SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART The For Freedoms Reading Library on equity, diversity, and civic action is compiled by Frankie de Vera, librarian at San José Public Library in response to issues addressed by artists in the exhibition Rise Up! Social Justice in Art from the Collection of J. Michael Bewley, on view at SJMA through September 30, 2018.
TEEN All books can be borrowed from San José Public Library Suggested books on social justice for teens 12 – 18
NO CHOIRBOY
Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row
by Susan Kuklin THE TEEN GUIDE TO GLOBAL ACTION
How to Connect with Others (Near & Far) to Create Social Change
by Barbara A. Lewis MARCH. BOOK ONE by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin; illustrated by Nate Powell HOW IT WENT DOWN by Kekla Magoon MONSTER by Walter Dean Myers; illustrations by Christopher Myers CAN YOUR SMARTPHONE CHANGE THE WORLD? by Erinne Paisley
SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED
THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT by Peggy J. Parks
by Arin Andrews
QUEER, THERE, AND EVERYWHERE
FIGHT LIKE A GIRL
by Sarah Prager; illustrated by Zoe More O'Ferrall
by Laura Barcella, illustrated by Summer Pierre
BE A CHANGEMAKER
STONEWALL
by Laurie Ann Thompson
by Ann Bausum
GABI, A GIRL IN PIECES by Isabel Quintero
The Not-So-Secret Life of a Transgender Teen
50 Feminists Who Changed the World
Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights
RACIAL PROFILING: EVERYDAY INEQUALITY by Alison Marie Behnke QUEER: THE ULTIMATE LGBT GUIDE FOR TEENS by Kathy Belge and Marke Bieschke
23 People Who Changed the World
How to Start Something That Matters
PIECING ME TOGETHER by Renee Watson AMERICAN STREET by Ibi Zoboi
BLACK LIVES MATTER by Sue Bradford Edwards and Duchess Harris ACTIVISM: THE ULTIMATE TEEN GUIDE by Kathlyn Gay BEING JAZZ: MY LIFE AS A (TRANSGENDER) TEEN by Jazz Jennings HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL WORLD edited by Kelly Jensen BEYOND MAGENTA
Transgender Teens Speak Out
For Freedoms is a platform for civic engagement, discourse, and direct action for artists in the United States, founded in 2016 by artists Hank Willis Thomas and Eric Gottesman. As part of the For Freedoms 50 State Initiative, a non-partisan, nationwide campaign to use art as a means of inspiring broad civic participation, SJMA will host a For Freedoms Town Hall meeting on September 5, 2018.
by Susan Kuklin
SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART
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