Everyone at Crestwood Preparatory College are working together to eradicate racism, discrimination, and inequality. Together, staff have compiled a booklist and a Self-Assessment tool.
Self assessment tool: Race Equity & Inclusion (2) (1)
Anti-Racism Reading List ( Looking for something to read this summer? Take a look at these titles!)
| Fiction: | For Juniors | For Seniors |
| The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas | ✔ | ✔ |
| On the Come Up by Angie Thomas | ✔ | ✔ |
| The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead | ✔ | |
| Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead | ✔ | |
| Washington Black by Esi Edugyan | ✔ | ✔ |
| The Colour Purple by Alice Walker | ✔ | |
| The Book of Negros by Lawrence Hill | ✔ | ✔ |
| A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry | ✔ | ✔ |
| Sula by Toni Morrison | ✔ | ✔ |
| Africville by Jeffrey Colvin | ✔ | ✔ |
| Scarborough by Catherine Hernandez | ✔ | ✔ |
| Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston | ✔ | |
| White Teeth by Zadie Smith | ✔ | |
| Things Fall Apart by Chinoa Achebe | ✔ | ✔ |
| Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King | ✔ | |
| The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates | ✔ | |
| American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang | ✔ | ✔ |
| Front Desk by Kelly Yang | ✔ | ✔ |
| Severance by Ling Ma | ✔ | ✔ |
| SLAY by Brittney Morris | ✔ | ✔ |
| From the Desk of Zoe Washington by Janae Marks | ✔ | |
| Dear Martin by Nic Stone | ✔ | ✔ |
| Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson | ✔ | ✔ |
| New Kid by Jerry Craft | ✔ | |
| Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes | ✔ | |
| Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks by Jason Reynolds | ✔ | |
| The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo | ✔ | ✔ |
| Black and White by Paul Volponi | ✔ | |
| All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely | ✔ | ✔ |
| The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater | ✔ | ✔ |
| Non-Fiction: | ||
| Born a Crime by Trevor Noah | ✔ | ✔ |
| Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates | ✔ | ✔ |
| Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present by Robyn Maynard | ✔ | |
| The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King | ✔ | |
| I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou | ✔ | |
| The Skin We’re In by Desmond Cole (CBC Documentary also available to stream for free) | ✔ | |
| Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga | ✔ | |
| They Call Me George: The Untold History of Black Train Porters and the Birth of Modern Canada by Cecil Foster | ✔ | |
| How to be Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi | ✔ | |
| Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi | ✔ | |
| Stamped: Racism, Anti-Racism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi | ✔ | ✔ |
| Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults): A True Story of the Fight for Justice by Bryan Stevenson | ✔ | ✔ |
| Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip Hop Generation by Jeff Chang | ✔ | |
| Holler if You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur by Michael Eric Dyson | ✔ | |
| The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley | ✔ | ✔ |
| April 4, 1968 by Michael Eric Dyson | ✔ | |
| Waiting Til The Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America by Peniel L. Joseph | ✔ | |
| Should Prisons Be Abolished? by Angela Y. Davis | ✔ | |
| The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colourblindness by Michelle Alexander | ✔ | |
| Things that Make White People Uncomfortable by Michael Bennett | ✔ | |
| Up Ghost River by Edmund Metatawabin | ✔ | |
| Highway of Tears by Jessica McDiarmid | ✔ | |
| Films and Other Media: | ||
| There’s Something In The Water by Ellen Page (Netflix) | ✔ | ✔ |
| The 13th by Ava DuVernay (Netflix) | ✔ | ✔ |
| Essays: | ||
| Sister Flowers by Maya Angelou | ✔ | |
| Coming to an Awareness of Language by Malcolm X | ✔ | |
| Campus Racism 101 by Nikki Giovanni | ✔ | |
| Two Ways to Belong in America by Bharati Mukherjee, | ✔ | |
| I, Racist by John Mertta | ✔ |
