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41) The breaks
Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"An epistolary essay about race, inheritance, and mothering at the end of the world. In a letter to her six-year-old daughter, Julietta Singh writes toward a tender vision of the world, offering children's radical embrace of possibility as a model for how we might live. In order to survive looming political and ecological disasters, Singh urges, we must break from the conventions we have inherited and begin to orient ourselves toward more equitable...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
Tells the history of the Bosket family and how the pattern of violence that has followed them for generations had its roots in the rural South in slavery days. Focuses on Butch, the only person to earn a Ph.D. in prison, and his son, Willie, a murderer with a genius level IQ.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Taking the story of white supremacy in America back to 1493, and examining contemporary communities in Mississippi, Minnesota, and Oklahoma for models of racial repair, The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy helps chart a new course toward a genuinely pluralistic democracy. Beginning with contemporary efforts to reckon with the legacy of white supremacy in America, Jones returns to the fateful year when a little-known church doctrine emerged that shaped...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the United States' troubling relationship with race as reflected by four historical events, including the integration of a racist Birmingham school system and a Kansas City neighborhood's fight against housing discrimination.
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Lift Your Voice is a memoir of faith, hope, and bravery, of what we all—Black and white—need to do to eradicate racism from our society. It’s a story of tragic loss and a worldwide uprising to ensure Perry’s death ushers society into a time where people are no longer judged, hated, or killed because of the color of their skin"--
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Relates an incident from the childhood of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., when his best friend's father said they could no longer play together because "colored and white can't mix!"
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The Civil War was about states' rights, not slavery!" "If you don't like it here, you should go back to Africa." "What about Black-on-Black crime?" "You're just playing the race card." There's a whole arsenal of popular "gotchas" that crop up again and again in discussions about race in America. According to the people who use them, Critical Race Theory is a dangerous threat that promotes racial hatred, and affirmative action is reverse discrimination....
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A sweeping examination of how American racism has broken the country's social compact, eroded America's common goods, and damaged the lives of every American--and a heartfelt look at how these deep wounds might begin to heal"--
55) Hate thy neighbor: move-in violence and the persistence of racial segregation in American housing
Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Examines violence and intimidation by white residents directed at minorities who move into white neighborhoods, forcing minorities back into separate neighborhoods and maintaining housing segregation.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"A work of supreme control and complicated emotional subterfuge, YOU DON'T HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS is the breakout novel for one of Amerca's great young fiction writers. A book that uses the framework of our present reality to build it's own world, it blurs the line between fiction and nonfiction in the best way, and asks urgent, unforgettable questions about the future of our once great American cities, the state of American race relations, and the...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling series comes the latest title in the Who HQ Now format for trending topics. It tells the history of a political and social movement that advocates for non-violent civil disobedience and protests against incidents ofpolice brutality--and all racially motivated violence--against Black people"--
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