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Author
Publisher
Lawrence Hill Books
Publication Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xi, 348 pages)
Language
English
Description
Examines the preconceptions and miscommunications between African Americans and Caucasian Americans that cloud attempts at understanding and improving the racial situation in the United States.
Author
Language
English
Description
"For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him -- most urgently, why he, and other black people he knew, seemed to live in fear. What were they afraid of? In Tremble for My Country, Coates takes readers along on his journey through America's history of race and its contemporary resonances through a series of awakenings -- moments...
Author
Publication Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"This ... young adult adaptation brings her ideas to a new audience. When America achieves milestones of progress toward full and equal black participation in democracy, the systemic response is a consistent racist backlash that rolls back those wins. We Are Not Yet Equal examines five of these moments: The end of the Civil War and Reconstruction was greeted with Jim Crow laws; the promise of new opportunities in the North during the Great Migration...