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bibliographyKennedy, Randall
Summary: "A gathering of essays by the acclaimed Harvard legal scholar and public intellectual, that explores all the relevant cultural and historical issues of the past quarter century having to do with race and race relations in America. With a gimlet eye, decency and humaneness (and often courting controversy), Randall Kennedy chronicles his reactions over the past quarter century to arguments,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.7308 KENPitner, Barrett Holmes
Summary: "In this incisive blend of personal narrative and deep philosophical and linguistic inquiry, journalist, filmmaker, and activist Barrett Holmes Pitner identifies a linguistic void in how we discuss race and culture in the United States. "Ethnocide," first coined in 1944 by Jewish exile Raphael Lemkin (who also coined the term genocide), describes the systemic erasure of a people's ancestral...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 PITWilliams, Juan.
Contents: The leadership gap -- Blood of the martyrs and other bad excuses -- The reparations mirage -- The radical goal of education -- Crime and punishment -- Beatdown -- Forgotten history -- Like a hurricane -- The Cosby show -- What next?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 WILMurray, Charles A.
Summary: "The charges of white privilege and systemic racism that are tearing the country apart fIoat free of reality. Two known facts, long since documented beyond reasonable doubt, need to be brought into the open and incorporated into the way we think about public policy: American whites, blacks, Hispanics, and Asians have different violent crime rates and different means and distributions of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Encounter Books 2021