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The Blood of Emmett Till
Timothy B Tyson - Simon & Schuster
Format: Audiobook
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Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction This extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movement - the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till - "and demands that we do the one vital thing we aren't often enough asked to do with... |
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Truevine : a strange and troubling tale of two brothers in jim crow america
Beth Macy - Little
Format: Print book
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER The true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back. The year was 1899 and the place a sweltering tobacco farm in the Jim Crow South town of Truevine, Virginia.... |
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Small Great Things: A Novel
Jodi Picoult - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * With richly layered characters and a gripping moral dilemma that will lead readers to question everything they know about privilege, power, and race, Small Great Things is the stunning new page-turner from Jodi Picoult.SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION... |
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Blackballed: The Black and White Politics of Race on America's Campuses
Lawrence Ross - St. Martin's Press, 2016.
Format: Print book
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"College" is a word that means many things to many people: a space for knowledge, a place to gain lifelong friends, and an opportunity to transcend one's socioeconomic station. Today, though, this word also recalls a slew of headlines that have revealed a dark and persistent... |
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Skating with the Statue of Liberty
Susan Meyer - Delacorte Press
Format: Print book
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"This rich story reminds us that America can be at its best as a melting pot. A page-turner for all the right reasons."--VINCE VAWTER, Newbery Honor-winning author of Paperboy In this gripping and poignant companion to Sydney Taylor Honor Award winner Black Radishes, Gustave faces... |
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Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation
Nicholas Guyatt - Basic Books
Format: Print book
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Why did the Founding Fathers fail to include blacks and Indians in their cherished proposition that "all men are created equal"? The usual answer is racism, but the reality is more complex and unsettling. In Bind Us Apart, historian Nicholas Guyatt argues that, from the Revolution... |
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I'd Rather We Got Casinos: And Other Black Thoughts
Larry Wilmore - Hachette Books
Format: Print book
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From the host of Comedy Central's The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore comes the first paperback reprint of his funny and provocative musings on race in America and other topics.I'd Rather We Got Casinos And Other Black Thoughts shares Wilmore's hilarious, eye-opening opinions... |
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The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race
Jesmyn Ward - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestseller, these groundbreaking essays and poems about race - collected by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward and written by the most important voices of her generation - are "thoughtful, searing, and at times, hopeful. The Fire This Time is vivid proof that... |
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We gon' be alright : notes on race, culture, and resegregation.
Jeff Chang - Picador Usa
Format: Print book
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"THE SMARTEST BOOK OF THE YEAR" (THE WASHINGTON POST) In these provocative, powerful essays acclaimed writer/journalist Jeff Chang (Can't Stop Won't Stop, Who We Be) takes an incisive and wide-ranging look at the recent tragedies and widespread protests that... |
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The Evening Road
Laird Hunt - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover
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"A strange, dazzling novel, as audacious as it is lyrical, The Evening Road hauls up insight, sorrow, and even--somehow--wit from the well of American history." - Emma Donoghue, bestselling author of Room and The Wonder"Illuminates its time better... |
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