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Americans like to insist that we are living in a postracial, color-blind society. In fact, racist thought is alive and well; it has simply become more sophisticated and more insidious. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues in Stamped from the Beginning, racist ideas in this country have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit. In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi...
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Adult Nonfiction (3rd floor)
NF 305.800973 KENDI 2019
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"The only way to undo racism is to consistently identify and describe it -- and then dismantle it." Ibram X. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America -- but even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. In How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi asks us to think about what an antiracist society might look like, and how we can play an active...
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ADULT
NF 976.686 HIRSCH 2002
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NF 976.686 HIRSCH 2002
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Junior - Nonfiction (2nd floor Children's Area)
JNF 324.62 RUB
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JNF 324.62 RUB
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First Edition.
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Junior - Nonfiction (2nd floor Children's Area)
JNF 324.62 RUB
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JNF 324.62 RUB
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"For over 200 years, people have marched, gone to jail, risked their lives, and even died trying to get the right to vote in the United States. Others, hungry to acquire or hold onto power, have gone to extraordinary lengths to prevent people from casting ballets or outright stolen votes and sometimes entire elections. Perfect for students who want to know more about voting rights, this nonfiction book contains an extensive view of suffrage from the...
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Adult Nonfiction (3rd floor)
NF 323.1196073 SORIN 2020
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NF 323.1196073 SORIN 2020
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First edition.
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Adult Nonfiction (3rd floor)
NF 323.1196073 SORIN 2020
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NF 323.1196073 SORIN 2020
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"How the automobile fundamentally changed African American life-the true history beyond the Best Picture-winning movie. The ultimate symbol of independence and possibility, the automobile has shaped this country from the moment the first Model T rolled off Henry Ford's assembly line. Yet cars have always held distinct importance for African Americans, allowing black families to evade the many dangers presented by an entrenched racist society and to...
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Young Adult - Nonfiction (2nd floor Teen Area)
YA 305.8 JEW 2020
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YA 305.8 JEW 2020
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Young Adult - Nonfiction (2nd floor Teen Area)
YA 305.8 JEW 2020
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YA 305.8 JEW 2020
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This book is written for the young person who doesn't know how to speak up to the racist adults in their life. For the 14 year old who sees injustice at school and isn't able to understand the role racism plays in separating them from their friends. For the kid who spends years trying to fit into the dominant culture and loses themselves for a little while. It's for all of the Black and Brown children who have been harmed (physically and emotionally)...
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Tenth anniversary edition.
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Adult Nonfiction (3rd floor)
NF 364.973 ALEXAND 2020
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NF 364.973 ALEXAND 2020
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Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of the Marshall Project and the new $100 million Art for Justice Fund; it has been the winner of numerous prizes, including the prestigious NAACP Image Award; and it has spent nearly 250 weeks on the New...
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Display Towers - 3rd Floor
NF 305.48896073 BERNARD 2019
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NF 305.48896073 BERNARD 2019
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Display Towers - 3rd Floor
NF 305.48896073 BERNARD 2019
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NF 305.48896073 BERNARD 2019
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"A collection of essays on race"--
An extraordinary, exquisitely written memoir (of sorts) that looks at race--in a fearless, penetrating, honest, true way--in twelve telltale, connected, deeply personal essays that explore, up-close, the complexities and paradoxes, the haunting memories and ambushing realities of growing up black in the South with a family name inherited from a white man, of getting a PhD from Yale, of marrying a white man from...
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"A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American mind. The abolition of slavery in the aftermath of the Civil War is a familiar story, as is the civil rights revolution that transformed the nation after World War II. But the century...
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Adult Nonfiction (3rd floor)
NF 305.800973 ZAMALIN 2019
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NF 305.800973 ZAMALIN 2019
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Adult Nonfiction (3rd floor)
NF 305.800973 ZAMALIN 2019
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NF 305.800973 ZAMALIN 2019
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Racism is America's original and most enduring sin, with well-known historic and contemporary markers: slavery, lynching, Jim Crow, redlining, mass incarceration, police brutality. Yet a resurgence of white racism in the twenty-first century, from white supremacist rallies in Charlottesville, Virginia, to the skyrocketing number of hate crimes being reported around the country, has also brought into sharp relief another uniquely American tradition:...
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Adult Nonfiction (3rd floor)
NF 923.41 TAYLOR, L 2019
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NF 923.41 TAYLOR, L 2019
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Large Print - Adult (3rd floor)
LP 923.41 TAYLOR, L 2019
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LP 923.41 TAYLOR, L 2019
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Large Print - Adult (3rd floor)
LP 923.41 TAYLOR, L 2019
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LP 923.41 TAYLOR, L 2019
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"On the South Side of Chicago in 1974, Linda Taylor reported a phony burglary, concocting a lie about stolen furs and jewelry. The detective who checked it out soon discovered she was a welfare cheat who drove a Cadillac to collect ill-gotten government checks. And that was just the beginning: Taylor, it turned out, was also a kidnapper, and possibly a murderer. A desperately ill teacher, a combat-traumatized Marine, an elderly woman hungry for companionship--after...
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Adult Nonfiction (3rd floor)
NF 306.85 PERRY 2019
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NF 306.85 PERRY 2019
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"Explores the terror, grace, and beauty of coming of age as a Black person in contemporary America and what it means to parent our children in a persistently unjust world. Emotionally raw and deeply reflective, Imani Perry issues an unflinching challenge to society to see Black children as deserving of humanity. She admits fear and frustration for her African American sons in a society that is increasingly racist and at times seems irredeemable....
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Adult Nonfiction (3rd floor)
NF 305.8 OLUO 2018
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NF 305.8 OLUO 2018
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"[The author] explores the complex reality of today's racial landscape--from white privilege and police brutality to systemic discrimination and the Black Lives Matter movement--offering straightforward clarity that readers need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divide"--Amazon.com.
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Adult Nonfiction (3rd floor)
NF 923.6 BROWN, A
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NF 923.6 BROWN, A
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Adult Nonfiction (3rd floor)
NF 923.6 BROWN, A
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NF 923.6 BROWN, A
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The author's first encounter with a racialized America came at age seven, when her parents told her they named her Austin to deceive future employers into thinking she was a white man. She grew up in majority-white schools, organizations, and churches, and has spent her life navigating America's racial divide as a writer, a speaker, and an expert helping organizations practice genuine inclusion. While so many institutions claim to value diversity...
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Adult Nonfiction (3rd floor)
NF 305.8 ORTIZ 2018
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NF 305.8 ORTIZ 2018
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"Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history, arguing that the "Global South" was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Scholar and activist Paul Ortiz challenges the notion of westward progress as exalted by widely taught formulations such as "manifest destiny" and "Jacksonian democracy," and shows how placing African American,...
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Adult Nonfiction (3rd floor)
NF 305.896 ASIM 2018
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NF 305.896 ASIM 2018
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"Asim disrupts what Toni Morrison [calls] the 'master narrative' and replaces it with a story of black survival and persistence through art and community in the face of centuries of racism. In eight ... essays, he explores such topics as the twisted legacy of jokes and falsehoods in black life; the importance of black fathers and community; the significance of black writers and stories; and the beauty and pain of the black body"--Front flap.
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Adult Nonfiction (3rd floor)
NF 364.134 GORN 2018
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NF 364.134 GORN 2018
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"Everyone knows the story of the murder of young Emmett Till. In August 1955, the fourteen-year-old Chicago boy was murdered in Mississippi for having--supposedly--flirted with a white woman named Carolyn Bryant, who was working behind the counter of a store. Emmett was taken from the home of a relative later that night by white men; three days later, his naked body was recovered in the Tallahatchie River, weighed down by a cotton-gin fan. Till's...
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Adult Nonfiction (3rd floor)
NF 305.8 DYSON 2017
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NF 305.8 DYSON 2017
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Fifty years ago Malcolm X told a white woman who asked what she could do for the cause, 'Nothing.' Michael Eric Dyson believes he was wrong. Now he responds to that question. If society is to make real racial progress, people must face difficult truths, including being honest about how Black grievance has been ignored, dismissed, or discounted.
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In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation--that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies. Rather, The Color of Law incontrovertibly makes it clear that it was de jure segregation--the...
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Charles Eliot Norton lectures volume 2016
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Adult Nonfiction (3rd floor)
NF 305 MORRISO 2017
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NF 305 MORRISO 2017
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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...