Summary: Long story short: Presents interview segments in which California's poor and homeless discuss the disadvantages of living without adequate resources.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC PORAbani, Chris
Summary: "In The Face: Cartography of the Void, acclaimed Nigerian-born author and poet Chris Abani has given us a profound and gorgeously wrought short memoir that navigates the stories written upon his own face. Beginning with his early childhood immersed in the lgbo culture of West Africa, Abani unfurls a lushly poetic, insightful, and funny narrative that investigates the roles that race, culture,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Word Essay AbaniCruz, Kleaver
Summary: "A beautiful love letter to Black joy, as a source of self-preservation and survival as well as a form of resistance"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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Summary: "I'd seen the Senator speak a few times before my life got caught up, however distantly, with his, but the first time I can remember paying real attention was when he delivered the speech announcing his run for the Presidency. When David first hears the Senator from Illinois speak, he feels deep ambivalence. Intrigued by the Senator's idealistic rhetoric, David also wonders how he'll balance...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEMance, Ajuan Maria
Summary: "When you're the only Black kid in the honors program or (any program) at your mostly white high school, or one of a handful of Black graduate students in your PhD program, or one of two African American women on the faculty at your Pac-10 employer, it's not your gender non-conformity that sets you apart from your peers. In those environments, your Blackness is the first thing people notice...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosarium Publishing 2024
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 921 MANCE, AJUAN MARIA MANManick, Cynthia
Summary: "Cynthia Manick's latest is a playlist of everyday life, introverted thoughts, familial bonds, and social commentary. In piercing language, she traces the circle of life for a narrator who dares to exist between youthful remembrances and adulthood realities. Each poem in No Sweet Without Brine is a reminder that a hint of sorrow makes the celebration and recognition of the glory of Blackness in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 MANAcevedo, Elizabeth
Summary: "In her most famous spoken-word poem, author of the Pura Belpré-winning novel-in-verse The Poet X Elizabeth Acevedo embraces all the complexities of Black hair and Afro-Latinidad--the history, pain, pride, and powerful love of that inheritance. Paired with full-color illustrations by artist Andrea Pippins in a format that will appeal to fans of Mahogany L. Browne's Black Girl Magic or Jason...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 811 ACEHopkins, Pauline E. (Pauline Elizabeth)
Summary: "Reuel, an African American man passing as white so that he can attend Harvard Medical School, is drawn into a fantastical adventure when he revives a woman's life through mesmerism"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The MIT Press 2022