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Freedom Joy Library
As part of her installation, She asked her mother…, at Project Row Houses Round 53: The Curious Case of Critical Race…Theory?, Leah Gipson introduces the Freedom Joy Library, which includes a collection of children and teen literature that have been banned or challenged in schools. The library is inspired by the question that Black girls raise. Here you can listen to 12-year-old Jo-Anna Burnett who recorded her interview of David Duke for her social studies research project in 1989.
David Duke Interview (1989) – 12-year-old grills ex-KKK leader Source: https://archive.org/details/DavidDukeInterview1989
Library Collection
“The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian,” Sherman Alexie
"Woke: A Young Poet's Call to Justice," by Mahogany L. Browne, Elizabeth Acevedo and Olivia Gatwood
“Ruby Bridges Goes to School: My True Story” by Ruby Bridges
"King and the Dragonflies," by Kacen Callender
“Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story About Racial Injustice,” by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, and Ann Hazzard, illustrated by Jennifer Zivoin
“Newbery New Kid,” by Jerry Craft
“Class Act,” by Jerry Craft
"Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness," by Anastasia Higginbotham
"We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices," by Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson
"Monday's Not Coming," by Tiffany D. Jackson
“To Kill a Mockingbird,” by Harper Lee
“The Bluest Eye,” by Toni Morrison
“Beloved,” by Toni Morrison
"A Good Kind of Trouble," by Lisa Moore Ramée
"Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You," by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
"Ghost Boys," by Jewell Parker Rhodes
“The Hate U Give,” by Angie Thomas
“Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation” by Duncan Tonatiuh
"Salvage the Bones," by Jesmyn Ward
"When Wilma Rudolph Played Basketball," by Mark Weakland
"Go With the Flow," by Lily Williams and Karen Schneemann
She asked her mother… is dedicated to the women ancestors in Leah’s family, in honor of her mother Doris, a Florida elementary school library media specialist, and her Aunt Minnie Lee, a family historian and photographer. The project explores sacred spaces between Black daughters, mothers, and othermothers that create the possibility for questions of freedom while living in the South. The installation is a meditation on the spaces and rituals that Black girls invent when no other possibilities for their experiences and voices exist.