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thumbedpages · 2 years
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Nic Stone - Dear Martin and Dear Justyce
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covergirlnay · 2 years
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It’s the asinine logic for me 🤦🏾‍♀️
A high school teacher, Kimberly Morrison, was fired because her lesson was accused of teaching Critical Race Theory (something that is taught on the college level and not k-12)😑. One of her students felt “guilty” for being white after she distributed the handout on “How racially privileged are you?” 💁🏾‍♀️. The handout, that she found online and was approved by her admin, was used as a pretext for a discussion that took place between characters in Chapter 3 of the book.
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So because this book talks about racism and police brutality (things that are very relatable today) that equates to CRT? I guess if there is anything that brings awareness to inequality of any minority, and makes someone of the majority uncomfortable, then it has to immediately be shut down. But screw the uncomfortableness of the minority 💁🏾‍♀️
I hope that Kimberly Morrison is able to land on her feet and find a teaching job where she is truly appreciated. Thank you for trying to bring awareness with an eye opening read.
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bookcoversonly · 6 months
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Title: Dear Justyce | Author: Nic Stone | Publisher: Crown (2020)
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quantalabs · 7 months
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I finished Dear Justyce recently and holy shit it's amazing. I went into it thinking it would be similar to Dear Martin but I was so wrong. Dear Justyce is so great just by itself. It's a brilliant novel, not just a brilliant sequel.
And its plot- it can't be compared to its predecessor. Dear Justyce is a much heavier novel than Dear Martin. It's an examination of not just the microagressions but the systemic racism of the justice justyce system. It shows us the entire story of Quan, not just what we saw from Dear Martin.
If I'm being honest- this book is the only sequel that I've read that is as good, if not better than, the first book. Please read this brilliant piece of literature.
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gothicprep · 4 months
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was killing some time and stumbled onto a subreddit for teachers, and someone opened up a thread about why some school districts don't teach to kill a mockingbird anymore, and why it's being replaced with more contemporary books that the OP isn't as satisfied with teaching. the example she brings up is "dear justyce" by nic stone, which is a contemporary novel that came out in 2020. and basically her question is, if the intention is to teach a book that deals with racism in america, why not go for something by toni morrison instead? the answers broadly split into two general categories: that white conservative parents are throwing a hissy fit because they don't want anything to do with their kids being taught a novel about 20th century american racism nevermind they were probably taught tkam themselves. the others are saying that it's white savior trash, and some people are echoing that and being like "look at all those people who are calling it white savior trash"
i think it's probably fair to guess that the exact answer is going to vary a lot depending on the school district that's opting out, but these explanations seem a bit too culture war-y, which makes me a bit suspicious about how accurate they are. the triggered conservative parent would probably have more of an ax to grind with something like dear justyce, and the white savior thing doesn't answer her question about why something like "beloved" isn't chosen instead. they're kind of non-answers. and stuff like this basically relates back to why i think viewing everything through the lens of political polarization is such a neurotoxican.
because i'm not an english teacher and don't have insider insight, i can only speculate, but i think what's actually going on here (at least on a macro sense, not related to regional specific school board scraps) boils down to competing theories about what the purpose of an english class should be. it's been a long time since i was in middle and high school, but i remember our reading assignments being basically supplemental material to our history lessons. and from multiple vantage points too – we were assigned tkam and huck finn, but also a raisin in the sun and their eyes were watching god. and even though i didn't ~love~ everything we had to read, i definitely feel like i retained a lot more than i would have otherwise from both classes because the material was working in tandem. history sticks a bit better when you also have some context of the type an era is producing. at least it did for me.
but around the time i left, i remember there was a bit of debate popping up in the culture around whether an english class should be something like that, something that was hyper-focused on literary devices and analysis, or something that was more designed around contemporary YA type books in order to encourage teenagers to develop a relationship with reading.
i'm not so naive to think that none of the changes in curricula are completely separate to the politics, i think it's probably more that the attitude of what these sorts of classes is moving away from "we're learning about mccarthyism in history. we're being taught the crucible in english" or "you can pass this class by plagiarizing sparknotes" models to the "hopefully the kids don't find their assigned reading to be a total slog" one in the last decade and change.
that's my best guess, anyway. surprised i didn't see anyone raise this point.
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haveyoureadthispoll · 2 months
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Justyce McAllister is top of his class and set for the Ivy League—but none of that matters to the police officer who just put him in handcuffs. And despite leaving his rough neighborhood behind, he can't escape the scorn of his former peers or the ridicule of his new classmates. Justyce looks to the teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for answers. But do they hold up anymore? He starts a journal to Dr. King to find out. Then comes the day Justyce goes driving with his best friend, Manny, windows rolled down, music turned up—way up, sparking the fury of a white off-duty cop beside them. Words fly. Shots are fired. Justyce and Manny are caught in the crosshairs. In the media fallout, it's Justyce who is under attack.
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booksinmythorax · 5 months
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Some fiction books with sad endings to consider reading, and why
Raise your hand if you've ever been personally victimized by a book where the dog dies at the end. Raise your other hand if you literally flinch when you hear the words "Bridge to Terabithia".
So much of what we read for school in America, at least when I was growing up, was so sad, wasn't it? It was worse when the sadness wasn't earned, when the book was 100 pages of playing with puppies and then 20 pages of sobbing (looking at you, Where the Red Fern Grows).
Why all the bummers? There's a little bit of snobbishness at play there - speaking as someone who got an English degree in undergrad, there are a lot of people who don't believe a book has literary value if it has a happy ending. But there's something more, too: emotional education.
Globally, we're dealing with a lot of sadness in real life right now and have been for many years. There is a very real global mental health crisis happening, especially among young people. Sometimes it is good to use media as a fluffy escape from a grim reality, and as a species we do love a happy ending. I firmly believe in hope and love the hopepunk genre - but I also believe that everything doesn't work out the way we want it to all the time.
Sadness in fiction can function as practice or companionship for experiencing sadness in real life. If you're in the right mindset, it's important to read sad books.
It's not a spoiler to say that the endings of the following books are sad. These books deal with sad material or characters who struggle throughout. Also, a sad ending doesn't necessarily mean the hero doesn't win, that there is no hope for the characters or their world, or that everything is meaningless. It just means acknowledging that suffering is real, sacrifices are sometimes necessary, and at some point, we all have to grieve.
I've listed some titles you might want to peruse below the cut. The "sadness" in them varies book to book, from the personal to the global. I'm linking to The Storygraph for each title, in case you'd like to check the content warnings there. Please comment or send me an ask if you'd like to suggest a title to add to this list! I'd be especially grateful for titles written by Black authors, indigenous authors, and authors of color; titles by Jewish and Muslim authors; and/or titles that were not originally published in English.
-The His Dark Materials trilogy, ending with The Amber Spyglass, by Phillip Pullman (middle grade fantasy about a world where everyone's soul is external, expressed by an animal called a daemon, and a young girl who uncovers a scientific mystery with multiversal consequences)
-A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness (young adult fabulism about a boy whose mother has a terminal illness and who suddenly begins receiving visits from a large treelike monster late at night)
-The Elegance of the Hedgehog, written in French by Muriel Barbery and translated into English by Alison Anderson (adult contemporary fiction about a friendship between a middle-aged concierge and a teenage girl with depression, both of whom are secretly brilliant but pretend not to be)
-The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang (adult fantasy about a young woman who gains unimaginable power, paralleling the brutal occupation of China by Japan during World War II)
-The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (young adult historical fiction, narrated by a personified Death, about a girl who begins to steal books in Nazi Germany)
-Dear Martin by Nic Stone (young adult contemporary fiction about a Black American boy named Justyce who begins to write letters to Martin Luther King Jr. after he experiences police violence)
-House Arrest by K.A. Holt (middle grade contemporary fiction in verse about a boy who is put on house arrest for stealing money for his baby brother's medical bills)
-Anger Is a Gift by Mark Oshiro (young adult contemporary fiction about a Black American boy who gets panic attacks after his father is murdered by police, whose life is changed irreversibly again after police violence at his school)
-We Are Okay by Nina Lacour (young adult contemporary fiction about a young lesbian who finds herself reflecting on her grief alone in her dorm over winter break)
-The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (young adult contemporary fiction about a girl who witnesses the violent death of a friend at the hands of police, whose murder then starts a wave of national protests and personal turmoil)
-Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein (young adult historical fiction about two young women, one a spy, the other a pilot, during WWII)
-And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini (adult historical fiction about a poor family in Afghanistan who experiences far-reaching consequences after a father decides to sell his three-year-old daughter to a wealthy, childless couple)
-A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (adult historical fiction about two Afghani women who marry the same man decades apart after each experiences a family tragedy, as well as what comes after)
-Beloved by Toni Morrison (adult historical fiction about a formerly enslaved woman haunted by the living ghost of her daughter, who died violently as a baby)
-The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides (adult contemporary fiction about a family of sheltered girls who begin to commit suicide one by one)
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tagged by my beloved @rejectscanon <333
last song: the summoning - nerdy prudes must die
last movie: uhhhh i cannot say. um, does nerdy prudes must die count? if not, come from away was filmed professionally and i watched that? i don't really watch movies lol
currently reading: GOD SO MUCH! i just finished and then there were none - loved it btw! trying to decide what i want to read next... it'll either be dear justyce, they both die at the end, or it's kind of a funny story. those are three of the book club books my kiddos are reading! slowly making my way through them! i've read four or five so far! actually, imma list them <333 thief of always, unwind, dear martin, and then there were none. okay so four haha!
currently watching: ... does nerdy prudes must die count? look. it dropped yesterday and FEELINGS. other than that, just been rewatching random stuff for background noise since i haven't been able to start anything new recently!
current obsession: *deep, pathetic sigh* bnha lol (still haven't like Fully read or watched it yet oops-) and aLSO BSD!!! BELOVEDS!!!
tagging: @zukkaoru, @hawksatoru, and @microwaveango( no pressure ofc 💞)
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thebookworm0001 · 2 years
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there is a thing about the ‘replace the classics with ya lit’ thing thta I think a good chunk of tumblr is ignoring
And it’s the fact that argument originated as a pushback against the idea that ya lit is worthless vs canon (the gender and racial identities of the authors being a major contributor to their perceived value)
The other part is that it was largely a conversation centered around education
When was the last time you tried to convince a teenager to read A Tale or Two Cities? The Scarlet Letter? Goddamn Shakespeare even?
Education has to be responsive to students and students are not responding to the classics
Some are, sure, but the grand majority are not.
You know what they are responding to? The Hate U Give. Dear Justyce. The Long Way Down. And a million other books written by people and focusing on characters that look like them and act like them and have the same experiences as them. Stories somehow deeply concerned with the issues they deal with daily and that aren’t written in absurdly complex ways in a dialect of English that is painful to read even when you’re a native speaker.
Yes the classics have value and getting rid of them completely isn’t smart. Challenging literature has its place and learning to engage with it is very important.
But you can’t get kids to do that if they hate reading.
If all they do is read verbose old dead white men they feel is utterly removed their interests and experiences, they will grow to hate reading and they’ll simply sparknotes the answers to the deep questions you want them to engage with. That’s what educators observe daily.
So yeah. Ditch the classics. Bring in the YA. You can do deep, intellectual analysis of literally anything. Let’s make sure the kids actually want to try.
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thelibraryofeden · 2 years
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Currently my reading goal is to finish all the series I have started. I have about like 50-60 books to read
I want to finish the Full metal alchemist manga
Finish the simonverse (including the hate u give series and dear martin/justyce)
finish the simon snow trilogy and fan girl
Did you know beloved was a trilogy? i didn’t but i have to finish that
the percy jackson series including the trials of apollo, kane chonicles, heroes of olympus, magnus chase and the gods of asgard, Percy jacksons greek heroes/gods and the demi-god files.
the ultimate hitchhikers guide to the galaxy and the salmon of doubt
circe by madeline miller
All the books set in the heartstopper universe (solitaire, loveless, radio silence, I was born for this)
and this Coven won’t break by Isabel sterling.
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looksforleaders · 2 months
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Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: 📷🩵NWT Dear Martin Paperback Book.
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thumbedpages · 8 months
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Nic Stone - Dear Martin and Dear Justyce
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lettieriletti · 6 months
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Dear Martin - Edizione italiana
Dear Martin - Edizione italiana Justyce è un bravo ragazzo. Non ha commesso alcun reato. E allora perché quel poliziotto lo ha ammanettato e sbattuto a terra? Ma soprattutto: se non fosse afroamericano le cose sarebbero andate diversamente?
Justyce è un bravo ragazzo. Non ha commesso alcun reato. E allora perché quel poliziotto lo ha ammanettato e sbattuto a terra? Ma soprattutto: se non fosse afroamericano le cose sarebbero andate diversamente? Libro vincitore del Premio Mare di Libri 2023 – Miglior libro Young Adult
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gn349 · 1 year
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DEAR MARTIN
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[Cover art for Dear Martin]. (n.d.). Retrieved March 7, 2023, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dear_Martin
Dear Martin by Nic Stone tells the story of high school student Justyce McAllister as he navigates certain social issues. While attending a predominately white preparatory high school on a scholarship, and heading towards an ivy league college career, Justyce is attacked and handcuffed by a police officer, which is a triggering event and causes him to question life as a black teenager in current society. After this horrifying experience he begins writing in a journal addressing his entries to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr and tries to think of what he would do in these situations.
Dead Martin is an easy and fast read that keeps the reader wanting more. Stone’s writing style and Justyce’s journal entries are a magnificent combination that genuinely makes you feel the pain that is experienced throughout the novel. Dear Martin tells a heart-wrenching story of racial prejudice and racial injustice that is, unfortunately, deeply bred into a society. So many emotions were felt while reading, mostly sadness and anger, but there were also moments of joy and happiness. I genuinely believe teens will enjoy the read and hopefully become enlightened by the story being told. SPOILER ALERT!!!!! Manny’s death really hit home while reading, and the fact that an act so innocent, such as listening to music, can cause an individual to feel threatened and take another person's life. This novel is a 10/10 must-read and I plan on reading Dear Justyce, the sequel to this book.
AWARDS:
2018 Finalist for the William C. Morris Debut YA Award
2018 American Library Association's (ALA) Top Ten Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults
2018 ALA's Top Ten Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers
2018 - Starred review from Booklist
2018 Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award Nominee
2020 South Carolina Book Award Nominee for Young Adult
2020 Lincoln Award Nominee
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Watch Nic Stone herself discuss the inspiration behind Dear Martin and also provide a quick summary of the novel!
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dear-martin · 1 year
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three major themes in dear martin were privilege, implicit biases, and acceptance and belonging. justyce faced these throughout the novel.
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annenash · 2 years
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 Raw, captivating, and undeniably real, Nic Stone joins industry giants Jason Reynolds and Walter Dean Myers as she boldly tackles American race relations in this stunning debut.Justyce McAllister is top of his class and set for the Ivy League?but none of that matters to the police officer who just put him in handcuffs. And despite leaving his rough neighborhood behind, he can't escape the scorn of his former peers or the ridicule of his new classmates. Justyce looks to the teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for answers. But do they hold up anymore? He starts a journal to Dr. King to find out.Then comes the day Justyce goes driving with his best friend, Manny, windows rolled down, music turned up?way up, sparking the fury of a white off-duty cop beside them. Words fly. Shots are fired. Justyce and Manny are caught in the crosshairs. In the media fallout, it's Justyce who is under attack.
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