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Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A comprehensive history of anti-black racism in graphic-novel format focuses on the lives of five major players in American history and highlights the debates that took place between assimilationists and segregationists and between racists and anti-racists."--
1122) Displacement
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Kiku is on vacation in San Francisco when suddenly she finds herself displaced to the 1940s Japanese-American internment camp that her late grandmother, Ernestina, was forcibly relocated to during World War II. These displacements keep occurring until Kiku finds herself stuck back in time. Living alongside her young grandmother and other Japanese-American citizens in internment camps, Kiku gets the education she never received in history class. She...
Author
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"On a dreary November night in 1792, Victor Frankenstein used natural-- and unnatural-- science to reanimate the dead. Victor eventually died, but the monster never did. It hid away in Antarctica and thought itself free of humanity. But the world isn't done with the monster and one descendant of the Frankenstein bloodline yet lives..."
1124) The black mage
Author
Publisher
Oni Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"When St. Ivory Academy, a historically white wizarding school, opens its doors to its first-ever black student, everyone believes that the wizarding community is finally taking its first crucial steps toward inclusivity. Or is it? When Tom Token, the beneficiary of the school's 'Magical Minority Initiative', begins uncovering weird clues and receiving creepy texts on his phone, he and his friend, Lindsay, stumble into a conspiracy that dates all...
1125) Mainely fear
Author
Series
Goff Langdon Mainely mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
""I want you to find out who is responsible for ruining his life and I want them to pay for it." This is the desire of Latricia Jones as she hires Goff Langdon to investigate her son's arrest for burglary, vandalism, and possibly hate crimes. Langdon is a laid back, slacker detective, happy with his work, friends, and way of life in the town of Brunswick, Maine. To complement his income in Brunswick's scarce private detective market, Langdon also...
Author
Publisher
Wing Luke Museum
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Three Japanese American individuals with different beliefs and backgrounds decided to resist imprisonment by the United States government during World War II in different ways. Jim Akutsu, considered by some to be the inspiration for John Okada's No-No Boy, resisted the draft and argued that he had no obligation to serve the US military because he was classified as an enemy alien. Hiroshi Kashiwagi renounced his United States citizenship and refused...
1127) The day freedom died: the Colfax massacre, the Supreme Court, and the betrayal of Reconstruction
Author
Series
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
℗2008
Language
English
Description
Describes the 1873 Colfax, Louisiana, massacre of sixty former slaves by former Confederate soldiers, and the efforts to bring the perpetrators to justice that ended with a Supreme Court verdict that left Southern blacks at the mercy of violent racists for generations.
1128) Box of bones
Author
Publisher
Rosarium Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]-
Language
English
Description
"When Black graduate student Lyndsey begins her dissertation work on a mysterious box that pops up during the most violent and troubled time in Africana history, she has no idea that her research will lead her on a phantasmagorical journey from West Philadelphia riots to Haitian slave uprisings. Wherever Lyndsey finds someone who has seen the Box, chaos ensues. Soon, even her own sanity falls into question. In the end, Lyndsey will have to decide...
Author
Series
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Introduces readers to two brave Black women who stood up against segregation, setting in motion the Montgomery Bus Boycott and showing the nation how positive change can start with a single defiant act" --
"A Black woman who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus sparked a bus boycott and became part of one of the most iconic moments in American history. Yet, few know that Rosa Parks had actively worked toward social justice her whole life....
1130) The talk
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"This graphic memoir by a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning offers a deeply personal meditation on the "the talk" parents must have with Black children about racism and the brutality that often accompanies it, a ritual attempt to keep kids safe and prepare them for a world that-to paraphrase Toni Morrison-does not love them. Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn't play with a white friend's realistic...
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