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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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ALA Most Challenged of 2021
Books for teens on race, racism, and anti-racism
Celebrate Your Right to Read
Texas
Books for teens on race, racism, and anti-racism
Celebrate Your Right to Read
Texas
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"A history of racist and antiracist ideas in America, from their roots in Europe until today, adapted from the National Book Award winner 'Stamped from the Beginning.'" -- Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
'How the Word is Passed' is Clint Smith's revealing, contemporary portrait of America as a slave owning nation. Beginning in his own hometown of New Orleans, Smith leads the reader through an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks - those that are honest about the past and those that are not - that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nations collective history, and ourselves.
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Fifty years ago Malcolm X told a white woman who asked what she could do for the cause, 'Nothing.' Michael Eric Dyson believes he was wrong. Now he responds to that question. If society is to make real racial progress, people must face difficult truths, including being honest about how Black grievance has been ignored, dismissed, or discounted.
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Dottir Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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A white child sees a TV news report of a white police officer shooting and killing a black man. "In our family, we don't see color," his mother says, but he sees the colors plain enough. An afternoon in the library's history stacks uncover the truth of white supremacy in America. Racism was not his idea and he refuses to defend it.
"A necessary children's book about whiteness, white supremacy, and resistance. Important, accessible, needed." --
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016] 2017
Language
English
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An anthology of previously uncollected essays, originally published in "The New Yorker," reflects the work of the eminent journalist's early career and traces his witness to the fledgling years of desegregation in Georgia.
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Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"In her groundbreaking and essential debut THE THREE MOTHERS, scholar Anna Malaika Tubbs celebrates Black motherhood by telling the story of the three women who raised and shaped some of America's most pivotal heroes: Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin. Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin's son James, about Alberta King's son Martin Luther, and Louise Little's son Malcolm. But virtually nothing has been said about the extraordinary...
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Using James Baldwin's unfinished final manuscript, Remember This House, this documentary follows the lives and successive assassinations of three of the author's friends, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., delving into the legacy of these iconic figures and narrating historic events using Baldwin's original words and a flood of rich archival material. An up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, this film is a journey into...
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