Racism
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TITLE: Genesis Begins Again
AUTHOR: Alicia D. Williams WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Wil - NOVELS SUMMARY: Thirteen-year-old Genesis tries again and again to lighten her black skin, thinking it is the root of her family's troubles, before discovering reasons to love herself as is. |
TITLE: Such a Fun Age
AUTHOR: Kiley Reid WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Rei - NOVELS SUMMARY: Seeking justice for a young black babysitter who was wrongly accused of kidnapping by a racist security guard, a successful blogger finds her efforts complicated by a video that reveals unexpected connections. |
TITLE: Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist
AUTHOR: Eli Saslow WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Bla SUMMARY: Looks at the change of the heart and mind of white supremacist, Derek Black whose father founded Stormfront, the largest racist community on the Internet, and his godfather David Duke, a KKK Grand Wizard. |
TITLE: How to Be an Antiracist
AUTHOR: Ibram X. Kendi WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 305.8 Ken SUMMARY: A best-selling author, National Book Award-winner and professor combines ethics, history, law and science with a personal narrative to describe how to move beyond the awareness of racism and contribute to making society just and equitable. |
TITLE: Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
AUTHOR: James Forman, Jr. WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 364.9 For SUMMARY: Recounts the tragic role that some African Americans--as judges, prosecutors, politicians, police officers, and voters--played in escalating the war on crime. |
TITLE: This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America
AUTHOR: Morgan Jerkins WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 305.48 Jer SUMMARY: A collection of essays in which the author interweaves personal experience with incisive commentary on pop culture, feminism, black history, misogyny, and racism. |
TITLE: We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide
AUTHOR: Carol Anderson with Tonya Bolden WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 323 And SUMMARY: Presents the argument that since the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, when African Americans make advances toward full participation in our democracy, white reaction feeds deliberate and relentless rollback of their progress. |
TITLE: White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
AUTHOR: Robin DiAngelo WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 305.8 DiA SUMMARY: Explores the counterproductive reactions white people have when discussing racism that serve to protect their positions and maintain racial inequality. |
TITLE: All American Boys
AUTHOR: Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Rey - NOVELS SUMMARY: When sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend. |
TITLE: The Silence of Our Friends
AUTHOR: Mark Long & Jim Demonakos WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Lon - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: This semi-autobiographical tale is set in 1968 Texas, against the backdrop of the fight for civil rights. A white family from a notoriously racist neighborhood in the suburbs and a black family from its poorest ward cross Houston's color line, overcoming humiliation, degradation, and violence to win the freedom of five black college students unjustly charged with the murder of a policeman. |
TITLE: In the Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives
AUTHOR: Kenneth C. Davis WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 920 Dav SUMMARY: An examination of American slavery through the true stories of five enslaved people who were considered the property of some of our best-known presidents. |
TITLE: Bluebird, Bluebird
AUTHOR: Attica Locke WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Loc - MYSTERY SUMMARY: Forced by duty to return to his racially divided East Texas hometown, an African-American Texas Ranger risks his job and reputation to investigate a highly charged double murder case involving a black Chicago lawyer and a local white woman. |
TITLE: Dear Martin
AUTHOR: Nic Stone WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Sto - NOVELS SUMMARY: Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him. |
TITLE: The Hate U Give
AUTHOR: Angie Thomas WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Tho - NOVELS SUMMARY: After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died. |
TITLE: Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond
AUTHOR: Marc Lamont Hill WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 306 Hil SUMMARY: The award-winning journalist, BET News host and CNN political contributor presents an analysis of the high-profile deaths of such unarmed citizens as Michael Brown, Eric Garner and Freddie Gray to lend essential insights into the intersection of race and class in America today. |
TITLE: Between the World and Me
AUTHOR: Ta-Nehisi Coates WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 305.8 Coa SUMMARY: The author presents a history of racial discrimination in the United States and a narrative of his own personal experiences of contemporary race relations, offering possible resolutions for the future. |
TITLE: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
AUTHOR: Michelle Alexander WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 364 Ale SUMMARY: Argues that mass incarceration of African- and Latino Americans in the United States is a form of social control, and contends the civil rights community needs to become more active in protecting the rights of criminals. |
TITLE: The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race
AUTHOR: Edited by Jesmyn Ward WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 305.896 War SUMMARY: A collection of essays addressing the history and predicament of race in an attempt to envision a better future. |
TITLE: Small Great Things
AUTHOR: Jodi Picoult WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Pic - NOVELS SUMMARY: Hesitating to treat the newborn of a white supremacist couple who has demanded that a white nurse assist them, a black nurse is placed on trial in the tragic aftermath and is aided by a white public defender with whom she begins questioning their beliefs as the case becomes more racially charged. |
TITLE: Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
AUTHOR: Ibram X. Kendi WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 305.8 Ken SUMMARY: A comprehensive history of anti-black racism focuses on the lives of five major players in American history, including Cotton Mather and Thomas Jefferson, and highlights the debates that took place between assimilationists and segregationists and between racists and antiracists. |
TITLE: Uprooted: The Japanese American Experience During World War II
AUTHOR: Albert Marrin WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 940.53 Mar SUMMARY: A close look at the history of racism in America and carefully follows the treacherous path that led one of our nation’s most beloved presidents to make this decision. Meanwhile, it also illuminates the history of Japan and its own struggles with racism and xenophobia, which led to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, ultimately tying the two countries together. |
TITLE: Black Spokane: The Civil Rights Struggle in the Inland Northwest
AUTHOR: Dwayne A. Mack WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 305.896 Mac SUMMARY: Drawing on oral histories, interviews, newspapers, and a rich array of other primary sources, Mack sets the stage for the years following World War II in the Inland Northwest, when an influx of black veterans would bring about a new era of racial issues. His book traces the earliest challenges faced by the NAACP and a small but sympathetic white population as Spokane became a significant part of the national civil rights struggle. |
TITLE: Citizen: An American Lyric
AUTHOR: Claudia Rankine WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 814 Ran SUMMARY: Claudia Rankine's new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane, online, on TV--everywhere, all the time. |