Using Racist Children’s Books to Teach Anti-Racism

Tips for parents and teachers when there’s no “Beware: Racism Inside” label on the front

Jeanne Yacoubou, MS
An Injustice!
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12 min readApr 8, 2021

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This past week, Captain Underpants joined Dr. Seuss for content deemed inappropriate for their impressionable young readers.

A few drawings in several books were characterized as exhibiting “passive racism”…

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