Bell, Darrin
Summary: "This graphic memoir by a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning offers a deeply personal meditation on the "the talk" parents must have with Black children about racism and the brutality that often accompanies it, a ritual attempt to keep kids safe and prepare them for a world that--to paraphrase Toni Morrison--does not love them. Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B BELL BELSpooner, James
Summary: "Scene: Apple Valley, California, in the late eighties, a thirsty, miserable desert. Teenage James Spooner hates that he and his mom are back in town after years away. The few Black kids here seem to be gangbanging, and the other kids fall on a spectrum of microaggressors to future neo-Nazis. Mixed-race and acutely aware of his Blackness, James doesn't know where he fits until he meets Ty, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2022
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Summary: "Monster-hunting has been the Sangerye family business for generations as they battle the jinoo - hideous creatures born out of hate and racism. But now the Sangeryes face a different threat -- the deadly inzondo, a new kind of monster born out of grief and trauma. With one of their own turning into an inzondo and an army of tortured souls on the attack in 1920s Harlem, the Sangerye family must...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics 2020
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BITMcCrae, Shane
Summary: "An unforgettable memoir by an award-winning poet about being kidnapped from his Black father and raised by his white supremacist grandparents. When Shane McCrae was three years old, his grandparents kidnapped him and took him to suburban Texas. His mom was white and his dad was Black, and to hide his Blackness from him, his maternal grandparents stole him from his father. In the years that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MCCRAE, SHANE MCCPassmore, Ben
Summary: Your Black Friend and Other Strangers is a collection of culturally charged comics by cartoonist Ben Passmore. Passmore masterfully tackles comics about race, gentrification, the prison system, online dating, gross punks, bad street art, kung fu movie references, beating up God, and lots of other grown-up stuff with refreshing doses of humor and lived relatability.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Silver Sprocket 2018
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Summary: "In the 1920s, the Harlem Renaissance is in full swing, and only the Sangerye Family, once known as the greatest monster hunters of all time, can save New York -- and the world -- from the supernatural forces threatening to destroy humanity. But those days are fading and the once-great family that specialized in curing the souls of those infected by racism and hate has been torn apart by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Image Comics 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BITWilliams, Rachel Marie-Crane
Summary: "In the heat of June in 1943, a wave of destructive and deadly civil unrest took place in the streets of Detroit. The city was under the pressures of both war-time industrial production and the nascent civil rights movement - a powder keg waiting to go off. Thirty-four people were killed, most were Black, and over half were killed by police. Two thousand people were arrested and over 700...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.434 WILMojica 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 MOJThomas, Angie.
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil, who was unarmed, at the hands of a police officer. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr. But what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC THOMcBride, Amber
Summary: In the future, a Black girl known only as Inmate Eleven is kept confined -- to be used as a biological match for the president's son, should he fall ill. She is called a Blue -- the color of sadness. She lives in a small-small room with her dog, who is going wolf more often - he's pacing and imagining he's free. Inmate Eleven wants to go wolf too, she wants to know why she feels so Blue and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC 2023