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Author
Publisher
Broadleaf Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xii, 235 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Every day across the U.S., 66 million poor white people pay the price for failing whiteness. In this sweeping debut, activist and chaplain Cedar Monroe introduces us to the poor and unhoused of a small town in Washington, who grapple with desperation, a collapsing economy, and their own racism. Trash asks us to see anew the peril in which poor white people live. Can those deemed "trash" join the resistance to the system that is killing us all?"--...
63) African
Author
Series
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 audio-enabled book (1 volume (unpaged)) : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A beautiful children's picture book featuring the lyrics of Peter Tosh's global classic celebrating children of African descent. So don't care where you come from As long as you're a black man, you're an African No mind your nationality You have got the identity of an African. African is a children's book featuring lyrics by Peter Tosh and illustrations by Jamaican artist Rachel Moss. The song "African" by Peter Tosh was originally released in 1977...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 254 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explains how years of desegregation and affirmative action have led to the revelation of four distinct African American groups who reflect unique political views and circumstances, in a report that also illuminates crucial modern debates on race and class.
Author
Series
Globalization and community volume 7
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
xvi, 249 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
160 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A biography of human rights activist Malcolm X, discussing his early struggles with racism, rise to fame as the public face of the Nation of Islam, personal hardships, and legacy"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
292 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The stunning and provocative coming-of-age memoir about Sarah Valentine's childhood as a white girl in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, and her discovery that her father was a black man. At the age of 27, Sarah Valentine discovered that she was not, in fact, the white girl she had always believed herself to be. She learned the truth of her paternity: that her father was a black man. And she learned the truth about her own identity: mixed race. And so Sarah...
Author
Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
272 pages cm
Language
English
Description
"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 foundingLatina Rebels, Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodraiguez fought to create community to help women fight together. Now her new book For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts offers wisdom and a liberating...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
349 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A memoir about the author's coming of age as she grapples with her identity as an artist, her family's racial history, and her mother's death from cancer"--
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: a deeply moving memoir that explores coming-of-age and the meaning of home against a complex backdrop of race, faith, and the unbreakable bond between a mother and daughter. Tracy K. Smith had a fairly typical upbringing in suburban California: the youngest...
71) Hot comb
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
180 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Hot Comb offers a poignant glimpse into black women's lives and coming of age stories as seen across a crowded, ammonia-scented hair salon while ladies gossip and bond over the burn. The titular story “Hot Comb” is about a young girls first perma doomed ploy to look cool and to stop seeming “too white” in the all-black neighborhood her family has just moved to. In “Virgin Hair” taunts of “tender-headed” sting as much as the perm itself....
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
243 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A passionate, no-holds-barred memoir about the Asian American experience in a nation defined by racial stratification When Julia Lee was fifteen, her hometown went up in smoke during the 1992 Los Angeles riots. The daughter of Korean immigrant store owners in a predominantly Black neighborhood, Julia was taught to be grateful for the privilege afforded to her. However, the acquittal of four white police officers in the beating of Rodney King, following...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
197 pages : illustration ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Stunning for her daring originality, the author of Negroland gives us what she calls "a temperamental autobiography," comprised of visceral, intimate fragments that fuse criticism and memoir. Margo Jefferson constructs a nervous system with pieces of different lengths and tone, conjoining arts writing (poem, song, performance) with life writing (history, psychology). The book's structure is determined by signal moments of her life, those that trouble...
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
192 pages cm
Language
English
Description
"A powerful illustrated history of the Great Migration and its sweeping impact on Black and American culture, from Reconstruction to the rise of hip hop. Over the course of six decades, an unprecedented wave of Black Americans left the South and spread across the nation in search of a better life--a migration that sparked stunning demographic and cultural changes in twentieth-century America. Through gripping and accessible historical narrative paired...
Author
Publisher
Scribner Canada
Pub. Date
c2022.
Physical Desc
270 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From a leading scholar on the politics of race comes a work of family history, memoir, and insight gained from a unique journey across the continent, on what it is to be Black in North America"--Provided by publisher
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
x, 292 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From an exciting and sharp-voiced new observer of American culture, a forthright and probing debut exploring Asian American identity in a racially codified country. After his father's passing in 2019, David Shih sought to unravel the underlying tensions that defined the complex relationship between him and his parents--a question that ultimately forced a reckoning with the expectations he encountered as the only son of Chinese immigrants and the...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 600 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The African Americans explores the evolution of the African-American people, as well as the multiplicity of cultural institutions, political strategies, and religious and social perspectives they developed-forging their own history and culture against unimaginable odds. Black in Latin America examines how indigenous, African, and European people came together to create the rich cultures of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Black in Latin America:...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A magnificent, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves, in resistance to the lies of racism and often in heated disagreement with each other, over the course of the country's history. Distilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s legendary Harvard introductory course in African American Studies, The Black Box: Writing the Race, is the story of Black self-definition in...
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