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Summary: The political analyst and civil-rights expert presents a forceful critique of how key decisions by the Trump administration are rolling back advances in voting rights, integration, and racial discrimination.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2018
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 323.1196 WILGilliam, Fatimah
Summary: "What if there were a set of rules to educate people against race-based social faux pas that damage relationships, perpetuate racist stereotypes, and harm people of color? This book provides just that in an effort to slow the malignant domino effect of race-based ignorance in American communities and workplaces to help address the vestiges of our nation's racist past. Race Rules is an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 GILBunn, Curtis
Summary: "For many, the story of the weeks of protests in the summer of 2020 began with the horrific nine minutes and twenty-nine seconds when Police Officer Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd on camera, and it ended with the sweeping federal, state, and intrapersonal changes that followed. It is a simple story, wherein white America finally witnessed enough brutality to move their collective...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.1196 BUNWilliams, Thomas Chatterton
Summary: "A meditation on race and identity from one of our most provocative cultural critics. A reckoning with the way we choose to see and define ourselves, Self-Portrait in Black and White is the searching story of one American family's multigenerational transformation from what is called black to what is assumed to be white. Thomas Chatterton Williams, the son of a 'black' father from the segregated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILLIAMS, THOMAS CHATTERTON WILWilliams, Patricia J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.0873 WILKlingaman, William K.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 KLIBennett, Juda
Summary: "What is a book club but an excuse to talk to friends? The Toni Morrison Book Club brings that experience to life by telling the story of four friends who turn to Toni Morrison as they search for meaning in their lives. In this startling group memoir, thewriters--black and white, gay and straight, immigrant and American born--allow Morrison's words, like music, to make them feel, confess, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Wisconsin Press 2020