Working on the Dock of the Bay explores the history of waterfront labor and laborers — black and white, enslaved and free, native and immigrant — in Charleston, SC, between the American Revolution and Civil War. Michael D. Thompson...
Race relations
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Author:Revoyr, NinaSummary:Michelle LeBeau and her white-Japanese family are forever changed when a black family moves into her all-white town in 1974.
- Author:Rosen, RenéeSummary:
With their relationship unwelcome, Leeba and Red soon find themselves in the middle of the civil rights movement, and they discover that, in times of struggle, music can bring people together.
- Author:Little, BenildeSummary:
Twenty-six-year-old Aisha Branch has always gotten what she wants. Now she's getting an incredibly wealthy, white husband--unless self-made black man Miles changes enjoying a richly deserved sexual re-awakening. And her grandmother...
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Author:Raina, ArushiSummary:Written from the points of view of four young people living in Johannesburg and Soweto in 1976, one white, one South Asian, one a Black student and one a Black gangster, this book explores the roots of the Soweto Riots and the...
- Author:Hill, LawrenceSummary:
Nous sommes au début des années 1980. Mahatma Grafton vient de décrocher un emploi dans un quotidien de Winnipeg. C’est son premier poste. Avant même son arrivée, les journalistes s’amusent à deviner d’où il peut bien venir… On parie...
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Author:Massaquoi, Notisha, Wane, Njoki NathaniSummary:Theorizing Empowerment: Canadian Perspectives on Black Feminist Thought is a collection of articles by Black Canadian feminists centralizing the ways in which Black femininity and Black women’s experiences are integral to...
- Author:Guidry, JacquelineSummary:
Ten-year-old Vivien Leigh wants more than anything to understand the adult world. But when two black nuns come to teach at her all-white Catholic elementary school, everything begins to change. Her father leads a "Concerned...
- Author:Devoto, Pat CunninghamSummary:
Tab and Tina, relatives of a founder of Ku Klux Klan, are whisked away to an interracial Civil Rights school one summer. There, they befriend both a black polio patient and the biracial daughter of a Yankee and a Civil Rights leader....
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Author:Brown, William Garrott, Baker, Bruce E.Summary:In 1904 William Garrott Brown traveled the American South, investigating the region's political, economic and social conditions. Using the pen name "Stanton" Brown published 20 epistles in the Boston Evening Transcript detailing his...
- Author:DuBois, W.E.B.Summary:
A cornerstone of African-American literary history, The Souls of Black Folk is a classic work by W. E. B. Du Bois. Originally published in 1903, it contains many essays on race and equality, but is also a piece of seminal history as...
- Author:Beatty, PaulSummary:
"Raised in the "agrarian ghetto" of Dickens--improbably smack in the middle of downtown L.A.--the narrator of The Sellout resigned himself to the fate of all other middle-class Californians: "to die in the same...
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Author:KIDD, Sue MonkSummary:Living on a peach farm in South Carolina with her harsh, unyielding father, Lily Owens has shaped her entire life around one devastating, blurred memory - the afternoon her mother was killed, when Lily was four. Since then, her only...
- Author:WALLACE, IanSummary:
Vincenzo has a huge problem. He wants to be just like his friends, but he is also quite proud of his Italian heritage. The crisis revolves around a "stinky meat sandwich." Cultural differences between an Italian immigrant...
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Author:Taylor, Mildred D.Summary:In 1941 a black youth, sadistically teased by two white boys in rural Mississippi, severely injures one of them with a tire iron and enlists Cassie's help in trying to flee the state.
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Author:Moses, Shelia P.Summary:Following her grandfather's death in rural North Carolina in 1947, twelve-year-old Pattie Mae learns more about her family after reading her grandmother's collection of obituaries and traveling to Harlem, New York, to find her...
- Author:Mwangi, MejaSummary:
Winner, Children's Africana Book Award - Best Book for Older Readers. For young Kariuki, life in a small village in central Kenya is one great adventure. And when he meets Nigel life becomes even more interesting. Nigel is from England...
- Author:Chesnutt, Charles WaddellSummary:
Major Carteret is the white owner of the biggest newspaper in Wellington, a racially segregated city in the post-Civil War South. Carteret, along with other powerful white men in Wellington, are outraged that an editorial published the...
- Author:Malone, MichaelSummary:
Noni Tilden and John "Kaye" King meet as young children on Christmas Eve of 1963. Noni is a white, privileged girl, while Kaye comes from a poor, black family. But when Kaye introduces himself by climbing through Noni's...
- Author:Thomas-Peter, B.A.Summary:
1950s, New Denver: Pavel and Nina are among 200 Russian Doukhobor children separated from their families and community, and placed in a residential facility in the Kootenay region of BC. Forcibly removed from their homes by the RCMP,...
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