Laughlin, Kara L.
Summary: "This book examines the activism involved in the ongoing fight for racial justice in the United States. Additional features to aid comprehension include a table of contents, informative captions and sidebars, a phonetic glossary, a time line, a Think-About-It section, and an index"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 305.8 LAUKendi, Ibram X.
Summary: We can let racism stand, or we can stand against it. Readers will follow a young Kendi as he learns (and unlearns) lessons that help shape his understanding racism. Kendi's concept of antiracism reenergizes and reshapes the conversation about racial justice in America. Even more fundamentally, it points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. He asks us to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.8 KENDill, Khodi
Summary: "An incisive, innovative, and inviting take on fighting oppression and fighting for racial justice. Racism is a real and present danger. But how can you fight it if you don't know how it works or where it comes from? Using a compelling mix of memoir, cultural criticism, and anti-oppressive theory, Khodi Dill breaks down how white supremacy functions in North America and gives readers tools to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Annick Press 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.896 DILGolusky, Jackie
Summary: "From having a lemonade stand to writing letters, learn how to be an upstander with your friends on Sesame Street! Elmo and friends learn along with young readers about racial justice. Inspired by Sesame Street's Town Hall on Racism, this gentle guide helps kids understand that it is wrong to treat others unfairly because of their race or cultural identity." -- Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE GOLHill, Marc Lamont
Summary: "A riveting exploration of how the power of visual media over the last few years has shifted the narrative on race and reignited the push towards justice by the New York Times bestselling author of the "worthy and necessary" (The New York Times) Nobody, Marc Lamont Hill, and the bestselling author and acclaimed journalist Todd Brewster. With his signature "clear and courageous" (Cornel West)...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 303.3 HILChugh, Dolly
Summary: "A revolutionary, psychology-based guidebook for developing resilience and grit to confront our whitewashed history and build a better, more just future"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.4 CHUTisby, Jemar
Summary: "Racism and social justice are important topics kids are dealing with today. In this adaptation of How to Fight Racism for young readers ages 8-12, Dr. Jemar Tisby helps kids understand how everyday prejudice affects them and what they can do to create social change. Inside, he explains the history of racism in America and why it is so prevalent, as well as uses Christian principles to provide...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zonderkidz 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 305.8 TISNathan, Amy
Summary: Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson were both born in New Orleans in 1957. Sixty-five years earlier, in 1892, a member of each of their families met in a Louisiana courtroom when Judge John Howard Ferguson found Homer Plessy guilty of breaking the law by sitting in a train car for white passengers. The case of Plessy v. Ferguson went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paul Dry Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 342.73 NATKendi, Ibram X.
Summary: The New York Times bestseller How to be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi is shaping the way a generation thinks about race and racism. How to be a (Young) Antiracist is a dynamic reframing of the concepts shared in the adult book, with young adulthood front and center. Aimed at readers 12 and up, and co-authored by award-winning children's book author Nic Stone, How to be a (Young) Antiracist...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 305.8 KENYoon, Nicola
Summary: "When Jasmyn and King Williams move their family to the planned Black utopia of Liberty, California, they hope to find a community of like-minded people, a place where their growing family can thrive. King settles in at once, embracing the Liberty ethos, including the luxe wellness center at the top of the hill, which proves to be the heart of the community. But Jasmyn struggles to fit in. She...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC YOOTisby, Jemar
Summary: "A handbook for fighting racism that provides readers with practical tools and suggestions, along with real-world examples of change, to enable them to become proactive initiators of racial justice"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan Reflective 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 TISHan, Hahrie
Summary: "In a country torn apart by racial tension, the story of how one Evangelical church tried to bridge the divide, with notable, if not complete, success"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 270.089 HANMcCarthy, Jesse
Summary: "This is a very smart and soulful book. Jesse McCarthy is a terrific essayist." --Zadie Smith. A supremely talented young critic's essays on race and culture, from Toni Morrison to trap, herald the arrival of a major new voice in American letters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808 MCCDan + Claudia Zanes (Musical group)
Summary: The first duo album by internationally renowned family musicians Dan and Claudia Zanes is a collection of songs to sprark intergenerational conversations about anti-racism, racial justice, and the joys of community. Conceived during the 2020 Black Lives Matter uprisings and coronavirus pandemic, the songs describe the new terms of togetherness, how we understand it, how we build it, and how we...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JUV ZANJones, Solomon
Summary: "The ten demands necessary to repair the racist outcomes of the past, change the racist structures of the present, and pave the way for justice in the future"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 JONYoon, Nicola
Summary: "When Jasmyn and King Williams move their family to the planned Black utopia of Liberty, California, they hope to find a community of like-minded people, a place where their growing family can thrive. King settles in at once, embracing the Liberty ethos, including the luxe wellness center at the top of the hill, which proves to be the heart of the community. But Jasmyn struggles to fit in. She...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2024
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC YOOMallory, Tamika D.
Summary: A globally recognized civil rights activist presents an unwavering history of American systemic racism, a first-hand view of what makes for effective activism today, and a vision for lasting, positive change.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Privilege Publishing, Atria 2021
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 MALBlanchard, Sara
Summary: "What do you do when you're at a dinner party and someone tells a racist joke? Do you nod so as not to 'ruin the vibe'? What if you overhear a microaggression at work? Do you realize much later what you wish you had said? Going deeper, do you know why that joke, or that comment, is offenseive? If any of these questions resonate with you--or have at any time in your life--then this book is for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Collective Book Studio 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 DEAMagoon, Kekla
Summary: A picture book portrait of the first Black justice on the Supreme Court, presented by two Coretta Scott King Honor winners, includes coverage of Thurgood Marshall's upbringing in segregated Baltimore, achievements with the NAACP and contributions to landmark equality rulings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: J 921 MARSullivan, Patricia
Summary: "A leading civil rights historian places Robert Kennedy for the first time at the center of the movement for racial justice of the 1960s-and shows how many of today's issues can be traced back to that pivotal time"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.1196 SULRicketts, Rachel
Summary: "Thought leader, racial justice educator, and sought-after spiritual activist Rachel Ricketts offers mindful and practical steps for all humans to dismantle white supremacy on a personal and collective level. Includes culturally informed, secular spiritual exercises, such as guided meditations, transformative breathwork, and journaling prompts"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 RICCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.8009 RICBrowne, Mahogany L.
Summary: A baby with awareness of social and racial justice issues wakes up for the day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2018
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Summary: A baby with awareness of social and racial justice issues wakes up for the day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2018
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE BROMcIlwain, Charlton D.
Summary: "Black Software, for the first time, chronicles the long relationship between African Americans, computing technology, and the Internet. Through new archival sources and the voices of many of those who lived and made this history, this book centralizes African Americans' role in the Internet's creation and evolution, illuminating both the limits and possibilities for using digital technology to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2020