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Do The Right Thing
Yes We Can? : White Racial Framing And The 2008 Presidential Campaign
Beyond Black And White : Transforming African-American Politics
Racial Justice In The Age Of Obama
God And Race In American Politics : A Short History
Because Of Race : How Americans Debate Harm And Opportunity In Our Schools

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Mica PollockPublication Details
BookPrinceton University Press2008Description
In Because of Race, Mica Pollock tackles a long-standing and fraught debate over racial inequalities in America’s schools. Pollock exposes raw, real-time arguments over what inequalities of opportunity based on race in our schools look like today–and what, if anything, various Americans should do about it. She explores how debates over daily opportunity provision exposed conflicting analyses of opportunity denial and harm worth remedying. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) LC212.2 .P65 2008 NEW BOOK(MAIN)
Building Racial And Cultural Competence In The Classroom : Strategies From Urban Educators

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edited by Karen Manheim Teel and Jennifer ObidahPublication Details
BookTeachers College Press2008Description
”For educators and policymakers who are passionate about social justice in public schools, Teel and Obidah have given us a valuable gift: real people, real stories, real data, real strategies. Providing an inspiring and practical tool for engaging in successful, meaningful education with K-12 students of color, the stellar group of contributors offers concrete ideas and advice on what educators can do to support teachers to become more racially and culturally competent, multiple perspectives providing a variety of new insights on current research and practice, and honest and thought-provoking personal narratives on race and schooling. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) LC1099.3 .B845 2008 AVAILABLE
Road To Freedom : Photographs Of The Civil Rights Movement, 1956-1968

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Julian Cox ; introduction by Charles Johnson ; afterword by John LewisPublication Details
BookHigh Museum of Art2008Description
The direct action social protest movement of the 1950s and 1960s resulted in sit-ins, marches, and other showdowns with armed police officers and National Guardsmen. Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956-1968 is the most significant exhibition of civil rights photographs presented in an art musuem in more than twenty years. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS BROWSING (MAIN) E185.61 .C875 2008 AVAILABLE
How Does It Feel To Be A Problem? : Being Young And Arab In America

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Moustafa BayoumiPublication Details
BookPenguin Press2008Description
The story of how young Arab and Muslim Americans are forging lives for themselves in a country that often mistakes them for the enemy Arab and Muslim Americans are the new, largely undiscussed ?problem? Under the cover of the terrorist attacks, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the explosion of political violence around the world, a fundamental misunderstanding of the Arab and Muslim American communities has been allowed to fester and even to define the lives of the seven twentysomething men and women whom we meet in this book. We meet Sami, an Arab American Christian, who navigates the minefield of associations the public has of Arabs as well as the expectations that Muslim Arab Americans have of him as a marine who fought in the Iraq war. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E184.A65 B35 2008 AVAILABLE
King’s Dream

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Eric J. SundquistPublication Details
BookYale University Press2009Description
Sundquist places it in the history of American debates about racial justice?debates as old as the nation itself?and demonstrates how the speech, an exultant blend of grand poetry and powerful elocution, perfectly expressed the story of African American freedom. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E185.97.K5 S864 2009 AVAILABLE
Peter’s War : A New England Slave Boy And The American Revolution

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Joyce Lee MalcolmPublication Details
BookYale University Press2009Description
A remarkable feat of investigation, Peter?s biography illuminates many themes in American history: race relations in New England, the prelude to and military history of the Revolutionary War, and the varied experience of black soldiers who fought on both sides. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) F74.L7 M35 2009 AVAILABLE
The Nature Of Difference : Sciences Of Race In The United States From Jefferson To Genomics

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edited by Evelynn M. Hammonds and Rebecca M. HerzigPublication Details
BookMIT Press2008Description
The documents, primarily writings by authoritative, eminent scientists intended for their professional peers, show how various sciences of race have changed their object of study over time: from racial groups to types to populations to genomes and beyond. from Samuel Cartwright’s 1851 “Report on the Diseases and Physical Peculiarities of the Negro Race” to a 1950 UNESCO declaration that race is a social myth; (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) HT1506 .N38 2008 AVAILABLE
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