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The help [videorecording] / by Barnathan, Michael.; Chastain, Jessica.; Columbus, Chris.; Davis, Viola.; Goldblatt, Stephen,1945-; Green, Brunson.; Howard, Bryce Dallas,1981-; Janney, Allison.; Newman, Thomas,1955-; Spacek, Sissy.; Spencer, Octavia.; Stockett, Kathryn.Help.Videorecording.; Stone, Emma,1988-; Taylor, Tate.; Tyson, Cicely.; Vogel, Mike.; Winborne, Hughes.; 1492 Pictures.; Dreamworks Pictures.; Harbinger Pictures.; Imagenation Abu Dhabi (Firm); Participant Media.; Reliance Entertainment (Firm); Touchstone Home Entertainment (Firm);
Director of photography, Stephen Goldblatt ; editor, Hughes Winborne ; music, Thomas Newman.Bryce Dallas Howard, Cicely Tyson, Emma Stone, Jessica Chastain, Mike Vogel, Octavia Spencer, Viola Davis, Sissy Spacek, Allison Janney.Mississippi during the 1960s: Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.Blu-ray ; widescreen presentation (1.85:1) ; Dolby digital 5.1 surround ; region 1.
Subjects: Stockett, Kathryn.; African American women household employees; African American women; Civil rights movements; Feature films.; Female friendship; Housekeepers;
© c2011., Touchstone Home Entertainment,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Three girls from Bronzeville : a uniquely American memoir of race, fate, and sisterhood / by Turner, Dawn,author.;
"The three girls formed an indelible bond: roaming their community in search of hidden treasures for their "Thing Finder box," and hiding under the dining room table, eavesdropping as three generations of relatives gossiped and played the numbers. The girls spent countless afternoons together, ice skating in the nearby Lake Meadows apartment complex, swimming in the pool at the Ida B. Wells housing project, and daydreaming of their futures: Dawn a writer, Debra a doctor, Kim a teacher. Then they came to a precipice, a fraught rite of passage for all girls when the dangers and the harsh realities of the world burst the innocent bubble of childhood, when the choices they made could-- and would-- have devastating consequences. There was a razor thin margin of error -- especially for brown girls. With a keen investigative eye and intimate detail, Dawn chronicles the dramatic turns that send their lives careening in very different -- and shocking -- directions over the decades. The result is a powerful tour de force on the complex interplay of race and opportunity, class and womanhood and how those forces shape our lives and our capacity for resilience and redemption"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Trice, Debra.; Turner, Dawn; Turner, Dawn.; Turner, Kim, 1968-1994; African American women; African Americans; Journalists; Women;
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Weightless : making space for my resilient body and soul / by Dionne, Evette,author.;
"In this insightful, funny, and whip-smart book, acclaimed writer Evette Dionne explores the minefields fat Black women are forced to navigate in the course of everyday life. From her early experiences of harassment to adolescent self-discovery in internet chatrooms to a diagnosis of heart failure at age twenty-nine, Dionne tracks her relationship with friends, sex, motherhood, agoraphobia, health, pop culture, and self-image. Along the way, she lifts the curtain to reveal the subtle, insidious forms of surveillance and control levied at fat women: At the doctor's office, where any health ailment is treated with a directive to lose weight. On dating sites, where larger bodies are either rejected or fetishized. On TV, where fat characters are asexual comedic relief. But Dionne's unflinching account of our deeply held prejudices is matched by her fierce belief in the power of self-love. An unmissable portrait of a woman on a journey toward understanding our society and herself, Weightless holds up a mirror to the world we live in and asks us to imagine the future we deserve."--Jacket flap.
Subjects: Biographies.; Essays.; Personal narratives.; Dionne, Evette.; African American women authors; African American women; Discrimination against overweight women; Overweight women; Racism; Self-esteem in women.; Self-realization in women.; Sexism; Women, Black;
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The Blackwoods / by Colbert, Brandy,author.;
Told from multiple points of view, Ardith and Hollis Blackwood's lives are upended when their great-grandmother, legendary actress Blossom Blackwood, passes away, and family secrets emerge.014+.Grades 10-12.
Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; African Americans; Fame; Families; Secrecy; Actors and actresses; African Americans; Fame; Family life; Families; Secrets;
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The Homes We Carry. by Akele, Brenda,film director.; DEFA Film Library (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by DEFA Film Library in 2022.A filmic portrait of a family torn apart by the turmoil of world history between Germany, Mozambique and South Africa, at the center of which is the Afro-German mother Sarah. She wants her young daughter to have the relationships she lacked as a child, so she travels with her to Africa, where her own father and the child's father are waiting for them. During this visit, Sarah's father, Eulidio, remembers his time as a Mozambican contract worker in East Germany.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Enthnology.; Social sciences.; African studies.; Foreign study.; Sociology.; Documentary films.; Ethnicity.; History.;
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Curls / by Forman, Ruth.; Bowers, Geneva.;
"This simple, playful, and beautiful board book stars four friends who celebrate the joy of their hairstyles from bouncing curls to swinging braids"--Provided by publisher.LSC
Subjects: African American girls; Hairstyles; Friendship; Self-confidence;
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Evelyn Del Rey is moving away / by Medina, Meg.; Sánchez, Sonia,1983-;
Daniela is sad when she finds out her best friend, Evelyn Del Rey, is moving away, but Evelyn promises Daniela that their friendship will always be special.LSC
Subjects: Friendship; African American families; Moving, Household; Neighborhoods;
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Kwanzaa / by Tyner, Artika R.;
Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index.RL: 2-3; IL: K-3.Ages 5-8Grades K-1LSC
Subjects: Kwanzaa; African Americans; Holidays;
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Kwanzaa / by Rathburn, Betsy.;
"Developed by literacy experts and educators for students in PreK through grade two, this book introduces beginning readers to Kwanzaa through simple, predictable text and related photos"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Readers (Publications); Readers (Primary); Kwanzaa; African Americans; Readers;
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Deadly Cross / by Patterson, James,1947-author.;
Investigating a double homicide involving the vice president's ex-wife, Detective Alex Cross and FBI Special Agent Ned Mahoney travel to Alabama to uncover clues from her early life.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Cross, Alex (Fictitious character); African American detectives; Murder;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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