Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Resources for Youth, January 2023
prepared by Alvin R. Blount
Diocese of East Tennessee
Costs may vary depending on where items are purchased. Also, check with the Children’s Diversity and Justice Library at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church at 2931 Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN for books that circulate.
The Little Book of LGBTQ+: An A-Z of Gender and Sexual Identities
-Harriet Dyer
-paperback, $19.95
-Kindle, $15.99
-136 pages
-MIT Press
-2022
-description: Language is central to awareness and understanding the communities that make up the world we live in, but evolving terminology makes it a little tricky to keep up with correct terminology. Dyer has provided us with this useful, easy-to-use dictionary regarding LGBTQ+ family and friends.
Dyer, H. (2022). The Little Book of LGBTQ+: An A-Z of Gender and Sexual Identities. MIT Press.
Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
-Robin Wall Kimmerer
-Monique Gray Smith
-Nicole Neidhardt, illustrator
-Kindle, $13.49
-paperback, $16.19
-408 pages
-Zest Books
-2022
-description: Kimmerer and Smith demonstrate in this resource adapted for young adults how all living things provide us with gifts and lessons each day. This new edition reinforces ecological understanding—plants, and includes reflection questions and art by Nicole Neidhardt, illustrator.
Kimmerer, R. W. & Smith, M. G. (2022). Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants. Zest Books.
Undercover Latina (The Factory)
-Aya de León
-Kindle, $9.50
-hardcover, $17.99
-320 pages
-ages 10-14
-Candlewick
-2022
-description: A writer of contemporary crime fiction, León tells the story of a Latina teen spy who goes undercover as a White girl to stop a white supremacist plot.
de León, A. (2022). Undercover Latina (The Factory). Candlewick.
A Young People’s History of the United States
-Howard Zinn
-Rebecca Stefoff
-paperback, $12.99
-Kindle, $13.99
-464 pages
-ages 10-15
-Triangle Square
-2009
-description: Beginning with a look at Christopher Columbus’s arrival through the eyes of the Arawak Indians, Zinn presents the viewpoints of Native Americans, slaves, immigrants, women’s rights, worker’s rights, and civil rights during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Zinn, H. & Stefoff, R. (2009). A Young People’s History of the United States. Triangle Square.