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Books del Sur curates Latin America Spanish-language literature to support dual language curriculum.
Books del Sur curates Latin America Spanish-language literature to support dual language curriculum.

Books About People of Color

Books del Sur's primary objective is to curate books from Spanish-speaking countries in order to disrupt the monolingual narrative commonly found in U.S. classrooms. We are inspired and guided by the work of the #weneeddiversebooks movement and the Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Therefore, our secondary objective at Books del Sur is to ensure that all narratives are represented in the books as well. While most of our books are written by people of color, many of the people in the books do not present as people of color. We recognize that representation is important and have done our best to curate a collection of Spanish books that are About People of Color. We selected this category based on the data that the CCBC has collected over the years, which we summarized in the following graph. 

Books By or About Children of Color by Year of Publication

The source and full data set are available on the CCBC website.

  • Book cover of Hear my Voice/Escucha mi Voz with an illustration of a scared child's face.
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    Hear My Voice / Escucha mi voz

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    Todos los días, los niños migrantes son detenidos en la frontera entre Estados Unidos y México. Están asustados, solos y sus vidas están en el limb...

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  • Book cover of Heroes Mapuche with an illustration of a large group of Mapuches.
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    Héroes mapuche

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    Este libro presenta un recorrido literario a partir de La Araucana de Alonso de Ercilla, con el fin de destacar y dar a conocer ciertos aspectos de...

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  • Book cover of Stamped: El Racismo, el Antrirracismo y Tu with an illustration of the silhouetted proifle view on a boy with five big red streaks of paint going across his face and the book cover.
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    Stamped: El racismo, el antiracismo y tu

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    El concepto de raza siempre se ha utilizado para ganar y mantener el poder, para crear dinámicas que separan y silencian. Esta notable adaptación d...

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  • Book cover of Todos Iguales. Un Corrido de Lemon Grove with an illustration of a bunch of kids outside a building pictured above the title, and a bundle of lemons on a branch pictured below the title.
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    Todos iguales. Un Corrido De Lemon Grove

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    Roberto Álvarez amaba la escuela. Junto con otros niños mexicoamericanos, asistió a la Escuela Lemon Grove, donde todos los estudiantes, mexicoamer...

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  • Book cover of El Jefe Seattle, La voz de un Pueblo Desterrado with an illustration of an indigenous person.
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    El jefe Seattle. La voz de un pueblo desterrado

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    Presenta una interpretación del famoso discurso del líder Suquamish, y ofrece antecedentes sobre los contactos entre indígenas y colonos en los Est...

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  • Book cover of Ella Persistio Thirteen Mujeres Americanas que Cambiaron el Mundo with an illustration of a girl holding a space ship, a girl sitting on a pile of books reading, and a girl holding letters.
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    Ella persistió 13 mujeres americanas que cambiaron el mundo

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    A principio de 2017, la postura de la Senadora Elizabeth Warren, al negarse a ser silenciada durante un debate en el Senado, provocó un espontáneo ...

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  • Book cover of El Nino que domo el Viento with an illustration of a windmill with a boy on it.
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    El niño que domó el viento

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    Cuando una terrible sequía asoló la pequeña aldea donde vivía William Kamkwamba, su familia perdió todas las cosechas y se quedó sin nada que comer...

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