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61) Why we fly
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told from alternating points of view, Chanel and Eleanor's rocky start to senior year gets more complex when the cheerleading team kneels for the national anthem and each girl grapples with the consequences.
It's been a rocky start to senior year. Eleanor is still in physical therapy months after a serious concussion from a failed cheer attempt; Chanel is putting tremendous pressure on herself to get into the best colleges. Eleanor's new relationship...
62) Goodnight racism
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and text show children the language to dream of a better world.
63) Seadrift
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (69 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In 1979, a Vietnamese refugee shoots and kills a white crab fisherman at the public town docks in Seadrift, TX. What began as a dispute over fishing territory erupts into violence and ignites a maelstrom of boat burnings, KKK intimidation, and other hostilities against refugees along the Gulf Coast.
Taking place after the Fall of Saigon, when hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese nationals desperately fled the communist takeover of their home country,
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Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 293 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
After fifteen years of growing up in the Ozark hills with his widowed mother, high-school freshman Boady Sanden is beyond ready to move on. He dreams of glass towers and cityscapes, driven by his desire to be anywhere other than Jessup, Missouri. The new kid at St. Ignatius High School, if he isn't being pushed around, he is being completely ignored. Even his beloved woods, his playground as a child and his sanctuary as he grew older, seem to be closing...
65) The tryout
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As one of the only Asian Americans in her school, Christina confronts both well-meaning ignorance and cruel racism, but in middle school fitting in is important, which is why she and her best friend Megan are both excited and nervous to try out for the popular cheerleading squad."--
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Language
English
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It's the summer of 1955. For Ethan Harper, a biracial kid raised mostly by his white father, race has always been a distant conversation. When he's sent to spend the summer with his aunt and uncle in small-town Alabama, his blackness is suddenly front and center, and no one is shy about making it known he's not welcome there. Enter Juniper Jones. The town's resident oddball and free spirit, she's everything the townspeople aren't--open, kind, and...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"The haunting coming-of-age story that has become a major American classic, now in an Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics hardcover edition. Originally published in 1953, Go Tell It on the Mountain was James Baldwin's first major work, based in part on his own childhood in Harlem. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"In 1964, when Jaime Sonoro, Mexico's most renowned actor and singer, discovers a book telling of the multitude of horrific crimes committed by his ancestors, he must pay for their crimes unless he can uncover the truth about his grandfather, the legendary bandido El Tragabalas, The Bullet Swallower"--
Author
Publisher
West 44 Books, an imprint of Enslow Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
First edition
Physical Desc
52 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Izzy finds a friend in Sandra Hashimoto, a new classmate who just moved from Tokyo, Japan. So when Izzy discovers that kids are targeting Sandra with hurtful notes, she's ready for revenge. Izzy sets out to embarrass the kids who were mean to Sandra, but her plans just keep making things worse. How can Izzy find a way to fight for justice if no one will let her fight?
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Ijeoma Oluo offers a contemporary, accessible take on the racial landscape in America, addressing head-on such issues as privilege, police brutality, intersectionality, micro-aggressions, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the "N" word. Perfectly positioned to bridge the gap between people of color and white Americans struggling with race complexities, Oluo answers the questions readers don't dare ask, and explains the concepts that continue to...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"'This book is Clint Smith's contemporary portrait of the United States of America as a slave-owning nation. Beginning in his own hometown of New Orleans, Smith leads the reader through an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks, those that are honest about the past and those that are not, that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation's collective history, and ourselves" --
Beginning in his hometown...
72) Black Like Me
Publisher
Unobstructed View
Pub. Date
1964.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (108 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Based on the landmark memoir by John Howard Griffin, BLACK LIKE ME stars James Whitmore as Griffin, who medically altered his pigment and, with the help of a sunlamp, reinvented himself as an itinerant black writer navigating his way through Mississippi and Alabama. Along the way he experienced firsthand both crushing racism and the incredible life force of the Afro-American communities.
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (50 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Leaders can no longer dismiss or minimize the intergenerational pain and anguish of racial inequities in the country. In this session, you will: * Learn what has brought us to this point in history * Understand the physiological and psychological impact of racism * Explore how to dismantle racist systems This talk is facilitated by Berrett-Koehler Publisher and President Johanna Vondeling as part of the Leadership for a Changing World Summit produced...
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (88 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A revolutionist becomes the target of an overzealous FBI agent's desperate ploy to expose terrorism in this hilarious farce about homeland insecurities. Anna Kendrick co-stars.
75) A Private Life
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
1991.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (90 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Tells the emotional story of Jack and Stella Dupont who meet, fall in love and live in defiance of the apartheid laws in South Africa. Written by Andrew Davies.
76) Son of the South
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (106 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A grandson of a Klansman comes of age in the deep south and joins the Civil Rights Movement. From executive producer Spike Lee and based on Bob Zellner’s autobiography, “The Wrong Side of Murder Creek”
77) The Believer
Publisher
LoneStar Media
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (98 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A young Jewish man develops a fiercely anti-Semitic philosophy. Based on the factual story of a K.K.K. member in the 1960s who was revealed to be Jewish by a New York Times reporter.
78) The Walk
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (105 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In 1974, a Boston Irish cop confronts fierce social pressure after being assigned to protect black high school students as they are bused into all-white South Boston High.
Publisher
Diamond Law
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (27 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
An intimate portrait of four people of color in the Pacific Northwest coping with microaggressions and implicit bias in everyday life. Their vivid stories create "reveal" moments, where the truth about lived experience shines and inspires. A white ally discusses his experience of privilege as he struggles to learn about and change his own racial bias.
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