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[2021]., Pre-adolescent, Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Co. Call No: BIOGRAPHY NF BAH Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: I, witness (New York, N.Y.)Summary Note: Adama Bah recounts when she was a teenager after September 11 and how she was arrested and accused of being a suicide bomber.
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-- Racial profilingBy Sandeen, Del2020., Adolescent, Rosen YA Call No: 363.2 3 089 00973 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Coping.Summary Note: "Racial profiling isn't just a problem for one group of people. It's a problem for everyone in America. The underlying racism that contributes to profiling is a serious issue for people of all colors. This insightful book presents facts and statistics to counter damaging myths, giving readers perspective to understand how racial profiling can happen and what to do about it. Readers will learn how to push back against discrimination, what to do if they ever feel they are a victim of racial profiling, and how to handle the emotional toll that racism can take"--Amazon.
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2007., Mason Crest Publishers Inc. Call No: 364.973 HUN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Incarceration issuesSummary Note: Explores some of the facts surrounding law enforcement, legal proceedings, and incarceration; and examines some of the injustices of the judicial system in North America.
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-- Mass incarceration, Black men, & the fight for justice[2022]., Pre-adolescent, Lerner Publications Call No: SOCIAL ISSUES NF LEW Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Issues in action (Read Woke Books)Summary Note: "The US criminal justice system disproportionately targets Black men, resulting in much higher incarceration rates and impacts that can last a lifetime. Readers learn this system's history and context and ways they can help"--Provided by publisher.
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-- Police defunding & reform[2021]., Adolescent, ReferencePoint Press Call No: 363.2 068 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Being black in America (ReferencePoint Press)Summary Note: "Police brutality is not a new issue in the United States. There have been calls to reform policing since the 1960s. It was then during the civil rights movement that policing first came under fire for being racially biased. Since then there have been some attempts at reform, but the issue of police brutality remains"--Provided by publisher.
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-- Police defunding & reform[2021]., Adolescent, ReferencePoint Press Call No: CIVIL RIGHTS NF GHA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Being Black in America (ReferencePoint Press)Summary Note: "Police brutality is not a new issue in the United States. There have been calls to reform policing since the 1960s. It was then during the civil rights movement that policing first came under fire for being racially biased. Since then there have been some attempts at reform, but the issue of police brutality remains"--Provided by publisher.
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2021., Adolescent, Balzer + Bray Call No: Realistic Fic Zoboi Edition: First trade paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Even though Amal Shahid is an artist and poet, he's still viewed as disruptive and unmotivated at his diverse art school. One fateful night at a local park, a fight breaks out between Amal and his friends and a group of white boys from a nearby gentrified neighborhood, leaving one of the white boys in a coma. Amal is convicted of the attack and sent to prison, even though he's not the one who put the boy in a coma. His despair and rage at having his bright future destroyed threaten to overcome him until he discovers the refuge and hope that his words and art give him.
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2021., Adolescent, Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: REALISTIC F ZOB Edition: First trade paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. "The story that I thought was my life didn't start on the day I was born." Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he's seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood escalates into tragedy. "Boys just being boys" turns out to be true only when those boys are white. The story that I think will be my life starts today. Suddenly, at just sixteen years old, Amal's bright future is upended: he is convicted of a crime he didn't commit and sent to prison. Despair and rage almost sink him until he turns to the refuge of his words, his art. This never should have been his story. But can he change it. With spellbinding lyricism, award-winning author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam tell a moving and deeply profound story about how one boy is able to maintain his humanity and fight for the truth, in a system designed to strip him of both.
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Call No: 305.8 HAR Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Everyone's daily lives are affected by race and racism in America. Race and Policing examines recent incidents of minorities being mistreated or dying in police custody, delving into the historical institutions and laws that underpin today's system and exploring what police departments and the communities they serve are doing to improve communication and relationships. Features include essential facts, a glossary, references, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards."--Publisher's website.
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2000., Chelsea House Call No: 364.089 Jon Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Series Title: Crime, justice, and punishmentSummary Note: Examines the relationship between race and crime in the United States and the role that race plays in the American criminal justice system.
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Call No: 305.8 BUR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Everyone's daily lives are affected by race and racism in America. Race in the Criminal Justice System examines the experience of minorities in the court and prison system, delving into the historical institutions and laws that underpin today's system and exploring what governments and activists are doing to face these issues. Features include essential facts, a glossary, references, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards."
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[2013]., The New Press Call No: 364.6 0973 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents a graphic novel version and retelling of the handbook and treatise "Race to Incarcerate," which explores how the United States has the highest criminal incarceration population in the world. Discusses where the U.S. prison system and incarceration policies may have gone wrong and are needlessly putting more strain on our prisons than necessary.
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-- Systemic racism & the African American experience[2021]., Adolescent, ReferencePoint Press Call No: CIVIL RIGHTS NF CUR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Being Black in America (ReferencePoint Press)Summary Note: "Systemic racism is subtle-and perhaps more widespread than blatant racism. In a way it can be seen as a collective racial prejudice, in which White people, often unwittingly, behave in ways that harm Black people. The United States has constructed a system of law enforcement in which the races are treated unequally. Any reform of the criminal justice system must begin with an end to systemic racism"--Provided by publisher.
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[2015], Crown Publishers Call No: HI-INT 364.3 BEN Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Explores the roots of injustice built into the justice system due to human biases operating outside of conscious awareness.
