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How to dodge a cannonball : a novel / by Dayle, Dennard,author.;
"How to Dodge a Cannonball is a razor-sharp and bitterly hilarious Civil War satire about American racism. It tells the story of a friendless, fatherless, and guileless white teenager named Anders who volunteers for the Union army as a flag-twirler to escape his abusive mother. In desperate acts of self-preservation, he defects -- twice -- before joining a Black regiment at Gettysburg, claiming to be an octoroon. In his new and entirely incredulous regiment, Anders becomes entangled with questionable military men and an arms dealer working for both sides. But more importantly he forms an awkward bond with the other men in the regiment, finding a family he desperately needs and gaining an intimate understanding of the lives of Black people. After deploying to New York City to suppress the draft riots and to Nevada to suppress Native Americans, Anders begins to see the war through the eyes of his newfound brothers, comprehending it not so much as a fight for Black liberation but as a negotiation among white people over which kinds of oppression will be acceptable in the re-United States. Uproariously funny and revelatory, How to Dodge a Cannonball is an insightful take on which America is worth fighting for"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Satirical literature.; Novels.; Impersonation; Racism;

Black skinhead : reflections on Blackness and our political future / by Collins-Dexter, Brandi,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."For fans of Bad Feminist and The Sum of Us, Black Skinhead sparks a radical conversation about Black America and political identity. In Black Skinhead, Brandi Collins-Dexter, former Senior Campaign Manager for Color Of Change, explores the fragile alliance between Black voters and the Democratic party. Through sharp, timely essays that span the political, cultural, and personal, Collins-Dexter reveals decades of simmering disaffection in Black America, told as much through voter statistics as it is through music, film, sports, and the baffling mind of Kanye West. While Black Skinhead is an outward look at Black votership and electoral politics, it is also a funny, deeply personal, and introspective look at the fragility of Black culture and identity, ultimately revealing a Black America that has become deeply disillusioned with the failed promises of its country. We had been told that everything was fine, that America was working for everyone and that the American Dream was attainable for all. But for those who had been paying attention, there had been warning signs that the Obamas' version of the American Dream wasn't working for everyone. That it hadn't been working for many white Americans was immediately and loudly discussed, but the truth-and what I set out to write this book about-was that it hadn't been working for many Black Americans either. For many, Obama's vision had been more illusion than reality all along. When someone tells you everything is fine, but around you, you see evidence that it's not, where will the quest to find answers lead you? As I went on the journey of writing this book, I found a very different tale about Black politics and Black America, one that countered white America's long-held assumption that Black voters will always vote Democrat-and even that the Democratic party is the best bet for Black Americans. My ultimate question was this: how are Black people being led away-not towards-each other, and what do we lose when we lose each other? What do we lose when, to quote Kanye West, we feel lost in the world"--
Subjects: African Americans; African Americans; Group identity; Social change; Voting research;

Black Panther. [videorecording] / by Bassett, Angela,actor.; Cole, Joe Robert,screenwriter.; Coogler, Ryan,1986-film director,screenwriter.; Feige, Kevin,film producer.; Freeman, Martin,1971-actor.; Gurira, Danai,actor.; Huerta Mejía, Tenoch,actor.; Moore, Nate(Producer),film producer.; Wright, Letitia,1993-actor.; Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.; Marvel Studios,production company.; Walt Disney Pictures,production company.;
Letitia Wright, Angela Bassett, Tenoch Huerta, Martin Freeman, Danai Gurira, Lupita Nyong'o, Michaela Coel, Richard Schiff, Winston Duke, Florence Kasumba.Queen Ramonda, Shuri, M'Baku, Okoye, and the Dora Milaje, fight to protect their nation from intervening world powers in the wake of King T'Challa's death. As the Wakandans strive to embrace their next chapter, the heroes must band together with the help of War Dog Nakia and Everett Ross and forge a new path for the kingdom of Wakanda.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Feature films.; Superhero films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Black Panther (Fictitious character); Women superheroes; Kings and rulers; Wakanda (Africa : Imaginary place);
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Black Widow [videorecording] / by Blondell, Nanna,actor.; Downey, Robert,Jr.,1965-actor.; Fagbenle, O-T,1980-actor.; Harbour, David,1975-actor.; Hurt, William,actor.; Johansson, Scarlett,1984-actor.; Pugh, Florence,1996-actor.; Reis, Michelle Monique,1970-actor.; Weisz, Rachel,1970-actor.; Winstone, Ray,1957-actor.; Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.;
Director of photography, Gabriel Beristain ; editors, Leigh Folsom Boyd, Matthew Schmidt ; music, Lorne Balfe.Scarlett Johansson, Florence Pugh, Rachel Weisz, Robert Downey Jr., David Harbour, O.T. Fagbenle, Ray Winstone, Michelle Lee, William Hurt, Nanna Blondell.Natasha Romanoff aka Black Widow confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises. Pursued by a force that will stop at nothing to bring her down, Natasha must deal with her history as a spy and the broken relationships left in her wake long before she became an Avenger.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13.Described video for the blind and visually impaired.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Action and adventure films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Black Widow (Fictitious character); Conspiracies; Female assassins; Women heroes; Women spies;
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Blacks in Canada : a history / by Winks, Robin W.,author.; Clarke, George Elliott,writer of introduction.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Blacks in Canada journeys from the introduction of slavery in 1628 to the first wave of Caribbean immigration in the 1950s and 1960s. Heralded in the Literary Review of Canada as one of the one hundred most important Canadian books, this enduring work by Yale University's Robin W. Winks offers a wealth of information for fresh interpretation. Now, fifty years from its original printing, this third edition includes a foreword by George Elliott Clarke, E.J. Pratt Professor of Canadian Literature at the University of Toronto. Clarke's contribution adds a necessary critical lens through which twenty-first-century readers should view Winks's research. The longevity of Blacks in Canada is due to an impressive array of primary and secondary materials that illuminate the experiences of Black immigrants to Canada. These experiences include the forced migration of enslaved Black people brought to Nova Scotia and the Canadas by Loyalists at the end of the American Revolution, Black refugees who fled to Nova Scotia following the War of 1812, Jamaican Maroons, and fugitive slaves who fled to British North America. The book also highlights Black West Coast businessmen who helped found British Columbia, particularly Victoria, and Black settlement in the prairie provinces. Crucially, Blacks in Canada investigates the French and English periods of slavery, the abolitionist movement in Canada, and the role played by Canadians in the broader continental antislavery crusade, as well as Canadian adaptations to nineteenth- and twentieth-century racial mores.
Subjects: Blacks; Blacks; Black Canadians; Black Canadians;

Code noir : by Lubrin, Canisia,1984-author.;
"Eagerly awaited debut fiction from one of Canada's most exciting and admired young writers. A daring and inventive reimagining of the infamous set of laws, the "Code Noir," that once governed Black lives. Canisia Lubrin's debut fiction is that rare work of art: a brilliant, startlingly original book that combines immense literary and political force. Its structure is deceptively simple and ingenious: it is modeled on the infamous real-life "Code Noir," a set of historical decrees originally passed in 1685 by King Louis XIV of France defining the conditions of slavery in the French colonial empire. In other words, the Code that contained and restricted the activities of Black people in the Caribbean. The original Code had fifty-nine articles; Code Noir has fifty-nine short, linked fictions that present vivid, unforgettable, multi-layered fragments of Black life as it really existed and still exists, winding in and around, over and under the official decrees, refusing to be contained or "ruled." Ranging in style from contemporary realism to dystopia, from fantasy to historical fiction, this loosely linked stream of 59 irrepressible stories comments on, underscores, undermines, mocks, breaks and redefines the Code's intent. An original, timely, culturally daring, virtuoso performance by a rising literary star."-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Short stories.; African Americans;

Black Christmas [videorecording] / by Donoghue, Lily,actor.; Elwes, Cary,1962-actor.; O'Grady, Brittany,actor.; Poots, Imogen,1989-actor.; Shannon, Aleyse,actor.; Takal, Sophia,film director,screenwriter.; Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Imogen Poots, Cary Elwes, Lily Donoghue, Brittany O'Grady, Aleyse Shannon.From the producer of Get Out and Halloween, comes a timely take on a cult horror classic as a campus killer comes to face a formidable group of friends in sisterhood. Hawthorne College is quieting down for the holidays. But as Riley Stone and her Mu Kappa Epsilon sisters prepare to deck the halls with a series of seasonal parties, a black-masked stalker begins killing sorority women one by one. As the body count rises, the sisters start to question whether they can trust any man. Whoever the killer is, he's about to discover that this generation's young women aren't about to be anybody's victims.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: PG-13.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, 2.0 DVS.
Subjects: Horror films.; Feature films.; Christmas films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Christmas; Greek letter societies; Female friendship; Serial murderers;
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Men in black international [videorecording] / by Cunningham, Lowell,1959-actor.; Ferguson, Rebecca,1983-actor.; Hemsworth, Chris,actor.; Gray, F. Gary,film director.; Nanjiani, Kumail,actor.; Neeson, Liam,actor.; Spall, Rafe,1983-actor.; Thompson, Emma,actor.; Thompson, Tessa,1983-actor.; Columbia Pictures,production company.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),film distributor.;
Tessa Thompson, Chris Hemsworth, Rebecca Ferguson, Emma Thompson, Liam Neeson, Rafe Spall, Kumail Nanjiani.A childhood encounter with an alien--and a sighting of the mysterious Men in Black--has led Molly (Tessa Thompson) to spend the last two decades trying to find the elusive agency's headquarters. When she actually does, she's invited to join the team. As Agent M, she's paired with maverick veteran Agent H (Chris Hemsworth) on a mission involving extraterrestrial attacks and a possible mole inside the MIB.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1 DVS.
Subjects: Fiction films.; Feature films.; Science fiction films.; Comedy films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Human-alien encounters; Men in black (UFO phenomenon); Extraterrestrial beings;
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Black and blue [videorecording] / by Colter, Mike,1976-actor.; Tyrese,actor.; Taylor, Deon,film director.; Grillo, Frank,1963-actor.; Harris, Naomie,1976-actor.; Knapp, Beau,actor.; Scott, Reid,1977-actor.; Williams, Nafessa,1989-actor.; Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Mike Colter, Frank Grillo, Reid Scott, Naomie Harris, Beau Knapp, Tyrese Gibson, Nafessa Williams.A fast-paced action thriller about a rookie cop who inadvertently captures the murder of a young drug dealer on her body cam. After realizing that the murder was committed by corrupt cops, she teams up with the one person from her community who is willing to help her as she tries to escape both the criminals out for revenge and the police who are desperate to destroy the incriminating footage.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.MPAA rating: R.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1 DVS.
Subjects: Thrillers (Motion pictures); Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Policewomen; Murder; Police corruption;
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Brave leaders and activists / by Miller, J. P.(Janice P.); Carroll, Chellie.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The act of segregation was a common thread woven throughout the world, directed at people of color. It takes great courage to stand up against racial injustice and many Black leaders sacrificed their lives to demand equality. Read about men and women who worked on behalf of all people of color including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Barack Obama, the founders of Black Lives Matter Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi, Patrisse Cullors, and many more"--Provided by publisher.Guided reading: X.LSC
Subjects: Blacks; African Americans; Human rights workers; Civil rights workers, Black; Social reformers; Political activists; Blacks; Anti-racism; Heroes; Leadership;

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