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Racism Does Not Belong Here

Help me give my students the books they need to become empowered as young people of color growing up in a racist society.

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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

We are a low-income but highly spirited high school. The 400 students are almost 100% Black and Hispanic, with a few Middle Eastern and a few Asian students.

The students are a community eager to feel safe in the place they live, but often feel unsafe because of the color of their skin or the languages they speak.

The students are also a group of youngsters who are eager to learn how to make a change in their communities and in society. Let's help them to learn the methods and strategies to make change!

My Project

My high school students are growing up in a time when racism is in their faces every day of their lives. Whether it is on their way to school or while sitting in school, or even while sitting at home, society is constantly telling them they are not equal to the white people and that no one seems to care about this inequity.

This library will allow students to read books where they are the characters, where they are the authors, and where the realities of racism and strategies to fight against it can be discussed.

Once we return to school, we will use the books as a take home library and as a place where they can have peer led discussions about growing up in a society where they are at risk every day they wake up. Won't you please help me to create a library for my students of today so they can become empowered young adults tomorrow?

Ms. Lisa Global Learning Collaborative Grades 9-12

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At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

400 students impacted 15donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
American Corrections: Concepts and Controversies • Amazon Business $66.29 1 $66.29
Hopeful Girls, Troubled Boys: Race and Gender Disparity in Urban Education • Amazon Business $46.38 1 $46.38
We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom • Amazon Business $16.47 2 $32.94
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement • Amazon Business $29.56 1 $29.56
Brown Skin, White Minds: Filipino - American Postcolonial Psychology (NA) • Amazon Business $27.35 1 $27.35
Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism (Nation of Nations) • Amazon Business $27.00 1 $27.00
Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America • Amazon Business $25.74 1 $25.74
Hands Up, Don’t Shoot • Amazon Business $25.00 1 $25.00
Asian-Americans Who Inspire Us • Amazon Business $24.99 1 $24.99
A Black Women's History of the United States (REVISIONING HISTORY) • Amazon Business $24.95 1 $24.95
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower • Amazon Business $23.39 1 $23.39
Segregation by Design: Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities • Amazon Business $23.28 1 $23.28
Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration-and How to Achieve Real Reform • Amazon Business $23.11 1 $23.11
Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys (New Perspectives in Crime, Deviance, and Law) • Amazon Business $21.99 1 $21.99
America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States • Amazon Business $20.99 1 $20.99
Latino Mass Mobilization: Immigration, Racialization, And Activism • Amazon Business $19.89 1 $19.89
Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal • Amazon Business $19.89 1 $19.89
An African American and Latinx History of the United States (REVISIONING HISTORY) • Amazon Business $19.59 1 $19.59
The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea • Amazon Business $19.32 1 $19.32
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
Be Bold! Be Brave! 11 Latinas who made U.S. History (English and Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
Bleeding Out: The Devastating Consequences of Urban Violence--and a Bold New Plan for Peace in the Streets • Amazon Business $18.79 1 $18.79
Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration • Amazon Business $18.79 1 $18.79
Troublemakers: Lessons in Freedom from Young Children at School • Amazon Business $17.79 1 $17.79
Solitary • Amazon Business $17.39 1 $17.39
We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders: A Memoir of Love and Resistance • Amazon Business $17.31 1 $17.31
Migrating to Prison: America’s Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants • Amazon Business $17.25 1 $17.25
The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race • Amazon Business $17.19 1 $17.19
The Boy at the Back of the Class • Amazon Business $16.89 1 $16.89
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays • Amazon Business $16.52 1 $16.52
How We Fight White Supremacy • Amazon Business $16.38 1 $16.38
Clap When You Land • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America • Amazon Business $15.83 1 $15.83
Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements • Amazon Business $15.19 1 $15.19
Street Life: Poverty, Gangs, and a Ph.D. • Amazon Business $15.00 1 $15.00
Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928 • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
The 400 Year Head Start: Yet Still Destined for Glory • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto • Amazon Business $14.90 1 $14.90
He Said, She Said • Amazon Business $14.85 1 $14.85
Survival of the Richest: How the Corruption of the Marketplace and the Disparity of Wealth Created the Greatest Conspiracy of All • Amazon Business $14.77 1 $14.77
All American Boys • Amazon Business $14.66 1 $14.66
Are Prisons Obsolete? • Amazon Business $14.63 1 $14.63
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (REVISIONING HISTORY) • Amazon Business $14.40 1 $14.40
Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century (Volume 6) (American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present) • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
As Brave As You (Ala Notable Children's Books. Older Readers) • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
Stay Woke • Amazon Business $13.99 1 $13.99
A Queer History of the United States (REVISIONING HISTORY) • Amazon Business $13.97 1 $13.97
I Am Alfonso Jones • Amazon Business $13.93 1 $13.93
Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People's Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time • Amazon Business $13.64 1 $13.64
I Wish You All the Best • Amazon Business $13.43 1 $13.43
The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race • Amazon Business $13.29 1 $13.29
Let Me Hear a Rhyme • Amazon Business $13.25 1 $13.25
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II • Amazon Business $13.00 1 $13.00
How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
Watch Us Rise • Amazon Business $12.89 1 $12.89
SLAY • Amazon Business $12.79 1 $12.79
Black Girl Unlimited: The Remarkable Story of a Teenage Wizard • Amazon Business $12.69 1 $12.69
Sunny (3) (Track) • Amazon Business $12.49 1 $12.49
Long Way Down • Amazon Business $12.49 1 $12.49
Not So Pure and Simple • Amazon Business $12.44 1 $12.44
Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves • Amazon Business $12.44 1 $12.44
Genesis Begins Again • Amazon Business $12.29 1 $12.29
Jackpot • Amazon Business $12.26 1 $12.26
Odd One Out • Amazon Business $12.25 1 $12.25
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy • Amazon Business $12.16 1 $12.16
Human Targets: Schools, Police, and the Criminalization of Latino Youth • Amazon Business $12.08 1 $12.08
Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Other Words for Home • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Patina (2) (Track) • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
Lu (4) (Track) • Amazon Business $11.98 1 $11.98
The Great Book of Mexico: Interesting Stories, Mexican History & Random Facts About Mexico (History & Fun Facts) • Amazon Business $11.95 1 $11.95
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter • Amazon Business $11.79 1 $11.79
Amal Unbound • Amazon Business $11.79 1 $11.79
For Black Girls Like Me • Amazon Business $11.59 1 $11.59
Piecing Me Together • Amazon Business $11.53 1 $11.53
We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom • Amazon Business $11.20 1 $11.20
Dear Martin • Amazon Business $11.11 1 $11.11
Monster: A Graphic Novel • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
The Poet X • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Ghost (1) (Track) • Amazon Business $10.89 1 $10.89
No Ashes in the Fire • Amazon Business $10.79 1 $10.79
The Undefeated (Caldecott Medal Book) • Amazon Business $10.74 1 $10.74
Internment • Amazon Business $10.61 1 $10.61
Opposite of Always • Amazon Business $10.51 1 $10.51
The Crossover (Graphic Novel) (The Crossover Series) • Amazon Business $10.49 1 $10.49
But I Don't See You as Asian: Curating Conversations About Race • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
I'm Rising: Determined. Confident. Powerful. • Amazon Business $9.79 1 $9.79
On The Come Up • Amazon Business $9.45 1 $9.45
Monday's Not Coming • Amazon Business $9.19 1 $9.19
I'm Not Dying with You Tonight • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Yo no soy tu perfecta hija mexicana (Spanish Edition) • Amazon Business $8.79 1 $8.79
Some Places More Than Others • Amazon Business $8.49 1 $8.49
The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali • Amazon Business $8.49 1 $8.49
Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Squint • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Ghost Boys • Amazon Business $7.49 1 $7.49

Materials cost

$1,532.43

Vendor shipping charges

 $27.05

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$22.99

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$1,612.47

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$284.55

Total project goal

$1,897.02

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $1,897.02

15 Donors

-$1,879.38

Donations toward project cost

-$1,612.47

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$266.91

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$17.64

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