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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men — bodies exploited through slavery and segregation,...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xv, 201 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Acclaimed linguist and award-winning writer John McWhorter argues that an illiberal neoracism, disguised as antiracism, is hurting Black communities and weakening the American social fabric. Americans of good will on both the left and the right are secretly asking themselves the same question: how has the conversation on race in America gone so crazy? We're told read books and listen to music by people of color but that wearing certain clothes is...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Derek Black grew up at the epicenter of white nationalism. His father founded Stormfront, the largest racist community on the Internet. His godfather, David Duke, was a KKK Grand Wizard. By the time Derek turned nineteen, he had become an elected politician with his own daily radio show -- already regarded as the "the leading light" of the burgeoning white nationalist movement. "We can infiltrate," Derek once told a crowd of white nationalists. "We...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xxxi, 334 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author shares her experiences working in the Trump White House, uncovering the president's attitudes on race and women, his treatment of staff and family, and the mental and physical changes he has gone through in years she has known him.
5) Damnation
Publisher
Patagonia
Pub. Date
c2014.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc ( 88 min.) : sound; color with some black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This powerful film odyssey across America explores the sea change in our national attitude from pride in big dams as engineering wonders to the growing awareness that our own future is bound to the life and health of our rivers. Dam removal has moved beyond the fictional Monkey Wrench Gang to go mainstream. Where obsolete dams come down, rivers bound back to life, giving salmon and other wild fish the right of return to primeval spawning grounds,...
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 117 min.) : anamorphic, sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
40-year-old Andy Stitzer has a cushy job stamping invoices at an electronics superstore, a nice apartment that includes a collection of action figures and comic books, good friends, a nice attitude. But at 40, Andy is still a virgin. His friends think he's a bit of an oddball, but they consider it their duty to help Andy out of his dire situation and decide to go to great lengths to help him. But nothing proves effective enough to lure their friend...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
This is the story of the century-long blood feud between two rival Cherokee chiefs from the early years of the United States through the infamous Trail of Tears and into the Civil War. The two men’s mutual hatred, while little remembered today, shaped the tragic history of the tribe far more than anyone, even the reviled President Andrew Jackson, ever did. Their enmity would lead to war, forced removal from their homeland, and the devastation of...
Publisher
Weinstein Co
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (135 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Depicting the different stages and changes in Bob Dylan's career, six actors each portray the musician at different points of his life, creating a patchwork of personalities, attitudes, interests and ambitions.
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