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Waking Up White is the book Irving wishes someone had handed her decades ago. By sharing her sometimes cringe-worthy struggle to understand racism and racial tensions, she offers a fresh perspective on bias, stereotypes, manners, and tolerance. As Irving unpacks her own long-held beliefs about colorblindness, being a good person, and wanting to help people of color, she reveals how each of these well-intentioned mindsets actually perpetuated her ill-conceived...
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An introduction to antiracism, a powerful tradition crucial for energizing American democracy
On August 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia, a rally of white nationalists and white supremacists culminated in the death of a woman murdered in the street. Those events made clear that racism is alive and well in the United States of America. However, they also brought into sharp relief another American tradition: antiracism. While racists marched...
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2017.
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English
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Fifty years ago, Malcolm X told a white woman who asked what she could do for the cause, 'Nothing.' Michael Eric Dyson believes he was wrong. Now he responds to that question. If society is to make real racial progress, people must face difficult truths, including being honest about how Black grievance has been ignored, dismissed, or discounted.
6) Civil rights
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Crabtree Publishing
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[2015]
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IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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English
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A provocative and lively deep dive into the meaning of America's first black presidency.
Michael Eric Dyson explores the powerful, surprising way the politics of race have shaped Barack Obama's identity and groundbreaking presidency. How has President Obama dealt publicly with race-as the national traumas of Tamir Rice, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, and Walter Scott have played out during his tenure? What can we learn...
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Emmy Award-winning news anchor and selling author Chris Hayes argues that there are really two Americas: a Colony and a Nation. America likes to tell itself that it inhabits a post-racial world, but nearly every empirical measure - wealth, unemployment, incarceration, school segregation - reveals that racial inequality hasn't improved since 1968. With the clarity and originality that distinguished his prescient bestseller Twilight of the Elites, award-winning...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Civil rights have been in the news with the rise of Black Lives Matter, Colin Kaepernick taking a knee during the national anthem at NFL games, and more. Yet civil rights activists have many other causes they are fighting for, such as calling attention to police brutality and combating racism in everyday life. The Civil Rights Movement started in the 1800s and remains a prominent movement within our modern society. Find out how activists such as Martin...
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Library of America volume 137-138
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Library of America
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c2003
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English
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From A. Philip Randolph's defiant call in 1941 for African Americans to march on Washington to Alice Walker in 1973, Reporting civil rights presents firsthand accounts of the revolutionary events that overthrew segregation in the United States. This two-volume anthology brings together for the first time nearly 200 newspaper and magazine reports and book excerpts, and features 151 writers, including James Baldwin, Robert Penn Warren, David Halberstam,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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"A detailed and thought-provoking account of segregation" including photos and first-person stories illustrating life in the Jim Crow era (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Told through unforgettable first-person accounts, photographs, and other primary sources, this book is an overview of racial segregation and early civil rights efforts in the United States from the 1890s to 1954, a period known as the Jim Crow years. Multiple perspectives...
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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"The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. Racist ideas are woven into the fabric of this country, and the first step to building an antiracist America is acknowledging America's racist past and present. This book takes you on that journey, showing how racist ideas started and were spread, and how they can be discredited"--Dust jacket flap.
"A history of racist and antiracist...
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English
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Now, in his debut essay collection, Daniel Black gives voice to the experiences of those who often find themselves on the margins. Tackling topics ranging from police brutality to the AIDS crisis to the role of HBCUs to queer representation in the Black church, Black celebrates the resilience, fortitude and survival of Black people in a land where their body is always on display.
17) The gamble
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Loss of certainty volume 2
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Synergy Books
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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Parallax Press
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[2020]
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English
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"Six reflective essays and key contemplative practices offer insights on the spiritual effects of racism in the United States help readers answer the question: how do we free ourselves from our repeated cycles of anger, denial, bitterness, pain, fear, and violence?"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 3
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1130L
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English
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The first African men, women, and children in colonial America did not arrive with dreams of freedom or hopes of a new, better life. They arrived after a torturous 90-day journey called the Middle Passage. And they arrived as slaves. Since that time, African-Americans have suffered, triumphed, despaired, and dreamed. Through U.S. history, nowhere are the hopes and fears of the black experience expressed more convincingly than on the faces of black...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"In this book, early fluent readers will learn about the causes, main events, key players, and lasting impacts of the civil rights movement. Interesting photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they learn about this important period in American history."--
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