Account of Rosa Parks's decision to stay in her bus seat in 1955 Alabama, in defiance of segregation laws. Explains the resulting bus boycott by civil rights activists that led to the Supreme Court ruling ending racial segregation...
Race relations
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- Author:Clark, P. DjèlíSummary:
In this dark fantasy historical novella that gives a supernatural twist to the Ku Klux Klan's reign of terror, The Birth of a Nation cast a spell across America, swelling the Klan's ranks and drinking deep from the darkest...
- Author:Morrison, ToniSummary:
In this 1983 short story-the only short story Morrison ever wrote-we meet Twyla and Roberta, who have known each other since they were eight years old and spent four months together as roommates in St. Bonaventure shelter. Inseparable...
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Drawing on reflective personal narrative, experiential research, and critical theoretical engagement, this collection connects localized experiences with broader structural and systemic forms of intersectional racism. These detailed...
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This Reader provides a critical overview of the historical development and contemporary focus of racist ideas and institutions. It seeks to locate the historical origins of racism, bringing together material from different theoretical...
- Author:Comack, ElizabethSummary:
Policing is a controversial subject, generating considerable debate. One issue of concern has been “racial profiling” by police, that is, the alleged practice of targeting individuals and groups on the basis of “race.” Racialized...
- Author:Twain, MarkSummary:
When a mulatto slave woman switches her own infant with the look-alike son of a wealthy merchant, it takes Pudd'nhead Wilson, the town eccentric, to put things right again.
- Author:Maynard, RobynSummary:
Policing Black Bodies is a timely and much-needed exposure of historical and contemporary practices of state-sanctioned violence against Black lives in Canada. This groundbreaking work dispels many prevailing myths that cast Canada as a...
- Author:Davidson, DianaSummary:
In the deep winter of 1891, on the Métis settlement of Lac St. Anne, known as Manito Sakahigan in Cree, "Spirit Lake" has been renamed for the patron saint of childbirth. It is here that people journey in search of tradition, redemption...
- Author:Larsen, NellaSummary:
First published in 1929, Passing is a remarkable exploration of the shifting racial and sexual boundaries in America. Larsen, a premier writer of the Harlem Renaissance, captures the rewards and dangers faced by two negro women who pass...
- Author:Tobar, HéctorSummary:
A new audiobook by the Pulitzer Prize - winning writer about the twenty-first-century Latino experience and identity. "Latino" is the most open-ended and loosely defined of the major race categories in the United States. Our...
- Author:Sharpe, ChristinaSummary:
WINNER OF THE 2023 HILARY WESTON WRITERS' TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION -FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD A dazzlingly inventive, deeply moving, intellectually bracing exploration of pain and beauty, private memory and public...
- Author:Okwonga, MusaSummary:
'Moving ... stays with you long after you've finished it' Nigella Lawson
'A superb memoir ... written with a poet's lyricism and a journalist's clarity' Nish Kumar
'An urgent exposition on how [Eton]'s undue influence is... - Author:Jean, BarmanSummary:
“The ways in which we can redress the past are many and varied,” writes Jean Barman, “and it is up to each of us to act as best we can.” The seventeen essays collected here, originally published between 1996 and 2013, make a valuable...
- Author:Mathieu, Sarah-JaneSummary:
North of the Color Line examines life in Canada for the estimated 5,000 blacks, both African Americans and West Indians, who immigrated to Canada after the end of Reconstruction in the United States. Through the experiences of black...
- Author:Baldwin, JamesSummary:
Records the last months of Baldwin's ten-year self-exile in Europe, his return to Harlem, and his first trip south at the time of the school integration battles.
- Author:Baldwin, JamesSummary:
A classic memoir recounting Baldwin's early life in Harlem, the civil rights struggle, the murders of Malcolm X and MLK, and his eventual confrontation with the violent American South.
- Author:Tolan, RobbieSummary:
The harrowing true story of Robbie Tolan, a young black man who was shot in the chest by a white police officer ... in his own driveway. NO JUSTICE is the harrowing story of Robbie Tolan, who early on one New Year's Eve morning, found...
- Author:DiAngelo, RobinSummary:
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Building on the groundwork laid in the New York Times bestseller White Fragility , Robin DiAngelo explores how a culture of niceness inadvertently promotes racism. In White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo explained...
- Author:Diop, Boubacar BorisSummary: