Title Not my idea : a book about whiteness / written and illustrated by Anastasia Higginbotham.

Publication Info.	New York : Dottir Press, [2018]
	©2018

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Avon Free Public Library - Children's Department	J 305.8 HIGGINBOTTOM	On Holdshelf
Bristol, Main Library - Children's Department	J305.8 HIG	Check Shelf
Canton Public Library - Children's Department	J 305.8 HIGGINBOTHAM	Check Shelf
Cheshire Public Library - Children's Department	J 305.8 HIGGINBOTHAM	Missing
East Hartford, Raymond Library - Children's Department	J 305.8 HIGGIN	Check Shelf
Enfield, Main Library - Children's Department	J 305.8 HIG	Check Shelf
Farmington, Barney Branch - Children's Department	J 305.8 HIG	Check Shelf
Farmington, Main Library - Children's Department	J 305.8 HIG	Missing
Manchester, Main Library - Children's Department	J 305.8009 HIGGINBOTHAM	Check Shelf
Manchester, Main Library - Children's Department	J 305.8009 HIGGINBOTHAM	Check Shelf

Edition	First edition.
Description	64 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Series	Ordinary terrible things
	Ordinary terrible things.
Summary	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 white supremacy in America. Racism was not his idea and he refuses to defend it.
	"A necessary children's book about whiteness, white supremacy, and resistance. Important, accessible, needed." -- Kirkus Review.
Awards	School Library Journal, starred review.
Subject	White people -- Race identity -- Juvenile literature.
	Racism -- Juvenile literature.
	Prejudices -- Juvenile literature.
	Racism -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
	Racism -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
	Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.
	African Americans -- Social conditions -- Juvenile literature.
	White supremacy movements -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
	Denial (Psychology) -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
	United States -- Race relations -- Juvenile literature.
	Prejudices. (OCoLC)fst01075260
	Racism. (OCoLC)fst01086616
	White people -- Race identity. (OCoLC)fst01174825
	Picture books.
	Racism -- Fiction.
	White people -- Race identity -- Fiction.
	Prejudices -- Fiction.
	United States -- Race relations -- Fiction.
	Racism -- United States -- History.
Genre/Form	Picture books.
	Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
	Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
	Picture books. (OCoLC)fst01726789
ISBN	9781948340007 (hardcover)
	1948340003 (hardcover)

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