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Black Fortunes
The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
**“By telling the little-known stories of six pioneering African American entrepreneurs, Black Fortunes makes a worthy contribution to black history, to business history, and to American history.”—**Margot Lee Shetterly, New York Times Bestselling author of Hidden Figures
Between the...
"They Take Our Jobs!"
And 20 Other Myths about Immigration
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2007
Claims that immigrants take Americans' jobs, are a drain on the American economy, contribute to poverty and inequality, destroy the social fabric, challenge American identity, and contribute to a host of social ills by their very existence are openly discussed and debated at all levels of society....
The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell
Tales of a 6' 4", African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
You may know W. Kamau Bell from his new, Emmy-nominated hit show on CNN, United Shades of America. Or maybe you’ve read about him in the New York Times, which called him “the most promising new talent in political comedy in many years.” Or maybe from The New Yorker, fawning over his brand of...
Raising White Kids
Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
With a foreword by Tim Wise, Raising White Kids is for families, churches, educators, and communities who want to equip their children to be active and able participants in a society that is becoming one of the most racially diverse in the world while remaining full of racial tensions. For white...
White Fragility
Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality.
In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator...
My Grandmother's Hands
Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze. My Grandmother’s Hands is a call to action for Americans to recognize that racism is not about the head, but about the body. Author Resmaa Menakem introduces an alternative view of what we can do to grow beyond our entrenched racialized divide.
Dead or in Prison
My Journey Through Foster Care
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Crime . . . Poverty . . Racism. George rose above it all. His journey through Foster Care was at times difficult, at times touching and at times very funny. His story will inspire anyone working with young people. Especially those in Foster and Adoptive Care, from Foster Parents to Youth, Social Workers...
by Claude M. Steele
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
The acclaimed social psychologist offers an insider’s look at his research and groundbreaking findings on stereotypes and identity.
Claude M. Steele, who has been called “one of the few great social psychologists,” offers a vivid first-person account of the research that supports his...
by Richard Rothstein
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
One of Publishers Weekly's 10 Best Books of 2017
Longlisted for the National Book Award
This “powerful and disturbing history” exposes how American governments deliberately imposed racial segregation on metropolitan areas nationwide (New York Times Book Review).
Widely heralded as...
Typecasting
On the Arts and Sciences of Human Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Typecasting chronicles the emergence of the "science of first impression" and reveals how the work of its creators—early social scientists—continues to shape how we see the world and to inform our most fundamental and unconscious judgments of beauty, humanity, and degeneracy. In this...
Detroit 1967
Origins, Impacts, Legacies
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
In the summer of 1967, Detroit experienced one of the worst racially charged civil disturbances in United States history. Years of frustration generated by entrenched and institutionalized racism boiled over late on a hot July night. In an event that has been called a “riot,” “rebellion,” “uprising,”...
A More Beautiful and Terrible History
The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Praised by The New York Times; O, The Oprah Magazine; Bitch Magazine; Slate; Publishers Weekly; and more, this is “a bracing corrective to a national mythology” (New York Times) around the civil rights movement.
The civil rights movement has become national legend, lauded by presidents...
Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters
The Struggle over Segregated Recreation in America
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Throughout the twentieth century, African Americans challenged segregation at amusement parks, swimming pools, and skating rinks not only in pursuit of pleasure but as part of a wider struggle for racial equality. Well before the Montgomery bus boycott, mothers led their children into segregated amusement...
by Booker T. Washington
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
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The Negro Problem
Here are six historic essays on the state of race relations during the Reconstruction and early twentieth century, written from the African American point of view. These essays show us how far...