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Follow Chester! : a college football team fights racism and makes history
\"A little known civil rights hero and college football MVP finally gets a voice in this...account detailing Chester Pierce's game-chang ing play as he became the first black college football player to compete south of the Mason-Dixon Line.\"-- Publisher marketing.
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White Supremacy In Children's Literature
This penetrating study of the white supremacy myth in books for the young adds an important dimension to American intellectual history. The study pinpoints an intersecting adult and child culture: it demonstrates that many children's stories had political, literary, and social contexts that paralleled the way adult books, schools, churches, and government institutions similarly maligned black identity, culture, and intelligence. The book reveals how links between the socialization of children and conservative trends in the 19th century foretold 20th century disregard for social justice in American social policy. The author demonstrates that cultural pluralism, an ongoing corrective to white supremacist fabrications, is informed by the insights and historical assessments offered in this study.
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We are not yet equal : understanding our racial divide
\"This ... young adult adaptation brings her ideas to a new audience. When America achieves milestones of progress toward full and equal black participation in democracy, the systemic response is a consistent racist backlash that rolls back those wins. We Are Not Yet Equal examines five of these moments: The end of the Civil War and Reconstruction was greeted with Jim Crow laws; the promise of new opportunities in the North during the Great Migration was limited when blacks were physically blocked from moving away from the South; the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision was met with the shutting down of public schools throughout the South; the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 led to laws that disenfranchised millions of African American voters and a War on Drugs that disproportionally targeted blacks; and the election of President Obama led to an outburst of violence including the death of black teen Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri as well as the election of Donald Trump. This YA adaptation will be written in an approachable narrative style that provides teen readers with additional context to these historic moments, photographs and archival images, and additional backmatter and resources for teens\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Crash : the Great Depression and the fall and rise of America
\"Marc Favreau documents the Great Depression--a time when Americans from all walks of life fell victim to poverty, insecurity, and fear--and tells the incredible story of how they survived and, ultimately, thrived.\"--Publisher's description.
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Black Lives Matter : from hashtag to the streets
\"Started as a hashtag after the death of Trayvon Martin, Black Lives Matter has become one of the most significant protest movements of our time. See how its activists and demonstrators have changed the course of history\"-- Provided by publisher.
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A long time coming : a lyrical biography of race in America from Ona Judge to Barack Obama
This YA biography-in-verse of six important Black Americans from different eras, including Ona Judge, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells, Martin Luther King Jr., and Barack Obama, chronicles the diverse ways each fought racism and shows how much--and how little--has changed for Black Americans since our country's founding.
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Slavery in narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass
\"Social Issues in Literature meets the need for materials supporting curriculum integration. Each title in this distinctive new series examines an important literary work or body of work through the lens of a major social issue. Each volume presents biographical and critical information on the author, viewpoints on the social issue portrayed in the book, and contemporary assessments of the social issue as well as a chronology of important dates in the author's life, discussion questions, a guide to additional literary works that focus on the same social issue, a bibliography for further research and a thorough subject index\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Made in Asian America : a history for young people
\"This book is a stirring account of the ordinary people and extraordinary acts that made Asian America and the young people who are remaking America today\"--Amazon.
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An American story
\"A picture book in verse that threads together past and present to explore the legacy of slavery during a classroom lesson\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Becoming Kareem : growing up on and off the court
\"An autobiography [from] Kareem Abdul-Jabbar [about] his life growing up in New York, becoming the basketball star he's known to be, and getting involved in the world around him as an activist for social change\"-- Provided by publisher.
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