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41) Race talk and the conspiracy of silence: understanding and facilitating difficult dialogues on race
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xxi, 282 pages ; 23 cm
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
c2021.
Physical Desc
408 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"A timely and arresting debut for anyone looking for insight into what it means to be a Black woman in the world. Three Black women are linked in unexpected ways to the same influential white man in Stockholm as they build their new lives in the most open society run by the most private people. Successful marketing executive Kemi Adeyemi is lured from the U.S. to Sweden by Jonny von Lundin, CEO of the nation's largest marketing firm, to help fix a...
Publisher
Teletime Video
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (57 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Deeply moving, inspiring and empowering profiles of 3 diverse, heroic Women that experienced life’s harshest trials; Racism, Disease, Poverty, War, Child Abuse and emerged through the spirit of entrepreneurship. Stories that demonstrates the power of refusing to fall victim to their lifes’ challenges and emerged to prosperity through the spirit of entrepreneurship. A woman of color who rose from poverty, racism, teen pregnancy, near bankruptcy...
44) Bully
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (99 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
BULLY is an unflinching look at how bullying has touched five kids and their families, revealing a problem that transcends geographic, racial, and ethnic borders.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 22 cm
Description
High school senior Harriet is still grabbling with her mother's death when an unwanted property sale causes her to join forces with her new neighbor to stop Belle Grove Plantation from turning into a wedding venue.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
217 p. ;
Description
"Families may not always see eye to eye; we get on each other's nerves, have different perspectives and lives-especially if we've grown up in different generations. But for the Ruffin family and many others, there has been one constant that connects them:racism hasn't gone anywhere. From her raucous musical numbers to turning upsetting news into laughs as the host of The Amber Ruffin Show or in her Late Night with Seth Meyers segments, Amber is no...
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
385 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
Description
In Jason Mott's Hell of a Book, a Black author sets out on a cross-country publicity tour to promote his bestselling novel. That storyline drives Hell of a Book and is the scaffolding of something much larger and urgent: since Mott's novel also tells the story of Soot, a young Black boy living in a rural town in the recent past, and The Kid, a possibly imaginary child who appears to the author on his tour. As these characters' stories build and...
Author
Publisher
Versify, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
116 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
What is racism? What is antiracism? Why are both important to learn about? In this book, systemic racism and the antiracist tools to fight it are easily accessible to the youngest readers.
49) New boy
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Formats
Description
A poignant, unforgettable adaptation of Othello set in the fierce world of preadolescent children, where the grown-up forces of love and jealousy, and the hurt of being ostracized, can be as real and as devastating as for any adult. Arriving at his fourth school in six years, diplomat's son Osei Kokote knows he needs an ally if he is to survive his first day--so he's lucky to hit it off with Dee, the most popular girl in school. But one student can't...
51) This is the fire
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
4 CDs (4 hrs., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Don Lemon brings his vast audience and experience as a reporter and a Black man to today's most urgent question: How can people end racism in America in their lifetimes?
Author
Series
Publisher
A Kids Book About
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) ; 26 cm.
Description
"This book was made to help kids understand what systemic racism is and how it's built into laws, schools, stories, and other inistitutions in a way that collectively makes life much harder for people of color." -- back cover
53) Not My Idea
Publisher
Ouat Media
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (8 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A white child sees TV coverage of a police shooting—and has some questions. Adults in the child’s life deflect and turn away, but a narrator, voiced by the author Anastasia Higginbotham, invites the child—and viewers—to become curious about racism, accept that it's real, and cultivate justice.
54) Perro Bomba
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (83 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Steevens is a young Haitian immigrant living a challenging, but somewhat stable life in Santiago de Chile: he has a construction job, a home, friends, and fun. This precariously balanced life is disrupted when Junior, a childhood friend from Haiti, arrives in Chile seeking assistance from Steevens to establish himself. Junior has entered Chile without papers and doesn’t speak any Spanish. Steevens does everything he can to support his friend and...
56) 60 Days In
Publisher
A&E®
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
60 Days In offers an unprecedented look at life behind bars at Indiana's Clark County Jail as seven innocent volunteers are sent to live among its general population for 60 days.
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xxiii, 415 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Description
"Heather C. McGhee's specialty is the American economy--and the mystery of why it so often fails the American public. As she dug into subject after subject, from the financial crisis to declining wages to collapsing public infrastructure, she found a common problem at the bottom of them all: racism--but not just in the obvious ways that hurt people of color. Racism has costs for white people, too. It's the common denominator in our most vexing public...
58) De-Escalation
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (65 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
The film provides the solution to police use of excessive force. Renowned experts from various fields offer insight into seven prominent cases while exploring unique techniques that could be used by law enforcement to avoid excessive force.
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (126 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
On August 3rd, 2019, a racist murderer, hating Mexican people, committed the ultimate hate crime. This film honors all of the innocent victims without one mention of the shooter. This is a complete analysis of what happened that day, as well as an exploration of many overlooked angles.
Publisher
Twin Seas Media
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (57 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Ashley Bryan is a 94-year-old creative wonder who skips and jumps in his heart like a child. He served in a World War II all-Black battalion and experienced the D-Day and the racism of a segregated Army. As a result he dedicated his life to creating beauty and joy, spreading love and awe through his art. He's a poet/illustrator of over 50 award-winning children's books, former professor at Dartmouth College, and maker of magical puppets and sea glass...
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