Supporting diversity and equality

Supporting diversity and equality can be achieved in different ways. Books are a great way to foreground inclusion and to facilitate getting in contact with the kinds of experiences and lives of people that we may have never met yet in person.

These encounters with diversity in books can better prepare us for real encounters in the real world, and they will enrich and inform the views we hold about topics as diverse as migration, age and race. They can also help us teachers to reflect with our students on the different ways diversity manifests itself, and to start a long-term conversation where we develop sensitivity towards this topic as a teaching and learning community.

Here a list, which will grow over time:

1. La mochila by Jennifer Degenhardt

Oscar is living the American dream, and so is Michelle. Money, legal work, difficult family unification will complicate things… Some lives intersecting in San Antonio, in the the southwest of the United States, can change everything.

3. My Family Divided: One Girl’s Journey of Home, Loss, and Hope / En el país que amamos: Mi familia dividida

Diane Guerrero, the star of Orange is the New Black and Jane the Virgin, on her parents’ deportation and the nightmarish struggles of undocumented immigrants and their American children.