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Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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2020-2021 Middle School TAB Nominations
2021 Graded Reading Lists: Grades 5 & 6
Books You May Have Missed 2020: Combined
TAB 2021 : H-B Woodlawn
2021 Graded Reading Lists: Grades 5 & 6
Books You May Have Missed 2020: Combined
TAB 2021 : H-B Woodlawn
Description
"Thirty diverse and award-winning authors and illustrators capture frank discussions about racism, identity, and self-esteem"--
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A daring, hilarious, and inspiring memoir-in-essays about dance, queerness, and creativity from the American Ballet Theatre principal dancer, drag queen, and pop star who's redefining what it means to be a man in ballet"--
There's a mark on every stage around the world that signifies the center of its depth and width: it is called "center center." Whiteside has dreamed of standing on that very mark as a principal dancer with the prestigious American...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A field guide to the memorials, museums, and practices that commemorate white supremacy in the United States nd how to reimagine a more deeply shared cultural infrastructure for the future"--
Monuments, museums, and everyday patriotic practices have made headlines for most of the twenty-first century, yet they are seldom look at together or understood explicitly as tools used by particular people in particular times and places to shape the culture...
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Bestselling author Ellis Cose's groundbreaking latest work interrogates pivotal decisions from enslavement to the New Deal to the handling of Covid that established the United States discriminatory practices for centuries to come. Numerous racialized decisions have solidified America's, and people of color's, fate at different points in history. The first were race-based slavery and the removal of Indigenous peoples from their land. More have proliferated...
Author
Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"When the mainstream transgender rights movement was still a glimmer on the horizon, Julia Serano's smash-hit manifesto Whipping Girl revolutionized the way we think about gender. With the movement for trans rights now at the center of our cultural debates, Julia Serano returns with a groundbreaking exploration of what it means to be sexualized. We tend to think of sexualization-that is, when people are reduced to their sexual bodies-as an issue that...
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In his most recent book, Who We Be, Jeff Chang looked at how art and culture effected massive social changes in American society. Since the book was published, the country has been gripped by waves of racial discord, most notably the protests in Ferguson, Missouri. In these highly relevant, powerful essays, Chang examines some of the most contentious issues in the current discussion of race and inequality. Built around a central essay looking at...
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"For many Americans, imagining a bright future has always been an act of resistance. A People's Future of the United States presents twenty never-before-published stories by a diverse group of writers, featuring voices both new and well-established. These stories imagine their characters fighting everything from government surveillance, to corporate cities, to climate change disasters, to nuclear wars. But fear not: A People's Future also invites...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"Race. A four-letter word. The greatest social divide in American life, a half-century ago and today. During that time, the U.S. has seen the most dramatic demographic and cultural shifts in its history, what can be called the colorization of America. But the same nation that elected its first Black president on a wave of hope--another four-letter word--is still plunged into endless culture wars. How do Americans see race now? How has that changed--and...
Author
Publisher
Trope Industries LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"From music to movies, literature to dance - the arts have always been influenced by the work of LGBTQ people. LGBTQ+ Icons spotlights the history and contributions of 50 pioneering artists who lived and worked around the world. Bold, whimsical illustrations by David Lee Csicsko (The Skin You Live In) and concise bios from historian Owen Keehnen celebrate a diverse group of artists, from LGBTQ icons James Baldwin, Frida Kahlo, and Freddie Mercury...
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Series
Publisher
City Lights Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In this collection of twelve previously unpublished speeches, Davis confronts the interconnected issues of power, race, gender, class, incarceration, conservatism, and the ongoing need for social change in the United States.
What is the meaning of freedom? Angela Y. Davis' life and work have been dedicated to examining this fundamental question and to ending all forms of oppression that deny people their political, cultural, and sexual freedom. In...
Author
Publisher
The Avant-Garde Project, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
You are accustomed to being the first in your family to do many things, often entering rooms where no one else looks like you. You are the first to go to college and the first to start a business, and now you have embraced the mission to become the first generation in your family's new legacy! This book is designed to give you the mentorship you need to build an independent and wildly successful, profitable minority business enterprise. Susanne details:...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
"Through engrossing narratives, letters, drawings, poems, and more, the book encourages young readers, of all identities, to feel pride at the accomplishments of the LGBTQ people who came before them and to use history as a guide to the future.The stories he shares include those of: Thomas Morton, who celebrated same-sex love in Boston's Puritan community in the 1620s; Albert D.J. Cashier, an Irish immigrant and Civil War hero, who was born in the...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"American public opinion tends to be sticky. Although the news cycle might temporarily affect the public zeitgeist about abortion, the death penalty, or gun control, public support or opposition on these issues has remained remarkably constant over decades. But there are notable exceptions, particularly with regard to polarizing issues that highlight identity politics. Over the past three decades, public support for same-sex marriage has risen from...
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Presents essays by first- and second-generation immigrant writers on the realities of immigration, multiculturalism, and marginalization in an increasingly divided America. From Trump's proposed border wall and travel ban to the marching of White Supremacists in Charlottesville, America is consumed by tensions over immigration and the question of which bodies are welcome. In this much-anticipated follow-up to the bestselling UK edition, hailed by...
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In this book, editors Anthony Arnove and Haley Pessin, curate voices of resistance and hope from 2000 to the present, inspired by the original Voices of a People's History of the United States. The book features speeches, essays, songs, and documents from Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, indigenous struggles, the environmental movement, disability justice organizers, and frontline workers during the global pandemic who spoke out against the life-threatening...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"In the final years of the nineteenth century, small groups of Muslim peddlers arrived at Ellis Island every summer, bags heavy with embroidered silks from their home villages in Bengal. The American demand for 'Oriental goods' took these migrants on a curious path, from New Jersey's beach boardwalks into the heart of the segregated South. Two decades later, hundreds of Indian Muslim seamen began jumping ship in New York and Baltimore, escaping the...
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