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Language
English
Description
Black is... sisters navigating their relationship at summer camp in Portland, Oregon, as written by Renée Watson. Black is... three friends walking back from the community pool talking about nothing and everything, in a story by Jason Reynolds. Black is... Nic Stone's high-class beauty dating a boy her momma would never approve of. Black is... two girls kissing in Justina Ireland's story set in Maryland. Black is urban and rural, wealthy and poor,...
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"I'd seen the Senator speak a few times before my life got caught up, however distantly, with his, but the first time I can remember paying real attention was when he delivered the speech announcing his run for the Presidency. When David first hears the Senator from Illinois speak, he feels deep ambivalence. Intrigued by the Senator's idealistic rhetoric, David also wonders how he'll balance the fervent belief and inevitable compromises it will take...
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
48 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"In her most famous spoken-word poem, author of the Pura Belpré-winning novel-in-verse The Poet X Elizabeth Acevedo embraces all the complexities of Black hair and Afro-Latinidad--the history, pain, pride, and powerful love of that inheritance" --
Publisher
King Flex Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 110 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Traces the history of black America back to ancient African civilization, examining attempts by the white establishment in the U.S. to conceal this knowledge as a means of undermining African American identity. Presents theories of scholars and social commentators which comprise a history in which African Americans have been systematically oppressed as a people.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
980L
Physical Desc
xviii, 253 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"All too many kids of color get 'the talk.' The talk about where to keep their hands, how to wear their clothes, how to speak, how to act around police-an honest talk, a talk about survival in a racist world. The get "the talk" because they must. But white kids don't get this talk. Instead, they're barely spoken to about race at all-and that needs to change. The Other Talk begins this much-needed conversation for white kids. In an accessible, anecdotal,...
Publisher
King Flex Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (2 hrs., 24 min.) : DVD video, sound, color, with black & white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This installment of Hidden Colors tackles the taboo subject of systematic racism. The film explores how institutional racism effects all areas of human activity and the rules, laws and public policies that are utilized to maintain this system.
Publisher
King Flex Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc : sound, color with black & white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Explores the motivation behind European global subjugation, the history of rarely discussed vast West African empires, how germ warfare is used on melanted people, and the history of slave breeding farms in America.
Publisher
Scribner
Lexile measure
1230L
Language
English
Description
"In response to recent tragedies and widespread protests across the nation, National Book Award-winning writer Jesmyn Ward looked to James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time for comfort and counsel. In the essay 'My dungeon shook,' Baldwin addresses his fifteen-year-old namesake on the one hundredth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. He writes: 'You know, and I know, that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom one hundred years...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Your story begins in Africa. Your African ancestors defied the odds and survived 400 years of slavery in America and passed down an extraordinary legacy to you. Beginning in Africa before 1619, Your Legacy presents an unprecedentedly accessible, empowering, and proud introduction to African American history for children. While your ancestors' freedom was taken from them, their spirit was not; this book celebrates their accomplishments, acknowledges...
Author
Language
English
Description
Nigger: It is arguably the most consequential social insult in American history, though, at the same time, a word that reminds us of "the ironies and dilemmas, tragedies and glories of the American experience." In this tour de force, distinguished Harvard Law School professor Randall Kennedy - author of the highly acclaimed Race, Crime, and the Law - "put[s] a tracer on nigger", to identify how it has been used and by whom, while analyzing the controversies...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perenial
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Raised in sleepy English suburbia, Georgina Lawton was no stranger to homogeneity. Her parents were white; her friends were white; there was no reason for her to think she was any different. But over time her brown skin and dark, kinky hair frequently made her a target of prejudice. In Georginas insistently color-blind household, with no acknowledgement of her difference or access to black culture, she lacked the coordinates to make sense of who...
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
94 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Trace Evidence, the urgent follow-up to his award-winning debut Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing, Charif Shanahan continues his piercing meditations on the intricacies of mixed-race identity, queer desire, time, mortality, and the legacies of anti-Blackness in the US and abroad. At the collection's center sits "On the Overnight from Agadir," a poem that chronicles the poet's survival of a devastating bus accident in Morocco, his mother's...
Author
Series
Charles Eliot Norton lectures volume 2016
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xvii, 114 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
America's foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency to construct Others? Why does the presence of Others make us so afraid?Drawing on her Norton Lectures, Toni Morrison takes up these and other vital questions bearing on identity...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xi, 275 pages : illustrations, color portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Explores the extent to which historical definitions of race continue to shape contemporary racial identities and lived experiences of racial difference"--
Challenges narrow perceptions of Blackness as both an identity and lived reality to understand the diversity of what it means to be Black in the US and around the world. What exactly is Blackness and what does it mean to be Black? Is Blackness a matter of biology or consciousness? Who determines...
Author
Series
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 VOX book (1 volume (unpaged)) : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A beautiful children's picture book featuring the lyrics of Peter Tosh's global classic celebrating children of African descent.
So don't care where you come from,
As long as you're a black man, you're an African,
No mind your nationality.
You have got the identity of an African
African is a children's book featuring lyrics by Peter Tosh and illustrations by Jamaican artist Rachel Moss. The song "African" by Peter Tosh was originally released in...
20) Buck breaking
Publisher
King Flex Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Buck Breaking is a documentary film that explores the history of sexual exploitation of Black people by the dominant society. The film particularly covers the taboo subject of sexual exploitation of Black males throughout history. The film Buck Breaking is produced draws parallels between ancient forms of this sexual exploitation, to the modern forms of buck breaking being used on Black people today. The film shows the correlation between the historic...