Arnade, Chris

Summary: "Widely acclaimed photographer and writer Chris Arnade shines new light on America's poor, drug-addicted, and forgotten--both urban and rural, blue state and red state--and indicts the elitists who've left them behind. Like Jacob Riis in the 1890s, Walker Evans in the 1930s, or Michael Harrington in the 1960s, Chris Arnade bares the reality of our current class divide in stark pictures and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sentinel 2019

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DeMint, Jim

Summary: " In his new role as president and CEO of The Heritage Foundation, Jim DeMint has travelled the country talking to Americans about how to return to our founding principles and restore and protect our economy and culture for future generations. He's realized that he-and all of us as fellow citizens-must fall in love with America-again. In this book, DeMint introduces Americans all across the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2014

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Delgado, Richard

Summary: "Since the publication of the first edition of [this book], the United States has lived through two economic downturns, an outbreak of terrorism, and the onset of an epidemic of hate directed against immigrants, especially undocumented Latinos and Middle Eastern people. On a more hopeful note, the country elected and re-elected its first black president and has witnessed the impressive advance...

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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2017

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Marcovitz, Hal

Summary: Crimes committed against people because of their race, ethnicity, or religion have become common in the United States and other countriesin 2016, the FBI said more than six thousand such crimes were committed in America. Hate crimes can range from small acts of vandalism to horrific mass shootings, such as the 2015 murders of nine African Americans attending church services in Charleston, South...

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Publisher / Publication Date: ReferencePoint Press 2018

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Nielson, Erik

Summary: "A groundbreaking exposé about the alarming use of rap lyrics as criminal evidence to convict and incarcerate young men of color"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2019

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Race

Contents: If you can -- Safe and sound -- Can get home -- Rose -- Ark again -- Sinking feeling -- The hours eat the flowers -- Seed -- Out like a lamb.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Flameshovel Records 2004

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Putnam, Robert D.

Summary: Draws on two national surveys on religion, as well as research conducted by congregations across the United States, to examine the profound impact that religion has had on American life and how religious attitudes have changed in recent decades.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010

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Winn, Kevin P.

Summary: "The Racial Justice in America: Histories series explores moments and eras in America's history that have been ignored or misrepresented in education due to racial bias. Tulsa Race Riots and the Red Summer of 1919 explores the events in a comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate way. Developed in conjunction with educator, advocate, and author Kelisa Wing to reach children of all races and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Cherry Lake Press 2022

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Summary: This anthology traces the surprising story of how Americans made Shakespeare their own through a wide range of genres. The writers included range from the 1800s to the present day, and offer testimony to Shakespeare's profound and enduring influence --

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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Rissman, Rebecca

Summary: Includes stories about Katherine Johnson, Miriam Mann, Mary Jackson, Dorothy Vaughn, Annie Easley, and Christine Darden.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2018

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Miller, T. Christian

Summary: August, 2008. Marie, a teenager, reported being raped in her Seattle apartment by a masked man. Confronted with inconsistencies, she was charged with false reporting and branded a liar. Years later Colorado detectives discovered they were dealing with a serial rapist. Miller and Armstrong follow the tale of doubt, lies, and a hunt for justice-- and the long history of skepticism toward rape...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2018

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Bratton, William J.

Summary: "When Bill Bratton became a Boston street cop after returning from serving in Vietnam, he was dismayed by the corrupt old guard , and it is fair to say the old guard was dismayed by him too. But his success fighting crime could not be denied. Propelled byextraordinary results, Bratton had a dazzling rise, and ultimately a dazzling career, becoming the most famous police commissioner of modern...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2021

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Parkman, Francis

Contents: v. 1. Pioneers of France in the New World. The Jesuits of North America in the seventeenth century. La Salle and the discovery of the Great West. The old râegime in Canada -- v. 2. Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV. A half-century of conflict. Montcalm and Wolfe.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc. 1983

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Hernon, Peter

Summary: Traces the story of the legendary USS Leviathan, a German luxury liner seized by the U.S. Navy and converted into an armed troop carrier that transported thousands of American forces to Europe after the U.S. entered World War I in April 1917.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017

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Mullenbach, Cheryl

Summary: An account of the lesser-known contributions of African-American women during World War II reveals how they helped lay the foundations for the Civil Rights Movement by challenging racial and gender barriers at home and abroad.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2013

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Healy, Thomas

Summary: "A history of Floyd McKissick's 1969 plan to build a Black city in North Carolina, examining the story of the idealists who settled there, the obstacles that derailed the project, and what Soul City's saga says about Black opportunity, capitalism, and power then and now"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2021

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Blue October (Musical group)

Contents: Everything (Am limbo) -- The feel again (Stay) -- The money tree -- For the love -- Drama everything -- The chills -- The flight (LNK to MSP) -- Any man in America -- You waited too long -- The honesty -- The getting over it part -- The worry list -- The follow through.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Up/Down Records 2011

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Parkman, Francis

Contents: v. 1. Pioneers of France in the New World. The Jesuits of North America in the seventeenth century. La Salle and the discovery of the Great West. The old regime in Canada -- v. 2. Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV. A half-century of conflict. Montcalm and Wolfe.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States, Inc. 1983

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Trillin, Calvin

Summary: 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 / Publication Date: Random House 2016

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Contents: Letter to America / Francisco Alarcon -- Lawd, dese Colored chillum / Fareedah Allah -- Powwow / Carroll Arnett/Gogisgi -- Song of the breed / Carroll Arnett/Gogisgi -- Late bus (after a series of hold-ups) / Russell Atkins -- So Mexicans are taking jobs from Americans / Jimmy Santiago Baca -- There are black / Jimmy Santiago Baca -- The old man's lazy / Peter Blue Cloud -- The lovers of the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1995

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Murray, 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

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