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81) The guardians
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In a small Florida town, a young lawyer, Keith Russo, is shot to death as he works late. A young black man, a former client, named Quincy Miller is charged and convicted. For 22 years, Miller maintains his innocence from inside prison. Finally, Guardian Ministries takes on Miller's case, but Cullen Post, the Episcopal minister in charge, gets more than he bargained for. Powerful people murdered Russo-- they do not want Miller exonerated, and will...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Description
Frederick Joseph call up race-related anecdotes from his past, explaining why they were hurtful and how he might handle things now. Each chapter features the voice of at least one artist or activist, including Angie Thomas, author of The Hate U Give; April Reign, creator of #OscarsSoWhite; Jemele Hill, sports journalist and podcast host; and eleven others. Touching on everything from cultural appropriation to power dynamics, "reverse racism" to white...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In 1954, 13-year-old Jubie, traveling with her family and her family's black maid Mary Luther--who has always been there for her, making up for her father's rages and her mother's neglect--encounters racial tension and tragedy.
Author
Language
English
Description
"An in-depth look at the many ways immigration has redefined modern America. The impact of immigrants over the past half century has become so much a part of everyday life in the United States that we sometimes fail to see it. This deeply researched book by one of America's leading immigration scholars tells the story of how immigrants are fundamentally changing this country.An astonishing number of immigrants and their children-nearly eighty-six...
90) The other side
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 490L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Two girls, one white and one black, gradually get to know each other as they sit on the fence that divides their town.
Author
Publisher
Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
In 1832, Prudence Crandall begins admitting black girls to her exclusive Connecticut school, scandalizing white society and eventually causing her arrest and the closing of her school.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"A gripping tale of racial cleansing in Forsyth County, Georgia and ... testament to the deep roots of racial violence in America ... Patrick Phillips breaks the century-long silence of his hometown and uncovers a history of racial terrorism that continues to shape America in the twenty-first century"--
Author
Publisher
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
The rule of law has vanished in America's criminal justice system. Prosecutors now decide whom to punish and how severely. Almost no one accused of a crime will ever face a jury. Inconsistent policing, rampant plea bargaining, overcrowded courtrooms, and ever more draconian sentencing have produced a gigantic prison population, with black citizens the primary defendants and victims of crime. In this passionately argued book, the leading criminal law...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Eduardo Bonilla-Silva's acclaimed Racism without Racists documents how, beneath our contemporary conversation about race, there lies a full-blown arsenal of arguments, phrases, and stories that whites use to account for--and ultimately justify--racial inequalities. The fifth edition of this provocative book makes clear that color blind racism is as insidious now as ever. It features new material on our current racial climate, including the Black...
98) The sacrifice
Author
Series
Joyce Carol Oates volume 55
Language
English
Description
When a fourteen-year-old girl is the alleged victim of a terrible act of racial violence, the incident shocks and galvanizes her community, exacerbating the racial tension that has been simmering in this New Jersey town for decades.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Thinking Race argues that racism results from a misguided blending of biological facts with pernicious socially constructed ideas. This book aims to help readers accept the reality of human difference while understanding human unity"--