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African Americans Economic conditions 21st century Critical race theory HISTORY / African American Nebraska Omaha POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights Race discrimination Economic aspects United States Racism United States SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies Totalitarianism Psychological aspects United StatesHolder, Eric H.
Summary: Chronicles the dramatic history of the vote in America and presents an urgent summons to protect and perfect democracy, from the former Attorney General of the United States and a leading voting rights advocate.
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Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.6 HOLWilliams, Juan
Summary: The political analyst and civil-rights expert presents a forceful critique of how key decisions by the Trump administration are rolling back advances in voting rights, integration, and racial discrimination.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2018
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 323.1196 WILRay, Victor (Victor Erik)
Summary: "From renowned scholar Dr. Victor Ray, On Critical Race Theory seeks to explain the centrality of race in American history and politics, and how the often mischaracterized intellectual movement became a political necessity. Dr. Ray draws upon the radical thinking of giants such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Ida B. Wells, and W.E.B. Du Bois to clearly trace the foundations of Critical Race...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 RAYReid, Eliza
Summary: "Iceland is the best place on earth to be a woman--but why? For the past twelve years, the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report has ranked Iceland number one on its list of countries closing the gap in equality between men and women. What is it about Iceland that makes many women's experience there so positive? Why has their society made such meaningful progress in this ongoing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.4 REIAllen, Reniqua
Summary: "In the last few decades, any hope of economic progress for black Americans has been slowly and steadily undermined. This quiet crisis was only exacerbated by the recession, which cut black households' wealth by over 30 percent. Black millennials watched their parents try to play by the rules, buying homes and aspiring to the trappings of middle-class life, only to sink deeper and deeper into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Cult AllenDesmet, Mattias
Summary: "Occasionally, there are books that try to make sense of a key moment in history - and become an indispensable guide to the times we live in. This book is one of them. In The Psychology of Totalitarianism, world-renowned Professor of Clinical Psychology Mattias Desmet deconstructs the societal conditions that allow collective psychosis to take hold. By analysing our current global situation and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea Green Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.53 DESSexton, Joe
Summary: "On May 30, 2020, in Omaha, Nebraska, amid the protests that rocked our nation after George Floyd's death at the hands of police, thirty-eight-year-old white bar owner and Marine veteran Jake Gardner fatally shot James Scurlock, a twenty-two-year-old Black protester and young father. What followed were two investigations of Scurlock's death, one conducted by the white district attorney Don...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023