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www.carverlib.org Carver County Library Suggests New Readings on Racial Equity Begin Again by Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. (305.8009 GLA 2020) James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the civil rights movement to force America to confront its lies about race. In our own moment, when that confrontation feels more urgently needed than ever, what can we learn from his struggle? Begin Again is Glaude's attempt, following Baldwin, to bear witness to the difficult truth of race in America today. It is at once a searing exploration that lays bare the tangled web of race, trauma, and memory, and a powerful interrogation of what we all must ask of ourselves in order to call forth a new America. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson (305.5122 WIL 2020) In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid a hierarchy of human rankings. Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America by Laila Lalami (323.6097 LAL 2020) What does it mean to be American? In this starkly illuminating and impassioned book, Pulitzer Prize finalist Laila Lalami recounts her unlikely journey from Moroccan immigrant to U.S. citizen, using it as a starting point for her exploration of the rights, liberties, and protections that are traditionally associated with American citizenship. Tapping into history, politics, and literature, she elucidates how accidents of birth--such as national origin, race, and gender-- that once determined the boundaries of Americanness still cast their shadows today. The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto by Charles M. Blow (305.896 BLO 2021) Race, as we have come to understand it, is a fiction; but, racism, as we have come to live it, is a fact. Acclaimed columnist and author Charles Blow never wanted to write a "race book." But as violence against Black people--both physical and psychological--seemed only to increase in recent years, culminating in the historic pandemic and protests of the summer of 2020, he felt compelled to write a new story for Black Americans. He offers a corrective to the myths that have for too long governed our thinking about race and geography in America and a call to action by which Black people can finally achieve equality, on their own terms. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi (973.0496 KEN 2021) Four Hundred Souls is a unique one-volume "community" history of African Americans. The editors, Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain, have assembled ninety brilliant writers, each of whom takes on a five-year period of that four-hundred-year span. The writers explore history from various perspectives: through the eyes of towering historical icons or the untold stories of ordinary people; through places, laws, and objects. This collection of diverse pieces from ninety different minds, reflecting ninety different perspectives, unlocks the startling range of experiences and ideas that have always existed within the community of Blackness.
www.carverlib.org Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America by Michael Erik Dyson (305.8009 DYS 2020) The night of May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, was killed during an arrest in Minneapolis when a white cop suffocated him. The video of that night's events went viral, sparking the largest protests in the nation's history and the sort of social unrest we have not seen since the sixties. While Floyd's death was certainly the catalyst, (heightened by the fact that it occurred during a pandemic whose victims were disproportionately of color) it was in truth the fuse that lit an ever-filling powder keg. Long Time Coming grapples with the cultural and social forces that have shaped our nation in the brutal crucible of race. Me and White Supremacy : Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad (305.809 SAA 2020) Based on the viral Instagram challenge that captivated participants worldwide, Me and White Supremacy takes readers on a 28-day journey, complete with journal prompts, to do the necessary and vital work that can ultimately lead to improving race relations. Updated and expanded from the original workbook (downloaded by nearly 100,000 people), this critical text helps you take the work deeper by adding more historical and cultural contexts, sharing moving stories and anecdotes, and including expanded definitions, examples, and further resources, giving you the language to understand racism and dismantle biases. Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo (305.8009 OLU 2020) What happens to a country that tells generation after generation of white men that they deserve power? What happens when success is defined by status over women and people of color, instead of by actual accomplishments? Through the last 150 years of American history, Ijeoma Oluo exposes the devastating consequences of white male supremacy on women, people of color, and white men themselves. Mediocre investigates the real costs of this phenomenon in order to imagine a new white male identity, one free from racism and sexism. As provocative as it is essential, this book will upend everything you thought you knew about American identity and offers a bold new vision of American greatness. Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong (305.4895 HON 2020) Asian Americans inhabit a purgatorial status: neither white enough nor black enough, unmentioned in most conversations about racial identity. How do we speak honestly about the Asian American condition--if such a thing exists? Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively confronts this thorny subject, blending memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose the truth of racialized consciousness in America. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (364.973 ALE 2020) Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus- wide and community-wide reads; it has been the winner of numerous prizes, including the NAACP Image Award; and it has spent nearly 250 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Most important of all, it has spawned a whole generation of criminal justice reform activists motivated by Michelle Alexander's unforgettable argument that 'we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.'
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Speaking of Race: How to Have Antiracist Conversations That Bring Us Together by Patricia
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The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather C.
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Surrender, White People! : Our Unconditional Terms for Peace by D.L. Hughly
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People! : Our Unconditional Terms for Peace by D.L. Hughly
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Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho (305.8 ACH 2020)
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Why Didn't We Riot? : A Black Man in Trumpland by Issac J. Baily (305.8009 BAI 2020)
South Carolina-based journalist Issac J. Bailey reflects on a wide range of topics that have been
increasingly dividing Americans, from police brutality and Confederate symbols to poverty and
respectability politics. Bailey has been honing his views on these issues for the past quarter of a
century in his professional and private life, which included an eighteen-year stint as a member
of a mostly white Evangelical Christian church. This book speaks to and for the millions of black
and brown people throughout the United States who were effectively pushed back to the back
of the bus in the Trump era.
What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition by Emma Dabiri (305 DAB 2021)
Vital and empowering What White People Can Do Next teaches each of us how to be MW 03/2021
agents of
change in the fight against racism and the establishment of a more just and equitable world. In
this affecting and inspiring collection of essays, Emma Dabiri draws on both academic discipline
and lived experience to probe the ways many of us are complacent and complicit--and can
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