Alexander, Kwame
Summary: From the fireside tales in an African village, through the unspeakable passage across the Atlantic, to the backbreaking work in the fields of the South, this is a story of a people's struggle and strength, horror and hope. This is the story of American slavery, a story that needs to be told and understood by all of us. A testament to the resilience of the African American community, this book...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ALECopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE ALEWeatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: "On August 28, 1963, a quarter of a million activists and demonstrators from every corner of the United States convened for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It was there that they raised their voices in unison to call for racial and economic justice for all Black Americans, to call out inequities, and ultimately to advance the Civil Rights Movement. Every movement has its unsung...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 RUSCline-Ransome, Lesa
Summary: "In a beautiful prose telling, the story of a groundbreaking civil rights leader, John Lewis. John Lewis left a cotton farm in Alabama to join the fight for civil rights. He was only a teenager. He soon became a leader of a moment that changed a nation. Walking at the side of his mentor, Dr. Martin Luther King, Lewis was led by his belief in peaceful action and voting rights. Today and always...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LEWAustin, Nefertiti
Summary: "When Nefertiti Austin, a single African-American woman, decided to adopt two black children through the foster system, she was unprepared for the fact that there is no place for black women in the 'mommy wars.' Austin set off on her path with no place to seek guidance from others who looked like her or shared her experience. She soon realized that she would not only have to navigate skepticism...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 AUSTIN, NEFERTITI AUSChang, Jeff
Summary: "In his most recent book, Who We Be, Jeff Chang looked at how art and culture effected massive social changes in American society. Since the book was published, the country has been gripped by waves of racial discord, most notably the protests in Ferguson, Missouri. In these highly relevant, powerful essays, Chang examines some of the most contentious issues in the current discussion of race...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 CHAMojica Rodríguez, Prisca Dorcas
Summary: "For generations, women of color have had to push against powerful forces of sexism, racism, and classism in this country, and too often, they have felt that they had to face these challenges alone. Through her writing, her activism, and through founding Latina Rebels, Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez fought to create community to help women fight together. Now her new book For Brown Girls with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seal Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.48 MOJSen, Sharmila
Summary: At the age of 12, Sharmila Sen emigrated from India to the U.S. The year was 1982, and everywhere she turned, she was asked to self-report her race: on INS forms, at the doctor's office, in middle school. Never identifying with a race in the India of her childhood, she rejects her new "not quite" designation: not quite white, not quite black, not quite Asian, and spends much of her life...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SEN, SHARMILA SENNewton, Maud
Summary: "Maud Newton's ancestors have vexed and fascinated her since she was a girl. Her mother's father, who came of age during the Great Depression in Texas, was supposedly married thirteen times, and survived being shot in the stomach by one of his wives. His father purportedly killed a man in the street with a hay hook, and later died in a mental institution. On her father's side, a Massachusetts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NEWTON, MAUD NEWRodriguez, Luis J.
Summary: "Luis J. Rodriguez writes about race, culture, identity, and belonging and what these all mean and should mean (but often fail to) in the volatile climate of our nation. Rodriguez has a distinctly inspiring passion and wisdom in his approach. Ultimately, the book carries the message that we must come together if we are to move forward. As he reminds us in the first essay, "The End of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RODRIGUEZ, LUIS J. RODTobar, Héctor
Summary: "Latino" is the most open-ended and loosely defined of the major race categories in the United States. Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of "Latino" assembles the Pulitzer Prize winner Héctor Tobar's personal experiences as the son of Guatemalan immigrants and the stories told to him by his Latinx students to offer a spirited rebuke to racist ideas about Latino...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.868 TOBCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.868 TOBFord, Dionne
Summary: "One-third of Black Americans descended from slavery are related to the slave masters who bought and sold their ancestors. In other words, one-third of Black Americans descended from slavery are descended also from sexual exploitation. Dionne Ford, whose great-grandmother was the last of six children born to a Louisiana cotton broker called the Colonel and the enslaved woman he received as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bold Type Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FORD, DIONNE FORIrving, Debby
Summary: For twenty-five years, Debby Irving sensed inexplicable racial tensions in her personal and professional relationships. As a colleague and neighbor, she worried about offending people she dearly wanted to befriend. As an arts administrator, she didn't understand why her diversity efforts lacked traction. As a teacher, she found her best efforts to reach out to students and families of color...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Elephant Room Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 IRVING, DEBBY IRVMcGill, Joseph
Summary: "In this enlightening personal account, one man tells the story of his groundbreaking project to sleep overnight in former slave dwellings that still stand across the country--revealing the fascinating history behind these sites and shedding light on larger issues of race in America. Joseph McGill Jr., a historic preservationist and Civil War reenactor, founded the Slave Dwelling Project in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.362 MCGGeter, Hafizah
Summary: "Hafizah Augustus Geter disrupts the myths of America's origins and contemporary America through her experiences as the queer Nigerian-born daughter of a Muslim Nigerian woman and a Black American man from a Southern Baptist family in Jim Crow Alabama. A unique combination of gripping memoir and Afrofuturist thought, The Black Period follows Hafizah on a journey that tells her at every turn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 GETMehra, Nishta
Summary: Essays describe how the author's experiences as an Indian American, the wife of a white Christian woman, and the mother of an adopted black son have been challenged by rigid cultural family norms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MEHRA, NISHTA MEHCargle, Rachel Elizabeth
Summary: "A deeply personal and illuminating approach to antiracism and allyship, revealing the power of imagination and action to dismantle oppressive systems and build liberating ones, from a highly lauded lecturer, public academic, writer, and activist. In A Renaissance of Our Own, Rachel Cargle details the seminal event that put her on the map--her viral 2017 Women's March appearance that thrust her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CARGLE, RACHEL ELIZABETH CARKendi, Ibram X.
Summary: ""The only way to undo racism is to consistently identify and describe it -- and then dismantle it." Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America -- but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. In How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi asks us to think about what an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2019