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Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xiii, 238 pages ; 20 cm
Description
"When Layla Saad began an Instagram challenge called #meandwhitesupremacy, she never predicted it would become a cultural movement. She encouraged people to own up and share their racist behaviors, big and small. She was looking for truth, and she got it... Thousands of people participated in the challenge, and over 80,000 people downloaded the supporting work Me and White Supremacy. Updated and expanded from the original edition, Me and White Supremacy...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Description
LuLu and Jelly are very excited to see the "colored" water they heard about in the city's water fountain, but are very surprised to learn what "colored" water actually means.
Author
Description
"Changez is living an immigrant's dream of America. At the top of his class at Princeton, he is snapped up by the elite valuation firm of Underwood Samson. He thrives on the energy of New York, and his budding romance with elegant, beautiful Erica promises entry into Manhattan society at the same exalted level once occupied by his own family back in Lahore. But in the wake of September 11, Changez finds his position in his adopted city suddenly overturned...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
viii, 244 pages ; 22 cm
Description
In Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man, Acho takes on all the questions, large and small, insensitive and taboo, many white Americans are afraid to ask?yet which all Americans need the answers to, now more than ever. With the same open-hearted generosity that has made his video series a phenomenon, Acho explains the vital core of such fraught concepts as white privilege, cultural appropriation, and “reverse racism.” In his own words,...
Publisher
Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"The collection of articles published on ESPN's Andscape platform features pieces that focus on the impact on American culture events such as the Black Lives Matter movement, the COVID-19 pandemic, race and the NFL, and more"--
8) Queen & Slim
Publisher
Universal
Formats
Description
While on a forgettable first date together in Ohio, a black man and a black woman, are pulled over for a minor traffic infraction. The situation escalates, with sudden and tragic results, when the man kills the police officer in self-defense. Terrified and in fear for their lives, the man, a retail employee, and the woman, a criminal defense lawyer, are forced to go on the run. But the incident is captured on video and goes viral, and the couple unwittingly...
Author
Series
Publisher
Cherry Lake Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
pages cm.
Description
"Students will learn about some of the inventions and discoveries Black men and women have made in the world of STEM. From Dr. Marie Maynard Daly to Dr. Tai-Danae Bradley, some of the many ways Black people have contributed to our country's science and technology are explored. The Racial Justice in America: Excellence and Achievement series celebrates Black achievement and culture, while exploring racism in a comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xxi, 296 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Recently graduated from Harvard University, Michelle Kuo arrived in the rural town of Helena, Arkansas, as a Teach for America volunteer in 2004, bursting with optimism and drive. But she soon encountered the jarring realities of life in one of the poorest counties in America, still disabled by the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow. In this stirring memoir, Kuo, the child of Taiwanese immigrants, shares the story of her complicated but rewarding mentorship...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1127
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An African-American businessman falls in love with an East Indian immigrant in Mississippi, and they are both shocked by the reactions of their families.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xi, 271 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"In her New York Times bestseller White Rage, Carol Anderson laid bare an insidious history of policies that have systematically impeded black progress in America, from 1865 to our combustible present. With One Person, No Vote, she chronicles a related history: the rollbacks to African American participation in the vote since the 2013 Supreme Court decision that eviscerated the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Known as the Shelby ruling, this decision effectively...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1127
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An African-American businessman falls in love with an East Indian immigrant in Mississippi, and they are both shocked by the reactions of their families.
Author
Appears on list
Description
"For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him--most urgently, why he, and other black people he knew, seemed to live in fear ... In [this book], Coates takes readers along on his journey through America's history of race and its contemporary resonances through a series of awakenings--moments when he discovered some new truth...
18) Grant Park
Author
Publisher
Bolden an Agate imprint
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
391 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Grant Park is a page-turning and provocative look at black and white relations in contemporary America, blending the absurd and the poignant in a powerfully well-crafted narrative that showcases Pitts's gift for telling emotionally wrenching stories. Grant Park begins in 1968, with Martin Luther King's final days in Memphis. The story then moves to the eve of the 2008 election, and cuts between the two eras as it unfolds. Disillusioned columnist...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
137 pages ; cm
Description
"In her first book, The Presidency in Black and White, journalist April Ryan examined race in America through her experience as a White House reporter. In this book, she shifts the conversation from the White House to every home in America. At Mama?s Knee looks at race and race relations through the lessons that mothers transmit to their children. As a single African American mother in Baltimore, Ryan has struggled with each gut wrenching, race related...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown, and Co
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
294 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Thirty-five years after a devastating accident that irrevocably shapes the lives of six people, a pair of redemption-seeking survivors reaches out to one another in an effort that is compromised by a fellow survivor's release from prison.
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