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Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"What if there were a set of rules to educate people against race-based social faux pas that damage relationships, perpetuate racist stereotypes, and harm people of color? This book provides just that in an effort to slow the malignant domino effect of race-based ignorance in American communities and workplaces to help address the vestiges of our nation's racist past. Race Rules is an innovative, practical manual for white people of the unwritten...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A sweeping yet personal overview of the latino population of America, drawn from hundreds of interviews and prodigious research that emphasizes the diversity and little-known history of our largest and fastest-growing minority. LatinoLand is an exceptional, all-encompassing overview of Hispanic America based on personal interviews, deep research, and Marie Arana's life experience as a Latina. At present, Latinos comprise 20 percent of the US population,...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In The White Bonus, Tracie McMillan asks a provocative question about racism in America: When people of color are denied so much, what are white people given? And how much is it worth--not in amorphous privilege, but in dollars and cents? McMillan begins with three generations of her family, tracking their modest wealth to its roots: American policy that helped whites first. Simultaneously, she details the complexities of their advantage, exploring...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"A storm of illiberalism, building in the United States for years, unleashed its destructive force in the Capitol insurrection of January 6, 2021. The attack on American democracy and images of mob violence led many to recoil, thinking 'That's not us.' But now we must think again, for Steven Hahn shows in his startling new history that illiberalism has deep roots in our past. To those who believe that the ideals announced in the Declaration of Independence...
Author
Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Derek Black was raised to take over the white nationalist movement in the United States. Their father, Don Black, was a former Grand Wizard in the Ku Klux Klan and started Stormfront, the internet's first white supremacist website--Derek built the kids' page. David Duke, was also their close family friend and mentor. Racist hatred, though often wrapped up in respectability, was all Derek knew. Then, while in college in 2013, Derek publicly renounced...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
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...
Author
Language
English
Description
"From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby...
Author
Publisher
Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Paula Yoo's latest is a compelling, nuanced account of Los Angeles's 1992 uprising and its impact on its Korean and Black American communities. In the spring of 1992, after a jury returned not guilty verdicts in the trial of four police officers charged in the brutal beating of a Black man, Rodney King, Los Angeles was torn apart. Thousands of fires were set, causing more than a billion dollars in damage. In neighborhoods abandoned by the police,...
Publisher
Broadleaf Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A powerful and needed collection of essays by accomplished women writers on violence and injustice toward Black men. The catalyst for a national conversation, this book shines a new light on the dangers Black men face daily, and the emotional toll anti-Black violence takes on the women who love them, casting a vision for future activism"--
11) Soul of Memphis
Author
Series
Memphis volume 1
Publisher
Sabra Waldfogel
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The city of Memphis holds a secret...Nat Raskin has the perfect life working for Sotheby's in New York--until her marriage falls apart and she limps home to Memphis. Badly on the rebound, she opens an antique shop in the building her family has owned for generations, making her grandfather's store a Memphis landmark. She starts her business with the help of Gideon Fairchild, handsome and damaged, a failed musician, now an antique dealer with a past...
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Philbet Lawson is born in 1960s rural Georgia with two inescapable strikes against him: he's gay and physically misshapen, both of which inform his every thought, unless he's thinking about cars, his obsession. His world is populated by an ineffectual father; a devoted though fearful mother; a rowdy but popular older brother; his best friend, a Black boy who also understands the sting of being an outsider; boorish uncles who belittle Philbet for...
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In these eight piercing explorations on beauty, media, money, and more, Tressie McMillan Cottom - award-winning professor and acclaimed author of Lower Ed - embraces her venerated role as a purveyor of wit, wisdom, and Black Twitter snark about all that is right and much that is wrong with this thing we call society. Ideas and identity fuse effortlessly in this vibrant collection that on bookshelves is just as at home alongside Rebecca Solnit and...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"As the product of progressive parents and a liberal upbringing, Garrett Bucks prided himself on the pursuit of being a "good white person." The kind of white person who treats their privilege as a responsibility and not a burden; the kind of white person who people of color see as the peak example of racial allyship; the kind of white person who other white people might model their own aspirations of being "better" after. But it?s Bucks obsession...
Author
Publisher
Thesis
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"An exciting new voice makes the case for a colorblind approach to politics and culture, warning that the so-called 'anti-racist' movement is driving us--ironically--toward a new kind of racism. As one of the few black students in his philosophy program at Columbia University years ago, Coleman Hughes wondered why his peers seemed more pessimistic about the state of American race relations than his own grandparents--who lived through segregation....
18) Don't let them bury my story: the oldest living survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre in her own words
Author
Publisher
Mocha Media Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Viola Ford Fletcher's memoir Don't Let Them Bury My Story vividly recounts the lasting impact of the Tulsa Massacre on her life. As the oldest survivor and last living witness of the tragic events that unfolded in 1921, she shares her testimony with poignant clarity. From the terror of her childhood as a seven-year-old fleeing the burning streets of Greenwood to her current role as a 109-year-old family matriarch seeking justice for the affected families,...
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