Better than we found it: conversations to help save the world

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Author

Joseph, Frederick

Publisher

Candlewick Press

Publication Date

2022.

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

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Table of Contents

From the Book - First edition.

Foreword / by Taylor Denise Richardson --

Introduction: Together, we can... --

Not all information is created equal: the dangers of disinformation / (featuring Chelsea Clinton and David Villalpando) --

We're the Planeteers; you can be one, too: the threat of the climate crisis and environmental racism / (featuring Willy and Jo Lorenz and Mari Copeny) --

Sledgehammers and glass ceilings: being a feminist and womanist accomplice / (featuring Brittany Packnett Cunningham and Mehcad Brooks) --

Let them eat cake: the damage caused by the wealth gap / (featuring Robert Reich) --

We shouldn't be afraid to leave home: the devastation of gun violence / (featuring Shannon Watts and Brandon Wolf) --

You can't discover a place if people are already there: the importance of addressing Indigenous land theft / (featuring Anton Treuer and Andrea Tulee) --

Black squares don't save lives: consistently practicing anti-racism and (re)learning history / (featuring Dr. Sonja Cherry-Paul) --

The more you know!: the need for education reform / (featuring Elizabeth Warren) --

The heteronormative agenda: the dangers and ignorance of homophobia / (featuring Brandon T. Snider) --

The price of life: the importance of health care reform / (featuring Anna Paquin and Jesse Katz) --

You, me, us, them: respecting gender identities / (featuring Charlotte Clymer and Ben O'Keefe) --

Home is where the rent is (or isn't): the need for housing security / (featuring Julián Castro) --

We have money for war but won't feed the poor: understanding the Military Industrial Complex / (featuring Amed Khan) --

America's modern slavery: dismantling the Prison-Industrial Complex / (featuring Nic Stone) --

Is everyone really welcome?: the dangers of ableism / (featuring Keah Brown, Natalie Weaver, and Greg D'Amato) --

No human is illegal: the impact of immigration policy / (featuring Daniel Alejandro Leon-Davis) --

The end: we can be heroes: on seeing each other's humanity / (featuring Frederick Joseph and Porsche Joseph) --

The dictionary of change.

Subjects

Subjects

Civil rights
Civil rights -- Juvenile literature
Critical race theory
Critical race theory -- Juvenile literature
Human rights
Human rights -- Juvenile literature
Juvenile works
Nonfiction
Postmodernism
Postmodernism -- Juvenile literature
Social change
Social change -- Juvenile literature
Social problems
Social problems -- Juvenile literature
Young adult works

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Contributors

Brooks, Mehcad,1980- contributor
Brown, Keah contributor
Castro, Julián contributor
Cherry-Paul, Sonja contributor
Clinton, Chelsea contributor

ISBN

9781536224528

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