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Beacon Press
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English
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In an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin's essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written. With documentaries like I Am Not Your Negro bringing renewed interest to Baldwin's life and work, Notes of a Native Son serves as a valuable introduction.
Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his twenties, the essays...
Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his twenties, the essays...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"In this ... book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings. Beyond race, class, or other factors, there is a powerful caste system that influences people's lives and behavior and the nation's...
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English
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Recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. In essay, image, and poetry, Citizen is a testament to the individual and collective effects of racism in our contemporary, often named 'post-race' society.
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Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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"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. What were they afraid of? In Tremble for My Country, Coates takes readers along on his journey through America's history of race and its contemporary resonances through a series of awakenings -- moments...
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English
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Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America-it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues, racist ideas have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit. In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-black racist...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Journalist Wesley Lowery confronts the sickness at the heart of American society: the cyclical pattern of violence that has marred every moment of racial progress in this country, and whose bloodshed began anew following Obama's 2008 election" --Provided by publisher.
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Taking us from the slave era, when white women fought in court to keep "ownership" of their slaves, through the centuries of colonialism, when they offered a soft face for brutal tactics, to the modern workplace, White Tears/Brown Scars tells a charged story of white women's active participation in campaigns of oppression. It offers a long overdue validation of the experiences of women of color."--
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Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Presents the story of the Black experience in United States military history.
Written by Gail Buckley and adapted for young people by Tonya Bolden, this book presents the story of the African American experience in United States military history.
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In a "tale of racial cleansing in Forsyth County, Georgia and ... testament to the deep roots of racial violence in America, ... Patrick Phillips breaks the century-long silence of his hometown and uncovers history of racial terrorism that continues to shape America in the twenty-first century"--
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Publisher
Stanford University Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Although much has been written about the urban-rural divide in America, the city of Salinas, California, like so many other places in the state and nation whose economies are based on agriculture, is at once rural and urban. For generations, Salinas has been associated with migrant farmworkers from different racial and ethnic groups. This broad-ranging history of "the Salad Bowl of the World" tells a complex story of community-building in a multiracial,...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"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 [popular], Acho explains the vital core of such fraught concepts as white privilege, cultural appropriation, and 'reverse racism'"--Publisher marketing.
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