Not My Idea: A Book about Whiteness

Author(s) Anastasia Higginbotham
Illustrator(s)
Age Group 8-12
Publisher Dottir Press
ISBN 978-1948340007
Year 2018
Not My Idea: A Book about Whiteness

A white child sees a TV news report of a white police officer shooting and killing a Black man. "In our family, we don't see color," his mother says, but he sees the colors plain enough. An afternoon in the library's history stacks uncover the truth of racism and white supremacy in the U.S.. Racism was not his idea and he refuses to defend it.

Not My Idea: A Book about Whiteness