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c2006., University of North Carolina Call No: 305.896 07307509041 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents Publisher description Summary Note: Jennifer Ritterhouse explores how individuals developed racial self-consciousness in the segregated South of the early twentieth century.
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By Bell, Darrin2023., Henry Holt and Company Call No: GN 305.8 BEL Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "This graphic memoir by a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning offers a deeply personal meditation on the "the talk" parents must have with Black children about racism and the brutality that often accompanies it, a ritual attempt to keep kids safe and prepare them for a world that-to paraphrase Toni Morrison-does not love them. Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn't play with a white friend's realistic water gun. "She told me I'm a lot more likely to be shot by police than my friend was if they saw me with it, because police tend to think little Black boys-even light-skinned ones-are older than they really are, and less innocent than they really are." Bell examines how "the talk" has shaped nearly every moment of his life into adulthood and fatherhood. Through evocative original illustrations, The Talk is a meditation on this coming-of-age-as Bell becomes painfully aware of being regarded as dangerous by white teachers, neighbors, and strangers, and thus of his mortality. Drawing attention to the brutal murders of African Americans like Trayvon Martin and Eric Garner, and showcasing his award-winning cartoons along the way, Bell takes us up to the very moment of reckoning when people took to the streets protesting the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and when he must have "the talk" with a six-year-old son of his own"--
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[2020]., Pre-adolescent, Crown Books for Young Readers Call No: 305.8 HUD Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Thirty diverse and award-winning authors and illustrators capture frank discussions about racism, identity, and self-esteem"--Provided by publisher.
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2001., Pre-adolescent, Abrams Call No: 973 BOL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Photographs, illustrations, and text describe the experiences of African-American children growing up in the United States from the first African-American baby born in the Jamestown colony through the children growing up in the middle of gang wars at the dawn of the twenty-first century.
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c2001., Juvenile, Harry N. Abrams Call No: 973 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Describes the life and times of African American children from Colonial times to the present.
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[2018]., Juvenile, Crown Books for Young Readers Call No: 818 .609 WE Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents a collection of inspirational works created by fifty diverse authors and artists intended to encourage young activists to keep fighting for human rights. Works include poetry, essays, letters, art, and photographs.
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[2018]., Juvenile, Crown Books for Young Readers Call No: SC HUD Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Presents a collection of inspirational works created by fifty diverse authors and artists intended to encourage young activists to keep fighting for human rights. Works include poetry, essays, letters, art, and photographs.