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Understanding & Fighting Racism June 2020 |
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Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?
by Mumia Abu-Jamal
A collection of short meditations, written from a prison cell by a man indicted for killing a cop almost forty years ago, captures the past two decades of police violence that inspired the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Parable of the Brown Girl: The Sacred Lives of Girls of Color
by Khristi Lauren Adams
305.896 ADA
A minister and youth advocate brings stories of young women of color front and center, introducing the resilience, struggle and hope held within these stories and magnifying the struggles, dreams, wisdom and dignity of these voices.
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Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America
by Nefertiti Austin
306.8743 AUS
A literary diversity activist draws on her personal experiences as an African-American adoptive mother to reveal the virtual absence of Black representation in today’s parenting culture, and the challenges that diverse families encounter from the adoption community.
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Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People
by Mahzarin R. Banaji
155.9 BAN
A pair of leading psychologists argues that prejudice toward others is often an unconscious part of the human psyche, providing an analysis of the science behind biased feelings while sharing guidelines for identifying and learning from hidden prejudices.
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Ways of Grace: Stories of Activism, Adversity, and How Sports Can Bring Us Together
by James Blake
796.09 BLA
Like many people of color, Blake has experienced the effects of racism firsthand: first at the U.S. Open, and then in front of his hotel in Manhattan, where he was tackled and handcuffed by a police officer in a case of "mistaken identity." Here he reflects on his experiences and explores those of other sports stars and public figures who have not only overcome adversity, but have used them to unite rather than divide. He reveals how we can confront hatred, bigotry, and injustice with virtue-- and use it to propel ourselves to greater heights.
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Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People
by Benjamin Crump
364.0973 CRU
The president of the National Bar Association and a civil rights attorney chronicles his most memorable legal battles, including Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown, and describes the hidden and systemic injustices minorities face in the U.S. legal system.
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Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
by Michael Eric Dyson
305.8 DYS
A call for change in the United States argues that racial progress can only be achieved after facing difficult truths, including being honest about how black grievance has been ignored, dismissed, and discounted.
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We Are Charleston: Tragedy and Triumph at Mother Emanuel
by Herb Frazier
364.15 FRA
Looks at the racially motivated 2015 shooting at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, and its repercussions for the church and the nation, as well as the origins of the AME church and the reasons why it was targeted.
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Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul
by Eddie S. Glaude
305.896 GLA
In a book that is part-manifesto, part-history and part-memoir, a professor at Princeton University, in the tradition of Cornel West's Race Matters, makes the case that multiple forces have conspired to deepen the impoverishment of black communities, crystallizing the untenable position of Black America and offering thoughts on a better way forward.
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Let the People See: The Story of Emmett Till
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Elliott J. Gorn
364.134 GOR
In August 1955, the fourteen-year-old Chicago boy supposedly flirted with a white woman named Carolyn Bryant, who worked behind the counter of a country store, while visiting family in Mississippi. Three days later, his mangled body was recovered in the Tallahatchie River. In 2005, 50 years after the murder, the FBI reopened the case. New papers and testimony have come to light. Using this new evidence and a broadened historical context, Gorn delves more fully than anyone has into how and why the story of Emmett Till still resonates, and always will.
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Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter
by Kerri Greenidge
B TROTTER
A portrait of the lesser-known, turn-of-the-20th-century civil rights activist explores how he used his influence as an emancipator and the editor of the Guardian to promote gradualist politics and rally black working-class Americans throughout the post-Reconstruction era. This long-overdue biography reestablishes William Monroe Trotter's essential place next to Douglass, Du Bois, and King in the pantheon of American civil rights heroes.
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Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation
by Nicholas Guyatt
305.8 GUY
An anatomy of white prejudice against African- and Native-Americans from the Revolution to the end of the Civil War, revealing how enlightenment liberals, despite deeply held beliefs in racial equality, created the racial segregation that continues to haunt our nation today.
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13 Days in Ferguson
by Ron Johnson
363.2 JOH
On August 14, 2014, five days after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown ignited race riots throughout the city of Ferguson, Missouri, the nation found an unlikely hero in Captain Ron Johnson. Charged with the Herculean task of restoring peace between a hostile African-American community and the local police, Johnson, a 30-year law enforcement veteran and an African American, did the unthinkable; he took off his bullet-proof vest and joined the protesters.
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How to Be an Antiracist
by Ibram X. Kendi
305.8 KEN
A best-selling author, National Book Award-winner, and professor combines ethics, history, law and science with a personal narrative to describe how to move beyond the awareness of racism and contribute to making society just and equitable.
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When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
by Patrisse Khan-Cullors
A lyrical memoir by the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement urges readers to understand the movement's position of love, humanity and justice, challenging perspectives that have negatively labeled the movement's activists while calling for essential political changes. Co-written by the award-winning author of The Prisoner's Wife.
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Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found
by Gilbert King
364.1532 KIN
The author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Devil in the Grove documents the mid-20th-century case of a gentle, developmentally challenged youth who was falsely accused of raping a wealthy woman, in an account that traces the efforts of a crusading journalist to uncover the virulent racism and class corruption that led to his incarceration without a trial.
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Beyond Charlottesville: Taking a Stand Against White Nationalism
by Terry McAuliffe
305.8 MCA
The former Governor of Virginia shares insights into the violent "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, discussing the events that led to the tragedy, his astonishment at Trump's response and the actions McAuliffe believes are necessary to prevent hate crimes.
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The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation
by Natalie Y Moore
305.8 MOO
In this intelligent and highly important narrative, Chicago-native Natalie Moore shines a light on contemporary segregation on the South Side of Chicago through reported essays, showing the life of these communities through the stories of people who live in them. The South Side shows the important impact of Chicago's historic segregation - and the ongoing policies that keep it that way.
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The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
by Toni Morrison
814.6 MOR
An anthology of the Nobel Prize-winning writer’s essays, speeches and commentary on society, culture and art includes her powerful prayer for the dead of 9/11, her searching meditation on Martin Luther King, Jr. and her poignant eulogy for James Baldwin.
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Learning From the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil
by Susan Neiman
305.800973 NEI
A philosopher and director of the Einstein Forum examines the recent surge in white nationalism in an increasingly polarized America through the lens of Germany and how that country was able to come to terms with its own historical wrongdoings.
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Devils Walking: Klan Murders Along the Mississippi in the 1960s
by Stanley Nelson
322.42 NEL
On December 10, 1964, in Ferriday, Louisiana, Frank Morris's home and shoe shop was burned and he was prevented from escaping. In Devils Walking, Stanley Nelson uncovers the names of the Klan's key members as well as systemized corruption and coordinated deception by those charged with protecting all citizens.
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Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
by Jason Reynolds
305.8 REY
A timely reimagining of Dr. Ibram X. Kendi’s National Book Award-winning Stamped From the Beginning reveals the history of racist ideas in America while explaining their endurance and capacity for being discredited.
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Steal This Country: A Handbook for Resistance, Persistence, and Fixing Almost Anything
by Alexandra Styron
320.0835 STY
A book inspired by Abbie Hoffman’s radical classic Steal This Book offers a stirring call for citizen activism surrounding progressive issues including climate change, racial justice, women’s rights and more, introducing each chapter with an original, full page comic and a summary, and “how-to” advice at the end of the book.
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They Called Us Enemy
by George Takei
GN YA F TAK
The iconic actor and activist presents a graphic memoir detailing his experiences as a child prisoner in the Japanese-American internment camps of World War II, reflecting on the hard choices his family made in the face of legalized racism.
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The Blood of Emmett Till
by Timothy B Tyson
364.134 TYS
Draws on previously untapped firsthand testimonies and recovered court transcripts to present a scholarly account of the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till and its role in launching the civil rights movement. By the award-winning author of Blood Done Sign My Name.
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What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
by Damon Young
973.0496 YOU
The co-founder of VerySmartBrothas.com presents a provocative and humorous memoir-in-essays that explores the direct impact of racism on his life, the shifting definition of black-male identity, and the ongoing realities of white supremacy.
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Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy
by David Zucchino
305.8 ZUC
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Myth of the Welfare Queen documents the events of the 1898 Wilmington Insurrection and its unrecognized role in reversing the city’s mixed-race advances, overthrowing local government and promoting white-supremacist agendas.
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