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Race To Injustice : Lessons Learned From The Duke Lacrosse Rape Case
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The Last Child
Picking Cotton : Our Memoir Of Injustice And Redemption

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Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton, with Erin TorneoPublication Details
Book1st edSt. Martin’s Press2009Links
Description
Two years later, Jennifer and Ronald met face to face– and forged an unlikely friendship that changed both of their lives. In their own words,Jennifer and Ronald unfold the harrowingdetails of their tragedy,and challenge our ideas of memory andjudgment while demonstrating the profound nature of human grace and the healing power of forgiveness. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HV6568.B87 T56 2009 AVAILABLE
Learning From Greensboro : Truth And Reconciliation In The United States

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Lisa Magarrell and Joya Wesley ; foreword by Bongani FincaPublication Details
BookUniversity of Pennsylvania Press2008Description
Inspired by South Africa’s efforts to tackle injustice and seek reconciliation on a larger scale, Greensboro explicitly and controversially connected its experience to other contexts of injustice and launched a novel undertaking for a U.S. community. Learning from Greensboro provides an insider’s look at the truth and reconciliation process, including how it worked, the challenges it faced, and the local context in which it existed. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) JC599.U52 G74 2008 AVAILABLE
Unspeakable : The Story Of Junius Wilson

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Susan Burch and Hannah JoynerPublication Details
BookUniversity of North Carolina Press2007Links
Description
Junius Wilson (1908-2001) spent 76 years at a state mental hospital in Goldsboro, North Carolina, including 6 in the criminal ward. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HV2534.W54 B87 2007 AVAILABLE
Local Democracy Under Siege : Activism, Public Interests, And Private Politics

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Dorothy Holland … [et al.]Publication Details
BookNew York University Press2007Links
Description
?Local Democracy Under Siege argues persuasively that American democracy is at a pivotal moment where the forces of exclusion and the ideology of market rule contest with new forms of political activism and engaged citizenship. ?Aihwa Ong, author of Neoliberalism as Exception: Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty “This unique study provides a vital enquiry into the troubled times of local democracy and poses critical questions about its future in the USA.” ?John Clarke, author of Changing Welfare, Changing States ?Nicely illustrate the problems that plaue local democracy? Local Democracy Under Siege suggests how we can account for the current limitations of U.S. democracy and how remedies can be created that ensure more meaningful participation by a greater range of people. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS FAC PUB DISPLAY (MAIN) JK4189 .L63 2007 AVAILABLE SPINELLI ROOM JK4189 .L63 2007 c.2 ASK REF DESK
Garden Spells

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Sarah Addison AllenPublication Details
BookBantam Books2007Description
In a garden surrounded by a tall fence, tucked away behind a small, quiet house in an even smaller town, is an apple tree that is rumored to bear a very special sort of fruit. Together again in the house they grew up in, Sydney takes stock of all she left behind, as Claire struggles to heal the wounds of the past. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS3601.L4356 G37 2007 AVAILABLE
The Head In Edward Nugent’s Hand : Roanoke’s Forgotten Indians

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Michael Leroy ObergPublication Details
BookUniversity of Pennsylvania Press2008Description
The Head in Edward Nugent’s Hand examines Ralegh’s plan to create an English empire in the New World but also the attempts of native peoples to make sense of the newcomers who threatened to transform their world in frightening ways. Oberg also pays close attention to how the weroance and his people understood the arrival of the English: we watch as Wingina’s brother first boards Ralegh’s ship, and we listen in as Wingina receives the report of its arrival. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E99.A35 O24 2008 AVAILABLE
A Slave No More : Two Men Who Escaped To Freedom : Including Their Own Narratives Of Emancipation

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David W. BlightPublication Details
Book1st edHarcourt2007Links
Description
Slave narratives, some of the most powerful records of our past, are extremely rare, with only fifty-five post?Civil War narratives surviving. Now two newly uncovered narratives, and the biographies of the men who wrote them, join that exclusive group with the publication of A Slave No More, a major new addition to the canon of American history. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E450.W325 B58 2007 AVAILABLE
Down River

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John HartPublication Details
Book1st edThomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Minotaur2007Links
Description
John Hart?s debut, The King of Lies, was compelling and lyrical, with Janet Maslin of TheNew York Times (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS3608.A78575 D68 2007 AVAILABLE
The Color Of Love : A Mother’s Choice In The Jim Crow South

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Gene CheekPublication Details
Book1st Lyons Press pbk. edLyon’s Press2006Description
The true story of a young man whose life and family were torn apart by a decision no mother should have to make. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HQ835.N8 C54 2006 DUE 12-16-09
Sallie Gal And The Wall-a-kee Man

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Shelia P. Moses ; illustrated by Niki DalyPublication Details
Book1st edScholastic2007Description
Sallie Gal admires cousin Wild Cat’s hair ribbons that fly in the wind when she jumps double Dutch. When the Wall-a-Kee man secretly slips Sallie Gal some ribbons as a gift into the bag with (continued) (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS CHILD LIT (LOWER) 804 M911s AVAILABLE
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