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Author
Publisher
University of Missouri Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
"Examines the people and institutions that shaped Kansas City's Black communities from the end of the Civil War until the outbreak of World War II, blending rich historical research with first-person accounts that allow participants in this historical drama to tell their own stories of struggle and accomplishment"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A meditation on how America protects and overinvests in 'white space' and disinvests, surveils, and stereotypes in 'the Hood'; Cashin calls for abolition of these anti-Black processes and bold new investment to repair poor Black neighborhoods and our broken race relations"--
12) Gospel Hill
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In the town of Julia, the residents of the black neighborhood Gospel Hill, are being forced out of their homes to make way for a multimillion-dollar development causing thirty-year-old racial discord to resurface.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
Shayla, an aspiring writer growing up in a poor section of Houston, can't figure out the new girl next door, Kambia Elaine, who tells fantastic stories. She slowly realizes that Kambia Elaine needs help, but Shayla doesn't know where to find it.
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"This book discusses the long history of the deleterious effects of racial segregation on health in the United States. Author Brown puts Baltimore under a microscope because Baltimore was the first city in America to enact segregationist legislation and because it remains hypersegregated to this day. "Black butterfly" describes the shape of a demographic map that plots Baltimore's population by race: a white central axis with black wings east and...
Author
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
One of the worst acts of racist violence in American history took place in 1921, when a White mob numbering in the thousands decimated the thriving Black community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Burning recreates Greenwood at the height of its prosperity, explores the currents of hatred, racism, and mistrust between its Black residents and Tulsa's White population, narrates events leading up to and including Greenwood's devastation, and documents...
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