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[2015], Spiegel & Grau Call No: HI-INT 305.8 COA Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Presents an exploration of race discrimination in U.S. history and current culture, written from the author in the form of a letter to his adolescent son. Discusses what it means to be African American and offers advice and encouragement for finding ways to be comfortable in one's own skin.
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-- Between the world & me[2015]., Spiegel & Grau Call No: CIVIL RIGHTS NF COA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: "For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him--most urgently, why he, and other black people he knew, seemed to live in fear. What were they afraid of? ... Coates takes readers along on his journey through America's history of race and its contemporary resonances through a series of awakenings--moments when he discovered some new truth about our long, tangled history of race, whether through his myth-busting professors at Howard University, a trip to a Civil War battlefield with a rogue historian, a journey to Chicago's South Side to visit aging survivors of 20th century America's 'long war on black people,' or a visit with the mother of a beloved friend who was shot down by the police"--Provided by publisher.
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[2019]., Bloomsbury Publishing Call No: 305.48 Hil Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Presents a narrative in verse of the history of black women facing chains and incarceration, from the life of Harriet Tubman up to the tragic suicide of Sandra Bland in prison in 2015, highlighting the unique experience black women have faced in America throughout its history, from slavery to the Jim Crow era and up to the modern Black Lives Matter movement.
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[2017], Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company Call No: 305.8 ROT Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Richard Rothstein explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation -- that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies. Rather, The Color of Law incontrovertibly makes it clear that it was de jure segregation -- the laws and policy decisions passed by local, state, and federal governments -- that actually promoted the discriminatory patterns that continue to this day."--Jacket.
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By Orr, Tamra[2018], Rosen Publishing Call No: 305.8 ORR Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: CopingSummary Note: "One of the most pressing issues of the last few years has been the rise of activism and other efforts that aim to combat discrimination and racial inequality. This book provides an overview of the problem as well as a starting point for young readers mitigating the effects of racial intolerance on their own lives and will enable them to deal with the often overwhelming stress of being an ethnic minority, whatever their background. With an approach both sensitive and assertive, it aims to assist youth in navigating interpersonal slights and abuse, as well as systemic racism."
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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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2022., Adolescent, Scholastic Focus Call No: HI-INT 341.6 GOL Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "On December 7, 1941--'a date which will live in infamy'--the Japanese navy launched an attack on the American military bases at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The next day, President Franklin Roosevelt declared war on Japan, and the US Army officially entered the Second World War. Three years later, on December 18, 1944, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which enabled the Secretary of War to enforce a mass deportation of more than 100,000 Americans to what government officials themselves called 'concentration camps.' None of these citizens had been accused of a real crime. All of them were torn from their homes, jobs, schools, and communities, and deposited in tawdry, makeshift housing behind barbed wire, solely for the crime of being of Japanese descent. President Roosevelt declared this community 'alien,'--whether they were citizens or not, native-born or not--accusing them of being potential spies and saboteurs for Japan who deserved to have their Constitutional rights stripped away. In doing so, the president set in motion another date which would live in infamy, the day when the US joined the ranks of those Fascist nations that had forcibly deported innocents solely on the basis of the circumstance of their birth. In 1944 the US Supreme Court ruled, in Korematsu v. United States, that the forcible deportation and detention of Japanese Americans on the basis of race was a 'military necessity.' Today it is widely considered one of the worst Supreme Court decisions of all time. But Korematsu was not an isolated event. In fact, the Court's racist ruling was the result of a deep-seated anti-Japanese, anti-Asian sentiment running all the way back to the California Gold Rush of the mid-1800s. Starting from this pivotal moment, Constitutional law scholar Lawrence Goldstone will take young readers through the key events of the 19th and 20th centuries leading up to the fundamental injustice of Japanese American internment. Tracing the history of Japanese immigration to America and the growing fear whites had of losing power, Goldstone will raise deeply resonant questions of what makes an American an American, and what it means for the Supreme Court to stand as the 'people's' branch of government"--Provided by the publisher.
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c2022., Adolescent, Cherry Lake Press : a imprint of Cherry Lake Publishing Call No: 305.800973 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: 21st century skills library.Summary Note: This title explores the intents and effects of both desegregation and integration--especially as it relates to schools and education--in a comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate way. Developed in conjunction with educator, advocate, and author Kelisa Wing to reach children of all races and encourage them to approach our history with open eyes and minds. Books include 21st Century Skills and content, as well as activities created by Wing. Also includes a table of contents, glossary, index, author biography, sidebars, educational matter, and activities.
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2006., Juvenile, Rosen Central Primary Source Call No: 323.173 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents an introduction to segregation in the United States, in simple text with illustrations, describing the social and legal implications of racial discrimination in the early twentieth century.
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2006., Juvenile, Rosen Central Primary Source Call No: 305.8 AND Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: The progressive movement, 1900-1920--efforts to reform America's new industrial societySummary Note: Presents an introduction to segregation in the United States, in simple text with illustrations, describing the social and legal implications of racial discrimination in the early twentieth century.
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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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-- Native North American Indiansc2013., Mason Crest Call No: 970.004 97 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Offers advice and encouragement for Native American teenagers facing discrimination due to their race and culture.
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[2022]., Primary, Holiday House Call No: E THE Edition: First edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A mother's account of her experience as the only Black child in school serves as an empowering message to her daughter"--Provided by the publisher.
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2021., Penguin Books Call No: Realistic 305.42 Ken Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: The author draws on her own experiences with hunger, violence, and hypersexualization to critique today's feminism movement--and white feminists--and to argue that it needs to address women's basic needs such as food security, access to quality education, safe neighborhoods, a living wage, and medical care.
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2023., Primary, Candlewick Press Call No: E WEA Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A true story of determination and groundbreaking achievement follows eighth grade African American spelling champion MacNolia Cox, who left Akron, Ohio, in 1936 to compete in the prestigious National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., only to be met with prejudice and discrimination.
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2023., Juvenile, Candlewick Press Call No: B Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 2 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Presents a nonfiction picture book chronicling the story of eighth grader MacNolia Cox, who was the first African American to win the Akron, Ohio, spelling bee and qualified to compete at the prestigious National Spelling Bee in Washington, DC. Explores how she persevered while facing segregation, racism, and discrimination.
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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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-- Children's march[2011]., Adult, Teaching Tolerance Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center Call No: Civil Rights DVD Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to read Teacher's guide online Click here to read Poster and Bonus lesson online Summary Note: Contains interviews with some of the protesters. In May of 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. asked black people of Birmingham, Alabama to go to jail in the cause of racial equality. The adults were afraid to go to jail and so the school children marched and over 5000 of them were arrested. This led to President Kennedy sponsoring the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the March on Washington. Portions of this film were reenacted using vintage cameras and film stocks.
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-- White women and the politics of white supremacy.[2020]., Oxford University Press Call No: HI-INT 320.56 MCR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "They are often seen in photos of crowds in the mid-century South--white women shooting down blacks with looks of pure hatred. Yet it is the male white supremacists who have been the focus of the literature on white resistance to Civil Rights. This groundbreaking first book recovers the daily workers who upheld the system of segregation and Jim Crow for so long--white women. Every day in rural communities, in university towns, and in New South cities, white women performed a myriad of duties that upheld white over black. These politics, like a well-tended garden, required careful planning, daily observing, constant weeding, fertilizing, and periodic poisoning. They held essay contests, decided on the racial identity of their neighbors, canvassed communities for votes, inculcated racist sentiments in their children, fought for segregation in their schools, and wrote column after column publicizing threats to their Jim Crow world. Without white women, white supremacist politics could not have shaped local, regional, and national politics the way it did, and the long civil rights movement would not have been so long. This book is organized around four key figures -- Nell Battle Lewis, Florence Sillers Ogden, Mary Dawson Cain, and Cornelia Dabney Tucker -- whose political work, publications, and private correspondence offer a window onto the broad and massive network of women across the South and the nation who populate this story. Placing white women's political work from the 1920s to the 1970s at the center, this book demonstrates the diverse ways white women sustained twentieth century campaigns for white supremacist politics, continuing well beyond federal legislation outlawing segregation, and draws attention to the role of women in grassroots politics of the 20th century."--Provided by publisher.
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2012., Distributed by Perseus Distribution Distributed by Perseus Distribution Call No: 305.896 Ale Edition: Rev. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Legal scholar Michelle Alexander argues that the U.S. criminal justice system has basically replaced the Jim Crow system functioning as the newest system of racial control. Contends that targeting black men through the War on Drugs has created mass incarceration where discrimination in employment, housing, education, benefits, and voting rights are all justified, even after release from prison.
