How do stereotypes and prejudice work? What impact do they have on people’s lives? How can we deconstruct them and change our mindset?

This book explores stereotypes and prejudice across different areas: body, gender, education, immigration, religion, identity, sexual orientation, age, and new technologies.

Understanding how our mind reacts when faced with diversity can change the actions and behaviors that lead to discrimination. But our mind doesn’t work in an aseptic lab — it operates within a society shaped by power structures and group hierarchies that influence our ways of thinking.

With lively, easy-to-read text and comic-style illustrations, this book traces how social studies have explained stereotypes, prejudice, and their resistance to change, as well as strategies to deconstruct them.

To transform the ideas, actions, and sistems that generate discrimination, changing our mindset is not enough — nor are discussion or data alone. We need to meet people whose stories break the mold in which society has cast them. That’s why this book offers biographies of past and present figures who challenged prejudice and defied stereotypes. Lives shaped by desires, determination, struggles, and changes — creating a mosaic of possibilities for living and being in the world, expanding the imagination of the young readers this book is meant for.

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