Baxley, Traci
Summary: As the global pandemic shuttered schools across the country in 2020, parents found themselves thrust into the role of teacher. After the murder of George Floyd and the ensuing Black Lives Matter protests, many also grappled with the responsibility to teach their kids about social justice-- with few resources to guide them. Baxley, a mother of five herself, suggests that parenting is a form of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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Abdel-Magied, Yassmin
Summary: "A vital and vibrant book answering real children's questions about racism, giving them the confidence and the tools to work towards a fairer society for all. Using questions canvassed from children around the UK as her framework, writer, engineer and broadcaster, Yassmin Abdel-Magied gives clear context to the racism that persists today and shows how to recognize, resist and disrupt racist...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Did racist atrocities in the 19th and 20th centuries bring Western society to an ethical and ideological turning point? Or has racial oppression simply assumed other, more insidious forms? Pursuing answers, this program focuses on a pattern of segregation and genocide evident in King Leopold's Belgian Congo rampages, South Africa's apartheid rule, the terrorism of Jim Crow, and less obvious...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Dufresne, Emilie
Summary: Racism is a complex issue that still affects many in the diverse United States and world. This book helps readers understand this problem from the roots of racial identities to what is being done today to stand up to racism and help people affected by it. Vibrant photographs, diagrams, and a timeline of the U.S. civil rights movement enhance the approachable text. This book helps students...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.8 DUFSingh, Deanna
Summary: "Good for you! You've taken the first step in a lifelong journey to learn what you can do to help end racism. Maybe you've seen someone treated unfairly just because of the color of their skin. Maybe you were treated unfairly because of the color of yours. Maybe you've seen protests in the news and wondered what they're really all about. Whatever reason you picked up this book, you're here...
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.8 SINBryant-Davis, Thema
Summary: "An antiracist society starts with you. That's the message in this powerful-yet practical-handbook. Using evidence-based interventions and exercises, two psychologists and experts in race, identity, equity, and inclusion empower readers to make their own personal contribution to creating an antiracist society. By shifting thought patterns and behaviors to cultivate an antiracist mindset,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Harbinger Publications, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 BRYSpilsbury, Louise
Summary: In Racism and Intolerance, children can get answers to questions like: "What does it mean to be a racist--or intolerant?" and "How can I help?" Children will begin to understand the way others struggle with these issues and become empowered to make a difference.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Around SpilsburyGraves, Joseph L.
Summary: "We talk a lot about race, yet we rarely focus on the underlying question of what race is and its connections to racism. Conversations about race can be uncomfortable and confusing, but this is resolvable if we ask the right questions and focus on clear answers. What, exactly, is race? Joseph L. Graves and Alan H. Goodman illuminate the idea of race so that people who want to confront the topic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 GRASummary: This program with Bill Moyers examines the crisis within the American court system. In many parts of the country, funding for already burdened and backlogged courts is being reduced. And public defenders and legal aid attorneys are in short supply, leaving the poor without adequate or timely representation. Yet, few politicians have stepped forward with solutions. In this program, a panel of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Jewell, Tiffany
Summary: What is racism? What is antiracism? Why are both important to learn about? The Antiracist Kid answers your questions about these words (and the big ideas behind them) and give you the tools to practice antiracism in your everday life! This must-have guide explains: IDENTITY: What is is and what it means for you. JUSTICE: What it is, what racism has to do with it, and how to fight injustice....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.8 JEWSummary: Prisons have become incubators for hate, where ethnic and white supremacist enclaves vie for control through violence and coercion directed along color lines. In part one of this program, ABC News anchor Ted Koppel talks with prisoners doomed to solitary confinement due to their gang affiliations. They discuss the dangers that drove them to join-and that keep them looking over their shoulders...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: This emotionally charged program follows five participants of different ethnic and racial backgrounds through a three-day Unlearning Racism workshop. As the workshop begins, a European-American man offends his African-American workshop partner by making a joke during a one-on-one dialogue. The incident sparks anger among African-American participants, who openly confront the offender. White...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Racial tension has become a politically explosive and socially divisive threat to stability in the European Union. This program looks at the racism and xenophobia brought to the surface by a massive influx of foreign workers and job-seekers into Western Europe; it also describes the search for equitable solutions by moderate EU leaders and citizens. Islamophobia, religious fundamentalism, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: In a swiftly globalizing, money-driven world, is there still a place for St. Francis and a gospel that preaches the dignity and relevance of the poor? This program investigates the concepts of social justice and global responsibility from a Christian perspective. The ill effects of first-world preoccupations with ownership and profit are contrasted with church-sponsored efforts to care for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Teter, Magda
Summary: "A panoramic cultural and legal history that traces the roots of antisemitism and racism to early Christian theology. Since the earliest days of Christianity, theologians expressed pervasive anxiety about Jews as equal members of society and, with European expansion in the early modern period, that anxiety extended to people of color. This troubling legacy still haunts us today. Christian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: During the 19th century, racial categorization took on a pseudoscientific stance. This program shows how the academic racism of the period helped to spread imperialist policies across the globe. Sifting through the "science" of eugenics and its link to social Darwinism, the film juxtaposes the racial hygiene theories of Robert Knox, Francis Galton, and Eugen Fischer with racial warfare in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Metallica
Contents: Blackened / Hetfield, Ulrich, Newsted -- And justice for all / Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett -- Eye of the beholder / Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett -- One /Hetfield, Ulrich -- The shortest straw / Hetfield, Ulrich --Harvester of sorrow / Hetfield, Ulrich --The frayed ends of sanity / Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett -- To live is to die / Hetfield, Ulrich, Burton -- Dyers eve /Hetfield, Ulrich, Hammett.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Elektra 1988
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Place a hold to request this item.Simonson, Louise
Summary: With the financial help of Lex Luther, the Joker and Harley Quinn plan to trap the Justice League in a "jail" beneath Arkham Asylum, using Flash and the Huntress as bait--and Batman, Wonder Woman, and the rest of the heroes must rescue their friends, while avoiding the traps the Joker has set.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2018
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED SIMPicower, Bree
Summary: "When racist curriculum "goes viral" on social media, it is typically dismissed as an isolated incident from a "bad" teacher. Educator Bree Picower, however, holds that racist curriculum isn't an anomaly. It's a systemic problem that reflects how Whiteness is embedded and reproduced in education. In Reading, Writing, and Racism, Picower argues that White teachers must reframe their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.829 PICWilliams, Sophie
Summary: "As the tragic murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement has demonstrated, not being racist is not enough. To fulfill the American ideal, to ensure that all people are equal, you must be actively anti-racist. In this essential guide, Sophie Williams, goes beyond her popular Instagram @officialmillennialblack, providing sharp, simple, and insightful steps anyone can take to be a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 WILJewell, Tiffany
Summary: This book is written for the young person who doesn't know how to speak up to the racist adults in their life. For the 14 year old who sees injustice at school and isn't able to understand the role racism plays in separating them from their friends. For the kid who spends years trying to fit into the dominant culture and loses themselves for a little while. It's for all of the Black and Brown...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Lincoln Children's Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J305.8 JEWTisby, Jemar
Summary: "A handbook for fighting racism that provides readers with practical tools and suggestions, along with real-world examples of change, to enable them to become proactive initiators of racial justice"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan Reflective 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 TISSummary: In 1991, Rick Walker was wrongly convicted of murder and spent the next 12 years in prison. This program tells the story of his exoneration and the political struggle to secure financial compensation for him from the state of California. In addition to an interview with Walker himself, the film presents detailed conversations with key players in his case and the partisan budget battle over...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Thapar, Amul Roger
Summary: "For thirty years, Clarence Thomas has been denounced as the 'cruelest justice,' a betrayer of his race, an ideologue, and the enemy of the little guy. In this compelling study of the man and the jurist, Amul Thapar demolishes that caricature. Every day, Americans go to court. Invoking the Constitution, they fight for their homes, for a better education for their children, and to save their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Regnery Gateway 2023