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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A white child sees a TV news report of a white police officer shooting and killing a black man. "In our family, we don't see color," his mother says, but he sees the colors plain enough. An afternoon in the library's history stacks uncover the truth of white supremacy in America. Racism was not his idea and he refuses to defend it.
"A necessary children's book about whiteness, white supremacy, and resistance. Important, accessible, needed." --
43) Ordinary notes
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
379 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Told through a series of 248 notes, this volume explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Black life that emerge in the wake of it, touching upon such themes as language, beauty, memory, history and literature.
"A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Black life that emerge in the wake. In a series of 248 notes that gather meaning as we read them, Christina Sharpe skillfully weaves...
Author
Publisher
Simon Element
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Simon Element trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Raising antiracist children is an essential goal for parents, caregivers, and educators, but it can be hard to know where to start. Let Britt Hawthorne--an acclaimed teacher and advocate--be your guide. Raising Antiracist Children is an interactive road map to incorporating the tools of inclusivity and activism into everyday life"--
Author
Language
English
Description
"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...
46) Divided States
Publisher
A&E
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (172 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
DIVIDED STATES seeks to document the current state of hate in America by exploring the lives of those who have experienced it firsthand and emerged transformed.
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (68 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Latina women, and women of color generally, have been on the front lines of change throughout the history of social movements - and it's time we follow their lead. In this session, you will hear from author and social justice leader Denise Collazo and Executive Director of Faith in Action Rev. Alvin Herring on: * The power of Latina women in leadership positions * How to go beyond surviving, and instead thrive in the fight * How to overcome the lack...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (31 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Discover how the Mississippi Burning case took the nation deep into the darkness of the Ku Klux Klan and its hatred. By the end of this lecture, you'll learn how the trial would go on to change the Klan, change Mississippi, and change the course of civil rights in America.
50) Cane River
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
1982.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (105 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Written, produced, and directed by Emmy Award-winning documentarian, Horace B. Jenkins, and crafted by an entirely African American cast and crew, CANE RIVER is a racially-charged love story in Natchitoches Parish, a "free community of color" in Louisiana. A budding, forbidden romance lays bare the tensions between two black communities, both descended from slaves but of disparate opportunity-the light-skinned, property-owning Creoles and the darker-skinned,...
51) American Violet
Publisher
Giant Interactive
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (103 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
After an overzealous district attorney's drug bust lands her in jail, single mother Dee Roberts must face an agonizing choice: Plead guilty and go home a convicted felon, or fight the charges and risk a lengthy prison sentence. Despite her mother's advice and risking everything, innocent Dee chooses to fight the criminal justice system, joined by an ACLU attorney and a former narcotics cop.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xlvii, 173 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's no secret that white women are conditioned to be nice, but did you know that the desire to be perfect and to avoid conflict at all costs are characteristics of white supremacy culture? As the founders of Race2Dinner, an organization which facilitates conversations between white women about racism and white supremacy, Regina Jackson and Saira Rao have noticed white women's tendency to maintain a veneer of niceness, and strive for perfection,...
53) 500 years
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (110 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Español
Description
This new documentary tells the epic story that led Guatemala to a tipping point in their history from the genocide trial of former dictator General Rios Montt to the popular movement that toppled sitting President Otto Perez Molina. Focusing on universal themes of justice, racism, power and corruption, 500 YEARS tells the story from the perspective of the majority indigenous Mayan population, and their struggles in their country's growing fight against...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An intelligent machine built to study methods of social warfare struggles to understand and communicate the lived experience of race In a narrative full of social significance and poetically decorated with monks, vampires, and mythical statistics, Race in the Machine presents a world where the stories we use to explain race all simultaneously exist, within and around us, dictating our interactions and innermost beliefs. The nameless protagonist,...
Publisher
Teletime Video
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (57 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Deeply moving, inspiring and empowering profiles of 3 diverse, heroic Women that experienced life's harshest trials; Racism, Disease, Poverty, War, Child Abuse and emerged through the spirit of entrepreneurship. Stories that demonstrates the power of refusing to fall victim to their lifes' challenges and emerged to prosperity through the spirit of entrepreneurship. A woman of color who rose from poverty, racism, teen pregnancy, near bankruptcy to...
56) Bully
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (99 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
BULLY is an unflinching look at how bullying has touched five kids and their families, revealing a problem that transcends geographic, racial, and ethnic borders.
57) Exit
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (84 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A personal and urgent look at the ways people legitimize hatred and the threats they face when they attempt to leave their radicalized worlds behind. Paralleling her own past as part of a violent right-wing organization with the experiences of other former extremists, filmmaker Karen Winther explores what makes someone join neo-Nazis, Jihadists or other hate groups, and what makes them decide to leave. Winther introduces us to Angela from the US and...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 52 min.)
Language
English
Description
Distinguished historian John H. Bracey Jr. offers a provocative analysis of the devastating economic, political, and social effects of racism on white Americans. In a departure from analyses of racism that have focused primarily on white power and privilege, Bracey trains his focus on the high price that white people, especially working class whites, have paid for more than two centuries of divisive race-based policies and attitudes. Whether he's...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A leading voice for social justice reveals how he stopped arguing with white people who deny the ongoing legacy of racism-and offers a proven path forward for Black people and people of color based on the history of nonviolent struggle. When the rallying cry "Black Lives Matter" was heard across the world in 2013, Andre Henry was one of the millions for whom the movement caused a political awakening and a rupture in some of his closest relationships...
60) Not My Idea
Publisher
Ouat Media
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (8 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A white child sees TV coverage of a police shooting-and has some questions. Adults in the child's life deflect and turn away, but a narrator, voiced by the author Anastasia Higginbotham, invites the child-and viewers-to become curious about racism, accept that it's real, and cultivate justice.
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