Rise Up!: How You Can Join the Fight Against White Supremacy
by Crystal M. Fleming
Middle School, High School    Holt    256 pp.    g
10/21    978-1-250-22638-9    $19.99
e-book ed.  978-1-250-22639-6    $10.99

Professor and critical race sociologist Fleming introduces teens to the history of race and racism, beginning with an overview of racist ideas and practices and how they relate to white supremacy. Through examples including European colonizers’ stealing of land from Indigenous peoples; the enslavement of Africans; and the U.S.’s exclusion of people from Asia and Latin America through immigration policies, she traces the perpetuation of white supremacy. She also shows, in concrete detail, how racist ideas and practices affect the law; the images we see in movies and other media (with pictures throughout adding context); and the world of sports. Fleming provides readers with the language and knowledge necessary to begin an antiracist journey and offers five steps they can take. She notes from the outset that racism can be an uncomfortable subject but expresses hope that teens learning about it early can enact change. Detailed source notes and an index are appended.

From the November/December 2021 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.