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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve black children. James McBride, journalist, musician, and son, explores his mother's past, as well as his own upbringing and heritage, in a poignant and powerful debut, The Color Of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother. The son of a black minister and a woman who would not admit she was white, James McBride...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Follows the emotional struggles faced by Avery Klein-Cloud, an adopted African-American high-school track star who lives in Brooklyn with her two Jewish lesbian mothers and two adopted brothers, as she contacts her birth mother and begins to explore her sense of identity and race.
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Language
English
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"After the death of her son, Eric Garner, at the hands of New York City police officers on Staten Island went viral, Gwen Carr's life changed forever. The illegal chokehold that took Garner's life has been seared into the public consciousness forever as the large black man struggled to breathe while a white policeman held him down on a hot concrete sidewalk. His death set the tone for a new normal where young black men and women now automatically...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Like an urban Dian Fossey, Wednesday Martin decodes the primate social behaviors of Upper East Side mothers in a brilliantly original and witty memoir about her adventures assimilating into that most secretive and elite tribe. After marrying a man from the Upper East Side and moving to the neighborhood, Wednesday Martin struggled to fit in. Drawing on her background in anthropology and primatology, she tried looking at her new world through that...