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TITLE: An African American and Latinx History of the United States
AUTHOR: Paul Ortiz WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 305.8 Ort SUMMARY: A bottom-up history told from the viewpoint of African American and Latinx activists and revealing the radically different ways people of the diaspora addressed issues still plaguing the United States today. |
TITLE: The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
AUTHOR: Nikole Hannah-Jones WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 973 Han SUMMARY: The 1619 Project tells [a] new origin story, placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of Black Americans at the center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are as a country. |
TITLE: Run: Book One
AUTHOR: John Lewis WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 323 Lew - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Tells the true story of John Lewis and his colleagues in the movement following the historic success of the Selma campaign and the Voting Rights Act. |
TITLE: Just Us: An American Conversation
AUTHOR: Claudia Rankine WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 305.8 Ran SUMMARY: This brilliant arrangement of essays, poems, and images includes the voices and rebuttals of others: white men in first class responding to, and with, their white male privilege; a friend's explanation of her infuriating behavior at a play; and women confronting the political currency of dying their hair blond, all running alongside fact-checked notes and commentary that complements Rankine's own text, complicating notions of authority and who gets the last word. |
TITLE: The Wrong End of the Table: A Mostly Comic Memoir of a Muslim Arab American Woman Just Trying to Fit In
AUTHOR: Ayser Salman WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Sal SUMMARY: Recounts the author's experiences as a young Iraqi immigrant trying to fit in among her American counterparts, discussing her parents' strict rules, her ill-advised romantic dalliances, and the isolation she felt after 9/11. |
TITLE: How To Be an Antiracist
AUTHOR: Ibram X. Kendi WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 305.8 Ken SUMMARY: Combines ethics, history, law, and science with a personal narrative to describe how to move beyond the awareness of racism and contribute to making society just and equitable. |
TITLE: An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People
AUTHOR: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 970.004 Dun SUMMARY: A history of the United States for young people told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples, revealing how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the U.S. empire. |
TITLE: Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
AUTHOR: Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 305.8 Ken SUMMARY: A history of racist and antiracist ideas in America, from their roots in Europe until today, adapted from the National Book Award winner Stamped from the Beginning. |
TITLE: The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person
AUTHOR: Frederick Joseph CALL NUMBER: 305.8 Jos SUMMARY: Presents race-related anecdotes from the author's past, weaving in his thoughts on why they were hurtful and how he might handle things differently now, in hopes of bringing more race awareness to Americans. |
TITLE: Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
AUTHOR: Cathy Park Hong WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Hon SUMMARY: Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong confronts the Asian American condition, blending memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose the truth of racialized consciousness in America. |
TITLE: Barely Missing Everything
AUTHOR: Matt Méndez CALL NUMBER: F Mén - NOVELS SUMMARY: Three Mexican-Americans--Juan, JD, and Fabi--each try to overcome their individual struggles as they all grapple with how to make a better life for themselves when it seems like brown lives don't matter. |
TITLE: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
AUTHOR: Isabel Wilkerson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 305.5 Wil SUMMARY: Identifies the qualifying characteristics of historical caste systems to reveal how a rigid hierarchy of human rankings, enforced by religious views, heritage and stigma, impact everyday American lives. |
TITLE: "All the Real Indians Died Off:" And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans
AUTHOR: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker CALL NUMBER: 970.004 Dun SUMMARY: Examines myths about Native American culture and traces their development to reveal the fear, prejudice, and larger political agenda at their roots. |
TITLE: We Are Not Free
AUTHOR: Traci Chee CALL NUMBER: F Che - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare: attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate--and now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in the relocation camps. |
TITLE: I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
AUTHOR: Austin Channing Brown WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 305.8 Bro SUMMARY: Presents an eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian, and female in middle-class white America. |
TITLE: White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
AUTHOR: Robin DiAngelo WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 305.8 DiA SUMMARY: Explores the counterproductive reactions white people have when discussing racism that serve to protect their positions and maintain racial inequality. |
TITLE: So You Want to Talk About Race
AUTHOR: Ijeoma Oluo WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 305.8 Olu SUMMARY: A current, constructive, and actionable exploration of today's racial landscape, offering straightforward clarity that readers of all races need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divide. |
TITLE: Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
AUTHOR: Bryan Stevenson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 353.4 Ste SUMMARY: The founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, recounts his experiences as a lawyer working to assist those desperately in need, reflecting on his pursuit of the ideal of compassion in American justice. |
TITLE: Homegoing
AUTHOR: Yaa Gyasi WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Gya - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: Two half sisters, unknown to each other, are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana and experience profoundly different lives and legacies throughout subsequent generations. |
TITLE: They Called Us Enemy
AUTHOR: George Takei WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Tak - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Actor, author, and activist George Takei recounts his childhood imprisoned within American concentration camps for Japanese Americans during World War II and the impact the experience had on his later life. |
TITLE: The House on Mango Street
AUTHOR: Sandra Cisneros WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Cis - NOVELS SUMMARY: A young girl living in a Hispanic neighborhood in Chicago ponders the advantages and disadvantages of her environment and evaluates her relationships with family and friends. |
TITLE: The Nickel Boys
AUTHOR: Colson Whitehead WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Whi - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: Follows the experiences of two African-American teenagers at an abusive reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. |
TITLE: Ghost Boys
AUTHOR: Jewell Parker Rhodes WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Rho - NOVELS SUMMARY: After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a white police officer, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till. |
TITLE: We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide
AUTHOR: Carol Anderson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 323 And SUMMARY: Presents the argument that since the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, when African Americans make advances toward full participation in our democracy, white reaction feeds deliberate and relentless rollback of their progress. |
TITLE: Mexican Whiteboy
AUTHOR: Matt de la Peña WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Peñ - NOVELS SUMMARY: As a child of a Mexican father and blonde, blue-eyed mother, Danny finds it difficult that everyone thinks they know who and what he is just by the color of his skin and so goes to spend time with his father in Mexico in the hopes of getting in touch with his roots and the person he believes himself to be. |
TITLE: I'm Not Dying with You Tonight
AUTHOR: Kimberly Jones and Gilly Segal WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Jon - NOVELS SUMMARY: Told from two viewpoints, Atlanta high school seniors Lena and Campbell, one black, one white, must rely on each other to survive after a football rivalry escalates into a riot. |
TITLE: American Born Chinese
AUTHOR: Gene Luen Yang WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Yan - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Alternates three interrelated stories about the problems of young Chinese Americans trying to participate in the popular culture. Presented in comic book format. |
TITLE: The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
AUTHOR: David Treuer CALL NUMBER: 970 Tre SUMMARY: An anthropologist's chronicle of Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present traces the unprecedented resourcefulness and reinvention of distinct tribe cultures that assimilated into mainstream life to preserve Native identity. |
TITLE: Incognegro: A Graphic Mystery
AUTHOR: Story by Mat Johnson; art by Warren Pleece WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Joh - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: In the early 20th Century, when lynchings were commonplace throughout the American South, a few courageous reporters from the North risked their lives to expose these atrocities. They were African-American men who, due to their light skin color, could 'pass' among the white folks. They called this dangerous assignment going 'incognegro.' Zane Pinchback, a reporter for the New York-based New Holland Herald, is sent to investigate the arrest of his own brother, charged with the brutal murder of a white woman in Mississippi. With a lynch mob already swarming, Zane must stay 'incognegro' long enough to uncover the truth behind the murder in order to save his brother--and himself. |
TITLE: Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
AUTHOR: Michael Eric Dyson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 305.8 Dys SUMMARY: Argues that if we are to make real racial progress we must face difficult truths, including being honest about how black grievance has been ignored, dismissed, or discounted. |
TITLE: What Truth Sounds Like: Robert K. Kennedy, James Baldwin, and Our Unfinished Conversation about Race in America
AUTHOR: Michael Eric Dyson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 305.8 Dys SUMMARY: In 1963 Attorney General Robert Kennedy sought out James Baldwin to explain the rage that threatened to engulf black America. Baldwin brought along some friends, including playwright Lorraine Hansberry, psychologist Kenneth Clark, and activist Jerome Smith. Kennedy walked away from the nearly three-hour meeting angry--that the black folk assembled didn't understand politics, that they weren't as easy to talk to as Martin Luther King, that they were more interested in witness than policy. Every big argument about race that persists to this day got a hearing in that room. Dyson believes we need a return to that discussion, talking across the chasm of color, with hope as our guide. |
TITLE: Dear Martin
AUTHOR: Nic Stone WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Sto - NOVELS SUMMARY: Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him. |
TITLE: Electric Arches
AUTHOR: Eve L. Ewing WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 818 Ewi SUMMARY: An imaginative exploration of black girlhood and womanhood through poetry, visual art, and narrative prose. |
TITLE: I Am Alfonso Jones
AUTHOR: Written by Tony Medina; illustrated by Stacey Robinson and John Jennings WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Med - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: The ghost of fifteen-year-old Alfonso Jones travels in a New York subway car full of the living and the dead, watching his family and friends fight for justice after he is killed by an off-duty police officer while buying a suit in a Midtown department store. |
TITLE: Sing, Unburied, Sing
AUTHOR: Jesmyn Ward WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F War - NOVELS SUMMARY: Living with his grandparents and sister on a Gulf Coast farm, Jojo navigates the challenges of his mother's addictions and his grandmother's cancer before the release of his father from prison prompts a road trip of danger and hope. |
TITLE: Hidden Figures: The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women Who Helped Launch Our Nation into Space
AUTHOR: Margot Lee Shetterly WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 510.92 She SUMMARY: Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African-American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them from their white counterparts despite their groundbreaking successes. |
TITLE: There, There
AUTHOR: Tommy Orange WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ora - NOVELS SUMMARY: A novel-which grapples with the complex history of Native Americans; with an inheritance of profound spirituality; and with a plague of addiction, abuse and suicide-follows 12 characters, each of whom has private reasons for traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow. |
TITLE: The Souls of Black Folk
AUTHOR: W. E. B. Du Bois WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 913 DuB SUMMARY: A classic collection of essays in which Du Bois details the state of racism and black culture at the beginning of the 20th century. |
TITLE: The Underground Railroad
AUTHOR: Colson Whitehead WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Whi - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: After Cora, a slave in pre-Civil War Georgia, escapes with another slave, Caesar, they seek the help of the Underground Railroad as they flee from state to state and try to evade a slave catcher, Ridgeway, who is determined to return them to the South. |
TITLE: All American Boys
AUTHOR: Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Whi - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: When sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend. |
TITLE: Between the World and Me
AUTHOR: Ta-Nehisi Coates WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 305.8 Coa SUMMARY: The author presents a history of racial discrimination in the United States and a narrative of his own personal experiences of contemporary race relations, offering possible resolutions for the future. |
TITLE: March: Book One
AUTHOR: Written by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin; illustrated by Nate Powell WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 323 Lew SUMMARY: A first-hand account of the author's lifelong struggle for civil and human rights spans his youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., and the birth of the Nashville Student Movement. |
TITLE: Monster: A Graphic Novel
AUTHOR: Original story by Walter Dean Myers; adapted by Guy A. Sims; illustrated by Dawud Anyabwile WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Mye - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken. |
TITLE: Out of Darkness
AUTHOR: Ashley Hope Pérez WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Per - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: Loosely based on a school explosion that took place in New London, Texas, in 1937, this is the story of two teenagers: Naomi, who is Mexican, and Wash, who is black, and their dealings with race, segregation, love, and the forces that destroy people. |
TITLE: Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March
AUTHOR: By Lynda Blackmon Lowery ; as told to Elspeth Leacock and Susan Buckley ; illustrated by PJ Loughran WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 323.11 Low SUMMARY: Lynda Blackmon Lowery recounts her experiences as the youngest marcher on the 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. |
TITLE: X
AUTHOR: Ilyasah Shabazz with Kekla Magoon WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Sha - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: Co-written by the best-selling author of Malcolm Little and daughter of Malcolm X, a novel based her father's formative years describes his father's murder, his mother's imprisonment and his challenging effort to pursue an education in law. |
TITLE: Brown Girl Dreaming
AUTHOR: Jacqueline Woodson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Woo SUMMARY: The author shares her childhood memories and reveals the first sparks that ignited her writing career in free-verse poems about growing up in the North and South. |
TITLE: How It Went Down
AUTHOR: Kekla Magoon WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Mag - NOVELS SUMMARY: When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson is shot to death, his community is thrown into an uproar because Tariq was black and the shooter, Jack Franklin, is white, and in the aftermath everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the events agree. |
TITLE: Twelve Years a Slave
AUTHOR: Solomon Northup WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Nor SUMMARY: A memoir of a black man who was born free in New York state but kidnapped, sold into slavery and kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana before the American Civil War. |
TITLE: How to Be Black
AUTHOR: Baratunde Thurston WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 305.8 Thu SUMMARY: Baratunde Thurston shares stories of his politically inspired Nigerian name, the heroics of his hippie mother, the murder of his drug-abusing father, and other revelatory details about being Black. Includes sections on "How to Be The Black Friend," "How to Be The (Next) Black President," and "How to Celebrate Black History Month." |
TITLE: Heads of the Colored People
AUTHOR: Nafissa Thompson-Spires WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Tho - NOVELS SUMMARY: Contemporary and darkly humorous stories push boundaries and illuminate the simmering tensions and precariousness of black citizenship and concept of black identity in a post-racial era. |
TITLE: Rebound
AUTHOR: Kwame Alexander WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ale - NOVELS SUMMARY: In the summer of 1988, twelve-year-old Chuck Bell is sent to stay with his grandparents, where he discovers jazz and basketball and learns more about his family's past. |
TITLE: Calling My Name
AUTHOR: Liara Tamani WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Tam - NOVELS SUMMARY: Coming of age in Houston, an African-American teen navigates her conservative family's strict rules about school, church and dating while dreaming of stepping out of her male sibling's shadow to pursue a college education and a more meaningful spiritual life. |
TITLE: The Rock and the River
AUTHOR: Kekla Magoon WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Mag - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: In 1968 Chicago, fourteen-year-old Sam Childs is caught in a conflict between his father's nonviolent approach to seeking civil rights for African-Americans and his older brother, who has joined the Black Panther Party. |
TITLE: Invisible Man
AUTHOR: Ralph Ellison WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Ell - CLASSICS SUMMARY: A black man's search for success and the American dream leads him out of college to Harlem and a growing sense of personal rejection and social invisibility. |
TITLE: Native Son
AUTHOR: Richard Wright WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Wri - CLASSICS SUMMARY: Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Richard Wright's novel is just as powerful today as when it was written -- in its reflection of poverty and hopelessness, and what it means to be black in America.--NoveList |
TITLE: The Other Wes Moore
AUTHOR: Wes Moore WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Moo SUMMARY: The author, a Rhodes scholar and combat veteran, analyzes the various sociocultural factors that influenced him as well as another man of the same name and from the same neighborhood who was drawn into a life of drugs and crime and ended up serving life in prison, focusing on the influence of relatives, mentors, and social expectations that could have led either of them on different paths. |
TITLE: Freedom Summer: The Savage Season of 1964 That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy
AUTHOR: Bruce Watson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 323.11 Wat SUMMARY: A detailed history of the attempt in 1964 to register African-Americans in Mississippi and the over seven hundred college students from both southern and northern schools who descended upon the state to help in the cause for freedom and civil rights. |
TITLE: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
AUTHOR: Rebecca Skloot WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 616 Skl SUMMARY: Examines the experiences of the children and husband of Henrietta Lacks, who, twenty years after her death from cervical cancer in 1951, learned doctors and researchers took cells from her cervix without consent which were used to create the immortal cell line known as the HeLa cell; provides an overview of Henrietta's life; and explores issues of experimentation on African-Americans and bioethics. |
TITLE: Sag Harbor
AUTHOR: Colson Whitehead WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Whi - NOVELS SUMMARY: Benji Cooper, the son of a doctor and a lawyer, is one of very few African-American students at an elite Manhattan prep school in 1985, which is why he so looks forward to summer when he and his brother Reggie, left alone for most of the week while their parents work, can relax within the comfortable confines of the community of professional African-Americans that spend the warm months at Sag Harbor. |
TITLE: Ninth Ward
AUTHOR: Jewell Parker Rhodes WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Rho - NOVELS SUMMARY: In New Orleans' Ninth Ward, twelve-year-old Lanesha, who can see spirits, and her adopted grandmother have no choice but to stay and weather the storm as Hurricane Katrina bears down upon them. |
TITLE: The Color Purple
AUTHOR: Alice Walker WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Wal - NOVELS SUMMARY: An expression of love and humanity, the story of a poor, barely literate black woman in the rural South during the early decades of this century, and her struggle for independence. |
TITLE: Beloved
AUTHOR: Toni Morrison WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Mor - HISTORICAL SUMMARY: Sethe, an escaped slave who now lives in post-Civil War Ohio, has borne the unthinkable and works hard at "beating back the past." She struggles to keep Beloved, an intruder, from gaining possession of her present while throwing off the legacy of her past. |
TITLE: The Bluest Eye
AUTHOR: Toni Morrison WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Mor - NOVELS SUMMARY: An eleven-year-old African-American girl in Ohio, in the early 1940s, prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be beautiful. |
TITLE: Their Eyes Were Watching God
AUTHOR: Zora Neale Hurston WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: F Hur - CLASSICS SUMMARY: Married to a man she did not love, Janie was not yet forty when Joe died. Then she found true happiness. |