
New Anti-Racism/Cultural Issues Collection
In July 2020, the Hastings Public Library received a generous donation of 47 books to help inform the community on anti-racism and cultural issues that have come to the forefront this year.
Some titles are on display by the main desk, some in Children's and others are in the NEW sections around the building.
All books were donated by members of the Hastings community and coordinated by Catie Case. The Library is grateful to be able to offer this assortment and sincerely thanks the community for its generosity.
All titles can be requested in the online catalog, here is the full list:
Title | Author | Category |
Schomburg : The Man Who Built a Library | Carole Boston Weatherford | Juvenile Biography |
Voice of freedom : Fannie Lou Hamer, spirit of the civil rights movement | Carole Boston Weatherford | Juvenile Biography |
Coretta Scott | Poetry by Ntozake Shange | Juvenile Biography |
Every little thing (Based on the Song "Three Little Birds" by Bob Marley) | Adapted by Cedella Marley | Juvenile Board Book |
Antiracist Baby | Ibram X. Kendi | Juvenile Board Book |
Girl of mine | Jabari Asim | Juvenile Board Book |
Love makes a family | Sophie Beer | Juvenile Board Book |
Please, baby, please | Spike Lee & Tonya Lewis Lee | Juvenile Board Book |
Dream big, little one | Vashti Harrison | Juvenile Board Book |
Who will you be? | Andrea Pippins | Juvenile Easy |
The King of Kindergarten | Derrick Barnes | Juvenile Easy |
Max and the tag-along moon | Floyd Cooper | Juvenile Easy |
I am enough | Grace Byers | Juvenile Easy |
Crescent moons and pointed minarets : a Muslim book of shapes | Hena Khan | Juvenile Easy |
This is the rope : a story from the Great Migration | Jacqueline Woodson | Juvenile Easy |
Cece loves science and adventure | Kimberly Derting and Shelli R. Johannes | Juvenile Easy |
I, too, am America | Langston Hughes | Juvenile Easy |
Sulwe | Lupita Nyong'o | Juvenile Easy |
Hidden figures : the true story of four black women and the space race | Margot Lee Shetterly with Winifred Conkling | Juvenile Easy |
Something happened in our town : a child's story about racial injustice | Marianne Celano, PhD, ABPP, Marietta Collins, PhD, and Ann Hazzard, PhD, ABPP | Juvenile Easy |
What is light? | Markette Sheppard | Juvenile Easy |
Hair love | Matthew A. Cherry | Juvenile Easy |
Firebird : ballerina Misty Copeland shows a young girl how to dance like the Firebird | Misty Copeland | Juvenile Easy |
Ellington was not a street | Ntozake Shange | Juvenile Easy |
Blue sky white stars | Sarvinder Naberhaus | Juvenile Easy |
The many colors of Harpreet Singh | Supriya Kelkar | Juvenile Easy |
What color is my world? The Lost History of African-American Inventors | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar & Raymond Obstfeld | Juvenile Fiction |
Clayton Byrd goes underground | Rita Williams-Garcia | Juvenile Fiction |
The kids book of world religions | Jennifer Glossop | Juvenile Nonfiction |
Celebrate your body (and its changes, too!) the ultimate puberty book for girls | Sonya Renee Taylor | Juvenile Nonfiction |
Little legends : exceptional men in black history | Vashti Harrison | Juvenile Nonfiction |
Young, gifted and black : meet 52 black heroes from past and present | Words by Jamia Wilson | Juvenile Nonfiction |
The racial healing handbook | Anneliese A. Singh | Nonfiction |
I'm still here : Black dignity in a world made for whiteness | Austin Channing Brown | Nonfiction |
"Why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?" : and other conversations about race | Beverly Daniel Tatum | Nonfiction |
American like me : reflections on life between cultures | Edited by America Ferrera with E. Cayce Dumont | Nonfiction |
How to be an antiracist | Ibram X. Kendi | Nonfiction |
Stamped from the beginning : the definitive history of racist ideas in America | Ibram X. Kendi | Nonfiction |
So you want to talk about race | Ijeoma Oluo | Nonfiction |
Me and white supremacy : combat racism, change the world, and become a good ancestor | Layla F. Saad | Nonfiction |
Everyday ubuntu : living better together, the African way | Mungi Ngomane | Nonfiction |
White Fragility: Why it's so hard to talk to white people about racism | Robin J. DiAngelo | Nonfiction |
Boy in the black suit | Jason Reynolds | Teen Fiction |
All American boys | Jason Reynolds | Teen Fiction |
Tristan Strong punches a hole in the sky | Kwame Mbalia | Teen Fiction |
Things that make white people uncomfortable : adapted for young adults | Michael Bennett | Teen Nonfiction |