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2004., Modern Library Call No: BLK 818.54 A584c Edition: Modern Library ed. Availability:0 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch
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c1969., Ballantine Books Call No: Bio A581i Edition: Ballantine Books mass market edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local "powhitetrash." At eight years old and back at her mother's side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age - and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns about love for herself and the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors ("I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare") will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned.
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2017., Scribner Call No: BLK Bio H313m Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2015., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: BLK Bio S662o Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A memoir about the author's coming of age as she grapples with her identity as an artist, her family's racial history, and her mother's death from cancer"--Provided by publisher.
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2017., General, St. Martin's Press Call No: BLK Bio D994t Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Short, emotional, literary, powerful - the book that all Americans who care about the current and long-burning crisis in race relations will want to read. As the country grapples with racist division at a level not seen since the 1960s, one man's voice soars above the rest with conviction and compassion. In his 2016 New York Times op-ed piece "Death in Black and White," Michael Eric Dyson moved a nation. Now he continues to speak out in Tears We Cannot Stop - a provocative and deeply personal call for change. Dyson 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. "The time is at hand for reckoning with the past, recognizing the truth of the present, and moving together to redeem the nation for our future. If we don't act now, if you don't address race immediately, there very well may be no future." Michael Eric Dyson is a professor of Sociology at Georgetown University, a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, and the author of The Black presidency : Barack Obama and the politics of race in America. Ebony magazine named him one of the 100 Most Influential African Americans"--Provided by publisher.
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2017., General, One World Call No: BLK Bio C652w Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "We were eight years in power" was the lament of Reconstruction-era black politicians as the American experiment in multiracial democracy ended with the return of white supremacist rule in the South. In this collection of essays, Ta-Nehisi Coates explores the tragic echoes of that history in our own time: the unprecedented election of a black president followed by a vicious backlash that fueled the election of the man Coates argues is America's "first white president." But the story of these present-day eight years is not just about presidential politics. This book also examines the new voices, ideas, and movements for justice that emerged over this period, and the effects of the persistent, haunting shadow of our nation's old and unreconciled history. Coates examines the events of the Obama era from his intimate and revealing perspective - the point of view of a young writer who begins the journey in an unemployment office in Harlem and ends it in the Oval Office, interviewing a president. Features Coates's essays first published in The Atlantic, including "Fear of a Black President," "The Case for Reparations," and "The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration," along with eight fresh essays that revisit each year of the Obama administration through Coates's own experiences, observations, and intellectual development, capped by an original assessment of the election that fully illuminated the tragedy of the Obama era. Ta-Nehisi Coates is a national correspondent for The Atlantic. His book Between the World and Me won the National Book Award in 2015.
