Author : VaJo PaJefChat
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 44,39 MB
Release : 2009-06-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0557042313
A black farmer takes his sons on an adventure to see a silent horror film showing at the new theater on Halloween night in 1930, in central Texas. There were nearly 500 black people lynched in Texas that year, so a movie about a vampire hardly seemed frightening except to the youngest son, Lijah, who consoles himself with his father's assurance that in the silent film, "they just be killing white folks."
Author : Dr. Robin DiAngelo
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 31,87 MB
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807047422
The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality. In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to ‘bad people’ (Claudia Rankine). Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including argumentation and silence. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent any meaningful cross-racial dialogue. In this in-depth exploration, DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively.
Author : Reni Eddo-Lodge
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 38,1 MB
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1526633922
'Every voice raised against racism chips away at its power. We can't afford to stay silent. This book is an attempt to speak' The book that sparked a national conversation. Exploring everything from eradicated black history to the inextricable link between class and race, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race is the essential handbook for anyone who wants to understand race relations in Britain today. THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS NON-FICTION NARRATIVE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 FOYLES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR BLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE JHALAK PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR A BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARD
Author : Timothy J. Lensmire
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 38,67 MB
Release : 2017-06-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 1351719092
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- The Forethought -- 1 How I Became White While Punching de Tar Baby -- 2 We Learned the Wrong Things and Went Underground -- 3 We Use Racial Others ... -- 4 ... And Hope and Stumble -- The Afterthought -- Methodological Appendix -- References -- Index.
Author : Joshua Grant
Publisher : Joshua Grant
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 21,17 MB
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 1736659413
Do you think there is something else going on behind the scenes? Do the government's actions seem to be focused on the American people or others that they shouldn't? Just what is going on right now in America? Well, if you are like Mr. Grant, you might be wondering what is seriously going on in America right now. We have a country that seems to be on the brink of another Civil War all due to the actions of the individuals in charge. "Because, Seriously America, seriously", was created to give you a different perspective than the one being pushed by the media and on social media platforms. In today's new concerning world, what was once normal is not normal anymore. Normalcy now seems to be whatever these individuals in charge make up in their head and push out onto the American people. With this book, Grant gives you his perspective as a straight white catholic American male, trying to survive in a new America where white Americans like himself are now the enemy and most white Americans are being labeled racist or offensive for nothing other than their skin color being white. Mr. Grant talks about the interesting things that have led to us as a nation being so separated and divided and the narrative these people pushed to get us there. Life can change very quickly, and Mr. Grant has experienced a life-changing event himself. As a man now living with a mechanical heart valve that keeps ticking to keep him alive, Mr. Grant gives you a different perspective and way to think about the claims that these individuals are making and why their claims along with their statements, could mean the death of America if we don't stop these individuals from achieving their goals. “History is not there for you to like or dislike. It is there for you to learn from it. In addition, if it offends you, even better. Because then you are less likely to repeat it. It is not yours to erase. It belongs to all of us.” -- unknown
Author : United States. Congress. Joint Select Committee on the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States
Publisher :
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 37,65 MB
Release : 1872
Category : Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
ISBN :
Author : United States. Congress. Joint Select Committee on the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States
Publisher :
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 16,88 MB
Release : 1872
Category : Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
ISBN :
Author : Woody Carter, PhD
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 27,23 MB
Release : 2010-12-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1450246079
Any politician or pundit will agree: we live in a violent and dangerous age. Our pent-up anger and rage fills our households and spills over into our neighborhoods and streets, leaving African American families who live in poverty and with limited capability to ward off shame and self-contempt as its unfortunate victims. ADVANCED PRAISE FOR THEOLOGY FOR A VIOLENT AGE There are many ideas in this little volume and they are meaningful. They set the stage for an interpretation of certain African American youth and by implication other youth who are similarly situated in American Society. ARCHIE SMITH, Jr., PhD James and Clarice Foster Professor of Pastoral Psychology and Counseling, Pacific School of Religion In attempting to uncover the self-knowledge of African American people as reflected in Black dramatic literature as conviction or secular theology, Woody Carter simultaneously reveals the dominant forces that influence Black life and the critical necessity to stand on our own (African) cultural ground. All Black thinkers, from intellectuals and scholars to teachers, preachers and parents to mental health workers, futurist and community activist, who have struggled with the dilemma of DuBoiss double consciousness and the significance of religion in the Black community, both of which I believe have never been properly understood, will find Theology for a Violent Age informative, insightful, and a strong provocation and challenge for the reader to continue to seek the core essence of being Black and the searchlights necessary to envision our full humanity as more than reactions to white supremacy and racial domination and oppression. Theology for a Violent Age is deserving of a critical read and methodical application against the problems of our time. DR. WADE W. NOBLES Professor Emeritus, San Francisco State University; Executive Director, The Institute for the Advanced Study of Black Family Life & Culture; Co-Founder and Past President, Association of Black Psychologists and author of Seeking the Sakhu: Foundational Readings in African Psychology, Third World Press. Chicago, 2009
Author : Harper Lee
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 16,1 MB
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0062409875
#1 New York Times Bestseller “Go Set a Watchman is such an important book, perhaps the most important novel on race to come out of the white South in decades." — New York Times A landmark novel by Harper Lee, set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch—“Scout”—returns home to Maycomb, Alabama from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise’s homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town, and the people dearest to her. Memories from her childhood flood back, and her values and assumptions are thrown into doubt. Featuring many of the iconic characters from To Kill a Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman perfectly captures a young woman, and a world, in painful yet necessary transition out of the illusions of the past—a journey that can only be guided by one’s own conscience. Written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman imparts a fuller, richer understanding and appreciation of the late Harper Lee. Here is an unforgettable novel of wisdom, humanity, passion, humor, and effortless precision—a profoundly affecting work of art that is both wonderfully evocative of another era and relevant to our own times. It not only confirms the enduring brilliance of To Kill a Mockingbird, but also serves as its essential companion, adding depth, context, and new meaning to an American classic.
Author : Clayton Bolling
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 14,83 MB
Release : 2021-10-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1664176586
The Diary of a Rambunctious Black Child is told through a riveting diary from the perspective of a ten-year-old boy named Cory Carroll. Cory has a fantastic sense of humor and pokies fun at life. His best friend is his diary. At times he feels invisibility and contentious toward his racist fifth grade teacher questioning her cruelty and intolerance against black children in her classroom. Cory doesn’t know the true meaning of words like racist, bigotry or prejudice. He only heard of those words through Passing. They are foreign to him like ice is to hell. His mother tries shielding him from the wicked realities of those words. His mom decides to take the family south for summer vacation. There, Cory enters a world he’s not accustoms to. He is exposed to the harsh truths of having brown skin in the south. He experienced some of these realities in the north, but not as cold, harsh and cruel in the south. Hatred, jealousy, lies, deceit, sexuality, rape, witchcraft, secrets, suicide, and murder are realities he must come to terms with. Cory learns their true meanings quickly and has reservations about life in the south. He uses his only tools listening and watching, developing his own analytical conclusions. He experiences lessons far beyond his capacity and expectations. Cory will cherish and carry these lessons throughout his life.
