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Spike
by Spike Lee
This career-spanning monograph visually celebrates the life and career of the world-renowned, Academy Award-winning filmmaker—and one of the most prominent voices of race and racism—who has made an indelible mark in both cinematic history and contemporary society.
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The Black girl next door : a memoir
by Jennifer Lynn Baszile
Traces the author's coming-of-age in an integrated but exclusive white California suburb in the 1970s and 1980s, describing the prejudices that hampered and minimized her family's achievements and her continuing struggles to define herself as "the black girl next door" in light of her parents' dreams.
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The ugly cry : a memoir
by Danielle Henderson
Growing up Black, weird and overwhelmingly uncool in a mostly white neighborhood in New York where she lived with her grandparents, the author, with humor, wit and deep insight, shares the lessons she learned from her childhood, upending our conventional understanding of family.
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Survival math : notes on an all-American family
by Mitchell S. Jackson
The author examines the poverty, violence, and drug culture impacting the Portland, Oregon community of his youth, examining the large and small cultural forces that shaped his family.
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Rest in power : the enduring life of Trayvon Martin
by Sybrina Fulton
An intimate and inspiring portrait of Trayvon Martin shares previously untold insights into the movement he inspired from the perspectives of his parents, who also describe their efforts to bring meaning to his short life through the movement's pursuit of redemption and justice.
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