (Illustrator)

A Place to Stay: A Shelter Story

By Erin Gunti, Esteli Meza (Illustrator)

The Princess of Fort Hill Shelter

By Karta, Darne'sha, and Zorita of Reach Incorporated

Shelter in Our Car

By Monica Gunning

The Spirit of Chicano Park / El espíritu del parque Chicano *

By Beatrice Zamora and Maira Meza (Illustrator)

Still a Family

By Brenda Reeves Sturgis

Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre *

By Carole Boston Weatherford, Floyd Cooper (Illustrator)

Brownstone

By Samuel Teer and Mar Julia (Illustrator)

Dragons in a Bag*

By Zetta Elliott

A Duet for Home

By Karina Yan Glaser

The Education of Margot Sanchez

By Lilliam Rivera

The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora*

By Pablo Cartaya

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City *

By Matthew Desmond

Genesis Begins Again

By Alicia D. Williams

Halsey Street

By Naima Coster

Like No Other

By Una Lamarche

Monday's Not Coming

By Tiffany D. Jackson

Pride

By Ibi Zoboi

Shadowshaper *

By Daniel Jose Older

Take Back the Block

By Chrystal D. Giles

This Side of Home

By Renee Watson

We Live Here: Detroit Eviction Defense and the Battle for Housing Justice

By Jeffrey Wilson and Bambi Kramer (Illustrator)

When We Make It: A Nuyorican Novel

By Elisabet Velasquez

African Americans and Gentrification in Washington, D.C.

By Sabiyha Prince

The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

By Dinaw Mengestu

Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC's Racial Wealth Gap

By Tanya Maria Golash-Boza

Carving out the Commons: Tenant Organizing and Housing Cooperatives in Washington, D.C.

By Amanda Huron

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

By Richard Rothstein
Free lesson download: How Red Lines Built White Wealth: A Lesson on Housing Segregation in the 20th Century

 

Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City

By Natalie Hopkinson

How to Kill a City: Gentrification Inequality & the Fight for the Neighborhood

By Peter Moskowitz

 

Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law

By Richard Rothstein and Leah Rothstein

 

Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America & What We Can Do about It

By Mindy Thompson Fullilove

There Goes the Hood: Views of Gentrification from the Ground Up

By Lance Freeman

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