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On Race, Identity and Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
The Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the uncomfortable truth about race and identity in Britain today
You’re British.
Your parents are British.
Your partner, your children and most of your friends are British.
So why do people keep asking where you’re from?
We...
by Toni Morrison
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
What is race and why does it matter? Why does the presence of Others make us so afraid? America’s foremost novelist reflects on themes that preoccupy her work and dominate politics: race, fear, borders, mass movement of peoples, desire for belonging. Ta-Nehisi Coates provides a foreword to Toni Morrison’s most personal work of nonfiction to date.
Algorithms of Oppression
How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
As seen in Wired and Time
A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithms
Run a Google search for “black girls”—what will you find? “Big Booty” and other sexually explicit terms are likely to come up as top...
America's Original Sin
Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
America's problem with race has deep roots, with the country's foundation tied to the near extermination of one race of people and the enslavement of another. Racism is truly our nation's original sin.
"It's time we right this unacceptable wrong," says bestselling author and leading...
Black Power
Three Books from Exile: Black Power; The Color Curtain; and White Man, Listen!
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Three extraordinary nonfiction works by Richard Wright, one of America's premier literary giants of the twentieth entry, together in one volume for the first time, with an introduction by Cornel West.
Originally published in 1954, Richard Wright′s Black Power is an impassioned chronicle...
Street Shadows
A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Redemption
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
Masterfully told, marked by irony and humor as well as outrage and a barely contained sadness, Jerald Walker’s Street Shadows is the story of a young man’s descent into the “thug life” and the wake-up call that led to his finding himself again.
Walker was born in a Chicago housing project...
One Drop
My Father's Hidden Life--A Story of Race and Family Secrets
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2007
In this acclaimed memoir, Bliss Broyard, daughter of the literary critic Anatole Broyard, examines her father's choice to hide his racial identity, and the impact of this revelation on her own life.
Two months before he died, renowned literary critic Anatole Broyard called his grown son and daughter...
The Passion of Tiger Woods
An Anthropologist Reports on Golf, Race, and Celebrity Scandal
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
Perhaps the best golfer ever, Tiger Woods rocketed to the top of a once whites-only sport. Endorsements made him a global brand and the world’s richest athlete. The child of a multiracial marriage, Woods and his blond, blue-eyed wife, Elin Nordegren, seemed to represent a new postracial America....
by Dan Cohn-Sherbok
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Tracing the origins and manifestations of anti-Semitism, this chronicle illustrates how this form of discrimination has featured in the history of Western civilization for more than 3,000 years. Against a background of intolerance and condemnation, this reconstruction describes Jewish emancipation...
Snow-Storm in August
Washington City, Francis Scott Key, and the Forgotten Race Riot of 1835
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
A gripping narrative history of the explosive events that drew together Francis Scott Key, Andrew Jackson, and an 18-year-old slave on trial for attempted murder.
In 1835, the city of Washington pulsed with change. As newly freed African Americans from the South poured in, free blacks outnumbered...
I've Been Meaning to Tell You
A Letter To My Daughter
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
"Stunning. A precise puncturing of the post-racial bubble." --Nafkote Tamirat
For readers of Between the World and Me and We Should All Be Feminists, an intimate and profound meditation on the politics of race today, from prizewinning novelist David Chariandy.
I can glimpse,...
Racism in America
Cultural Codes and Color Lines in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Black Lives Matter
Bestselling author and syndicated columnist on issues of race in the U.S., Leonard Pitts has received death threats and been subjected to harassment by neo-Nazis. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 2004, he has authored hundreds of articles addressing the charged...
Secret Daughter
A Mixed-Race Daughter and the Mother Who Gave Her Away
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
June Cross was born in 1954 to Norma Booth, a glamorous, aspiring white actress, and James “Stump” Cross, a well-known black comedian. Sent by her mother to be raised by black friends when she was four years old and could no longer pass as white, June was plunged into the pain and confusion of...
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, EEOC.
SHORT STORY #26. Nonfiction series #1 - # 60.
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2016
The 1964 was a historic year for American women and minority. The Civil Right Act of 1964 was created in the USA. It was the 1st time in American history when women and minority were given an equal opportunity to enter colleges, and workplaces. To enforce the Civil Right Act of 1964—Equal Employment...