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Pub. Date
[2019]
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"Cussy Mary Carter is the last of her kind, her skin the color of a blue damselfly in these dusty hills. But that doesn't mean she's got nothing to offer. As a member of the Pack Horse Library Project, Cussy delivers books to the hill folk of Troublesome, hoping to spread learning in these desperate times. But not everyone is so keen on Cussy's family or the Library Project, and the hardscrabble Kentuckians are quick to blame a Blue for any trouble...
1084) Rio Ruidoso
Author
Series
Three rivers trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Rio Ruidoso offers a gripping blend of history and story as two-time Spur Award-winner Preston Lewis explores the violent years before the famed Lincoln County War in New Mexico Territory. Seamlessly weaving fact with fiction, the author details the county's corruption, racism, and violence through the eyes of protagonist Wes Bracken, newly arrived in the region to start a horse ranch with his alcoholic brother. Bracken's dreams for the Mirror B...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"This fresh perspective on the American Indian rights movement that young readers have been hearing about in the news includes engaging historic coverage that will hook the reader from start to finish."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Bitter root volume 2
Pub. Date
[2020].
Description
"Monster-hunting has been the Sangerye family business for generations as they battle the jinoo— hideous creatures born out of hate and racism. But now the Sangeryes face a different threat— the deadly inzondo, a new kind of monster born out of grief and trauma. With one of their own turning into an inzondo and an army of tortured souls on the attack in 1920s Harlem, the Sangerye family must once again fight to save the world, unless their own...
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[2019]
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American History X: Derek Vinyard, the charismatic leader of a group of young white supremacists, lands in prison for a brutal, hate-driven murder. Upon his release, ashamed of his past and pledging to reform, Derek realizes he must save his younger brother Danny from a similar fate. A groundbreaking controversial drama about the tragic consequences of racism in a family.
The Green Mile: African American John Coffey is a gentle giant of a man, who...
1088) Martin Luther King, Jr
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Examines the life of the Baptist minister and civil rights leader who helped American blacks win many battles for equal rights.
1089) Hapa girl: a memoir
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Description
"In the mid-1960s, Winberg Chai, a young academic and the son of Chinese immigrants, married an Irish-American artist. In Hapa Girl ("hapa" is Hawaiian for "mixed") their daughter tells the story of this loving family as they moved from Southern California to New York to a South Dakota farm by the 1980s. In their new Midwestern home, the family finds itself the object of unwelcome attention, which swiftly escalates to violence - shotgun blasts were...
1091) Black American refugee
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"After following her mother to the US at a young age to pursue economic opportunities, one woman must come to terms with the ways in which systematic racism and resultant trauma keep the American Dream inaccessible to Black people. In the early '90s, young Tiffanie Drayton and her siblings left Trinidad and Tobago to join their mother in New Jersey, where she'd been making her way as a domestic worker, eager to give her children a shot at the American...
1093) Just like Jesse Owens
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"As a boy, Andrew Young learned a vital lesson from his parents when a local chapter of the Nazi party instigated racial unrest in their hometown of New Orleans in the 1930s. While Hitler's teachings promoted White supremacy, Andrew's father, told him that when dealing with the sickness of racism, Don't get mad, get smart. To drive home this idea, Andrew Young Senior took his family to the local movie house to see a newsreel of track star Jesse Owens...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Looks at the life of the artist Benny Andrews illustrated with his original paintings, from his childhood and youth in rural Georgia, through his studies in Chicago and his activism and artistic success in New York City.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"México es un país racista que niega serlo. Con argumentos como "No es racismo, sino clasismo", "Acá somos todos mestizos" o "Nunca hubo un sistema segregacionista como en Estados Unidos" negamos que hemos perpetuado la discriminación durante generaciones."--Page [4] of cover.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"This nonfiction book for middle-grade readers, illustrated with photographs, tells the story of the making of the Witness Blanket, a work by Indigenous artist Carey Newman that includes items from every residential school in Canada and stories from the Survivors who donated them."--
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Biographical collection of ten female figures who changed the world by standing up for what's right and offering an inspirational call to action, reminding everyone that they can be forces for change when they stand up!"--
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Taking joy in suffering is more human than we'd like to admit. The cruelty of the Trump administration's policies and the ritual rhetorical flaying of his targets are intimately connected. Shared cruelty and the delight it brings are critical moments of connection for white supremacists, a fact that is not new. Adam Serwer has been chronicling our political landscape for the last decade. He is one of the most resonant voices of our time, relentless...
1099) The judgmental flower
Author
Pub. Date
c2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When a Purple flower suddenly sprouts next to a Blue, all sorts of confusion ensues. Fortunately, Momma Blue is there to remind everyone about the beauty of diversity, including how the wind, rain, sun and bees treat all flowers the same regardless of the color of their petals or the size of their stems. Award-winning author Julia Cook shares a timely and valuable lesson about appreciating differences and embracing diversity in life and in friendships.--Publisher....
1100) Let love be your guide
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
The first duo album by internationally renowned family musicians Dan and Claudia Zanes is a collection of songs to sprark intergenerational conversations about anti-racism, racial justice, and the joys of community. Conceived during the 2020 Black Lives Matter uprisings and coronavirus pandemic, the songs describe the new terms of togetherness, how we understand it, how we build it, and how we strive for more.