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UNITED METHODISTS STAND AGAINST RACISM
As United Methodists examine ways to end racial injustice, offering resources about racism to young adults can help them to be part of the solution. The resources below are written for middle school and high school students.
Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America
by Jennifer Harvey is a New York Times best-selling book that guides families, educators, and communities to raise their children to be able to be able and active anti-racist allies.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
by Mildred D. Taylor, set in Mississippi at the height of the Depression, this is the story of one family's struggle to maintain their integrity, pride, and independence in the face of racism and social injustice.
Hidden Figures Young Readers’ Edition
by Margot Lee Shetterly tells the amazing true story of four African American female mathematicians at NASA who faced gender discrimination and racial prejudice while calculating the numbers that would launch rockets into space.
Middle School Audience
The Hate U Give
by Angi Thomas is a powerful and heart-wrenching novel about police brutality and systemic racism. When 16-year-old Starr’s unarmed best friend Khalil is killed at the hands of a police officer she is caught between threats from the police and the local drug lord, protecting her community and risking her own life.
X: A Novel
by Ilyasah Shabazz follows the formative years of one of the most powerful leaders in African American history.
Dear Martin
by Nic Stone tells of Justyce, top of his class and set for the Ivy League, writing a journal to Martin Luther King, Jr. in an attempt to make sense of a police encounter in which he was treated roughly and unfairly.
High School Audience
Will Fenton-Jones
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