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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
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Language
English
Description
Apples and Oranges is designed to raise children's awareness of the harmful effects of homophobia and gender-related name calling, intolerance, stereotyping and bullying. In the course of a lively in-class discussion among elementary students and an equity educator, children's paintings magically dissolve into two short animated stories. In Anta's Revenge, Anta finds out that creativity--not revenge--is the best way to deal with a school bully who...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
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Language
English
Description
Little White Lie tells Lacey Schwartz’s story of growing up in a typical upper-middle-class Jewish household in Woodstock, NY, with loving parents and a strong sense of her Jewish identity — despite the open questions from those around her about how a white girl could have such dark skin. She believes her family’s explanation that her looks were inherited from her dark-skinned Sicilian grandfather. But when her parents abruptly split, her gut...
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Publisher
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Pub. Date
2016
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
"From "one of our most original writers" (Kathryn Schulz) comes an expansive and exacting book--firmly grounded, but elegant, witty, and always inquisitive--about travel, unexpected awareness, and the questions we ask when we step outside ourselves. Geoff Dyer's perennial search for tranquility, for "something better," continues in this series of fascinating and seemingly unrelated pilgrimages--with a tour guide who is in fact not a tour guide at...
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Series
Monk and Robo volume 2
Publisher
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Pub. Date
2022.
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Language
English
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"A Psalm for the Wild-Built A Prayer for the Crown-Shy is a story of kindness and love from one of the foremost practitioners of hopeful SF. After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robot sent on a quest to determine what humanity really needs) turn their attention to the villages and cities of the little moon they call home. They hope to find the answers they seek, while making new friends, learning...
5) The workshop
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
A group of people agree to take part in a workshop led by spiritual leader Paul Lowe in their search for a higher personal truth. Searing emotional honesty, sexuality and the exorcising of inner demons are the hallmarks of this groundbreaking and provocative documentary.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
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Language
English
Description
A Question of Color is the first documentary to confront a painful and long taboo subject: the disturbing feelings many African Americans harbor about themselves and their appearance. African American filmmaker Kathe Sandler digs into the often subconscious world of "color consciousness," a caste system based on how closely skin color, hair texture and facial features conform to a European ideal. A Question of Color traces "colorism" back to the sexual...
8) Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: and other conversations about race
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Third trade paperback edition
Language
English
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Antiracism, Young Adult and Up
Asian American Pacific Islander Reading List - Adults
Hispanic Heritage Month - YA and Adult
Asian American Pacific Islander Reading List - Adults
Hispanic Heritage Month - YA and Adult
Description
"The classic, bestselling book on the psychology of racism-now fully revised and updated. Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups. Is this self-segregation a problem to address or a coping strategy? Beverly Daniel Tatum, a renowned authority on the psychology of racism, argues that straight talk about our racial identities is essential if we are serious about enabling communication...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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Language
English
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Frederick Joseph call up race-related anecdotes from his past, explaining why they were hurtful and how he might handle things now. Each chapter features the voice of at least one artist or activist, including Angie Thomas, author of The Hate U Give; April Reign, creator of #OscarsSoWhite; Jemele Hill, sports journalist and podcast host; and eleven others. Touching on everything from cultural appropriation to power dynamics, "reverse racism" to white...
10) Parakeet
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A darkly funny and warm-hearted novel about a young woman whose dead grandmother (in the form of a parakeet) warns her not to marry and sends her out to find an estranged loved one"--
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"A guide to raising anti-racist and socially conscious children"--
As the global pandemic shuttered schools across the country in 2020, parents found themselves thrust into the role of teacher. After the murder of George Floyd and the ensuing Black Lives Matter protests, many also grappled with the responsibility to teach their kids about social justice-- with few resources to guide them. Baxley, a mother of five herself, suggests that parenting...
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"Everybody tells you to live for a cause larger than yourself, but how exactly do you do it? The bestselling author of The Road to Character explores what it takes to lead a meaningful life in a self-centered world." -- From Amazon.com summary.
In this book, David Brooks explores the four commitments that define a life of meaning and purpose: to a spouse and family, to a vocation, to a philosophy or faith, and to a community. Our personal fulfillment...
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
"The tragedies and reckonings around racism that have rocked the country have created a specific crisis for parents and other caregivers: how do we talk to our children about it? How do we guide our children to avoid repeating our racist history? While we work to dismantle racist behaviors in ourselves and the world around us, how do we raise our children to be antiracists? After he wrote the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning,...
17) My year abroad
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
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Language
English
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"From the award-winning author of NATIVE SPEAKER and ON SUCH A FULL SEA, a brilliant, exuberant and entertaining story of a young American whose life is transformed when a Chinese-American businessman suddenly takes him under his wing on a global adventure"--
19) Just like Millie
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
"When a young girl and her mother move to an apartment in a new city, the girl feels fine on her own. She would rather play by herself than meet new kids at the park or have a playdate with the other children in her building. And when her mom takes her to story time at the bookstore, she breaks down in tears. But things start to change when she meets Millie, a rescue dog who is not too big, not too small. On their daily walks, Millie isn't afraid...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2013].
Edition
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Language
English
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Description
In this work, the author, a social historian traces the lives of six African Americans from the colonial era to the late 20th century, using their stories to illustrate the complex ways in which racial ideologies in this country have changed since the first Africans arrived on the nation's shores hundreds of years ago. The very idea of "blackness," she shows, has changed fundamentally over this period. She also shows that race does not exist, and...
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