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Resistance in a Hostile Environment: Subnormal. by Shannon, Lyttanya,film director.; BBC Studios (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by BBC Studios in 2021.In the 1960s, while young black adults were getting to grips with the struggle for black power and a long fightback against police abuse was starting, the majority of West Indian migrants were keeping their heads down. They were working hard and counting on providing better opportunities and education for their children. However, in a white-dominated country, where the politics were becoming increasingly racialised, there was a question of how society, and its teachers, saw these young black children. Before having a chance to develop intellectually, they were labelled as stupid, difficult and disruptive. This documentary reveals how black children in the 1960s and 70s were sent to schools for the subnormal, and how parents, activists and teachers came together to fight this injustice.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Enthnology.; Social sciences.; Education.; Balts (Indo-European people).; Foreign study.; Sociology.; Documentary films.; Ethnicity.; Current affairs.; History.; Political participation.; Racism.; African diaspora.; Police brutality.; Political activists.; Race relations.; Nineteen sixties.;
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Resistance in a Hostile Environment: Uprising. by Rogan, James,film director.; McQueen, Steve,film director.; BBC Studios (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by BBC Studios in 2021.This visceral series explores how three seminal events during 1981 – a racist arson attack, the Black People’s Action Day protest, and riots in Brixton – intertwined. And how, in the process, race relations were defined for a generation.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Enthnology.; Social sciences.; Balts (Indo-European people).; Foreign study.; History, Modern.; Sociology.; Documentary films.; Television series.; Motion pictures.; Ethnicity.; Current affairs.; History.; Racism.; African diaspora.; Race relations.; Police brutality.; Documentary television programs.; British Isles.;
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Celebrating Kwanzaa / by Linde, Barbara M.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Levels: GR: J; DRA: 18.LSC
Subjects: Kwanzaa; African Americans;
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Black brother, black brother / by Rhodes, Jewell Parker.;
Suspended unjustly from elite Middlefield Prep, Donte Ellison studies fencing with a former champion, hoping to put the racist fencing team captain in his place.LSC
Subjects: Fencing; African Americans; Racism; Preparatory schools; Schools; Families;
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Paradise on fire / by Rhodes, Jewell Parker.; Malyon, Serena.;
Bronx middle-grader Addy, who struggles with a family tragedy by drawing maps and studying mazes, joins other city youngsters on a wilderness adventure in California that turns deadly when wildfires erupt.LSC
Subjects: African Americans; Orphans; Wilderness areas; Wildfires; Survival;
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The numbers store / by Green, Harold,III.; Wiley, DeAnn.;
When Mom realizes there are zero eggs in the house, the entire family heads to the store to pick up more. Readers can join the counting fun as the family shops and adds more items to their basket--from three bananas to five plums--amid the backdrop of a bustling market. Publishing simultaneously with The Rainbow Park, The Numbers Store studies numbers through the experience of an intergenerational Black family's trip to the local grocery store.
Subjects: Board books.; African American families; Counting; Grocery trade;
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Unsettling the Great White North : Black Canadian history / by Aladejebi, Funké,1983-editor.; Johnson, Michele A.,editor.;
Includes bibliographical references."An exhaustive volume of leading scholarship in the field of Black Canadian history, Unsettling the Great White North highlights the diverse experiences of persons of African descent within the chronicles of Canada's past. The book considers histories and theoretical framings within the disciplines of history, sociology, law, and cultural and gender studies to chart the mechanisms of exclusion and marginalization in "multicultural" Canada and to situate Black Canadians as speakers and agents of their own lives. Working to interrupt the myth of benign whiteness that has been deeply implanted into the country's imagination, Unsettling the Great White North uncovers new narratives of Black life in Canada."--
Subjects: Black people; Black people; Black Canadians; Black Canadians;
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Woodburning realistic animals : 12 step-by-step pyrography projects of birds, pets, and wildlife / by Robinson, Minisa,author.;
"Guides crafters through basic pyrography skills, essential techniques for creating woodburned art depicting animals, and projects featuring classic animals such as the horse, elk, owl, and lion"--
Subjects: Pyrography.; Animals in art.;
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American. by Wu, Danny,film director.; Houseman, John,actor.; Welles, Orson,actor.; Callow, Simon,actor.; Gravitas Ventures (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
John Houseman, Orson Welles, Simon CallowOriginally produced by Gravitas Ventures in 2022.In the early 1940s, director Orson Welles navigates his meteoric Hollywood rise. As WWII begins, a Japanese American boy visits abroad, and an African American soldier enlists in the army. As the story heads towards 1947, each character follows their own ambitions in search of their American identity.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Arts.; Social sciences.; Motion pictures.; History, Modern.; Americans.; Foreign study.; Documentary films.; Artists.; History.; Motion pictures--Production and direction.; World War, 1939-1945.; United States--History.; Motion picture producers and directors.;
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God bless you, Otis Spunkmeyer / by Thomas, Joseph Earl,author.;
"After a deployment in the Iraq War dually defined by threat and interminable mundanity, Joseph Thomas is fighting to find his footing. Now a doctoral student at The University, and an EMS worker at the hospital in North Philly, he encounters round the clock friends and family from his past life and would-be future at his job, including contemporaries of his estranged father, a man he knows little about, serving time at Holmesburg prison for the statutory rape of his then-teenage mother. Meanwhile, he and his best friend Ray, a fellow vet, are alternatingly bonding over and struggling with their shared experience and return to civilian life, locked in their own rhythms of lust, heartbreak, and responsibility. Balancing the joys and frustrations of single fatherhood, his studies, and ceaseless shifts at the hospital as he becomes closer than he ever imagined to his father, Joseph tries to articulate vernacular understandings of the sociopolitical struggles he recounts as participant-observer at home, against the assumptions of his friends and colleagues. GOD BLESS YOU, OTIS SPUNKMEYER is a powerful examination of every day black life-of health and sex, race and punishment, and the gaps between our desires and our politics"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; African American men; Fathers and sons; Interpersonal relations; Veterans;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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