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How to raise an antiracist / by Kendi, Ibram X.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The tragedies and reckonings around racism that have rocked the country have created a specific crisis for parents and other caregivers: how do we talk to our children about it? How do we guide our children to avoid repeating our racist history? While we work to dismantle racist behaviors in ourselves and the world around us, how do we raise our children to be antiracists? After he wrote the National Book Award-winning Stamped from the Beginning, readers asked Ibram Kendi, "How can I be antiracist?" After the bestsellers How to Be an Antiracist and Antiracist Baby, readers began asking: "How do I raise an antiracist child?" Dr. Kendi had been pondering the same ever since he became a teacher--but the question became more personal and urgent when he found out his partner, Sadiqa, was pregnant. Like many parents, he didn't know how to answer the question--and wasn't sure he wanted to. He didn't want to educate his child on antiracism; he wanted to shield her from the toxicity of racism altogether. But research and experience helped him realize that antiracism has to be taught and modeled as early as possible--not just to armor our children against the racism still indoctrinated and normalized in their world, but to remind adults to build a more just future for us all. Following the model of his bestselling How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi combines vital scholarship with a compelling personal narrative of his own journey as a parent to create a work whose advice is grounded in research and relatable real-world experience. The chapters follow the stages of child development and don't just help parents to raise antiracists, but also to create an antiracist world for them to grow and thrive in"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Kendi, Ibram X.; African American fathers; Anti-racism; Child rearing; Race awareness in children;
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My year abroad / by Lee, Chang-rae,author.;
"From the award-winning author of Native Speaker and On Such a Full Sea, a brilliant, exuberant and entertaining story of a young American whose life is transformed when a Chinese-American businessman suddenly takes him under his wing on a global adventure"--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Americans; Apprentices; Business travel; Chinese Americans; College students; Cultural awareness; Life change events; Voyages and travels;
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The brain of the apocalypse / by A., Alex.; Mullins, Rhonda,1966-;
Agent Jon Le Bon, the Agency's brilliant new recruit, must stop super genius Henry B. Belton's missing, self-aware brain.LSC
Subjects: Graphic novels.; Le Bon, Jon (Fictitious character); Espionage; Spies; Animals;
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I color myself different / by Kaepernick, Colin,1987-; Wilkerson, Eric.;
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Subjects: Kaepernick, Colin, 1987-; African American children; Adopted children; Race awareness; Individuality; Self-esteem; Self-acceptance; Self-confidence in children;
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Surviving the white gaze : a memoir / by Carroll, Rebecca,author.;
"A stirring and powerful memoir from black cultural critic Rebecca Carroll recounting her struggle to overcome a completely white childhood in order to forge her identity as a black woman in America"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Carroll, Rebecca.; Adopted children; African American women authors; African Americans; Interracial adoption; Race awareness in children; Racially mixed families;
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Street Smarts : Trust Your Instincts, Outsmart Danger, and Stay Safe in a World That Isn't. by Eve, Dannah.;
From Dannah Eve, a trusted social media voice on personal safety for women, comes an engaging and informative guide that will give readers the confidence and skills to face lifes most frightening moments and encourage them to live aware, not in fear.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: SELF-HELP / Safety & Security / General (see also HOUSE & HOME / Safety & Security); SELF-HELP / Safety & Security / Personal Safety & Self-Defense; SELF-HELP / Self-Management / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General;
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Almost brown : a mixed-race family memoir / by Gill, Charlotte,1971-author.;
"An award-winning writer retraces her dysfunctional, biracial, globe-trotting family's journey as she reckons with ethnicity and belonging, diversity and race, and the complexities of life within a multicultural household. Charlotte Gill's father is Indian. Her mother is English. They meet in 1960's London when the world is not quite ready for interracial love. Their union, a revolutionary act, results in a total meltdown of familial relations, a lot of immigration paperwork, and three children, all in varying shades of tan. Together they set off on a journey from the United Kingdom to Canada and to the United States in elusive pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness--a dream that eventually tears them apart. Almost Brown is an exploration of diasporic intermingling involving parents of two different races and their half-brown children as they experience the paradoxes and conundrums of life as it's lived between race checkboxes. Eventually, her parents drift apart because they just aren't compatible. But as she finds herself distancing from her father too--why is she embarrassed to walk down the street with him and not her mom?--she doesn't know if it's because of his personality or his race. As a mixed-race child, was this her own unconscious bias favoring one parent over the other in the racial tug-of-war that plagues our society? Almost Brown looks for answers to questions shared by many mixed-race people: What are you? What does it mean to be a person of color when the concept is a societal invention and really only applies halfway if you are half white? And how does your relationship with your parents change as you change and grow older? In a funny, turbulent, and ultimately heartwarming story, Gill examines the brilliant messiness of ancestry, "diversity," and the idea of "race," a historical concept that still informs our beliefs about ethnicity today"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Gill, Charlotte, 1971-; Gill, Charlotte, 1971-; Identity (Psychology); Immigrants; Race awareness in children.; Racially mixed families; Racially mixed families; Racially mixed people; Racially mixed people; Racially mixed women; Women authors, Canadian; Race;
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The soul of leadership [sound recording] / by Chopra, Deepak.;
Read by the author.Revealing how the reactions of others can drive the decision-making process, Deepak Chopra offers listeners ways to understand and deal with those reactions in this quintessential guide to leadership. Here, listeners will learn how to become aware of not only their own needs, but the needs of those around them.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Leadership;
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Felix ever after / by Callender, Kacen.;
Felix Love has never been in love and, yes, he's painfully aware of the irony. He desperately wants to know what it's like. Felix navigates his complicated feelings, and begins a journey of questioning and self-discovery that helps redefine his most important relationship: how he feels about himself.LSC
Subjects: Transgender people; Triangles (Interpersonal relations); Bullying; Revenge; Best friends; Friendship; Identity (Psychology);
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SuperAging : getting older without getting old / by Cravit, David,author.; Wolf, Larry,author.;
Welcome to the dazzling new world of SuperAging, where everything youve been taught about aging is challenged. Getting older does not need to mean the end of accomplishment and growth. For SuperAgers, the period after age 65 can be one of the most productive and fulfilling times of life. Why settle for getting old when you can thrive? David Cravit is the president of CARP and the vice-president of Zoomer Media. Zoomer will be promoting the book with a dedicated podcast and website. Cravit lives in Toronto, ON.
Subjects: Ageism.; Aging; Longevity.; Older people.;
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