Inclusion Learning
Inclusion Learning
By Westcloud Inclusion & Wellness
In "American-born Foreigner: A Black Woman's Story" Sherryl lists a variety of articles and books that will add to one's cultural vocabulary and awareness. Here you will also find readings that cover a plethora of issues that are shared in her workshops and other writing.
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Blackout
Nic Stone, Dhonielle Clayton, et al.
$19.99 $18.59Subtitled "Black Love Stories" by a group of young African American writers, this book offers six interlinked stories about Black teen love during a power outage in New York City.
A Different Mirror for Young People: A History of Multicultural America
Ronald Takaki
$22.95 $21.34For kids, an addition to what is usually the standard social studies course, this book fills in important details for the history of this nation, as it relates to the contributions of the communities of color.
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Ibram X. Kendi
$19.99 $18.59One of the most important books about the roots of racism, Dr. Kendi connects the dots and fills in the blanks about who in our recent and past history are responsible for racial justice conditions for today
How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi
$27.00 $25.11Dr. Kendi followed his earlier work with this descriptions, including more personal examples of what built his attitudes about racial justice and black cultural identity.
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing (Revised)
Joy a. Degruy
$19.95A researched explanation of where the psychological wounds of today's African American population are rooted
White by Law 10th Anniversary Edition: The Legal Construction of Race
Ian Haney Lopez
$34.50What appears to be the common use of the term "white" to describe U.S. citizens of European ancestry is challenged by the cultural and political context in which the term arose. The role of the U.S. Supreme Court was key.
Sign My Name to Freedom: A Memoir of a Pioneering Life
Betty Reid Soskin
$24.99At this writing, the oldest living U.S. Park Ranger, a black "Rosie the Rivete,r" tells her compelling story
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
James W. Loewen
$17.99 $16.73A sociologist compared verifiable research with what typically appears in U.S. textbooks and discovers serious discrepancies, seemingly based in protection of the financial stability of the textbook industry
Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race
Debby Irving
$19.99 $18.59This is a personal exploration of how white Americans are programmed to hold racial biases. It offers ways to undo stereotypes and false beliefs.
Negroland: A Memoir
Margo Jefferson
$19.00 $17.67Ms. Jefferson offers her view of what it is like to come from well-to-do black family, describing the values that they operate under.
Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White
Frank H Wu
$21.99 $20.45This groundbreaking book describes the binds that "the model minority" is subject to. The perspective of Asian-Americans, a population that is rarely mentioned in discussions about racism, is sorely needed in this time of cultural reckoning in the U.S.
Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion, and Welfare in the United States
Rickie Solinger
$23.00 $21.39This very challenging book examines the complicated nature of women's decisionmaking impacts whether to parent or not, after an unplanned pregnancy.
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
Resmaa Menakem
$17.95 $16.69As is American-born Foreigner: A Black Woman's Story, this book is a call to action for all of us to recognize that racism is not about the head, but about the body, and introduces an alternative view of what we can do to grow beyond our entrenched racialized divide
The Underground Railroad
Colson Whitehead
$27.95 $25.99The 6th novel by Colson Whitehead, this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel engages the terrors experienced by a woman slave named Cora as she negotiates her escape from slavery. She kills a white man, and soon she is being pursued by a notorious slave catcher during her journey, introducing her to new versions of the horrid mechanics of slavery.
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
$16.95 $15.76
This collection of essays and interviews is about the group of radical black feminists, one of the most important organizations to develop out of the antiracist and women’s liberation movements of the 1960s and 70s.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Audre Lorde
$17.99 $16.73The original version of one of the most treasured books in Sherryl's personal collection, this writing exposes the reader to a range of Ms. Lorde's challenging feminist philosophy
Living for Change: An Autobiography
Grace Lee Boggs
$19.95 $18.55Coming from a Chinese American and middle class New York family, Boggs was well known in the activist black community to those like Malcolm X, Ms. Boggs focused her passion for social justice on the black community
Restorative Yoga for Ethnic and Race-Based Stress and Trauma
Gail Parker and Justine Ross
$40.25Recommended by an African American yoga instructor, this book appears to be a good source of healing practices for one of the holistic approaches to work-life balance and the health impacts that living in racist society may have on one's health.
I Dissent: Ruth Bader Ginsburg Makes Her Mark
Debbie Levy and Elizabeth Baddeley
$18.99 $17.66We are sad to lose Justice Ginsburg. We appreciate her arguing against unfair treatment, and standing up for what’s right for people everywhere. This biographical picture book about the Notorious RBG, tells the justice’s story through the lens of her many famous dissents, or disagreements.
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