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"At once incendiary and icy, mischievous, and provocative, celebratory and elegiac, a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism of the author's rarefied upbringing and education among a black elite concerned to distance itself from whites and the black generality, while tirelessly measuring itself against both. Born in 1947 in upper-crust black Chicago--her father was for years head of pediatrics at Provident, at...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
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"In 1984 Newark, Beatriz Mendez navigates romance, gang culture, and her family's past. After her gang-leader brother is killed, Beatriz gives up her dreams of dancing in order to run the gang. But her eyes are reopened to her dream of a career in dance when the school brainiac asks her to compete in a dance competition with him--but will the gang let her go?"--
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
359 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Lewis "Shoe" Blake from the Tuscarora Reservation has a new friend, George Haddonfield from the local Air Force base, but in 1975 upstate New York there is a lot of tension and hatred between Native Americans and Whites--and Lewis is not sure that he can rely on friendship.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
With the recent death of her mother and the possibility of her family losing their farm, Samantha Sakamoto does not have space in her life for dreams, but when faced with prejudice and violence in her Washington State community after Pearl Harbor, she isdetermined to use her photography to document the bigotry around her.
Author
Publisher
Salaam Reads
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
830L
Physical Desc
ix, 277 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Melati Ahmad looks like your typical movie-going, Beatles-obsessed sixteen-year-old. Unlike most other sixteen-year-olds though, Mel also believes that she harbors a djinn inside her, one who threatens her with horrific images of her mother's death unless she adheres to an elaborate ritual of counting and tapping to keep him satisfied. But there are things that Melati can't protect her mother from. On the evening of May 13th, 1969, racial tensions...
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
xv, 135 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The seizure of Jewish assets during World War II occasionally generates widespread attention when Swiss banks are challenged to produce lists of dormant accounts, or national museums are forced to return stolen paintings. But the theft of Europe's Jewish population was not limited to conquering armies, leading banks, or museums. It was perpetrated also by local people, such as those pictured in the photograph in Golden Harvest. Lyrical and often...
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Publisher
Piñata Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
x, 126 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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"Civil rights leader Jose Gutierrez chronicles the life of Severita Lara, a little-known female activist in the Hispanic Civil Rights Movement. Lara's ascent from a willful child to the mayor of Crystal City, Texas all began with the Crystal City High student walkout in 1969."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
x, 494 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Any Texan will tell you: they are quick to act in defense of their honor. But what most Texans won't tell you-what they may not realize-is that Texas's early years do little to uphold that honor. In fact, they can best be described today as a time of ethnic cleansing.
The Conquest of Texas is not your grandfather's tale of how a courageous few made a righteous conquest of a wild land. Rather, this story explores race relations during the Mexican...
Publisher
Media Arts Center San Diego
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (274 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The 4-disc collection included dozens of stories grouped within chapters, which include Japanese Internment in WWII, Racism in Our Times, Who We Are, Family Stories, Our Town, Coming to California and more."--Description from www.mediaartscenter.org website.
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Publisher
Mercer University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
480 pages, 34 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
How does a peanut farmer become Governor of Georgia and President of the United States? Only in America could such a story be true. Not satisfied with the climate of injustice he witnessed in his daily life, Carter sought a political career and was elected state senator in 1962 and again in 1964. He successfully won the 1970 campaign for Governor of Georgia. In 1975, Carter announced he would run for President. An army of loyal supporters, friends,...
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