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1) Call me Al
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Between the pressure from his immigrant parents to ace every class, his crush on Melissa, who lives in the rich area of town while he and his family live in a shabby apartment complex, and trying his best to fit in with his friends, he feels like he’s being pulled in too many different directions. But harder still, Ali is becoming increasingly aware of the racism around him. Comments from his friends about Pakistani food or his skin color are passed...
Author
Series
Race to the truth volume 3
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The story of American from the Chinese American perspective"--
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A pioneering scholar offers this new account of what systemic racism actually is, how it works and how we can fight back, revealing how hard-to-see systemic connections function to disproportionately contain, exploit and punish Black people and showing us how to create a more just America for us all.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"A storm of illiberalism, building in the United States for years, unleashed its destructive force in the Capitol insurrection of January 6, 2021. The attack on American democracy and images of mob violence led many to recoil, thinking "That's not us." But now we must think again, for Steven Hahn shows in his startling new history that illiberalism has deep roots in our past. To those who believe that the ideals announced in the Declaration of Independence...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A magnificent, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves, in resistance to the lies of racism and often in heated disagreement with each other, over the course of the country's history. 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...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
This wide-ranging overview of the turbulent and little-known history of the diverse Latino experience in America is based on hundreds of interviews and research about the fastest-growing minority in America.
"A sweeping yet personal overview of the latino population of America, drawn from hundreds of interviews and prodigious research that emphasizes the diversity and little-known history of our largest and fastest-growing minority...At present,...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"This book explores how age shaped slavery as an institution and how the aging process affected the enslaved and enslaver alike. It challenges static models of enslaved resistance and enslaver dominance by emphasizing intergenerational conflict in the American South. Key reading for students and scholars of slavery in the US"--
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