Social Justice Books

Critically reviewed selection of multicultural and social justice books for children, young adults, and educators.

War Girls

    Reviewed by Toyin Falola, Ph.D. Review Source: Africa Access Book Author: War Girls gives a captivating and harrowing sneak peek of the potential future before us in the 2170s: The Earth ravaged by climate change, space colonies forming, human beings turning more machine-like, and the remaining Earth dwellers struggling to survive. Among the struggling Earth […]

Stolen Justice: The Struggle for African American Voting Rights

Reviewed by Edi Campbell Review Source: Cotton Quilts Book Authors: OUT OF PRINT I didn’t begin to appreciate nonfiction until my adult years. During my childhood, nonfiction I think was primarily written for for adults; particularly white, male adults. Even more so, it was a dry, informational text, a text that led readers to think it was […]

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You

Reviewed by Edi Campbell Review Source: Cotton Quilts Book Authors: I didn’t begin to appreciate nonfiction until my adult years. During my childhood, nonfiction I think was primarily written for for adults; particularly white, male adults. Even more so, it was a dry, informational text, a text that led readers to think it was delivering honest, bias […]

Take the Mic: Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance

Reviewed by Debbie Reese Review Source: American Indians in Children’s Literature Book Author: Dr. Darcie Little Badger has two stories in Take the Mic: Fictional Stories of Everyday Resistance. In the final pages of the book you can read a little about her. I follow her on Twitter (@ShiningComic) and it has been terrific reading her tweets as […]

King Shaka

Reviewed by Fatima Barnes Review Source: Africa Access Book Author: The graphic novels – Shaka Rising and the sequel, King Shaka – are  imaginative, engaging, and innovative ways of narrating the legend of Shaka, the most renowned 19th century  monarch in Southern Africa. Comic book writer-illustrator Luke Molver, a South African born in Durban,  does an excellent job of telling […]

Shaka Rising

Reviewed by Fatima Barnes Review Source: Africa Access Book Author: The graphic novels – Shaka Rising and the sequel, King Shaka – are  imaginative, engaging, and innovative ways of narrating the legend of Shaka, the most renowned 19th century  monarch in Southern Africa. Comic book writer-illustrator Luke Molver, a South African born in Durban,  does an excellent job of telling […]