Moore, Leonard N.

Summary: "How do we talk about Black history and racism in the United States on college campuses? In a series of essays, Professor Leonard Moore outlines how he has taught courses on African American history at colleges with a largely white student body. As an African American professor, he has had to find ways to teach to a diverse classroom, but one that is often dominated by white students with...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Texas Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0496 MOO

Smith, Clint

Summary: 'How the Word is Passed' is Clint Smith's revealing, contemporary portrait of America as a slave owning nation. Beginning in his own hometown of New Orleans, Smith leads the reader through an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks - those that are honest about the past and those that are not - that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nations...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 SMI

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: 973 SMI

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 SMI

Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda

Summary: "Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is one of the leading physicists of her generation, at work on the origins of spacetime at the intersection of particle physics and astrophysics. She is also one of the fewer than one hundred Black women to earn a PhD in physics. In The Disordered Cosmos, Prescod-Weinstein shares with readers her love for physics, from the Standard Model of Particle Physics and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bold Type Books 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 523.01 PRE

Summary: This series covers history from 3500 B.C. to the 1780's. This course analyzes civilizations by looking at their geographic and political environments, their technologies, economies, social institutions, and cultural achievements. Students will look at history from new perspectives, come to understand the connections between human beings despite time and distance, and appreciate the lasting...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 1995

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3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: DVD 909 WOR PART 1
Call number: DVD 909 WOR PART 2
Call number: DVD 909 WOR PART 3

Kohl, Herbert R.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2005

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PARKS, ROSA KOH