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HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Oluo aims to show how people across America are working to create real positive change in our structures. Looking at many of our most powerful systems -- like education, media, labor, health, housing, policing, and more -- she highlights what people are doing to create change for intersectional racial equity. She also illustrates various ways in which the reader can find entryways into change in these same areas, or can bring some of this important...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Distilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s legendary Harvard introductory course in African American Studies, The Black Box: Writing the Race, is the story of Black self-definition in America through the prism of the writers who have led the way. From Phillis Wheatley and Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, to Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright, James Baldwin and Toni Morrison--these writers used words to create...
Author
Publisher
Ig Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
With accumulated wisdom and sharp-eyed clarity, Everyday Something Has Tried to Kill Me And Has Failed addresses the joys and hardships of being an older Black woman in contemporary, "periracial" America. Award-winning author Kim McLarin utilizes deeply personal experiences to illuminate the pain and power of aging, Blackness and feminism, in the process capturing the endless cycle of progress and backlash that has long shaped race and gender.
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Series
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
If you've learned about the history of Chinese people in America, it was probably about their work on the railroads in the 1800s. But it's more than likely that you have not learned about Chinese American history at all. The story of the Chinese people in the United States starts earlier than most people realize. From the Gold Rush to entrepreneurs, animators, and movie stars, this is the true story of the Chinese American experience.
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