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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Fifty years ago, Malcolm X told a white woman who asked what she could do for the cause, 'Nothing.' Michael Eric Dyson believes he was wrong. Now he responds to that question. If society is to make real racial progress, people must face difficult truths, including being honest about how Black grievance has been ignored, dismissed, or discounted.
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English
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The Racial Justice in America: AAPI Histories series explores moments and eras in America's history that have been ignored or misrepresented in education due to racial bias. Developed in conjunction with educator, advocate, and author Virginia Loh-Hagan to reach children of all races and encourage them to approach our history with open eyes and minds. Angel Island Immigration Station explores the events in a comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate...
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Publisher
Greenhaven Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"Anthology of diverse essays exploring the debate surrounding reparations for Black Americans as compensation for the horrors of slavery in the US as well as generations of damaging policies that have impeded the development of African American communities. Experts from the field debate whether reparations are necessary, if they could ever be sufficient, and how they could be implemented"--
Series
Library of America volume 303
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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"The defeat of the Confederacy and the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865 brought about the final destruction of slavery in the United States. Americans were confronted for the first time with the possibility of creating a republic dedicated to the principle of racial equality. What followed over the next twelve years was one of the most complex, inspiring, and ultimately tragic eras in American history. Reconstruction: Voices From America's...
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Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
This powerful and disturbing book clearly links persistent poverty among blacks in the United States to the unparalleled degree of deliberate segregation they experience in American cities. American Apartheid shows how the black ghetto was created by whites during the first half of the twentieth century in order to isolate growing urban black populations. It goes on to show that, despite the Fair Housing Act of 1968, segregation is perpetuated today...
7) How race is made in America: immigration, citizenship, and the historical power of racial scripts
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Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Publisher
Kino Classics
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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The life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., from the beginnings of the Civil Rights movement in Montgomery, Alabama, and culminating with his assassination in Memphis in 1968. Including archival footage, this film is an indispensable primary resource of a pivotal moment in American and world history. Originally screened in theaters for only a single night in 1970.
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
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Even into the early part of the 20th century, ethnic groups such as Jews, Italians and Poles occupied a confused racial status in America. This text explores the murky realities of race in 20th century America, explaining how they transformed into the 'white ethnics' of today's America.
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Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"In the United States today, a young black man has a sixteen times greater chance of dying from violence than his white counterpart. Violence takes more years of life from black men than cancer, stroke, and diabetes combined. Even black women are more affected by violence than white men, despite its usual gender patterns. These disparities translate into starkly divergent experiences of life and death for whites and blacks in the United States. Yet...
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Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again." - James Baldwin. We live, according to Eddie S. Glaude Jr., in the after times, when the promise of Black Lives Matter and the attempt to achieve a new America have been challenged by the election of Donald Trump, a racist president whose victory represents yet another failure of America to face the lies it tells itself about...
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Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Interweaving lecture, personal anecdotes, interviews, and shocking revelations, criminal defense and civil rights lawyer Jeffery Robinson draws a stark timeline of anti-Black racism in the United States, from slavery to the modern myth of a post-racial America.
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Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Racism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. In 'From Here to Equality,' William Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen confront these injustices head-on and make the most comprehensive case to date for economic reparations for U.S. descendants of slavery. After opening the book with a stark assessment of the inter-generational effects of white supremacy on black economic well-being, Darity and...
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, written by civil rights expert and Dartmouth history professor Matthew Delmont. Over one million Black men and women served in World War II. Black troops were at Normandy, Iwo Jima, and the Battle of the Bulge, serving in segregated units and performing unheralded but vital support jobs, only to be denied housing and educational opportunities on their return home. Without...
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Publisher
Bold Type Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"One-third of Black Americans descended from slavery are related to the slave masters who bought and sold their ancestors. In other words, one-third of Black Americans descended from slavery are descended also from sexual exploitation. Dionne Ford, whose great-grandmother was the last of six children born to a Louisiana cotton broker called the Colonel and the enslaved woman he received as a wedding gift, is among them. What shapes does this kind...
16) Voice of freedom
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Follow the story of singer Marian Anderson, whose talent broke down barriers around the world. Narrated by Ren�ee Elise Goldsberry, Voice of Freedom interweaves Anderson's rich life story with this landmark moment in history, exploring fundamental questions about talent, race, fame, democracy and the American soul.
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Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A powerful, eagerly anticipated exploration (past and present) of white supremacy in the teachings of our national education system, its depth, breadth, and persistence--and how, through generations of our nation's most esteemed educators and textbooks, racism has been insidiously fostered--North and South--at all levels of learning. In Teaching White Supremacy, Donald Yacovone shows us the clear and damning evidence of white supremacy's deep-seated...
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