Resilient Black Girl
An Empowering Antiracist Book for Teens
"Resilient Black Girl is a timely and powerful book for our Black girls and girls of color to reclaim their confidence and be beacons of courage and hope for generations to come."―Shanicia Boswell, author, Oh Sis, You’re Pregnant!
#1 New Release in Social Activists, Maturing, Women, and Teen & Young Adult 21st Century United States History
As a social justice book for teens and a book about racism, Resilient Black Girl provides Black teen girls a better understanding of the effects of racism and equips them with skills for navigating spaces in their daily lives.
An antiracist book for teens about the realities of being Black and combating racism. Young Black girls and young Black women are powerful. Unfortunately, you will face microaggressions and racism in your daily life. Resilient Black Girl empowers you to be brave and face challenges of oppression.
Become a community leader and an important member of society. In the spirit of the Black Lives Matter movement, learn to be a positive element in your community through allyship and activism. This journal and activity workbook provides the steps to achieving your personal and public goals.
Grow in confidence. Black girls have many gifts; one is resiliency. While you are strong and can overcome anything, racism affects physical and mental health. As an antiracist book for teens, Resilient Black Girl teaches Black teen girls about racism and helps them discover how to be kind to themselves and to love and take care of themselves.
Learn how to:
- Understand and combat racism and microaggressions
- Become a community leader
- Be brave, empowered, and self-reliant
Seeking young adult nonfiction social justice books for teens? Resilient Black Girl is the perfect read for Black teen girls, especially if you enjoyed Badass Black Girl, This Book Is Anti-Racist, or Well-Read Black Girl.
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Book details
- Author
- M.J. Fievre
- Imprint
- TMA Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 184
- Formats
- Paperback
- Series
- Badass Black Girl
- Ages
- 12-17
- Subjects
- Young Adult Nonfiction › Social Topics › Prejudice & Racism
Young Adult Nonfiction › Social Topics › Values & Virtues
Young Adult Nonfiction › Biography & Autobiography › Social Activists
Young Adult Nonfiction › Careers - Topics
- racism and antiracism · social justice · Black teen girls · resilience · empowerment · civil rights · identity and values · activism
- ISBN-13
- 9781642506549
About the author
M.J. FIEVRE is an educator and the author of nine books in French as well as Badass Black Girl, Empowered Black Girl and Resilient Black Girl.
Fievre holds a B.S. Ed and began her publishing career as a teenager in Haiti, signing her first contract with Hachette-Deschamps at nineteen for the Young Adult title La Statuette Maléfique. She has spoken as a keynote at Tufts University, Howard University, the University of Miami, and Middlebury College, and has appeared as a panelist at the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference.
When she’s not writing, Fievre works with veterans, disenfranchised youth, cancer patients and survivors, victims of domestic and sexual violence, the elderly, and others who use writing as a form of therapy. Her books reflect her commitment to affirming Black identity and building community.
M.J. lives in Winter Garden, Florida, with her husband, artist Thomas Logan.