Curated by the David & Lorraine Cheng Library at William Paterson University, this comprehensive annotated resource list is designed to support educators, school librarians, and future teachers in integrating social justice, equity, and antiracism themes into PreK–12 curricula. Developed with the support of a Carnegie-Whitney Grant, the collection includes high-quality, inclusive literature spanning picture books, fiction, nonfiction, poetry, teaching resources, and vetted online resources. These materials promote critical conversations around race, identity, culture, tolerance, and justice in age-appropriate ways. The collection empowers educators and librarians to build culturally responsive lesson plans and engage students in meaningful learning experiences that reflect diverse perspectives and lived realities. Highlights include texts on Black history, Indigenous resilience, LGBTQ+ identities, immigration, and intersectionality. Each entry in the downloadable annotated bibliography is carefully selected to help foster empathy, awareness, and student agency. Whether you're an experienced teacher, a school librarian, or a preservice educator, this resource supports inclusive instruction that inspires the next generation to understand and embrace diversity. Browse the curated selections to find dynamic tools for creating equitable learning environments across grade levels.
The Antiracism Resource Collection for P–12 Educators and Librarians offers a rich compilation of annotated materials that promote social justice, equity, and antiracism for PreK-12th grade students. Highlights include Anti-Racist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi, We Want to Do More Than Survive by Bettina Love, and Cultivating Genius by Gholdy Muhammad—each providing practical frameworks and inspiration for inclusive pedagogy. Picture books such as Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry and Change Sings by Amanda Gorman encourage positive identity and empowerment. Fiction selections like The 1619 Project: Born on the Water and novels by Angie Thomas and Nic Stone center lived experiences of marginalized communities. Overall, the guide is a comprehensive tool for fostering empathy, representation, and critical consciousness in classrooms and libraries.
The Carnegie-Whitney Grant provides grants for the preparation of popular or scholarly reading lists, webliographies, indexes and other guides to library resources that will be useful to users of all types of libraries in the United States. This grant was founded in 2000.
Grants are awarded to individuals; local, regional or state libraries, associations or organizations, including units, affiliates and committees of the American Library Association, or programs of information and library studies/science. International applicants welcome.