{"product_id":"this-book-is-anti-racist-20-lessons-on-how-to-wake-up-take-action-and-do-the-work-1-empower-the-future","title":"This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 lessons on how to wake up, take action, and do the work (1) (Empower the Future)","description":"Product Description\n\n#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER\n\nRecommended by Oprah's Book Club, The Guardian, TIME, Evening Standard, Grazia, The Telegraph, Express and The Sun\n\nAlso available: This Book Is Anti-Racist Journal, a guided journal with more than 50 activities to support your anti-racism journey\n\nWho are you? What is racism? Where does it come from? Why does it exist? What can you do to disrupt it? Learn about social identities, the history of racism and resistance against it, and how you can use your anti-racist lens and voice to move the world toward equity and liberation.\n\n‘In a racist society, it’s not enough to be non-racist—we must be ANTI-RACIST.’ —Angela Davis\n\nGain a deeper understanding of your anti-racist self as you progress through 20 chapters that spark introspection, reveal the origins of racism that we are still experiencing and give you the courage and power to undo it. Each lesson builds on the previous one as you learn more about yourself and racial oppression. An activity at the end of every chapter gets you thinking and helps you grow with the knowledge. All you need is a pen and paper.\n\nAuthor Tiffany Jewell, an anti-bias, anti-racist educator and activist, builds solidarity beginning with the language she chooses – using gender neutral words to honour everyone who reads the book. Illustrator Aurélia Durand brings the stories and characters to life with kaleidoscopic vibrancy.\n\nAfter examining the concepts of social identity, race, ethnicity and racism, learn about some of the ways people of different races have been oppressed, from indigenous Americans and Australians being sent to boarding school to be 'civilized' to a generation of Caribbean immigrants once welcomed to the UK being threatened with deportation by strict immigration laws.\n\nFind hope in stories of strength, love, joy and revolution that are part of our history, too, with such figures as the former slave Toussaint Louverture, who led a rebellion against white planters that eventually led to Haiti’s independence, and Yuri Kochiyama, who, after spending time in an internment camp for Japanese Americans during WWII, dedicated her life to supporting political prisoners and advocating reparations for those wrongfully interned.\n\nLearn language and phrases to interrupt and disrupt racism. So, when you hear a microaggression or racial slur, you'll know how to act next time.\n\nThis book is written for EVERYONE who lives in this racialised society—including the young person who doesn’t know how to speak up to the racist adults in their life, the kid who has lost themself at times trying to fit into the dominant culture, the children who have been harmed (physically and emotionally) because no one stood up for them or they couldn’t stand up for themselves and also for their families, teachers and administrators.\n\nWith this book, be empowered to actively defy racism and xenophobia to create a community (large and small) that truly honours everyone.\n\nReview\n\n‘A useful tool for discussing racism with children ages 5 to 15.’ -- The Telegraph\n\n‘An excellent start for educating children on what racism is and how to go about becoming anti-racist.’ -- Grazia\n\n‘Reveals the origins of racism that we are still experiencing and give you the courage and power to undo it.' -- Express\n\n'This is one for you, your neighbour, the children in your lives and especially that “only slightly” racist colleague.' -- The Guardian\n\n'A bright, creative book that explores race, ethnicity and racism. Children will learn how to form opinions and understand why prejudice is personal.' -- Natasha Harding ― The Sun\n\n'Not only addresses the origins of racism, but delivers tips on how to create change.' -- Evening Standard\n\n‘Anti-racism is for everyone. Let's have the conversation with all our children' -- BookTrust\n\n'Just what we need in this radicalized and strife-ridden world. Buy copies for your school – you won’t regret it!' -- LoveReading\n\n'The perfect read to help raise pre-tee","brand":"Frances Lincoln Children's Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40306258608213,"sku":"9780711245204N","price":5.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/a6bf7be4-6e7d-4e90-93dc-80c6f18cf515.jpg?v=1663142779","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/products\/this-book-is-anti-racist-20-lessons-on-how-to-wake-up-take-action-and-do-the-work-1-empower-the-future","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}