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Black boys like me : confrontations with race, identity, and belonging / by Morris, Matthew R.,author.;
"Startingly honest, bracing personal essays, from educator and writer Matthew Morris, that explore the intersection of race, Black masculinity, hip-hop culture, and education. This is an examination of the parts that construct my Black character; from how public schooling shapes our ideas about ourselves to how hip-hop and sports are simultaneously the conduit for both Black abundance and Black boundaries. This book is a meditation on the influences that have shaped Black boys like me. What does it mean to be a young Black man with an immigrant father and a white mother living on Indigenous land? In Black Boys Like Me, Matthew Morris grapples with this question, and others related to identity and belonging. He explores the tension between his consumption of Black culture as a child, his teenage performances of the ideas, identities, and values of the culture that often betrayed his identity, and the ways society and the people guiding him--his parents, coaches, and teachers--received those performances. What emerges is a painful journey toward transcending performance altogether, toward true knowledge of the self."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Essays.; Morris, Matthew R.; Black people; Black people; Black people; Race awareness; Race awareness.; Black Canadians;
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Black ghost of empire : the long death of slavery and the failure of emancipation / by Manjapra, Kris,1978-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The 1619 Project illuminated the ways in which every aspect of life in the United States was and is shaped by the existence of slavery. Black Ghost of Empire focuses on emancipation and how this opportunity to make right further codified the racial caste system-instead of obliterating it. To understand why the shadow of slavery still haunts society today, we must not only look at what slavery was, but also the unfinished way it ended. One may think of "emancipation" as a finale, leading to a new age of human rights and universal freedoms. But in reality, emancipations everywhere were incomplete. In Black Ghost of Empire, acclaimed historian and professor Kris Manjapra identifies five types of emancipation--explaining them in chronological order--along with the lasting impact these transitions had on formerly enslaved groups around the Atlantic. Beginning in 1770s and concluding in 1880s, different kinds of emancipation processes took place across the Atlantic world. These included the Gradual Emancipations of North America, the Revolutionary Emancipation of Haiti, the Compensated Emancipations of European overseas empires, the War Emancipation of the American South, and the Conquest Emancipations that swept across Sub-Saharan Africa. Tragically, despite a century of abolitions and emancipations, systems of social bondage persisted and reconfigured. We still live with these unfinished endings today. In practice, all the slavery emancipations that have ever taken place reenacted racial violence against Black communities, and reaffirmed commitment to white supremacy. The devil lurked in the details of the five emancipation processes, none of which required atonement for wrongs committed, or restorative justice for the people harmed. Manjapra shows how, amidst this unfinished history, grassroots Black organizers and activists have become custodians of collective recovery and remedy; not only for our present, but also for our relationship with the past. Timely, lucid, and crucial to our understanding of the ongoing "anti-mattering" of Black people, Black Ghost of Empire shines a light into the deep gap between the idea of slavery's end and its actual perpetuation in various forms--exposing the shadows that linger to this day"--
Subjects: Liberty; Race relations; Slavery;
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Amazing Black Atlantic Canadians / by Ruck, Lindsay; Bentley, James,1968-;
Includes bibliographical references, fimography, Internet addresses and index.A look at the stories and accomplishments of over 50 historical and contemporary Black Canadians from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador.LSC
Subjects: Black Canadians;
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Orange is the new black. [videorecording] / by Aduba, Uzo,actor.; Brooks, Danielle,actor.; Cruz, Jackie,1986-actor.; DeLaria, Lea,actor.; Harney, Michael J.,actor.; Kohan, Jenji,1969-creator.; Leyva, Selenis,1972-actor.; Lyonne, Natasha,actor.; Manning, Taryn,actor.; Moore, Adrienne C.,actor.; Mulgrew, Kate,1955-actor.; Pimentel, Jessica,actor.; Polanco, Dascha,actor.; Prepon, Laura,1980-actor.; Rodriguez, Elizabeth,1980-actor.; Sandow, Nick,actor.; Schilling, Taylor,1984-actor.; Stone, Yael,actor.; television adaptation of (work):Kerman, Piper.Orange is the new black.; Lions Gate Entertainment (Firm),distributor.; Lions Gate Television (Firm),production company.; Netflix (Firm),production company.; Tilted Productions,production company.;
Taylor Schilling, Natasha Lyonne, Uzo Aduba, Danielle Brooks, Jackie Cruz, Lea Delaria, Michael J. Harney, Selenis Leyva, Taryn Manning, Adrienne C. Moore, Dascha Polanco, Nick Sandow, Yael Stone, Kate Mulgrew, Laura Prepon, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Jessica Pimentel.In the show's final season, a recently paroled Piper tries to get back on her feet while life in Litchfield, as corrupt as ever, goes on without her.Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Television comedies.; Television programs.; Prison television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Reformatories for women; Women prisoners; Female friendship;
For private home use only.
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Anna Sewell's Black Beauty / by Sewell, Anna,1820-1878.; Brown, Ruth.;
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Subjects: Black Beauty (Fictitious character); Horses; Human-animal relationships;
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Black Beauty and the thunderstorm / by Hill, Susan.; Farnsworth, Bill.;
Reading level : 3
Subjects: Horses;
© c2011., H. B. Fenn and Company Ltd.,
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My beautiful black hair : 101 natural hair stories from the sisterhood / by Detrick-Jules, St. Clair,author.; Elle, Alexandra,writer of foreword.;
"My Beautiful Black Hair celebrates the beauty of Black natural hairstyles through personal stories of joy, compassion, affirmation, and collective wisdom"--
Subjects: African American women; African American women; Hairstyles; Self-acceptance in women; Women, Black; Hairdressing of Blacks;
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Attack of the black rectangles / by King, A. S.(Amy Sarig),1970-;
When sixth-grader Mac discovers several words of his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic are blacked out he is outraged, so he, his friends, and his eccentric family set out to do something about the censorship imposed by one teacher and the school board.LSC
Subjects: Censorship; Books and reading; Middle schools; Youth protest movements; Eccentrics and eccentricities; Families;
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The black book of colors / by Cottin, Menena.; Faría, Rosana.; Amado, Elisa.;
A collection of raised black line drawings, meant to be touched, are accompanied by descriptive text about colours. The book is intended to give a sighted person a sense of what it is like to be blind. LSC
Subjects: Colors; Textured books; Braille books;
© c2008., Groundwood Books,
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The motorcyclist / by Clarke, George Elliott,1960-;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Black Canadians;
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