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Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"We talk a lot about race, yet we rarely focus on the underlying question of what race is and its connections to racism. Conversations about race can be uncomfortable and confusing, but this is resolvable if we ask the right questions and focus on clear answers. What, exactly, is race? Joseph L. Graves and Alan H. Goodman illuminate the idea of race so that people who want to confront the topic of racial injustice can do so with the necessary conceptual...
Author
Series
Ethan Fairmont volume 1
Publisher
Union Square Kids
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
E.T. meets Stranger Things in this middle-grade novel series from author and award-winning filmmaker Nick Brooks. With crossover appeal, this fun, engaging series has plenty of nostalgia nods for adults to appreciate as well as young readers.
Something cool happening in Ferrous City? Not a chance. Until one day . . . when self-proclaimed genius inventor Ethan Fairmont runs into an abandoned car factory to...
Something cool happening in Ferrous City? Not a chance. Until one day . . . when self-proclaimed genius inventor Ethan Fairmont runs into an abandoned car factory to...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this powerful, vibrant biography, award-winning creator Duncan Tonatiuh sheds light on the legacy of a legendary capoeira player, Mestre Bimba, who resisted racial oppression through art and turned a marginalized practice into a global phenomenon
A meia lua whooshed in the air. The strike was evaded and followed with an aú.
Two young men were playing capoeira in the middle of the roda. Bimba wanted to play, too.
...
A meia lua whooshed in the air. The strike was evaded and followed with an aú.
Two young men were playing capoeira in the middle of the roda. Bimba wanted to play, too.
...
Author
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged
Language
Español
Description
En esta biografía impactante y vibrante, el galardonado creador Duncan Tonatiuh echa luz sobre el legado de un legendario capoeirista, Mestre Bimba, quien se resistió a la opresión racial a través del arte y convirtió una práctica marginada en un fenómeno global
Una meia lua silbó a través del aire. El golpe fue evadido y le siguió un aú.
Dos jóvenes estaban jugando a la capoeira en medio de la roda. Bimba también quería jugar.
Aunque...
7) Rizos
Author
Publisher
First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Spanish edition.
Language
Español
Description
"Marlene ama tres cosas: el arte, a su adorada t�ia Ruby y pasar el tiempo con Camilla, su mejor amiga. Pero su mam�a piensa que se deber�ia enfocar solamente en sus estudios y en madurar; y esto �ultimo implica alisarse el pelo todos los fines de semana para que se vea "presentable" y "bueno". Pero Marlene odia ir al sal�on y no entiende por qu�e nadie a su alrededor piensa que sus rizos naturales son bonitos. Despu�es de algunos desaf�ios...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On a cold day in March of 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the heart of a forest in Maryland. Under the supervision of a doctor, the men were forced to clear the land, pour cement, lay bricks, and harvest tobacco. When construction finished, they became the first twelve patients of the state's Hospital for the Negro Insane. For centuries, Black patients have been absent from our history books. Madness transports readers behind the brick...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
From Academy Award nominee Taylor Sheridan, co-creator of Yellowstone, co-creator of Yellowstone, Mayor of Kingstown follows the McLusky family--power brokers in Kingstown. Michigan where the business of incarceration is the only thriving industry. Tackling themes of systemic racism, corruption and inequality, the series provides a stark look at their attempt to bring order and justice to a town that has neither. The release includes all 10 episodes...
11) The talk
Author
Language
English
Description
"This graphic memoir by a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning offers a deeply personal meditation on the "the talk" parents must have with Black children about racism and the brutality that often accompanies it, a ritual attempt to keep kids safe and prepare them for a world that-to paraphrase Toni Morrison-does not love them. Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn't play with a white friend's realistic...
Author
Publisher
Heyday
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of a landmark work of juvenile fiction.
"A haunting reminder of how indignities and dignity can reside side by side." —Terry Tempest Williams
This much-loved and widely read classic is the moving story of one girl's struggle to remain brave during the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans. In 1941, eleven-year-old Yuki is looking forward to Christmas when disaster
...14) Gone wolf
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A twelve-year-old Black girl deals with fear, grief, pain, and suffering caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and America's history of enslavement and racist violence.
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2024
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Adapted from her adult memoir, this is the autobiography of Coretta Scott King--wife of Martin Luther King, Jr., founder of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change (the King Center), and twentieth-century American civil and human rights activist. 40pp.
Author
Series
Plum (Matt Phelan) volume 3
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When raccoons invade the Athensville Zoo, it is up to Plum and his friends to save their beloved home.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
2019. Moud is an out gay teen living in Los Angeles with his distant father, Saeed. When Moud gets the news that his grandfather in Iran is dying, he accompanies his dad to Tehran, where the revelation of family secrets will force Moud into a new understanding of his history, his culture, and himself. 1978. Saeed is an engineering student with a promising future ahead of him in Tehran. But when his parents discover his involvement in the country's...
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