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Read This: This Book is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell

There seems to be no shortage of Anti-Racist texts. Whether you're going with How to Be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi or his remixed version of Stamped with Jason Reynolds or the increasingly scrutinized (but I argue, still important) White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo, you can find anti-racist texts. But the one anti-racist book you should definitely read? Tiffany Jewell's This Book is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work . This is a book that's circulated on my periphery for some time. I purchased this along with half a dozen other anti-racist texts, but when I received it, I gave it a cursory glance and thought, "looks interesting, but maybe not for my students." I pushed it aside temporarily and figured I would get to it. After hearing Jewell speak at #KidLit4BlackLives , the book immediately moved to the top of my queue.  I  can't stress this enough: this is a book that you need to read. It demands you