race relations

"Adapted for young adults, this . . . memoir offers a . . . look at Barack Obama's early days, tracing the future 44th president's odyssey through family, race, and identity"--OCLC.

"This book features selections from various African American girls and women about their experiences navigating predominantly white schools." -- from cataloger.

"For generations, women of color have had to push against powerful forces of sexism, racism, and classism in this country, and too often, they have felt that they had to face these challenges alone. Through her writing, her activism, and through founding Latina Rebels, Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodr?guez fought to create community to help women fight together. . . Her new book addresses a range of issues: How can Brown girls survive, and thrive, in spaces that were never meant for us? How do we feel pride when we're forced to code-switch? How can we deal with our own imposter syndrome? How do we free ourselves from internalized racism, when it comes to colorism within our communities? And what does it mean to decolonize our worldview?"--.

"Peniel Joseph offers a powerful new interpretation of recent American history. The summer of 2020, he argues, marked the climax of nothing less than a Third Reconstruction: a new period of intense struggle to secure citizenship and dignity for Black Americans, just as momentous as the movements that sought to transform America after the US Civil War and during the civil rights era. America's first and second Reconstructions failed to achieve their largest aims. But our Third Reconstruction, Joseph writes, offers an opportunity we must seize"--Provided by publisher.

"Tillet's cultural criticism blends literary history, biography, and memoir in an exploration of Alice Walker's National Book Award-winning novel that examines its influence against a backdrop of the civil rights encroachments of the early 1980s"--OCLC.

Chronicles the civil rights movement in the United States, providing information on the movement's key figures and events.

"Explores the concept of systemic and intrinsic racism in a comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate way. Developed in conjunction with educator, advocate, and author Kelisa Wing to reach children of all races and encourage them to approach race issues with open eyes and minds"--Provided by publisher.

"Explores the goals and history of the [Black Lives Matter] movement in a comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate way. Developed inconjunction with educator, advocate, and author Kelisa Wing to reach children of all races and encourage them to approach race issues with open eyes and minds"--Provided by publisher.

Offers a documentary account of the events that took place in Mississippi in the summer of 1964, when three young Civil Rights activists were abducted and murdered.

Shares the story of Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old African-American beaten and lynched in 1955 due to American racism.