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Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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"Misty Copeland made history as the first African-American principal ballerina at the American Ballet Theatre. Her talent, passion, and perseverance enabled her to make strides no one had accomplished before. But as she will tell you, achievement never happens in a void. Behind her, supporting her rise was her mentor, Raven Wilkinson, who had been virtually alone in her quest to breach the all-white ballet world when she fought to be taken seriously...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"I am an Antiracist Superhero! is a story about 6-year-old Malik, who after learning about racism, decides to "change the world" by becoming an antiracist superhero. With the help of his parents, Malik learns that even when he is feeling scared, he can still be a superhero by Looking, Listening, Feeling, and Acting! Join Malik and his friends as they help other children feel safe, included, and empowered. Inviting children from all backgrounds to...
303) Jim Crow: voices from a century of struggle.Part One:1876-1919 : Reconstruction to the Red Summer
Series
Library of America volume 376
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
This collection of 80 dramatic firsthand writings by Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, and others brings to life the struggle for racial justice from the Civil War to World War. A vital resource for the teaching of the history of race in America that traces the ascendency of white supremacy after Reconstruction--and the outspoken resistance to it led by Black Americans and their allies. W.E.B. Du Bois famously identified "the problem of the color-line"...
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Language
English
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"A leading voice for social justice reveals how he stopped arguing with white people who deny the ongoing legacy of racism-and offers a proven path forward for Black people and people of color based on the history of nonviolent struggle. When the rallying cry "Black Lives Matter" was heard across the world in 2013, Andre Henry was one of the millions for whom the movement caused a political awakening and a rupture in some of his closest relationships...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Years of Rage is a revealing--and frightening--history of the many and varied white supremacist groups that have operated in the United States from the rebirth of the Klan in 1915 to the rise of the alt-right and the presidency of Donald J. Trump. Historian D.J. Mulloy explores the motivations and underlying beliefs of these racists, their fears of displacement, their propaganda, their propensity to commit acts of violence and terrorism, and their...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Adams Media trade paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
"From reparations to the prison industrial complex and redlining, there are a lot of high-level concepts to systemic racism that are hard to digest. At a time where everyone is inundated with information on structural racism, it can be hard to know where to start or how to visualize the disenfranchisement of BIPOC Americans. In Systemic Racism 101, you will find infographic spreads alongside explanatory text to help you visualize and truly understand...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"An award-winning journalist deals forthrightly with what it means to be black in Trump Country. In Why didn't we riot?, South Carolina-based journalist Issac J. Bailey reflects on a wide range of topics that have been increasingly dividing Americans, from police brutality and Confederate symbols to poverty and respectability politics. Bailey has been honing his views on these issues for the past quarter of a century in his professional and private...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"For many people, especially those who came of age after landmark civil rights legislation was passed, it is difficult to understand what it was like to be an African American living under Jim Crow segregation in the United States. Most young Americans have little or no knowledge about restrictive covenants, literacy tests, poll taxes, lynchings, and other oppressive features of the Jim Crow racial hierarchy. Even those who have some familiarity with...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
American laws have been unfair to Black people for all of the country's history, and not too long ago, brave men and women dedicated their lives to protesting inequality -- a fight that continues today. Through simple text, color illustrations, fact boxes and quizzes, young readers can learn the history of the Civil Rights movement.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"People of color must endure racial discrimination even as others may be blind to it. There is a lot of statistical data showing American institutions treat citizens very differently based on race. Many individuals believe this widespread racial discrimination occurs in numerous ways, from racial profiling and police brutality against black citizens to public examples of racism against people of color.Yet the prevalence of racial discrimination is...
314) The long shadow
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
From New Orleans to Virginia, Mississippi and Canada, Frances Causey and Sally Holst travel the roads of oppression, suppression, and even hope to reveal the connections of slavery and strong arm Southern politics to the current racial strife in America.
315) The bodies keep coming: dispatches from a black trauma surgeon on racism, violence, and how we heal
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
As a Harvard-trained physician, Williams learned to keep his head down and his scalpel ready. As a Black man, he learned to swallow the rage when patients told him to take out the trash. Just days after the tragic police shootings of two Black men, Williams tried to save the lives of police officers shot in Dallas in the deadliest incident for US law enforcement since 9/11. Thrust into the spotlight in a nation that loves feel-good stories about heroism...
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"From ongoing reports of police brutality to the disproportionate impact COVID-19 has had on Black Americans, 2020 brought a renewed awareness to the deep-rootedness of racism and white supremacy in every facet of American life. Edited by Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman, The Black Agenda is the first book of its kind-a bold and urgent move towards social justice through a profound collection of essays featuring Black scholars and experts across economics,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Black Privilege Publishing/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
A globally recognized civil rights activist presents an unwavering history of American systemic racism, a first-hand view of what makes for effective activism today, and a vision for lasting, positive change.
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