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Author
Series
Pub. Date
1987
Physical Desc
x, 267 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Revised and updated: the award-winning historical analysis of the civil rights movement examining the interplay of race and class in the American South.
In Race, Class, and the Civil Rights Movement, sociologist Jack M. Bloom explains what the civil rights movement was about, why it was successful, and why it fell short of some of its objectives. With a unique sociohistorical analysis, he argues that Southern racist practices were established by...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 352 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A narrative history of one of America's deadliest episodes of race riots and lynchings traces how black Americans were brutally targeted by anti-black uprisings that culminated in hundreds of deaths and set the stage for the civil rights movement.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
495 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Bill Bratton became a Boston street cop after returning from serving in Vietnam, he was dismayed by the corrupt old guard, and it is fair to say the old guard was dismayed by him too. But his success fighting crime could not be denied. Propelled by extraordinary results, Bratton had a dazzling rise, and ultimately a dazzling career, becoming the most famous police commissioner of modern times. The Profession is the story of that career in full....
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xxxiii, 271 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
This is a resource on racism and segregation in American life. The book is chronologically organized into five sections, each of which focuses on a different historical period in the story of Jim Crow: inventing, building, living, resisting, and dismantling.
86) Green book
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (130 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Tony Lip, a bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley, a world-class Black pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on The Green Book to guide them to the few establishments that were then safe for African-Americans. Confronted with racism, danger, as well as unexpected humanity and humor, they are forced to set aside differences to survive and thrive on the...
Author
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Description
Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a framework for understanding our nation's history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of "race," a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men -- bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 146 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the midst of civil unrest in the summer of 2020 following the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, one of the great literary voices of our time, Elizabeth Alexander, wrote a moving reflection on the psyche of young Black America, turning a mother's eye to her sons' generation. Originally published in the New Yorker, the essay brilliantly and lovingly observed the lives and attitudes of young people who even as children could...
Author
Language
English
Description
Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935.
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In an unprecedented demographic shift, Latinos will comprise a third of the American population in just a matter of decades. While their influence shapes everything from electoral politics to popular culture, many Americans still struggle with two basic questions: Who are Latinos, and where do they fit in America's racial order? Laura E. Gómez, a leading expert on race in America, argues that it is only recently that Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans,...
Author
Publisher
Chalice Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 172 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
While we know the time to talk about racism is long overdue, many white people are still anxious to talk about it. Guilt, shame, discomfort, and the fear of saying the wrong thing are just some of the feelings white people perceive as holding them back from the critical conversations around dismantling racism. In this updated and expanded second edition of Anxious to Talk About It, professor and anti-racism teacher Carolyn Helsel offers fresh new...
93) The second coming of the KKK: the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American political tradition
Author
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A new Ku Klux Klan arose in the early 1920s, a less violent but equally virulent descendant of the relatively small, terrorist Klan of the 1870s. Unknown to most Americans today, this "second Klan" largely flourished above the Mason-Dixon Line--its army of four-to-six-million members spanning the continent from New Jersey to Oregon, its ideology of intolerance shaping the course of mainstream national politics throughout the twentieth century...Never...
94) Members only
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Raj Bhatt is often unsure of where he belongs. Having moved to America from Bombay as a child, he knew few Indian kids. Now middle-aged, he lives mostly happily in California, with a job at a university. Still, his white wife seems to fit in better than he does at times, especially at their tennis club, a place he's cautiously come to love. But it's there that, in one week, his life unravels. It begins at a meeting for potential new members: Raj...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Eduardo Bonilla-Silva's acclaimed Racism without Racists documents how, beneath our contemporary conversation about race, there lies a full-blown arsenal of arguments, phrases, and stories that whites use to account for--and ultimately justify--racial inequalities. The fifth edition of this provocative book makes clear that color blind racism is as insidious now as ever. It features new material on our current racial climate, including the Black...
96) Racism
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Case studies and helpful advice for kids who are bullied because of their race"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
an imprint of InterVarsity Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
192 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jenny Booth Potter knew as a young adult that racism could no longer be tolerated. But what exactly could she do? With candor and humility, Jenny shares her journey of growing in awareness, reckoning with her own white privilege, and learning how to be an antiracism advocate. For anyone overwhelmed by the enormity of racism, this book shows what everyday antiracism looks like"--
Author
Publisher
Broadleaf Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xxiv, 158 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
For years Elle Dowd considered herself an advocate for justice, but her well-meaning support always took a back burner to what Martin Luther King Jr. called the tension-free, ordered "negative peace" of white moderates. Then Michael Brown, a Black man, was murdered by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, and the subsequent Uprising changed everything. In Baptized in Tear Gas, minister and activist Elle Dowd tells the gripping story of her...
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck novel volume 14
Language
English
Description
"When the body of Jamal Cousin, president of the preeminent black fraternity at Florida's flagship university, is discovered hogtied in the stygian swamps of the Suwannee River, his death sets off a firestorm. And when a fellow student, Mark Towson, the president of a prominent white fraternity, is accused of the crime, the fire threatens to rage out of control. Contending with rising political tensions, racial unrest, and a sensational media, Towson's...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xiv, 386 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes a time of upheaval in America--when the country was in a deep economic depression, white supremacists roamed the South, and a nationwide railroad strike led to bloodshed--and discusses how the events of 1877 also fueled cultural and intellectual innovation.