Reviewed by Pat Corekin Review Source: Teaching for Change Book Author: Simone tells the story of a mother and child during an evacuation from a raging fire in California and the mother’s memories of fleeing a flood in Vietnam when she was a child. As Simone’s mother recounts the story of the flood when she […]
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Mamie Tape Fights to Go to School
Reviewed by Deborah Menkart Review Source: Rethinking Schools Book Author: This picture book tells the true story of a fight for access to public education by an 8-year-old Chinese American girl, Mamie Tape, and her parents. There were no public schools for Chinese Americans in 1884 in San Francisco when Mamie tried to attend the white […]
Troublemaker
Reviewed by Deborah Jung Review Source: Teaching for Change Book Author: Troublemaker is a nuanced and emotionally rich middle grade chapter book recalling the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising, or Sa-I-Gu, from the perspective of a young Korean American boy trying to find his father. The book’s protagonist, Jordan, is a Korean American seventh grader whose […]
Fatima’s Great Outdoors
Reviewed by Paige Pagan Review Source: Teaching for Change Book Author: Fatima is having a hard time adjusting to her new life in the United States and is looking forward to camping, what her Papa calls “a great American pastime,” (p. 2) as a means of escaping from the bullying and isolation she experiences in her […]
Civil Rights Teaching: Land and Labor
Learn more by reading: Labor and Land Introduction at Civil Rights Teaching.org. Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends: Asian Americans, Housing, and the Transformation of Urban California By Charlotte Brooks Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC’s Racial Wealth Gap By Tanya Maria Golash-Boza Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the […]
If They Come for Us: Poems
Reviewed by @mariaelenag96 Review Source: Brown Girl Bookshelf Book Author: “Poems of vulnerability, of anger, of love,” reflects guest reviewer @mariaelenag96 on Fatimah Asghar’s work. Asghar, a queer South Asian American Muslim writer and filmmaker, crosses the borders of countries, identities, communities, and histories in her beautiful and dynamic poems. Asghar’s “Land Where My Father Died” sat […]
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