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Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks?those that are honest about the past and those that are not?that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation?s collective history, and ourselves. It is the story of the Monticello Plantation in Virginia, the estate where Thomas Jefferson wrote letters espousing the urgent need for liberty...
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Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
viii, 374 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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Born To Slaves in 1862, Ida B. Wells became a fearless antilynching crusader, women's rights advocate, and journalist.Well's refusal to accept any compromise on racial equality caused to her to be labeled a "dangerous radical" in her day, but made her a model for later civil rights activists, as well as a powerful witness to the trouble radical politics of her era. Always militant in her quest for radical justice, Wells rejected not only Booker T.Washington's...
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Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
243 pages ; 24 cm
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"Bestselling author Ellis Cose's groundbreaking latest work interrogates pivotal decisions from enslavement to the New Deal to the handling of Covid that established the United States discriminatory practices for centuries to come. Numerous racialized decisions have solidified America's, and people of color's, fate at different points in history. The first were race-based slavery and the removal of Indigenous peoples from their land. More have proliferated...
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Publisher
Debate
Pub. Date
c2021.
Physical Desc
650 pages ; 23 cm
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"Tras la elección de Barack Obama, muchos declararon el inicio de una era postracial. Sin embargo, el pensamiento racista, más sofisticado e insidioso que nunca, sigue profundamente arraigado en la sociedad estadounidense. Tal y como argumenta Ibram X. Kendi-la voz más influyente de la lucha antirracista y uno de los referentes actuales del movimiento #BlackLivesMatter-,aunque las ideas racistas se desarrollan, difunden y consagran muy fácilmente,...
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