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"When Layla Saad began an Instagram challenge called #meandwhitesupremacy, she never predicted it would become a cultural movement. She encouraged people to own up and share their racist behaviors, big and small. She was looking for truth, and she got it... Thousands of people participated in the challenge, and over 80,000 people downloaded the supporting work Me and White Supremacy. Updated and expanded from the original edition, Me and White Supremacy...
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Sourcebooks Explore
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"From the author of the New York Times bestselling book ME AND WHITE SUPREMACY comes the young readers' edition that teaches readers how to explore and understand racism and white supremacy and how young readers can do their part to help change the world"--
3) The minority
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360 Sound and Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
Special ed. ; Director's cut.
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English
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Jake Jackson is the nicest, most honest person anyone could ever meet. So when he gets accused of stealing a co-worker's purse, and then bombarded with racial biases, he really has to struggle to maintain some sort of normal life. Just when he finds himself traveling toward a path of insanity he manages to capture a wanted serial killer, which causes his luck to change and he finally gets the respect he deserves.
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IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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"For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him -- most urgently, why he, and other black people he knew, seemed to live in fear.What were they afraid of? In Tremble for My Country, Coates takes readers along on his journey through America's history of race and its contemporary resonances through a series of awakenings -- moments...
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023
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IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"A true story of determination and groundbreaking achievement follows eighth grade African American spelling champion MacNolia Cox, who left Akron, Ohio, in 1936 to compete in the prestigious National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., only to be met with prejudice and discrimination."--
6) Begin again
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Crown
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
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English
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"James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the Civil Rights movement to force America to confront its lies about race. In the era of Trump, what can we learn from his struggle? "Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again." --James Baldwin We live, according to Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., in the after times, when the promise of Black Lives Matter and the attempt to...
8) Racism
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Mason Crest
Pub. Date
c2017
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English
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Racism is a belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities that are specific to that race. This belief enables members of one race to distinguish themselves as superior to another race or races. Today, Racism affects the lives of millions of people in many different countries. This book discusses when and why racism began, explores how it feels to be a victim of racism, and suggests approaches for how society can tackle...
9) Queen & Slim
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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While on a forgettable first date together in Ohio, a black man and a black woman, are pulled over for a minor traffic infraction. The situation escalates, with sudden and tragic results, when the man kills the police officer in self-defense. Terrified and in fear for their lives, the man, a retail employee, and the woman, a criminal defense lawyer, are forced to go on the run. But the incident is captured on video and goes viral, and the couple unwittingly...
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Mason Crest
Pub. Date
c2017
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English
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The American Declaration of Independence notes that (3z(Ball men are created equal,(3y (Band many modern societies have tried to live up to this precept. Legislation has been passed in many countries that is intended to ensure equal opportunities for all, regardless of race or ethnicity, gender, religious beliefs, age, disability, or any other distinguishing characteristic. This book explores the fundamental questions related to discrimination, including...
11) Race cars
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Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Race Cars is a children's book about white privilege created to help parents and educators facilitate tough conversations about race, privilege, and oppression. Written by a clinical social worker and child therapist with experience in anti-bias training and edited by a diversity expert, Race Cars tells the story of 2 best friends, a white car and a black car, that have different experiences and face different rules while entering the same race.
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Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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History was made in 1947, when Jackie Robinson broke the professional baseball race barrier to become the first African American MLB player of the modern era. 42 tells the life story of Robinson and his history-making signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers under the guidance of team executive Branch Rickey.
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2022.
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IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"This picture book biography in verse tells the story of Mary Hamilton, an African American woman and Civil Rights activist, who was found to be in contempt of court when she would not respond to questions from an Alabama judge who used only her first name, while calling white people "Mr.," "Mrs.," or "Miss." The NAACP took her case, which appealed all the way to the US Supreme Court, which ruled in Mary Hamilton's favor." --
15) The sacrifice
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English
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New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates returns with an incendiary novel that illuminates the tragic impact of sexual violence, racism, brutality, and power on innocent lives and probes the persistence of stereotypes, the nature of revenge, the complexities of truth, and our insatiable hunger for sensationalism.
When a fourteen-year-old girl is the alleged victim of a terrible act of racial violence, the incident shocks and galvanizes
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Publisher's description: Alexander, a civil rights advocate and legal scholar, argues that, despite decades of legal dismantling of Jim Crow and the election of the nation's first black president, the racial caste system has not ended in America; it has only been redesigned. In this legal and historical study, Alexander documents how the targeting of black men by the criminal justice system in the war on drugs functions as a system of racial control:...
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Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged
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English
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"In this new, revised and enlarged edition, Discrimination and Disparities goes beyond its analysis--in the first edition--of the sources of disparities and the different kinds of discrimination. It deals with undeniable fact of gross disparities in opportunity, without succumbing to the 'social justice' vision of our time--a vision with demonstrably false assumptions, and solutions that may not even be possible, in any comprehensive and sustainable...
18) Stealing home
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Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2021
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IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When a boy struggles after moving to a Japanese internment camp during WWII, baseball shows him another way to approach life.Sandy Saito is a happy boy who reads comic books and is obsessed with baseball --- especially the Asahi team, the pride of his Japanese Canadian community. But when the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, his life, like that of every other North American of Japanese descent, changes forever. His family is forced to move to a remote...
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