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c2012., Adolescent, HarperTeen Call No: YOUNG ADULT Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When fourteen-year-old Anthony "Ant" Jones from the ghetto of East Cleveland, Ohio, gets a scholarship to a prep school in Maine, he finds that he must change his image and adapt to a world that never fully accepts him, but when he goes home he discovers that he no longer truly belongs there either.
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2002., Riverhead Books Call No: B Walker Edition: 1st Riverhead trade pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: The author discusses her search for identity after her parents divorce and she is shuttled between two worlds, one white and Jewish and the other Black.
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By Burrell, Tom2010., Smiley Books : Distributed by Hay House Call No: 305.89 Bur Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Argues that the myth of black inferiority is still pervasive in America today. Poses ten questions to black people that probe the acceptance of this myth and issues a call to action to challenge it using new media and intergenerational coalitions.
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1996., Riverhead Books Call No: B McBride Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An African-American male tells of his mother, a white woman, who refused to admit her true identity.
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2006, Riverhead Books Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An African American man describes life as the son of a white mother and black father, reflecting on his mother's contributions to his life and his confusion over his own identity
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1997., Riverhead Books Call No: B Edition: 1st Riverhead trade Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An African-American male tells of his mother, a white woman, who refused to admit her true identity.
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By Ward, Jesmyn2017., Scribner Call No: 305.89 Fir Edition: First Scribner paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: A collection of eighteen essays, memoir pieces, and poems addressing race in the United States and written in response to James Baldwin's 1962 "Letter to My Nephew" in which the author lamented that 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, it felt like African Americans were celebrating too soon.
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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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2019., 37 INK/Atria Call No: Realistic SC Tho Edition: First 37 INK/Atria Books paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Collects a series of short stories and vignettes focusing on themes of African American identity and what it means to be middle class in contemporary America, such as in the story about two mothers exchanging snide notes in their children's school backpacks, or a young woman musing on how best to notify her Facebook friends of her intention to commit suicide, and a black teen girl who wants to fit into both the world of her upper-middle-class family and what she things is "real" black culture.
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2019., Drawn & Quarterly Call No: GN Hot Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Presents a collection of comic strips centered around the experiences of African American women. With recreated advertisements for products to relax naturally curly hair and stories of black women finding their own racial identity and sense of self, these short stories present revelations about race and class in short vignettes.
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1999., Vintage International / Random House Call No: Young adult FIC ELLISON Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The story of a black man who passes for white and becomes a race-baiting U.S. senator. When he is shot on the Senate floor, the first visitor in hospital is a black musician - turned - preacher who raised him. As the two men talk, their respective stories come out.
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2009., Farrar, Straus, and Giroux Call No: 305.89 Let Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents the first-ever narrative history of African Americans told through their own letters. Includes thoughts of politicians, writers, entertainers, slaves, servicemen, and domestic workers from the 1700s to the twenty-first century.
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c2013., Juvenile, Gareth Stevens Pub. Call No: 320.54 6092 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Series Title: Graphic history of the civil rights movementSummary Note: The story of Malcolm X, one of the most charismatic and controversial leaders of the civil rights movement, is one of courage, conviction, and personal growth. His father, an outspoken civil rights activist, instilled in him a sense of pride. After his father's murder, Malcolm got into trouble and landed in prison. There, he joined the Nation of Islam. After his release, he worked continuously to promote the rights of African Americans while his own vision of civil rights evolved. A dream of unity and brotherhood replaced his early willingness to use force. Sadly, assassins cut short his life before his dream was achieved. Using dramatic illustrations and accessible text, this graphic novel takes readers along on Malcolm's journey of courage and transformation.
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-- Other talk[2021]., Adolescent, Atheneum Call No: HI-INT 305.80 KIE Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Most kids of color grow up talking about racism. They have 'The Talk' with their families--the honest talk about survival in a racist world. But white kids don't. They're barely spoken to about race at all--and that needs to change. Because not talking about racism doesn't make it go away. Not talking about white privilege doesn't mean it doesn't exist. The Other Talk begins this much-needed conversation for white kids. In an instantly readable and deeply honest account of his own life, Brendan Kiely offers young readers a way to understand one's own white privilege and why allyship is so vital, so that we can all start doing our part--today"--Provided by the publisher.
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By Imani, Blair[2021]., Ten Speed Press Call No: HI-INT 303.3 IMA Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: We live in a time where it has never been more important to be knowledgeable about a host of social issues, and to be confident and appropriate in how to talk about them. What's the best way to ask someone what their pronouns are? How do you talk about racism with someone who doesn't seem to get it? What is intersectionality, and why do you need to understand it? While it can seem intimidating or overwhelming to learn and talk about such issues, it's never been easier thanks to educator and historian Blair Imani, creator of the viral sensation Smarter in Seconds videos. Accessible to learners of all levels--from those just getting started on the journey to those already versed in social justice--Read This to Get Smarter covers a range of topics, including race, gender, class, disability, relationships, family, power dynamics, oppression, and beyond. This essential guide is a radical but warm and non-judgmental call to arms, structured in such a way that you can read it cover to cover or start with any topic you want to learn more about.
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2000., Primary, Scholastic Call No: 305.896 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Photographs and poetic text celebrate the beauty and diversity of African American children.
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2000., Primary, Scholastic Call No: 305.896 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Photographs and poetic text celebrate the beauty and diversity of African American children.
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[2020]., Juvenile, Crown Books for Young Readers Call No: 305.8 00973 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Presents seventeen essays, short stories, and poems that engage the reader in a frank discussion about race, identity, and self-esteem.
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-- What does not kill you makes you blacker[2019]., Ecco Call No: B Young Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents a memoir-in-essays of Damon Young on what it was like growing up and has continued to be like as an adult while being black in the United States, dealing with angst and everyday racism, from the story of himself as a teen and the time when he tried to goad a white person into using a racial slur just to pick a fight, up to his adulthood and witnessing the gentrification of his once-predominantly black Pittsburgh neighborhood into what he called "Portlandia but with Pierogies."
