Summary: When Tony Lip, a bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley, a world-class Black pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on a book to guide them to the few establishments that were then safe for African-Americans. Confronted with racism, danger, as well as unexpected humanity and humor, they are forced to set...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY COMEDY GRESummary: A black hockey player hopes to be drafted into the NHL, but his dreams are threatened by the racial tensions in his Nova Scotia community.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Light Year Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ACRSummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUGordon, Lewis R. (Lewis Ricardo)
Summary: "In this original and penetrating work, Lewis R. Gordon, one of the leading scholars of Black existentialism and anti-Blackness, takes the reader on a journey through the historical development of racialized Blackness, the problems this kind of consciousness produces, and the many creative responses from Black and non-Black communities in contemporary struggles for dignity and freedom"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 GORAli-Khan, Sofia
Summary: "A leading advocate for social justice excavates the history of forced migration in the twelve American towns she's called home, revealing how White supremacy has fundamentally shaped the nation"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ALI-KHAN, SOFIA ALISummary: Traces the history of black America back to ancient African civilization, examining attempts by the white establishment in the U.S. to conceal this knowledge as a means of undermining African American identity. Presents theories of scholars and social commentators which comprise a history in which African Americans have been systematically oppressed as a people.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HIDHodgetwins
Summary: "Rebel is lightning on the racetrack, but can she beat a set of deceptive ideas? An aging racer has made it her mission to istract Rebel and her classmates with a new ideology claiming all cheetahs with stripes are cheaters by nature. Join Rebel as she explores how to see spots and stripes; then lead your family through a lesson about Critical Race Theory through the activities included in the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Brave Books 2021