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Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
x, 293 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A leading sociologist looks at why racial inequality still exists in the workplace despite the multi-billion-dollar diversity industry's efforts to fight it and offers solutions for reversing the trend to create a truly equitable future.
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English
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With accumulated wisdom and sharp-eyed clarity, Everyday Something Has Tried to Kill Me And Has Failed addresses the joys and hardships of being an older Black woman in contemporary, “periracial” America. Award-winning author Kim McLarin utilizes deeply personal experiences to illuminate the pain and power of aging, Blackness and feminism, in the process capturing the endless cycle of progress and backlash that has long shaped race and gender....
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
viii, 529 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Atlanta is widely considered to be America's Black Mecca. It has a higher concentration of black millionaires, black-owned businesses, and HBCUs than any other city in the United States. African Americans are overrepresented in every strata of Atlanta's governance. In 2020, more black voters in the Atlanta area cast ballots than those in any other state's metro, evincing a political power that flipped a once deeply red state blue. However, 150 years...
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Radical Reparations, this conversation shifter, social justice pioneer, change agent, and inventor of the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter, which redefined the global conversation on racism and social justice, offers a unifying and unconventional framework for achieving holistic and comprehensive healing of African American communities. Hunter reimagines reparations through a profound new lens as he defines seven types of compensation: political, intellectual,...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
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"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: a stunning meditation on ritual and collectiveness that explores how older forms of inquiry-from song to prayer to ways of public gathering-might help us all survive violent times and address America's shared history"--
Author
Language
English
Description
"Alvin Hall set out to revisit the world of the Green Book to instruct us all on the real history of the guide that saved many lives. With his friend Janée Woods Weber, he drove from New York to Detroit to New Orleans, visiting motels, restaurants, shops, and stores where Black Americans once found a friendly welcome. They explored historical and cultural landmarks, from the theatres and clubs where stars like Duke Ellington and Lena Horne performed...
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
viii, 214 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In this memoir-in-essays, the author, weaving unflinching criticism with intimate anecdotes, examines America's cultural history and relationship to black Americans through the ages, providing a deeper examination of racial consciousness and its effects on mental well-being today.
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Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Sold to a human trafficker after her village is devastated by famine, 10-year-old Sixiang, arriving in 19th-century America with the profits from her sale and a single photograph of her absent father, makes her way through an unforgiving new world in hopes of reuniting her family.
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
483 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Through the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, history, and racial denial collide in the suburbs and their schools Outside Atlanta, a middle-class Black family faces off with a school system seemingly bent on punishing their teenage son. North of Dallas, a conservative white family relocates to an affluent suburban enclave, but can't escape the changes sweeping the country. On Chicago's North Shore,...
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Publisher
Sentinel
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xv, 350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When President Theodore Roosevelt welcomed the country's most visible Black man, Booker T. Washington, into his circle of counselors in 1901, the two confronted a shocking and violent wave of racist outrage. In the previous decade, Jim Crow laws had legalized discrimination in the South, eroding social and economic gains for former slaves. Lynching was on the rise, and Black Americans faced new barriers to voting. Slavery had been abolished, but...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
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Boston.com readers voted one of Best Books of 2020
"Anyone striving to understand and improve this country should read her story." —Gloria Steinem, author of My Life on the Road
The Emmy Award–winning journalist and anchor of NPR's...
BookPage's Best Books of 2020
Real Simple's Best Books of 2020
Boston.com readers voted one of Best Books of 2020
"Anyone striving to understand and improve this country should read her story." —Gloria Steinem, author of My Life on the Road
The Emmy Award–winning journalist and anchor of NPR's...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xxviii, 465 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A prize-winning scholar draws on new research to demonstrate how Black people used the law to their advantage long before the Civil Rights Movement.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xxii, 342 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jenn M. Jackson has been known to bring deep historical acuity to some of the most controversial topics in America today. Now, in their first book, Jackson applies their critical analysis to the questions that have long energized their work: Why has Black women's freedom fighting been so overlooked throughout history, and what has our society lost in the meantime? A love letter to those who have been minimized and forgotten, this collection repositions...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xix, 447 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A stunning history of the first national anti-terrorist campaign waged on American soil-when Ulysses S. Grant wielded the power of the federal government in an attempt to dismantle the Ku Klux Klan. The Ku Klux Klan, which celebrated historian Fergus Bordewich defines as "the first organized terrorist movement in American history," rose from the ashes of the Civil War. At its peak in the early 1870s, the Klan boasted many tens of thousands of members,...
Author
Publisher
North Atlantic Books
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Combatting fatphobia and racism to reclaim a space for womxn at the intersection of fat and Black
To be a womxn living in a body at the intersection of fat and Black is to be on the margins. From concern-trolling—"I just want you to be healthy"—to outright attacks, fat Black bodies that fall outside dominant constructs of beauty and wellness are subjected to healthism, racism, and misogynoir. The spaces carved out by third-wave...
To be a womxn living in a body at the intersection of fat and Black is to be on the margins. From concern-trolling—"I just want you to be healthy"—to outright attacks, fat Black bodies that fall outside dominant constructs of beauty and wellness are subjected to healthism, racism, and misogynoir. The spaces carved out by third-wave...
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