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"When Layla Saad began an Instagram challenge called #meandwhitesupremacy, she never predicted it would become a cultural movement. She encouraged people to own up and share their racist behaviors, big and small. She was looking for truth, and she got it... Thousands of people participated in the challenge, and over 80,000 people downloaded the supporting work Me and White Supremacy. Updated and expanded from the original edition, Me and White Supremacy...
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"The tragedies and reckonings around racism that have rocked the country have created a specific crisis for parents and other caregivers: how do we talk to our children about it? How do we guide our children to avoid repeating our racist history? While we work to dismantle racist behaviors in ourselves and the world around us, how do we raise our children to be antiracists? After he wrote the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning,...
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"A guide for parents to help children of all ages process the onslaught of unfiltered information in the digital age". Education is not solely about acquiring information and skills across subject areas, but also about understanding how and why we believe what we do. At a time when online media has created a virtual firehose of information and opinions, parents and teachers worry how students will interpret what they read and see. Amid the noise,...
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"Nice Racism asserts that it is white progressives who are responsible for inflicting the most daily harm on people of color"--
DiAngelo identifies many common white racial patterns and breaks down how well-intentioned white people unknowingly perpetuate racial harm. She explains how spiritual white progressives seek community by co-opting Indigenous and other groups' rituals create separation, not connection. Challenging the ideology of individualism,...
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"Raising White Kids is a book for families, churches, educators and communities who want to equip their children to be active and able participants in a society that is becoming one of the most racially diverse in the world while remaining full of racial tensions. For white people who are committed to equity and justice, living in a nation that remains racially unjust and deeply segregated creates unique conundrums. These conundrums begin early in...
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Born breached, alcoholic, drug addicted, and transgendered, the first steps out of my mother's womb were the beginning of a world full of guilt, shame, anxiety, anger, fear, and pride, all of which had to be overcome in order to live a life of serenity. It took fifty-three years to approach these challenges as each step was very painful. However, on the other side of the pain came joy, peace, and happiness. It's a never-ending process but one of great...
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This book compares the many life-altering events of an incarcerated African American man and a white American woman. More than just a discussion of their differences and commonalities, it explores the prejudices that continue to plague many areas of life in the US. Touching upon their individual family dynamics, drug usage and its consequences, the judicial system, early US history, and even adding God into the mix, this work covers a gamut of themes...
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I grew up in Guyana and unlike many, was lucky.
I was certainly stubborn but also fortunate.
The 'Third world' as it was known, had so many, young people faced with a lifetime of struggle and poverty.
They did almost anything, legal or illegal just to survive.
I am an African Caribbean and moved to the UK late 1950's. I saw at first hand the problems that many of my compatriots were experiencing as they tried to find work and a place, to live in a...
9) Blind Hill
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Blind Hill is the story of three 13 year-old boys caught in the fallout from the turmoil of the summer of 1968 and the strained race relations that are boiling over throughout the country. Civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King is murdered 50 miles away in Memphis, TN, and one of the boys hears a comment that will begin to change the way he looks at the people in his hometown. The summer that was supposed to be filled with the fun of fishing and...
10) ColorSTRUCK
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Afam Izuwa didn't expect that taking care of three orphaned children would be easy. And it isn't, especially since one of them is an albino.
Depending on who you ask in this African society, albinos can be a blessing or a curse to a family.
The three siblings are aware of the danger their albino sibling faces. They also know they have no choice, but to entrust their safety to the care of their new uncle and to fully embrace their new life with him....
11) Una familia más
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En este poemario, la autora relata la existencia misma. De lo particular a lo general, el lector se adentra en un relato que puede o no, ser el suyo propio. Lo cruento de llevar a la reflexión el seno familiar, trae consigo la revisión no sólo personal sino social, y el cómo ésta, la familia, percute lo vivido y lo aprendido en las relaciones sociales personales. Puede ser tu familia, puede ser la de ella, o la mía, puede ser ficción o la realidad...
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This powerful, moving story-which has already touched more than seven million through a viral video created by the Whittington family-is a mother's first-hand account of her emotional choice to embrace her transgender child.
When Hillary and Jeff Whittington posted a YouTube video chronicling their five-year-old son Ryland's transition from girl to boy, they didn't expect it to be greeted with such fervor. Beautiful and moving, the video documenting...
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Pact Press brings you Speak and Speak Again, the first anthology in a series designed to spark conversation and protest. Contained within are thoughtful, thought-provoking essays on immigration, women's rights, race relations, and concerns for American society by Jaynie Royal, Eugene Gregory, Nora Shychuk, Rob Waters, Laurie Ann Doyle, Stephen D. Gutierrez, Frances Kai-Hwa Wang, Martha Haakmat, and Mikhal Weiner. The anthology also includes a short...
14) Homegoing
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Homegoing by Toni Ann Johnson follows a middle-aged African-American woman facing loss as she returns to her conservative white hometown. This fearless book tackles issues such as race, isolation, childhood trauma, abandonment and ultimately healing.
15) Out of Darkness
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IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 15
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Set against the back drop of one of the worst school tragedies in American history, Out of Darkness is a brutal and gripping novel about race, segregation, love, and the forces that destroy people.
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"The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the trauma inflicted by the ills that plague society. In this groundbreaking work, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of body-centered psychology. He argues this destruction will continue until Americans learn to heal the generational anguish of white supremacy, which is deeply embedded in all our bodies....
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Jeff James was one of the good white guys. At least, that's what he thought. But when, he asked a black friend how to become an antiracist, he had to think again. "Simple," she shot back, "get rid of whiteness."
Thus began his journey to discover, name, and dismantle the racial category that had defined and advantaged him for a lifetime. In Giving Up Whiteness, James leads readers on an intimate, humble, and disorienting investigation of what it means...
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Timely, poignant, and brutally honest, the "boy" book is a literary platform comprised of the voices of black mothers. Gwen Carr, the mother of Eric Garner and the "I Can't Breathe Movement" penned a prolific articulation of black mothers' plight in America. The reality of raising, protecting and defending black sons is horrifically overwhelming; but the mothers included in this compelling literary work have, rawly and unapologetically released their...
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"Uju Asika has written a necessary book for our times."-Chika Unigwe, author of On Black Sisters' Street
You can't avoid it, because it's everywhere. In the looks Black kids get in certain spaces, the manner in which some people speak to them, the stuff that goes over their heads. Stuff that makes them cry even when they don't know why. How do you bring up your kids to be kind and happy when there is so much out there trying to break them down?
Bringing...
20) Decomposed Woman
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"Decomposed woman" is a struggle between the past and the future. The author tries to force the past and the present into a dialogue by narrating this story through the existential and psychological foundations of the current situation of women, which can be read in the context of culture. Such an encounter can come from the heart of the interpretation of tradition and culture, which is intertwined with many factors and can facilitate the possibility...
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