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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
The #1 New York Times bestsellerHidden Figures follows the interwoven accounts of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson and Christine Darden, four African American women who participated in some of NASA’s greatest successes. It chronicles their careers over nearly three decades they faced challenges, forged alliances and used their intellect to change their own lives, and their country’s future.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Peniel Joseph offers a powerful new interpretation of recent American history. The summer of 2020, he argues, marked the climax of nothing less than a Third Reconstruction: a new period of intense struggle to secure citizenship and dignity for Black Americans, just as momentous as the movements that sought to transform America after the US Civil War and during the civil rights era. America's first and second Reconstructions failed to achieve their...
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
An edgy and insightful look at Barack Obama, Keanu Reeves, and the mixed-race experience in our divided world. At once personally revealing and politically astute, author Will Harris reflects on the lives of two very different supermen: Barack Obama and Keanu Reeves. In an era where a man endorsed by the Ku Klux Klan can sit in the White House, Harris argues that the mixed-race of both Obama and Reeves gave them a cultural shapelessness that was a...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
-- My Grandmother’s Hands -- A Space for Us Provide an understanding of the racial hierarchy and how it has impacted Black, Indigenous, and People of Color differently.Define and share common manifestations of internalized racial oppression.Define anti-Blackness and provide skills to interrupt and address it. Share rituals, practices, and sample agendas for affinity groups.Explain when it is useful to meet as one BIPOC group and when it is useful...
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Language
English
Description
"At once incendiary and icy, mischievous, and provocative, celebratory and elegiac, a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism of the author's rarefied upbringing and education among a black elite concerned to distance itself from whites and the black generality, while tirelessly measuring itself against both. Born in 1947 in upper-crust black Chicago--her father was for years head of pediatrics at Provident, at...
Author
Language
English
Description
"From one of our premier writers, scholars, and public intellectuals: a surprising, inspiring, often boldly infuriating, highly instructive and entertaining compendium of curiosities regarding African Americans. In 1934, 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof: A Short Cut to the World History of the Negro was published by Joel A. Rogers, a largely self-educated black journalist and historian. Now with �elan and erudition--and winning...
Author
Publisher
New Harbinger Publications
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
-- Domestic violence is about power and control. As a Black woman and a survivor of domestic violence, you have had your power taken away from you against your will. You are not alone, and there are tools you can use to feel whole and in control of your life again. Written by two psychologists and experts in BIPOC mental health, this book will show you how to start healing—mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.Grounded in cognitive behavioral therapy...
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
“Kenan continues Baldwin’s legendary tradition of ‘telling it on the mountain’ by giving a voice to the unvarnished truth.” -- The Fire This Time is itself a piercing consideration of the times, and an impassioned call to transcend them.
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