Black Girl, White School: Thriving, Surviving and No, You Can’t Touch My Hair. an Anthology

Description

“Listen to Black women and Black girls.
Navigating predominantly white institutions (PWI) as a young Black girl provides amazing opportunities as well as challenging experiences. The poems, anecdotes, and entries found in this book seek to provide support and guidance for Black girls in PWI’s and are written by Black girls and women who are current or past attendees of PWI’s.

Hair, friendship, dating, motivation, information, racism, self-esteem – nothing is off limits.

Fans of Black Lives Matter books The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, Dear Martin by Nic Stone, and The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo will love this non-fiction look at life as a Black girls in white schools by girls who have lived it.

This non-fiction book for kids and young adults is edited by Diversity, Equity and Inclusion activist and teen author Olivia V.G. Clarke.

“… Do not pity a Black girl in a white school. SEE her. SUPPORT her. LISTEN to her and BE FAIR to her. Be a consistent support system, good mentors, better friends and a strong ally. 𝗗𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸. 𝗗𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘃𝘆 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗳 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗰𝘆 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗼𝘄𝗻.” Amazon Review
Paperback
Ages 8-12
122 pages