Books

Children’s Books

  • The cover of Let's Talk About Race by Julius Lester with faces representing different ethnic and racial backgrounds
  • The cover of Ezra's Big Shabbat Question by Aviva L. Brown showing a young Black boy wearing a kippah pondering a question
  • The cover of The Colors of Us by Karen Katz featuring two women and a young girl with different skin colors and hair colors laying on a sandy beach
  • The cover of Jalapeno Bagels by Natasha Wing showing a young boy holding the Open sign inside of a bagel shop
  • The cover of Yaffa and Fatima by Fawzia Gilani-Williams showing a young Muslim girl and a young Jewish girl holding a bowl of food together
  • The cover of Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert with a young Black girl and a white boy standing back to back
  • The cover of Color Me In by Natasha Diaz with a white silhouette of a girl hugging her two Black friends

These children’s books are a great resource for any child to gain a stronger understanding of Jewish tradition, especially in relation to cultural heritage. They are all great starting points to actively taking diversity and inclusion into account. By touching on each book below you can access the link to learn more or to purchase them:

  1. Let’s Talk About Race by Julius Lester
  2. Ezra’s Big Shabbat Question by Aviva L. Brown
  3. The Colors of Us by Karen Katz
  4. Jalapeño Bagels by Natasha Wing
  5.  Yaffa and Fatima: Shalom, Salaam by Fawzia Gilani-Williams
  6.  Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert
  7.  Color Me In by Natasha Diaz

Adult’s Antiracist Books

  • The cover of Critical Race Theory by Kimberle Crenshaw Williams is bright red with white and black text
  • The cover of Seeing Race Again showing a burst of yellow, blue, pink, and black on a white background
  • The cover of Silent Covenants by Derrick Bell showing the backs of two young Black girls walking alongside railroad tracks
  • The cover of Racial Formation in the Twenty First Century is black and white with text of varying shades of brown
  • The cover of A Black Women's History of the United States shows a modified American flag with brown and beige stripes
  • The cover of Antriacism and Universal Design for Learning by Andratesha Fitzgerald shows a black silhouette standing in front of two converging roads
  • The cover of Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates is a white background with fading black block text
  • The cover of White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo is a white background with black block text with cracks in it

For any adult who is just starting out in learning about anti-racism efforts and how to get more involved, these books can be considered to be the first steps. While some are more specific or go into more depth than others, every adult, regardless of background or experience with anti-racism, can learn from these. Below are links to purchase them:

  1. Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings That Formed the Movement by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
  2. Seeing Race Again: Countering Colorblindness across the Disciplines by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
  3. Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform by Derrick Bell
  4. Racial Formation In The Twenty-First Century by Laura Pulido, Oneka LaBennett, and Daniel HoSang
  5. A Black Women’s History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross
  6. Antiracism and Universal Design for Learning by Andratesha Fitzgerald
  7. Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  8. White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo

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