Part memoir, part historical and cultural analysis, Bakari Sellers presents an eye-opening journey through the South's past, present, and future. In his personal history, we are awakened to the crisis affecting the other "...
Racism
- Author:Sellers, BakariSummary:
- Author:Steinem, GloriaSummary:
With cool humor and rich intellect, Gloria Steinem strips bare our social constructions of gender and race, explaining just how limiting these invented cultural identities can be. In the first of six sections, Steinem imagines how our...
- Author:Nayebzadah, RahelaSummary:
In this powerful debut novel set in the spring of 2000, Rahela Nayebzadah introduces three unforgettable characters: Beh, Shabnam and Alif. In a world swirling with secrets, racism and danger we watch through the eyes of these three...
- Author:Stringfellow, Tara M.Summary:
In the summer of 1995, ten-year-old Joan, her mother, and her younger sister flee her father's violence to the only place they have left: her mother's ancestral home in Memphis. Half a century ago, Joan's grandfather...
- Author:Saad, Layla F.Summary:
This book seeks to teach listeners how to dismantle the privilege within themselves, so that they can stop inflicting damage on people of color, and in turn, help other white people do better, too.
- Author:Yee, LisaSummary:
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST - Twelve year-old Maizy discovers her family’s Chinese restaurant is full of secrets in this irresistible novel that celebrates food, fortune, and family. Welcome to the Golden Palace! Maizy has never been...
- Author:Ruff, MattSummary:
Chicago, 1954. When his father goes missing, twenty-two-year-old army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him. On his journey he encounters both mundane terrors of white America and malevolent spirits...
- Author:Ali, S. K.Summary:
On the trip of a lifetime, Adam and Zayneb must find their way back to each other in this surprising and romantic sequel to the "bighearted, wildly charming" (Becky Albertalli, New York Times bestselling author) Love from A to...
- Author:Currie, RobertSummary:
Living with the Hawk explores the traumatic events in the life of Blair Russell, a high school football player who struggles to do what’s right in tough circumstances. Key characters are his brother, Blake, the team’s quarterback;...
- Author:Kaplan, FredSummary:
From acclaimed biographer Fred Kaplan comes this exploration of how Abraham Lincoln's and John Quincy Adams' experiences with slavery and race shaped their differing viewpoints. He provides both perceptive insights into these two great...
- Author:Cardenas, Teresa, Unger, DavidSummary:
The narrator of Letters to My Mother is a young Afro-Cuban girl who, upon the death of her mother, must live with her aunt and cousins. Dependent on them and their good will, she finds their taunts about how dark her skin is and their...
- Author:Dome, Nancy A.Summary:
Fear. Avoidance. Division. The safest path can feel like the one without dialogue regarding conversations about equity and diversity. What if you offend the other person? What if they challenge your beliefs? What if you ruin a...
- Author:Yee, PaulSummary:
Jason is on outsider. A recent immigrant from China, he lives in a close-minded town with his mother and younger brother. Trying hard to fit in, Jason falls in with the wrong crowd and ends up in trouble with the police. Jason finds he...
- Author:Boyko, JohnSummary:
To understand Canada one must understand racism, for Canada was born and grew as a racist state. Race riots, segregated schools, racially-based union membership, mass deportations of innocent people, the state sanctioned kidnapping of...
- Author:Bernard-Lenoir, AnneSummary:
Lorsque Luke MacAllan aperçoit le cheval de son ami Ti-Khuan Wu revenir sans son cavalier, il demande laide de son ami Bobcat pour le retrouver. Leurs recherches sont infructueuses. Par contre, le lendemain, Ti-Khuan réapparaît au...
- Author:Pineau, GisèleSummary:
- Author:Hooks, BellSummary:
Twenty-three essays written from a black and feminist perspective ; they consider the bitter difficulties of racism by envisioning a world without it.
- Author:Whitehead, ColsonSummary:
E-journalist J. Sutter travels to West Virginia for the first John Henry Days celebration.
- Author:Paris, Leonard AlbertSummary:
Many people believe that racism and discrimination against those of African descent was primarily an American experience. However, this book dispels that myth by recounting Leonard Albert Paris's first eighteen years (1948-1966),...
- Author:Ellison, RalphSummary:
When Invisible Man first appeared in 1952, it remained on best-seller lists for 16 weeks, won the National Book Award, and established Ralph Ellison as one of the pillars of 20th-century American literature. Expelled from a southern...