With the
culmination of events that led to protests and demonstrations this past week, I
found myself wondering what I could do to be of help. A page I follow on
Facebook linked to a helpful list and one thing that caught my attention was to
talk to my child about diversity.
Did I really
need to talk to my child? I wondered. I had imagined she would understand what
my husband and I believe just by how we live our lives. But does she?
As events
have unfolded, I’ve found myself talking to my husband while she is safely
tucked into her headphones, not wanting her to hear how upset I am by the
events that led to protests and then how some protesters were being treated. I
didn’t want to scare her with my own questions and concerns.
I decided to
have a talk with her. I got out the ingredients to bake something and got her
to join me.
I asked, did
she know about melanin and how the amount in a person’s skin can be different?
She didn’t so I explained that. I also explained that though different groups
of people can have different cultures and philosophies, there is only one “race”
on Earth, the human race.
It was a
place to start.
Today, I
received a reference question about folktales from Africa. Although I read a
couple wonderful picture books on individual tales years ago in library school and
I love Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman, I knew this was for a middle grade child and
neither of those things would fit the bill. I didn’t find much in our online
catalog, so I expanded my search to Project Gutenberg where I did find some.
It got me
wondering about resources in our online library, and on the Internet in
general, to teach children about a more diverse perspective of history. Here
are some of the things I’ve come up with.
A History in Which We Can All See Ourselves
Educators are finding ways to tell a richer history of
America—responding to the demands of an increasingly diverse student body.
By Holly
Korbey
May 23, 2018
Teaching Kids about Diversity and Acceptance
March 4, 2019
Scholastic Magazine
Lesson Plan: Multiculturalism and Diversity
Culture and Diversity
Resource collection
30 CHILDREN’S BOOKS ABOUT DIVERSITY THAT CELEBRATE OUR DIFFERENCES
Danika Ellis Sep 19, 2018
#BLM Books
Available Through Overdrive
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Some Places More Than Others by Renée
Watson https://stls.overdrive.com/library/kids/media/4879672
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Separate Is Never Equal Sylvia Mendez and
Her Family's Fight for Desegregation by Duncan
Tonatiuh https://stls.overdrive.com/library/kids/media/1762792
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Now or Never! Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts
Infantry's War to End Slavery by Ray
Anthony Shepard https://stls.overdrive.com/library/kids/media/3591422
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Little Leaders Bold Women in Black
History by Vashti
Harrison https://stls.overdrive.com/library/kids/media/3280049
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Lillian's Right to Vote A Celebration of
the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by Jonah
Winter Shane
W. Evans https://stls.overdrive.com/library/kids/account/lists/wishlist
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I Look Up To... Michelle Obama by Anna
Membrino Fatti
Burke https://stls.overdrive.com/library/kids/media/3924206
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I Have a Dream by Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Kadir
Nelson https://stls.overdrive.com/library/kids/media/1067554
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Hidden Figures Young Readers' Edition by Margot
Lee Shetterly https://stls.overdrive.com/library/kids/media/2830082
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Enough! 20 Protesters Who Changed America by Emily
Easton Ziyue
Chen https://stls.overdrive.com/library/kids/media/4147784
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Child of the Civil Rights Movement by Paula
Young Shelton Raul
Colón https://stls.overdrive.com/library/kids/media/508352
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Brave. Black. First. 50+ African American
Women Who Changed the World by Cheryl
Hudson Erin
K. Robinson https://stls.overdrive.com/library/kids/media/4837093
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The Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond by Brenda
Woods https://stls.overdrive.com/library/kids/media/842890
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All Are Welcome by Alexandra
Penfold Suzanne
Kaufman https://stls.overdrive.com/library/kids/media/3878070
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Ada Twist, Scientist The Questioneers by Andrea
Beaty David
Roberts https://stls.overdrive.com/library/kids/media/2877546
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