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Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Aboliçao is a startling look at the racial situation of Black Brazilians in contemporary Brazil. The director asks the following question to Black Brazilians from diverse walks of life --musicians, politicians, activists, people in government, ambassadors, social workers, sport stars, actors, street kids, farmers, etc. -- "We are celebrating 100 years since the abolition of slavery in Brazil, what does the abolition of slavery mean to you?"
4) Palmares
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
"The epic rendering of a Black woman's journey through slavery and liberation, set in 17th-century colonial Brazil"--
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
"Queer black girls team up to overthrow the patriarchy in the former kingdom of Cinderella"--
Two hundred years after Cinderella found her prince, the fairy tale is over. Teen girls are now required to appear at the Annual Ball, where the men of the kingdom select wives based on a girl's display of finery. If a suitable match is not found, the girls not chosen are never heard from again. Sophia would much rather marry Erin, her childhood best friend,...
Author
Series
Precious Ramotswe's first cases volume 1
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
Before becoming the first female private investigator in Botswana, eight-year-old Precious Ramotswe tracks down a thief who has been stealing her classmates' snacks.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this original and penetrating work, Lewis R. Gordon, one of the leading scholars of Black existentialism and anti-Blackness, takes the reader on a journey through the historical development of racialized Blackness, the problems this kind of consciousness produces, and the many creative responses from Black and non-Black communities in contemporary struggles for dignity and freedom"--
11) Open water
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In a crowded London pub, two young people meet. Both are Black British, both won scholarships to private schools where they struggled to belong, both are now artists--he a photographer, she a dancer--and both are trying to make their mark in a world that by turns celebrates and rejects them. Tentatively, tenderly, they fall in love. But two people who seem destined to be together can still be torn apart by fear and violence, and over the course of...
12) The jumbies
Author
Series
The jumbies (Tracey Baptiste) volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
Eleven-year-old Corinne must call on her courage and an ancient magic to stop an evil spirit and save her island home.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Kept as forced labor on a chocolate plantation in the Ivory Coast, Amadou and his younger brother Seydou had given up hope, until a young girl arrives at the camp who rekindles the urge to escape"--
They only wanted to make some money during the dry season to help their impoverished family; instead they were tricked into forced labor on a plantation in the Ivory Coast. For two years what has mattered are the number of cacao pods Amadou and his younger...
15) Black futures
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
"Black Futures is a collection of work--art, photos, essays, memes, dialogues, recipes, tweets, poetry, and more--that tells the story of the radical, imaginative, bold, and beautiful world that black artists, high and low, are producing today. The book presents a succession of brilliant and provocative pieces--from both emerging and renowned creators of all kinds--that generates an entrancing rhythm: Readers will go from conversations with hackers...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Yoruba deity of the sea, Yemaya, is brought to vivid life as she discovers the power of Black resilience, love, and feminine strength in antebellum America. Shallow Waters imagines Yemaya, an Or©¯sha - a deity in the religion of Africa's Yoruba people - cast into mid-1800s America. We meet Yemaya as a young woman, still in the care of her mother and not yet fully aware of the spectacular power she possesses to protect herself and those she...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From Kahran and Regis Bethencourt, the dynamite husband and wife duo behind CreativeSoul Photography, comes GLORY, a photography book that shatters the conventional standards of beauty for Black children. Featuring a foreword by Amanda Seales With stunning images of natural hair and gorgeous, inventive visual storytelling, GLORY puts Black beauty front and center with more than 100 breathtaking photographs and a collection of powerful essays about...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Explores the extent to which historical definitions of race continue to shape contemporary racial identities and lived experiences of racial difference"--
In the United States, a Black person is defined as any person with even one drop of Black blood. Blay explores how historical definitions of race continue to shape contemporary racial identities and lived experiences of racial difference. The contributors represent twenty-five countries, and provide...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A dazzling history of Africans in Europe, revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent. Conventional wisdom holds that Africans are only a recent presence in Europe. But in African Europeans, renowned historian Olivette Otele debunks this and uncovers a long history of Europeans of African descent. From the third century, when the Egyptian Saint Maurice became the leader of a Roman legion, all the way up to the present, Otele explores...
20) You are your best thing: vulnerability, shame resilience, and the black experience --an anthology
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"It started as a text between two friends. Tarana Burke, founder of the 'me too.' Movement, texted researcher and writer, Brené Brown, to see if she was free to jump on a call. Brené assumed that Tarana wanted to talk about wallpaper. They had been trading home decorating inspiration boards in their last text conversation so Brené started scrolling to find her latest Pinterest pictures when the phone rang. But it was immediately clear to Brené...
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