Tracey's bookshelf: all en-US Mon, 28 Oct 2024 11:41:04 -0700 60 Tracey's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[The House at Pooh Corner (Winnie-the-Pooh, #2)]]> 776407 180 A.A. Milne 0525444440 Tracey 4 pleasure-reading, humor 4.37 1928 The House at Pooh Corner (Winnie-the-Pooh, #2)
author: A.A. Milne
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.37
book published: 1928
rating: 4
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date added: 2024/10/28
shelves: pleasure-reading, humor
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]]> <![CDATA[Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace]]> 7433941 885 Elizabeth Shown Mills 0806318066 Tracey 0 to-read, genealogy, reference 4.56 1997 Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace
author: Elizabeth Shown Mills
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.56
book published: 1997
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/03/09
shelves: to-read, genealogy, reference
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]]> <![CDATA[Documents of Texas History (Volume 21)]]> 2688401
Documents of Texas History contains a lot of useful primary source material"”—Mike Cox, More Basic Texas Books Documents of Texas History, a valuable reference work for students, teachers, scholars, and history aficionados, provides an in-depth, firsthand understanding of Texas history. The 141 documents selected for this book are accounts of significant events in Texas history, beginning with Cabeza de Vaca’s 1528 expedition and ending with the national influence of the Dallas Cowboys ("America’s Team") and their Super Bowl victory. In between these two events, separated by more than four centuries, are scores of documents on a broad range of social, cultural, and political events which have shaped the history of Texas and often affected the nation. Fascinating to read, they relate history as it was lived by the participants and their contemporary observers.

The documents are drawn from a great number of archives, historical periodicals, rare books, government publications, and newspapers. They are arranged in chronological order and each document is prefaced by an introduction that provides background and interpretation of the event or topic at hand. The editors� careful selections provide an excellent overview of Texas history in all its depth and diversity.

This updated edition of the classic Documents of Texas History presents Texas history as told by the men and women who lived it and watched it unfold. The Texas past comes alive in this superb reference volume, a valuable addition to libraries and an indispensable supplement to any work of Texas history. Selected as one of the 1990s� best Texas books, Documents of Texas History was one of 126 Texas classics included in Mike Cox’s More Basic Texas Books .]]> 342 Ernest Wallace 0876111886 Tracey 4 3.20 2002 Documents of Texas History (Volume 21)
author: Ernest Wallace
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.20
book published: 2002
rating: 4
read at: 2013/10/05
date added: 2023/10/13
shelves: for-projects, genealogy, browsing-through, reference
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]]> <![CDATA[Black Wealth / White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality, 2nd Edition]]> 1516065 360 Melvin L. Oliver 0415951674 Tracey 0 4.40 1995 Black Wealth / White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality, 2nd Edition
author: Melvin L. Oliver
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.40
book published: 1995
rating: 0
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date added: 2023/08/02
shelves: to-read, black-studies, considering-reading, dei-possibilities
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]]> Your Leadership Edge 30901684 196 Ed O'Malley 0988977753 Tracey 0 3.87 Your Leadership Edge
author: Ed O'Malley
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.87
book published:
rating: 0
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date added: 2021/04/29
shelves: currently-reading, derby-resources, for-projects, professional-development
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]]> <![CDATA[Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities]]> 43985050 268 Andre Perry 0815737270 Tracey 0 4.22 2020 Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities
author: Andre Perry
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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date added: 2020/11/12
shelves: to-read, african-american-literature, black-literature, black-studies, dei-possibilities, racism-syllabus
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]]> How to Be an Antiracist 40265832 How to be an Antiracist, Kendi asks us to think about what an antiracist society might look like, and how we can play an active role in building it.

In this book, Kendi weaves together an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science, bringing it all together with an engaging personal narrative of his own awakening to antiracism. How to Be an Antiracist is an essential work for anyone who wants to go beyond an awareness of racism to the next step: contributing to the formation of a truly just and equitable society.]]> 305 Ibram X. Kendi 0525509283 Tracey 5
I will most likely read & listen to this book again, to prepare for a book discussion later this month, and I’ll give a more thorough review of it then. For now, I’ve got a lot to chew on. If you’re ready to start chewing & digesting, I recommend that you read this book.

One thing to consider...and I wouldn’t really call it a “spoiler�...but as you read it, release any expectation of a ready-made checklist of steps to take in order to *cue sun breaking from the clouds* Officially Be Antiracist™️. It’s not that kind of book. It’s better. ]]> 4.36 2019 How to Be an Antiracist
author: Ibram X. Kendi
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2019
rating: 5
read at: 2020/10/09
date added: 2020/10/09
shelves: dei-possibilities, must-read-shelf, racism-syllabus, reference, african-american-literature, black-studies
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This book made me uncomfortable in spots, but that’s okay; as the author said, “without pain, there is no progress.�

I will most likely read & listen to this book again, to prepare for a book discussion later this month, and I’ll give a more thorough review of it then. For now, I’ve got a lot to chew on. If you’re ready to start chewing & digesting, I recommend that you read this book.

One thing to consider...and I wouldn’t really call it a “spoiler�...but as you read it, release any expectation of a ready-made checklist of steps to take in order to *cue sun breaking from the clouds* Officially Be Antiracist™️. It’s not that kind of book. It’s better.
]]> <![CDATA[Weapons of Whiteness: Exposing The Master's Tools Behind The Mask of Anti-Blackness]]> 55196623 335 Catrice Marie Jackson 0983839875 Tracey 0 4.46 Weapons of Whiteness: Exposing The Master's Tools Behind The Mask of Anti-Blackness
author: Catrice Marie Jackson
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.46
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rating: 0
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date added: 2020/09/27
shelves: to-read, black-studies, racism-syllabus
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]]> <![CDATA[The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South]]> 29099264 480 Michael W. Twitty 0062379283 Tracey 0 3.80 2017 The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South
author: Michael W. Twitty
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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date added: 2020/09/26
shelves: black-studies, dei-possibilities, genealogy, health, pleasure-reading, slavery-research, book-club, save-for-later
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]]> <![CDATA[You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life]]> 15843166 The #1 New York Times Bestseller You Are A Badass is the self-help book for people who desperately want to improve their lives but don't want to get busted doing it.

In this refreshingly entertaining how-to guide, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author and world-traveling success coach, Jen Sincero, serves up 27 bite-sized chapters full of hilariously inspiring stories, sage advice, easy exercises, and the occasional swear word. If you're ready to make some serious changes around here, You Are a Badass will help you: Identify and change the self-sabotaging beliefs and behaviors that stop you from getting what you want, blast past your fears so you can take big exciting risks, figure out how to make some damn money already, learn to love yourself and others, set big goals and reach them - it will basically show you how to create a life you totally love, and how to create it now.

By the end of You Are a Badass, you'll understand why you are how you are, how to love what you can't change, how to change what you don't love, and how to use The Force to kick some serious ass.]]> 254 Jen Sincero 0762447699 Tracey 0 3.95 2013 You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life
author: Jen Sincero
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2013
rating: 0
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date added: 2020/09/26
shelves: food-for-my-soul, self-care, did-not-finish
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]]> Queer Astrology for Women 659076
Jill Dearman is a breakthrough astrologer for our time. No one has approached the stars with her sass and class ever before! Her guide to astrology for lesbians is lively, revealing--and naughty!

Sections include: in life, in bed, how to seduce her, doing her and dating her, how to last over the long haul, how to get rid of her, and the three faces of each sign.

How to get rid of an Aquarius woman: Ms. Aquarius will pack her bags soon after you start invading her personal space and drowning her in too much nonstop and irrational cemotion. Ms. Aquarius hates to feel trapped, so if you slowly take away all her freedoms, you will be watching her walk out the door faster than you can sing "This is the dawning of the..."

The Cancer woman is intensely emotiona...and her moods change with the tides. Not that you can every completely figure her out. Would you dare to assume you could understand the sea or fully absorb or comprehend a beautiful piece of music? Or course not, you silly lesbian. So don't patronize this lovely woman.

But getting rid of a Cancer woman: Please don't be a cad and pull off the old "I'm going out for a pack of cigarettes (or a bag of Kitty Litter)" and never come back routine. She'll have your mother sitting with her and holding her hand, worrying, before you've made it past the border.

And a complete compatibility profile of each astrological combination:

Take Aries and Cancer: The best par? They can be fiercely loyal and protective of each other. The worst part? They instinctively know how to hurt each other's feelings and often do, in a most brutal way. Ms. Aries, ruled by fire strikes quickly and forcefully and without thinking. "Don't each that doughnut! It'll make you fat!" Ms Cancer, ruled by water, knows how to create a mood of subtle emotional torture. "I don't feel like being touched...No, I don't want to be alone. Can't we just sit together in the same room and not talk and not touch and not make such a big deal about it?"]]> 224 Jill Dearman 0312199538 Tracey 4 3.90 1998 Queer Astrology for Women
author: Jill Dearman
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.90
book published: 1998
rating: 4
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date added: 2020/09/26
shelves: lgbt-studies, humor, re-reading, save-for-later
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]]> <![CDATA[White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism]]> 36454970 169 Robin DiAngelo 0807047414 Tracey 0 4.28 2018 White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
author: Robin DiAngelo
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.28
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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date added: 2020/09/26
shelves: dei-possibilities, racism-syllabus, save-for-later
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]]> <![CDATA[I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness]]> 35883430 From a powerful new voice on racial justice, an eye-opening account of growing up Black, Christian, and female in middle-class white America.

Austin Channing Brown's first encounter with a racialized America came at age 7, when she discovered her parents named her Austin to deceive future employers into thinking she was a white man. Growing up in majority-white schools, organizations, and churches, Austin writes, "I had to learn what it means to love blackness," a journey that led to a lifetime spent navigating America's racial divide as a writer, speaker and expert who helps organizations practice genuine inclusion.

In a time when nearly all institutions (schools, churches, universities, businesses) claim to value "diversity" in their mission statements, I'm Still Here is a powerful account of how and why our actions so often fall short of our words. Austin writes in breathtaking detail about her journey to self-worth and the pitfalls that kill our attempts at racial justice, in stories that bear witness to the complexity of America's social fabric--from Black Cleveland neighborhoods to private schools in the middle-class suburbs, from prison walls to the boardrooms at majority-white organizations.

For readers who have engaged with America's legacy on race through the writing of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Michael Eric Dyson, I'm Still Here is an illuminating look at how white, middle-class, Evangelicalism has participated in an era of rising racial hostility, inviting the reader to confront apathy, recognize God's ongoing work in the world, and discover how blackness--if we let it--can save us all.]]> 185 Austin Channing Brown Tracey 0 4.36 2018 I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
author: Austin Channing Brown
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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date added: 2020/09/24
shelves: to-read, black-studies, considering-reading, dei-possibilities, racism-syllabus
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]]> <![CDATA[Anchored in Bias: Fired Over "White Tears"]]> 54443333
Lisa made national news when her twenty-year career as a news reporter / anchor ended abruptly after she shared an article on her personal Facebook page entitled, "How White Women Use Strategic Tears to Avoid Accountability" written by fellow journalist Ruby Hamad-an article that offended two of her white female coworkers, which ultimately got her fired.

After being terminated for sharing TheGuardian.com article, Lisa committed herself to understanding racism, unconscious biases, institutionalized racism, and how those issues factored into her stagnant career and job loss.

In this book, courtroom testimony, along with exhibits, prove that the employer expected to support Lisa's career goals only wanted to harness and control her labor while silencing her voice.

Guilty of racial ignorance, Lisa foolishly believed that if she worked hard, played by the rules, and people liked her, she could avoid the racial pitfalls that swallowed the dreams of her forefathers and condemned others to a life of criminalization, poverty, and shame.

She was wrong.

Lisa's book is a powerful, transparent look at the racism, systemic racism, and the anti-blackness that exists in cities, neighborhoods, and newsrooms throughout the United States.]]> 188 Lisa Benson 1662402104 Tracey 0 3.40 Anchored in Bias: Fired Over "White Tears"
author: Lisa Benson
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.40
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rating: 0
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date added: 2020/07/08
shelves: dei-possibilities, racism-syllabus, womens-studies, considering-reading, black-studies, to-read, autobiography
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]]> <![CDATA[Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America]]> 25898216 Stamped from the Beginning uses the lives of five major American intellectuals to offer a window into the contentious debates between assimilationists and segregationists and between racists and anti-racists. From Puritan minister Cotton Mather to Thomas Jefferson, from fiery abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison to brilliant scholar W. E. B. Du Bois to legendary anti-prison activist Angela Davis, Kendi shows how and why some of our leading pro-slavery and pro–civil rights thinkers have challenged or helped cement racist ideas in America.

As Kendi illustrates, racist thinking did not arise from ignorance or hatred. Racist ideas were created and popularized in an effort to defend deeply entrenched discriminatory policies and to rationalize the nation’s racial inequities in everything from wealth to health. While racist ideas are easily produced and easily consumed, they can also be discredited. In shedding much-needed light on the murky history of racist ideas, Stamped from the Beginning offers tools to expose them—and in the process, reason to hope.]]> 592 Ibram X. Kendi 1568584636 Tracey 0 4.52 2016 Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
author: Ibram X. Kendi
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.52
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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date added: 2020/06/12
shelves: black-studies, currently-reading
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]]> On Religious Diversity 11737381 for the most plausible answers and makes a case for the attractiveness of inclusivistic options. He pays particular attention to the religiously ambiguous nature of our circumstances and to the implications of this ambiguity.]]> 184 Robert McKim 0199774021 Tracey 0 to-read, dei-possibilities 0.0 2011 On Religious Diversity
author: Robert McKim
name: Tracey
average rating: 0.0
book published: 2011
rating: 0
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date added: 2020/04/29
shelves: to-read, dei-possibilities
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]]> <![CDATA[Akata Warrior (The Nsibidi Scripts, #2)]]> 18746776 The long-awaited sequel to the genre-breaking Akata Witch by multiple award-winner Nnedi Okorafor!

A year ago, Sunny Nwazue, an American-born girl Nigerian girl, was inducted into the secret Leopard Society. As she began to develop her magical powers, Sunny learned that she had been chosen to lead a dangerous mission to avert an apocalypse, brought about by the terrifying masquerade, Ekwensu. Now, stronger, feistier, and a bit older, Sunny is studying with her mentor Sugar Cream and struggling to unlock the secrets in her strange Nsibidi book.

Eventually, Sunny knows she must confront her destiny. With the support of her Leopard Society friends, Orlu, Chichi, and Sasha, and of her spirit face, Anyanwu, she will travel through worlds both visible and invisible to the mysteries town of Osisi, where she will fight a climactic battle to save humanity.

Much-honored Nnedi Okorafor, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards, merges today’s Nigeria with a unique world she creates. Akata Warrior blends mythology, fantasy, history and magic into a compelling tale that will keep readers spellbound.]]> 496 Nnedi Okorafor 1101598980 Tracey 0 to-read 4.23 2017 Akata Warrior (The Nsibidi Scripts, #2)
author: Nnedi Okorafor
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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date added: 2020/03/30
shelves: to-read
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]]> <![CDATA[Akata Witch (The Nsibidi Scripts, #1)]]> 32968540
Soon she's part of a quartet of magic students, studying the visible and invisible, learning to change reality. But just as she's finding her footing, Sunny and her friends are asked by the magical authorities to help track down a career criminal who knows magic, too. Will their training be enough to help them against a threat whose powers greatly outnumber theirs?]]> 370 Nnedi Okorafor 0142420913 Tracey 0 3.95 2011 Akata Witch (The Nsibidi Scripts, #1)
author: Nnedi Okorafor
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2011
rating: 0
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date added: 2020/02/23
shelves: sci-fi, currently-reading, african-diaspora-literature, fiction
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]]> <![CDATA[Home Away From Home: The Story of an International Student's Journey from Africa to America]]> 25690518
Pursuing a college education in the United States as an international student can be a very challenging process as it requires top grades, an intense visa interview and a lot of money—much more than an American student would need. This puts a variety of strains on the families of international students: emotional, financial, and loneliness. The same holds true for the students.

In this personal but fascinating memoir, Chiluba Musonda chronicles his life coming to America to pursue a college education at the University of Missouri—Kansas City. Imagine being delayed because there wasn’t enough fuel at the Zambian airport to make the flight so the plane had to land in the next country to fully fuel. Imagine coming from a tropical country and arriving just in time for a snow storm—something read about but never experienced, especially in a t-shirt. These are typical stories scattered throughout this book. Chiluba also explains how he mastered the American scholarship and grant systems. Finally he explains how he discovered himself and a purpose in life.]]> 203 Chiluba J. Musonda Tracey 0 to-read 5.00 2015 Home Away From Home: The Story of an International Student's Journey from Africa to America
author: Chiluba J. Musonda
name: Tracey
average rating: 5.00
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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date added: 2020/01/24
shelves: to-read
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]]> <![CDATA[So You Want to Talk About Race]]> 41717572 In this New York Times bestseller, Ijeoma Oluo offers a hard-hitting but user-friendly examination of race in America

Widespread reporting on aspects of white supremacy--from police brutality to the mass incarceration of Black Americans--has put a media spotlight on racism in our society. Still, it is a difficult subject to talk about. How do you tell your roommate her jokes are racist? Why did your sister-in-law take umbrage when you asked to touch her hair--and how do you make it right? How do you explain white privilege to your white, privileged friend?

In So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo guides readers of all races through subjects ranging from intersectionality and affirmative action to "model minorities" in an attempt to make the seemingly impossible possible: honest conversations about race and racism, and how they infect almost every aspect of American life.]]> 256 Ijeoma Oluo 1580058825 Tracey 0 4.56 2018 So You Want to Talk About Race
author: Ijeoma Oluo
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.56
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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date added: 2020/01/01
shelves: african-american-literature, black-studies, dei-possibilities, must-read-shelf, racism-syllabus, currently-reading
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]]> <![CDATA[The Pooh Dictionary: The Complete Guide to the Words of Pooh and All the Animals in the Forest]]> 1603076 --front flap]]> 256 A.R. Melrose 0525453954 Tracey 5 pleasure-reading, humor 4.15 1995 The Pooh Dictionary: The Complete Guide to the Words of Pooh and All the Animals in the Forest
author: A.R. Melrose
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.15
book published: 1995
rating: 5
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date added: 2019/07/19
shelves: pleasure-reading, humor
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]]> <![CDATA[The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas]]> 38240526 A moving account of a little-known period of state-sponsored racial terror inflicted on ethnic Mexicans in the Texas–Mexico borderlands.

Between 1910 and 1920, vigilantes and law enforcement—including the renowned Texas Rangers—killed Mexican residents with impunity. The full extent of the violence was known only to the relatives of the victims. Monica Muñoz Martinez turns to the keepers of this history to tell this riveting and disturbing untold story.

Operating in remote rural areas enabled the perpetrators to do their worst: hanging, shooting, burning, and beating victims to death without scrutiny. Families scoured the brush to retrieve the bodies of loved ones. Survivors suffered segregation and fierce intimidation, and yet fought back. They confronted assailants in court, worked with Mexican diplomats to investigate the crimes, pressured local police to arrest the perpetrators, spoke to journalists, and petitioned politicians for change.

Martinez reconstructs this history from institutional and private archives and oral histories, to show how the horror of anti-Mexican violence lingered within communities for generations, compounding injustice by inflicting further pain and loss. Yet its memorialization provided victims with an important means of redress, undermining official narratives that sought to whitewash these atrocities. The Injustice Never Leaves You offers an invaluable account of why these incidents happened, what they meant at the time, and how a determined community ensured that the victims were not forgotten.]]> 400 Monica Muñoz Martinez 0674976436 Tracey 0 4.47 2018 The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas
author: Monica Muñoz Martinez
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.47
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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date added: 2019/05/09
shelves: to-read, dei-possibilities, racism-syllabus, texas-research
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]]> <![CDATA[Another Country: Navigating the Emotional Terrain of Our Elders]]> 38488
There are more older people in America today than ever before. They are our parents and grandparents, our aunts and uncles and in-laws. They are living longer, but in a culture that has come to worship youth--a culture in which families have dispersed, communities have broken down, and older people are isolated. Meanwhile, adults in two-career families are struggling to divide their time among their kids, their jobs, and their aging parents--searching for the right words to talk about loneliness, forgetfulness, or selling the house. Another Country is a field guide to this rough terrain for a generation of baby boomers who are finding themselves unprepared to care for those who have always cared for them. Psychologist and bestselling writer Mary Pipher maps out strategies that help bridge the gaps that separate us from our elders. And with her inimitable combination of respect and realism, she offers us new ways of supporting each other--new ways of sharing our time, our energy, and our love.]]> 352 Mary Pipher 1573227846 Tracey 0 to-read, dei-possibilities 3.97 1999 Another Country: Navigating the Emotional Terrain of Our Elders
author: Mary Pipher
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1999
rating: 0
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date added: 2019/02/13
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]]> <![CDATA[The New Old Me: My Late-Life Reinvention]]> 31247027 304 Meredith Maran 0399574131 Tracey 0 to-read, dei-possibilities 3.69 2017 The New Old Me: My Late-Life Reinvention
author: Meredith Maran
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.69
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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date added: 2019/02/13
shelves: to-read, dei-possibilities
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]]> <![CDATA[You Don't Look Your Age: And Other Fairy Tales]]> 32626683 For readers of Nora Ephron, Anna Quindlen, and even Lena Dunham, comes a collection of stories and essays about what women of a certain age have learned sometimes the hard way.

In You Don t Look Your Age, Sheila Nevins has put together an incredibly surprising, funny and poignant collection of short stories, essays, and poetry that, taken together, tell not only her life story but the life stories of a generation of women.

Nevins has seen it all. A famed documentary producer (many credit her with creating the modern documentary) Nevins has always been behind the scenes. But now it s time for her to take center stage. Nevinswas stopped at every path as a girlfriend, during motherhood, and with her career. . You Don t Look Your Age is Nevins chance to tell how things really were, and are, for countless women. Topics she tackles frenemies, infidelity, plastic surgery, dieting, Viagra, the heartbreak of young first love, the discomforts of growing old, and a celebration in the long run of what life has to offer.

With biting humor, charm, deep insight, wisdom, and surprising poignancy, Nevins has written that rare book that will be shared between mothers and daughters and even granddaughters.

"]]> 192 Sheila Nevins 1250111323 Tracey 0 to-read, dei-possibilities 3.36 2017 You Don't Look Your Age: And Other Fairy Tales
author: Sheila Nevins
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.36
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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date added: 2019/02/13
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]]> <![CDATA[Ageism: Stereotyping And Prejeduce Against Older Persons]]> 5813909 372 Todd D. Nelson 0262640570 Tracey 0 to-read, dei-possibilities 3.90 2004 Ageism: Stereotyping And Prejeduce Against Older Persons
author: Todd D. Nelson
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2004
rating: 0
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date added: 2019/02/13
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]]> <![CDATA[Look Me in the Eye: Old Women, Aging and Ageism]]> 462944 192 Barbara MacDonald 1883523400 Tracey 0 to-read, dei-possibilities 4.02 1983 Look Me in the Eye: Old Women, Aging and Ageism
author: Barbara MacDonald
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.02
book published: 1983
rating: 0
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date added: 2019/02/13
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]]> <![CDATA[Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival]]> 127810
Though these women have been known to complain more than contribute, they now must either survive on their own or die trying. In simple but vivid detail, Velma Wallis depicts a landscape and way of life that are at once merciless and starkly beautiful. In her old women, she has created two heroines of steely determination whose story of betrayal, friendship, community and forgiveness "speaks straight to the heart with clarity, sweetness and wisdom" (Ursula K. Le Guin).]]> 140 Velma Wallis 0060723521 Tracey 0 dei-possibilities, to-read 4.04 1993 Two Old Women: An Alaskan Legend of Betrayal, Courage and Survival
author: Velma Wallis
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1993
rating: 0
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date added: 2019/02/13
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]]> <![CDATA[Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance]]> 529429
"The characteristic that distinguishes American vernacular dance--as does jazz music--is swing, which can be heard, felt, and seen, but defined only with great difficulty. . . ."

--from the Introduction
]]> 508 Marshall W. Stearns 0306805537 Tracey 4 black-studies, reference 4.05 Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance
author: Marshall W. Stearns
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.05
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2011/06/16
date added: 2019/01/19
shelves: black-studies, reference
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]]> <![CDATA[Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow (Scholastic Focus)]]> 39983558
This is a story about America during and after Reconstruction, one of history's most pivotal and misunderstood chapters. In a stirring account of emancipation, the struggle for citizenship and national reunion, and the advent of racial segregation, the renowned Harvard scholar delivers a book that is illuminating and timely. Real-life accounts drive the narrative, spanning the half century between the Civil War and Birth of a Nation. Here, you will come face-to-face with the people and events of Reconstruction's noble democratic experiment, its tragic undermining, and the drawing of a new "color line" in the long Jim Crow era that followed. In introducing young readers to them, and to the resiliency of the African American people at times of progress and betrayal, Professor Gates shares a history that remains vitally relevant today.]]> 240 Henry Louis Gates Jr. 1338262041 Tracey 0 to-read 4.05 2019 Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow (Scholastic Focus)
author: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2019
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]]> <![CDATA[Lesbian Love Signs: An Astrological Guide for Women Loving Women]]> 655932 130 Aurora Staff 0895944677 Tracey 3 3.82 1991 Lesbian Love Signs: An Astrological Guide for Women Loving Women
author: Aurora Staff
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.82
book published: 1991
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America]]> 31421117 Tears We Cannot Stop is the book that all Americans who care about the current and long-burning crisis in race relations will want to read.

As the country grapples with racist division at a level not seen since the 1960s, one man's voice soars above the rest with conviction and compassion. In his 2016 New York Times op-ed piece "Death in Black and White," Michael Eric Dyson moved a nation. Now he continues to speak out in Tears We Cannot Stop―a provocative and deeply personal call for change. Dyson argues that if we are to make real racial progress we must face difficult truths, including being honest about how black grievance has been ignored, dismissed, or discounted.

The time is at hand for reckoning with the past, recognizing the truth of the present, and moving together to redeem the nation for our future. If we don't act now, if you don't address race immediately, there very well may be no future.]]> 228 Michael Eric Dyson 1250135990 Tracey 0 4.30 2017 Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
author: Michael Eric Dyson
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.30
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Wicked Good Ketogenic Diet Cookbook: Easy, Whole Food Keto Recipes for Any Budget]]> 30086466
The Wicked Good Ketogenic Diet Cookbook is the perfect balance of health and budget. It's packed with easy to prepare, whole food, low-carb, high-fat recipes that are both yummy and affordable. A collection of helpful tips and tricks show you how to start and stick with the ketogenic diet, and you'll discover it's not just a diet—it's a healthy, weight-reducing way of life.

The Wicked Good Ketogenic Diet Cookbook

Savor the simple, clean, affordable recipes in The Wicked Good Ketogenic Diet Cookbook and see how wicked good it feels follow the ketogenic diet.]]> 266 Amanda C. Hughes 162315734X Tracey 0 to-read, health 3.94 2016 The Wicked Good Ketogenic Diet Cookbook: Easy, Whole Food Keto Recipes for Any Budget
author: Amanda C. Hughes
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.94
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War]]> 26530320 Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries—panic, exhaustion, heat, noise—and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them.

Mary Roach dodges hostile fire with the U.S. Marine Corps Paintball Team as part of a study on hearing loss and survivability in combat. She visits the fashion design studio of U.S. Army Natick Labs and learns why a zipper is a problem for a sniper. She visits a repurposed movie studio where amputee actors help prepare Marine Corps medics for the shock and gore of combat wounds.

At Camp Lemmonier, Djibouti, in east Africa, we learn how diarrhea can be a threat to national security. Roach samples caffeinated meat, sniffs an archival sample of a World War II stink bomb, and stays up all night with the crew tending the missiles on the nuclear submarine USS Tennessee. She answers questions not found in any other book on the military: Why is DARPA interested in ducks? How is a wedding gown like a bomb suit? Why are shrimp more dangerous to sailors than sharks? Take a tour of duty with Roach, and you’ll never see our nation’s defenders in the same way again.]]> 285 Mary Roach 0393245446 Tracey 0 3.90 2016 Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
author: Mary Roach
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness]]> 13547180 New York Times bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting medical mystery, Brain on Fire is the powerful account of one woman’s struggle to recapture her identity.

When twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a hospital room, strapped to her bed and unable to move or speak, she had no memory of how she’d gotten there. Days earlier, she had been on the threshold of a new, adult life: at the beginning of her first serious relationship and a promising career at a major New York newspaper. Now she was labeled violent, psychotic, a flight risk. What happened?

In a swift and breathtaking narrative, Cahalan tells the astonishing true story of her descent into madness, her family’s inspiring faith in her, and the lifesaving diagnosis that nearly didn’t happen.]]> 250 Susannah Cahalan 145162137X Tracey 4 book-club 4.06 2012 Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
author: Susannah Cahalan
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2012
rating: 4
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date added: 2018/05/04
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]]> Stay with Me 32969150
Yejide and Akin have been married since they met and fell in love at university. Though many expected Akin to take several wives, he and Yejide have always agreed: polygamy is not for them. But four years into their marriage--after consulting fertility doctors and healers, trying strange teas and unlikely cures--Yejide is still not pregnant. She assumes she still has time--until her family arrives on her doorstep with a young woman they introduce as Akin's second wife. Furious, shocked, and livid with jealousy, Yejide knows the only way to save her marriage is to get pregnant, which, finally, she does--but at a cost far greater than she could have dared to imagine. An electrifying novel of enormous emotional power, Stay With Me asks how much we can sacrifice for the sake of family.]]> 260 Ayọ̀baĚmi AdeĚbaĚyọ̀ 0451494601 Tracey 4 4.04 2017 Stay with Me
author: Ayọ̀baĚmi AdeĚbaĚyọ̀
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2017
rating: 4
read at: 2018/03/01
date added: 2018/03/01
shelves: african-diaspora-literature, black-literature, book-club, fiction
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]]> <![CDATA[Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing]]> 432113 Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing lays the groundwork for understanding how the past has influenced the present, and opens up the discussion of how we can use the strengths we have gained to heal.]]> 235 Joy DeGruy Leary 0963401122 Tracey 0 4.46 2005 Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing
author: Joy DeGruy Leary
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.46
book published: 2005
rating: 0
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date added: 2018/02/09
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]]> <![CDATA[Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia]]> 16072506 Presumed Incompetent is a pathbreaking account of the intersecting roles of race, gender, and class in the working lives of women faculty of color. Through personal narratives and qualitative empirical studies, more than 40 authors expose the daunting challenges faced by academic women of color as they navigate the often hostile terrain of higher education, including hiring, promotion, tenure, and relations with students, colleagues, and administrators. The narratives are filled with wit, wisdom, and concrete recommendations, and provide a window into the struggles of professional women in a racially stratified but increasingly multicultural America.]]> 588 Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs 0874219221 Tracey 0 4.47 2012 Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia
author: Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.47
book published: 2012
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States]]> 433281
In the new edition Bonilla-Silva has added a chapter dealing with the future of racial stratification in America that goes beyond the white / black dichotomy. He argues that the U.S. is developing a more complex and apparently "plural" racial order that will mimic Latin American patterns of racial stratification. Another new chapter addresses a variety of questions from readers of the first edition. And he has updated the book throughout with new information, data, and references where appropriate. The book ends with a new Postscript, "What is to be Done (For Real?)". As in the highly acclaimed first edition, Bonilla-Silva continues to challenge color-blind thinking.]]> 288 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva 0742546861 Tracey 0 4.27 2003 Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States
author: Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2003
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Grief Recovery Handbook: A Program for Moving Beyond Death, Divorce, and Other Devastating Losses]]> 421848 173 John W. James 0060952733 Tracey 0 4.05 1988 The Grief Recovery Handbook: A Program for Moving Beyond Death, Divorce, and Other Devastating Losses
author: John W. James
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1988
rating: 0
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date added: 2017/07/05
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]]> <![CDATA[My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward]]> 31371250
A story of the fragility of the mind and the tenacity of the human spirit, My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward is, above all, a love story that raises profound questions: How do we care for the people we love? What and whom do we live for?]]> 320 Mark Lukach 0062422936 Tracey 0 to-read 4.07 2017 My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward
author: Mark Lukach
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Urban Girls: Resisting Stereotypes, Creating Identities]]> 3873033
Sociologists have tried to analyze adolescents as long as the discipline has existed. However, most studies have focused on suburban youth, ignoring a large segment of the population, the urban adolescent.

"Urban Girls tries to reverse this trend. The researchers included in this ambitious project realize there is more to adolescence than the suburban experience. The city has unique effects on the people who live there, and they on it. Drawing on experts from across the country, Urban Girls investigates what it is like to be young in an American city. This book also explores the minority experience in America. It is wonderful to see studies of Black and Latina youth that do not automatically label them as future convicts, drug dealers, or with other negative stereotypes."� The American Reporter

Traditional psychology textbooks have ignored the normative development of urban girls and the unique situations they face on a daily basis. Lumped together with their suburban, mostly white and middle class counterparts, their voices are frequently subsumed within the larger study of adolescent development. Urban Girls is the first book to directly focus on the development of urban poor and working class adolescent girls.

Including both quantitative and qualitative essays, and including contributions from psychologists, sociologists, and public health scholars, this volume explores the lives of a diverse group of girls from varying ethnic and class backgrounds. Topics covered include the identity development of Caribbean-American girls, the role of truth telling in the psychological development of African-American girls, relationships between mothers and daughters of different races and ethnicities, friendships, sexuality, health risks, career development, and other subjects of importance to human development. Filling a gap in the literature of human development, Urban Girls is sure to be of use to psychologists, sociologists, and social workers.]]> 410 Bonnie J. Leadbeater 0814751075 Tracey 0 0.0 1996 Urban Girls: Resisting Stereotypes, Creating Identities
author: Bonnie J. Leadbeater
name: Tracey
average rating: 0.0
book published: 1996
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Prophet & the Messiah : An Arab Christian's Perspective on Islam & Christianity]]> 2168716 327 Chawkat Georges Moucarry 0830823158 Tracey 0 to-read, dei-possibilities 3.87 2002 The Prophet & the Messiah : An Arab Christian's Perspective on Islam & Christianity
author: Chawkat Georges Moucarry
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2002
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Price of Freedom Denied: Religious Persecution and Conflict in the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics)]]> 9416933 272 Brian J. Grim 0521146836 Tracey 0 to-read, dei-possibilities 3.79 2010 The Price of Freedom Denied: Religious Persecution and Conflict in the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics)
author: Brian J. Grim
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2010
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The New Visibility of Religion: Studies in Religion and Cultural Hermeneutics (Continuum Resources in Religion and Political Culture)]]> 8010462
This collection of essays brings together a unique collection of voices from theology, aesthetics, social and political science, philosophy and cultural theory in an exploration of four major aspects of this new visibility of the revision of the secularisation thesis, the relationship between religion and violence, the new re-enchantment of reality and the return of metaphysics. The exploration is conducted through essays by and interviews with figures at the forefront of reflecting upon this major cultural shift and its implications. It is distinctively multidisciplinary, examining the phenomenon of the rise of religion in Western Europe from a number of interrelated perspectives.]]> 232 Michael Hoelzl 184706132X Tracey 0 to-read, dei-possibilities 4.00 2008 The New Visibility of Religion: Studies in Religion and Cultural Hermeneutics (Continuum Resources in Religion and Political Culture)
author: Michael Hoelzl
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2008
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]]> <![CDATA[What do the Religions Say about Each Other? Christian Attitudes towards Islam; Islamic Attitudes towards Christianity]]> 4815556 136 William Stoddart 1597310891 Tracey 0 to-read, dei-possibilities 3.50 2008 What do the Religions Say about Each Other? Christian Attitudes towards Islam; Islamic Attitudes towards Christianity
author: William Stoddart
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.50
book published: 2008
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]]> <![CDATA[God, Islam, and the Skeptic Mind: A Study on Faith, Religious Diversity, Ethics, and the Problem of Evil]]> 16132162
How do we know God exists?
Is faith compatible with science?
Why is there evil and suffering?
How should we view religious diversity?
Is ethical behavior dependent on the existence of God?

In this book, Ahmad and Ahmad offer, erudite compelling and fresh answers in an accessible language that respond to the challenges presented by the Age of Skepticism and Science. In doing so, the authors provide a balanced approach representing not only theistic and atheistic perspectives, but also a much-needed Islamic point of view that has largely been ignored or misunderstood.]]> 238 Saiyad Fareed Ahmad 9834129416 Tracey 0 to-read, dei-possibilities 4.23 2004 God, Islam, and the Skeptic Mind: A Study on Faith, Religious Diversity, Ethics, and the Problem of Evil
author: Saiyad Fareed Ahmad
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2004
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[America and the Challenges of Religious Diversity]]> 1777726

Award-winning author Robert Wuthnow tackles these and other difficult questions surrounding religious diversity and does so with his characteristic rigor and style. America and the Challenges of Religious Diversity looks not only at how we have adapted to diversity in the past, but at the ways rank-and-file Americans, clergy, and other community leaders are responding today. Drawing from a new national survey and hundreds of in-depth qualitative interviews, this book is the first systematic effort to assess how well the nation is meeting the current challenges of religious and cultural diversity.


The results, Wuthnow argues, are both encouraging and sobering--encouraging because most Americans do recognize the right of diverse groups to worship freely, but sobering because few Americans have bothered to learn much about religions other than their own or to engage in constructive interreligious dialogue. Wuthnow contends that responses to religious diversity are fundamentally deeper than polite discussions about civil liberties and tolerance would suggest. Rather, he writes, religious diversity strikes us at the very core of our personal and national theologies. Only by understanding this important dimension of our culture will we be able to move toward a more reflective approach to religious pluralism.]]> 416 Robert Wuthnow 0691134111 Tracey 0 dei-possibilities, to-read 3.83 2005 America and the Challenges of Religious Diversity
author: Robert Wuthnow
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2005
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]]> <![CDATA[This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color]]> 313110 261 CherrĂ­e L. Moraga 091317503X Tracey 5 4.51 1981 This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
author: CherrĂ­e L. Moraga
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.51
book published: 1981
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Reclaiming The Heartland: Lesbian and Gay Voices from the Midwest]]> 1605309 256 Karen L. Osborne 0816627541 Tracey 0 2.83 1996 Reclaiming The Heartland: Lesbian and Gay Voices from the Midwest
author: Karen L. Osborne
name: Tracey
average rating: 2.83
book published: 1996
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Piece of My Heart: A Lesbian of Colour Anthology]]> 1291834 393 Makeda Silvera 0920813658 Tracey 0 4.12 1991 Piece of My Heart: A Lesbian of Colour Anthology
author: Makeda Silvera
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.12
book published: 1991
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Does Your Mama Know?: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories]]> 655943 does your mama know? reflects the complexity of emotions that accompany a black lesbian’s coming out. These 49 short stories, poems, interviews and essays—fiction and nonfiction—make up a powerful collection of original and new writing by 41 women. does your mama know? is ready to take its place in the halls of literary African-American lesbian voices.]]> 314 Lisa C. Moore 0965665909 Tracey 4 4.32 1997 Does Your Mama Know?: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories
author: Lisa C. Moore
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.32
book published: 1997
rating: 4
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date added: 2017/04/17
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a great compilation of fiction, non-fiction and poetry related to coming out stories.
]]> <![CDATA[Cultural Hegemony and African American Development]]> 1476417
In chapter 1 Semmes defines the relationship between cultural hegemony and the African American experience and establishes how this relationship creates distinctive and recurring problems for development. The following two chapters analyze the works by sociologists E. Franklin Frazier and Harold Cruse. Chapter 4 explores the role of legitimacy in psychological and social psychological adaptation, and inter- and intra-group relations. In Chapter 5, Semmes analyzes the relationship between the political economy of the mass media and African American aesthetic and artistic production, and argues that the expropriation of African American cultural products is a structural problem contributing to cultural negation. Chapters 6 and 7 examine two important institutional religion and health. Next Semmes looks at the significance of cultural revitalization efforts which reveal the collectively-felt need to transcend destructive hegemony. He concludes with a chapter on factors affecting the production of knowledge in African American studies and the implications for cultural development. Sociologists and scholars in Ethnic and American Studies, as well as African American Studies, will find this study useful.]]> Clovis E. Semmes 0275953394 Tracey 5 4.14 1992 Cultural Hegemony and African American Development
author: Clovis E. Semmes
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.14
book published: 1992
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Racism, Health, and Post-Industrialism: A Theory of African-American Health]]> 1579211 Clovis E. Semmes 0275954285 Tracey 0 5.00 1996 Racism, Health, and Post-Industrialism: A Theory of African-American Health
author: Clovis E. Semmes
name: Tracey
average rating: 5.00
book published: 1996
rating: 0
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]]> Infidel 81227
Infidel shows the coming of age of this distinguished political superstar and champion of free speech as well as the development of her beliefs, iron will, and extraordinary determination to fight injustice. Raised in a strict Muslim family, Hirsi Ali survived civil war, female mutilation, brutal beatings, adolescence as a devout believer during the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, and life in four troubled, unstable countries ruled largely by despots. She escaped from a forced marriage and sought asylum in the Netherlands, where she earned a college degree in political science, tried to help her tragically depressed sister adjust to the West, and fought for the rights of Muslim women and the reform of Islam as a member of Parliament. Under constant threat, demonized by reactionary Islamists and politicians, disowned by her father, and expelled from family and clan, she refuses to be silenced.

Ultimately a celebration of triumph over adversity, Hirsi Ali’s story tells how a bright little girl evolves out of dutiful obedience to become an outspoken, pioneering freedom fighter. As Western governments struggle to balance democratic ideals with religious pressures, no other book could be more timely or more significant.]]> 353 Ayaan Hirsi Ali 0743289684 Tracey 0 4.17 2006 Infidel
author: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2006
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]]> <![CDATA[The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam]]> 81229
Hirsi Ali relates her experiences as a Muslim woman so that oppressed Muslim women can take heart and seek their own liberation. Drawing on her love of reason and the Enlightenment philosophers on whose principles democracy was founded, she presents her firsthand knowledge of the Islamic worldview and advises Westerners how best to address the great divide that currently exists between the West and Islamic nations and between Muslim immigrants and their adopted countries.

An international bestseller -- with updated information for American readers and two new essays added for this edition -- "The Caged Virgin" is a compelling, courageous, eye-opening work.]]> 187 Ayaan Hirsi Ali 0743288335 Tracey 0 3.77 2002 The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam
author: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2002
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]]> <![CDATA[Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films]]> 774429 480 Donald Bogle 082641267X Tracey 0 4.21 1973 Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films
author: Donald Bogle
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.21
book published: 1973
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism]]> 397509 384 Patricia Hill Collins 2702890865 Tracey 0 4.41 2004 Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism
author: Patricia Hill Collins
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.41
book published: 2004
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]]> <![CDATA[Dangerous Liaisons: Blacks, Gays, and the Struggle for Equality]]> 323541 Dangerous Liaisons provides a platform for the leading minds of both communities, including those who straddle both worlds, to debate the volatile subject of the relationship between African Americans and homosexuals. In eleven newly commissioned pieces together with five classic essays, Dangerous Liaisons addresses such timely issues as attitudes toward gay marriage versus attitudes toward interracial marriage; the growth of gay and lesbian rights organizations and homophobia in the black church; and conflict among minorities in the arts. Dangerous Liaisons presents well-known historians, political analysts, activists, artists, writers, and philosophers on minority relations in the struggle for legal, social, and cultural equality.

Contributors: Michael Bronski, George Chauncey, Cheryl Clark, Cathy Cohen, Gary Comstock, Samuel Delany, Martin Duberman, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Jewelle Gomez, Pillip Brian Harper, Audre Lorde, Robert Reid-Pharr, Darieck Scott, Barbara Smith, Alisa Solomon, Cornel West
]]> 312 Eric Brandt 1565844556 Tracey 0 3.90 1999 Dangerous Liaisons: Blacks, Gays, and the Struggle for Equality
author: Eric Brandt
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.90
book published: 1999
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]]> <![CDATA[The Mis-Education of the Negro]]> 867670 240 Carter G. Woodson 0913543705 Tracey 4 4.32 1933 The Mis-Education of the Negro
author: Carter G. Woodson
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.32
book published: 1933
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Racing to Justice: Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society]]> 13697190 336 John A. Powell 0253006295 Tracey 0 4.29 2012 Racing to Justice: Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society
author: John A. Powell
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2012
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]]> <![CDATA[Blacks and Whites in Christian America: How Racial Discrimination Shapes Religious Convictions (Religion and Social Transformation, 5)]]> 13794564 290 Jason E. Shelton 0814722768 Tracey 0 3.64 2012 Blacks and Whites in Christian America: How Racial Discrimination Shapes Religious Convictions (Religion and Social Transformation, 5)
author: Jason E. Shelton
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.64
book published: 2012
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Mind Gym: An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence]]> 451720 Praise for Mind Gym

"Believing in yourself is paramount to success for any athlete. Gary's lessons and David's writing provide examples of the importance of the mental game."
--Ben Crenshaw, two-time Masters champion and former Ryder Cup captain

"Mind Gym hits a home run. If you want to build mental muscle for the major leagues, read this book."
--Ken Griffey Jr., Major League Baseball MVP

"I read Mind Gym on my way to the Sydney Olympics and really got a lot out of it. Gary has important lessons to teach, and you'll find the exercises fun and beneficial."
--Jason Kidd, NBA All-Star and Olympic gold-medal winner

"I love the book Mind Gym."
--Madison Kocian, 2016 U.S. Women's Gymnastics Team, 2015 Uneven Bars World Champion, as told to Us Weekly

In Mind Gym, noted sports psychology consultant Gary Mack explains how your mind influences your performance on the field or on the court as much as your physical skill does, if not more so. Through forty accessible lessons and inspirational anecdotes from prominent athletes--many of whom he has worked with--you will learn the same techniques and exercises Mack uses to help elite athletes build mental "muscle." Mind Gym will give you the "head edge" over the competition.]]> 224 Gary Mack 0071395970 Tracey 0 4.08 2001 Mind Gym: An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence
author: Gary Mack
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2001
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf]]> 58098
From its inception in California in 1974 to its Broadway revival in 2022, the Obie Award–winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country for nearly fifty years. Passionate and fearless, Shange’s words reveal what it meant to be a woman of color in the 20th century.

First published in 1975, when it was praised by The New Yorker for “encompassing…every feeling and experience a woman has ever had,� for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf will be read and performed for generations to come. Now with new introductions by Jesmyn Ward and Broadway director Camille A. Brown, and one poem not included in the original, here is the complete text of a groundbreaking dramatic prose poem that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world.]]> 64 Ntozake Shange Tracey 0 4.28 1975 For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
author: Ntozake Shange
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.28
book published: 1975
rating: 0
read at: 2017/02/20
date added: 2017/02/20
shelves: for-projects, black-literature, black-studies, poetry
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]]> <![CDATA[Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities]]> 9108479 Ebony and Ivy, Craig Steven Wilder, a rising star in the profession of history, lays bare uncomfortable truths about race, slavery, and the American academy.

Many of America's revered colleges and universities—from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton to Rutgers, Williams College, and UNC—were soaked in the sweat, the tears, and sometimes the blood of people of color. The earliest academies proclaimed their mission to Christianize the savages of North America, and played a key role in white conquest. Later, the slave economy and higher education grew up together, each nurturing the other. Slavery funded colleges, built campuses, and paid the wages of professors. Enslaved Americans waited on faculty and students; academic leaders aggressively courted the support of slave owners and slave traders. Significantly, as Wilder shows, our leading universities, dependent on human bondage, became breeding grounds for the racist ideas that sustained them.

Ebony and Ivy is a powerful and propulsive study and the first of its kind, revealing a history of oppression behind the institutions usually considered the cradle of liberal politics.]]> 432 Craig Steven Wilder 1596916818 Tracey 0 3.76 2013 Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities
author: Craig Steven Wilder
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.76
book published: 2013
rating: 0
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date added: 2017/01/24
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]]> <![CDATA[Derby Brain - mental toughness for freshies]]> 33776977
WRONG!

Mental toughness is super important for any athlete at any level (yes, you are an athlete now, sorry to break it to you!) but especially those at the start of their journey.

If you can learn how to be mentally strong when you’re a Freshie, not only will you be a freaking pro at it by the time you reach bouting level and beyond, you’ll also find learning this sport way more fun!

Because, lets face it, roller derby is tough! Most of us not only learn to skate from scratch, we also have to learn rules, tactics, derby specific skills and how to be part of a team. We have to be tested, observed and assessed. We have to do endurance drills (puke!), off-skates training and something called jamming?!?!

Roller derby is not easy. At all! So we don’t need our brain making it harder.]]> 75 Louise 'Treble' Braithwaite Tracey 0 5.00 Derby Brain - mental toughness for freshies
author: Louise 'Treble' Braithwaite
name: Tracey
average rating: 5.00
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rating: 0
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date added: 2017/01/14
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]]> Between the World and Me 25489625 “This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it.�
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In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,� a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden?
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Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.]]> 152 Ta-Nehisi Coates Tracey 0 black-studies, to-read 4.40 2015 Between the World and Me
author: Ta-Nehisi Coates
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.40
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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date added: 2015/12/02
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]]> <![CDATA[The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness]]> 6792458
As the United States celebrates the nation's "triumph over race" with the election of Barack Obama, the majority of young black men in major American cities are locked behind bars or have been labeled felons for life. Although Jim Crow laws have been wiped off the books, an astounding percentage of the African American community remains trapped in a subordinate status--much like their grandparents before them.

In this incisive critique, former litigator-turned-legal-scholar Michelle Alexander provocatively argues that we have not ended racial caste in America: we have simply redesigned it. Alexander shows that, by targeting black men and decimating communities of color, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a contemporary system of racial control, even as it formally adheres to the principle of color blindness. The New Jim Crow challenges the civil rights community--and all of us--to place mass incarceration at the forefront of a new movement for racial justice in America.]]> 290 Michelle Alexander Tracey 0 4.52 2010 The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
author: Michelle Alexander
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.52
book published: 2010
rating: 0
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date added: 2015/12/02
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]]> <![CDATA[A Man from Another Land: How Finding My Roots Changed My Life]]> 9541786 Grey's Anatomy actor Isaiah Washington explains how filling in the gaps of his past led him to discover a new passion: helping those less fortunate. DNA testing revealed that Washington was descended from the Mende people, who today live in Sierra Leone. For many people, the story would end with the results of the search; for Isaiah, it had just begun. Discovering his roots has given him a new purpose, to lead an inspirational life defined by faith and charity.

After visiting Sierra Leone, and researching the country and its needs, Washington forged a strong relationship with the Mende people, and was inducted as Chief Gondobay Manga in May 2006. He established The Gondobay Manga Foundation to institute many improvements suggested by the country's people, addressing educational concerns, practical issues (road building, water supply, and electricity), and rehabilitative projects.

Dual citizenship has been a dream of African-Americans such as W.E.B. DuBois, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X, but Washington became the first to realize that honor in 2008. A twofold milestone, it was also the first time an African president granted citizenship based on DNA.]]> 304 Isaiah Washington 1599953188 Tracey 0 4.14 2011 A Man from Another Land: How Finding My Roots Changed My Life
author: Isaiah Washington
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2011
rating: 0
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date added: 2015/12/02
shelves: african-american-literature, autobiography, to-read, considering-reading, for-projects, genealogy, black-studies
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]]> <![CDATA[A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present]]> 2767 Zinn portrays a side of American history that can largely be seen as the exploitation and manipulation of the majority by rigged systems that hugely favor a small aggregate of elite rulers from across the orthodox political parties.
A People's History has been assigned as reading in many high schools and colleges across the United States. It has also resulted in a change in the focus of historical work, which now includes stories that previously were ignored

Library Journal calls Howard Zinn’s book “a brilliant and moving history of the American people from the point of view of those…whose plight has been largely omitted from most histories.”]]> 729 Howard Zinn 0060838655 Tracey 0 to-read 4.08 1980 A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
author: Howard Zinn
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.08
book published: 1980
rating: 0
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date added: 2015/09/18
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]]> <![CDATA[Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Restoring the Links]]> 1073624
Hall traces the linguistic, economic, and cultural ties shared by large numbers of enslaved Africans, showing that despite the fragmentation of the diaspora many ethnic groups retained enough cohesion to communicate and to transmit elements of their shared culture. Hall concludes that recognition of the survival and persistence of African ethnic identities can fundamentally reshape how people think about the emergence of identities among enslaved Africans and their descendants in the Americas, about the ways shared identity gave rise to resistance movements, and about the elements of common African ethnic traditions that influenced regional creole cultures throughout the Americas.

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Enslaved peoples were brought to the Americas from many places in Africa, but a large majority came from relatively few ethnic groups. Gwendolyn Midlo Hall traces the linguistic, economic, and cultural ties shared by large numbers of enslaved Africans, showing that despite the fragmentation of the diaspora many ethnic groups retained enough cohesion to communicate and to transmit elements of their shared culture. Hall concludes that recognizing the persistence of African ethnic identities can reshape how people think about the emergence of identities among enslaved Africans and their descendants in the Americas, about the ways shared identity gave rise to resistance movements, and about the elements of common African ethnic traditions that influenced regional creole cultures throughout the Americas.
-->]]> Gwendolyn Midlo Hall 0807829730 Tracey 0 4.23 2005 Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Restoring the Links
author: Gwendolyn Midlo Hall
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2005
rating: 0
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date added: 2015/04/05
shelves: african-diaspora-literature, black-studies, genealogy, pleasure-reading, reference, save-for-later, slavery-research
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]]> <![CDATA[Blacks in East Texas History: Selections from the East Texas Historical Journal]]> 4876917 208 Bruce A. Glasrud 1603440410 Tracey 0 5.00 2008 Blacks in East Texas History: Selections from the East Texas Historical Journal
author: Bruce A. Glasrud
name: Tracey
average rating: 5.00
book published: 2008
rating: 0
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date added: 2015/04/05
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]]> <![CDATA[Plantation, town, and county;: Essays on the local history of American slave society,]]> 4275869 457 Elinor Miller 0252004124 Tracey 0 0.0 Plantation, town, and county;: Essays on the local history of American slave society,
author: Elinor Miller
name: Tracey
average rating: 0.0
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rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Texas Terror: The Slave Insurrection Panic of 1860 and the Secession of the Lower South (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War)]]> 3924014 264 Donald E. Reynolds 0807132837 Tracey 0 4.50 2007 Texas Terror: The Slave Insurrection Panic of 1860 and the Secession of the Lower South (Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War)
author: Donald E. Reynolds
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.50
book published: 2007
rating: 0
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date added: 2015/04/05
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]]> <![CDATA[Light in the Darkness: A Story about How Slaves Learned in Secret]]> 15818577 40 Lesa Cline-Ransome 1423134958 Tracey 0 4.26 2013 Light in the Darkness: A Story about How Slaves Learned in Secret
author: Lesa Cline-Ransome
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2013
rating: 0
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date added: 2015/04/04
shelves: black-history-for-young-people, must-read-shelf, african-american-literature, to-read
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]]> If You Give a Pig a Pancake 826585 "If you give a pig a pancake, she'll want some syrup to go with it..."

If you give a pig a pancake, she'll want some syrup to go with it. You'll give her some of your favorite maple syrup, and she'll probably get all sticky, so she'll want to take a bath. She'll ask you for some bubbles. When you give her the bubbles...

Laura Numeroff and Felicia Bond have done it again! In keeping with their best-sellers 'If You Give a Mouse a Cookie' (1985) and 'If You Give a Moose a Muffin' (1991), chaos is the order of the day when an accommodating little girl who tries to keep up with the whims of a busy little pig.

Fans of 'If You Give a Mouse a Cookie' (1985) will love this joyful new addition! This book is a great introduction to the 'If You Give...' Series, and also a perennial favorite among children. With its spare, rhythmic text and circular tale,Ěý 'If You Give a Pig a Pancake' (1998) Ěýis perfect for beginning readers and story time. Sure to inspire giggles and requests to "read it again!" as well as entertain and delight readers for generations to come!

Age: Preschool-2+]]> 32 Laura Joffe Numeroff 0060266864 Tracey 3 4.26 1998 If You Give a Pig a Pancake
author: Laura Joffe Numeroff
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.26
book published: 1998
rating: 3
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date added: 2015/02/12
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]]> <![CDATA[Diego's Sea Turtle Adventure (Go, Diego, Go!)]]> 11205647 CHILDREN'S BOOK 28 Christine Ricci 0545002877 Tracey 3 2.67 2006 Diego's Sea Turtle Adventure (Go, Diego, Go!)
author: Christine Ricci
name: Tracey
average rating: 2.67
book published: 2006
rating: 3
read at: 2015/02/12
date added: 2015/02/12
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]]> <![CDATA[Slave Ancestral Research: It's Something Else]]> 779674 . 290 Mary L. Jackson Fears 0788402005 Tracey 0 4.00 1995 Slave Ancestral Research: It's Something Else
author: Mary L. Jackson Fears
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1995
rating: 0
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date added: 2014/12/30
shelves: genealogy, reference, currently-reading
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]]> <![CDATA[An Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas, 1821-1865]]> 1305291 306 Randolph B. Campbell 0807115053 Tracey 0 5.00 1989 An Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas, 1821-1865
author: Randolph B. Campbell
name: Tracey
average rating: 5.00
book published: 1989
rating: 0
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date added: 2014/11/28
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]]> <![CDATA[The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks]]> 6493208
Yet Henrietta Lacks remains virtually unknown, buried in an unmarked grave.

Now Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the “colored� ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to stark white laboratories with freezers full of HeLa cells; from Henrietta’s small, dying hometown of Clover, Virginia � a land of wooden quarters for enslaved people, faith healings, and voodoo � to East Baltimore today, where her children and grandchildren live and struggle with the legacy of her cells.

Henrietta’s family did not learn of her “immortality� until more than twenty years after her death, when scientists investigating HeLa began using her husband and children in research without informed consent. And though the cells had launched a multimillion-dollar industry that sells human biological materials, her family never saw any of the profits. As Rebecca Skloot so brilliantly shows, the story of the Lacks family � past and present � is inextricably connected to the history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of.

Over the decade it took to uncover this story, Rebecca became enmeshed in the lives of the Lacks family—especially Henrietta’s daughter Deborah, who was devastated to learn about her mother’s cells. She was consumed with questions: Had scientists cloned her mother? Did it hurt her when researchers infected her cells with viruses and shot them into space? What happened to her sister, Elsie, who died in a mental institution at the age of fifteen? And if her mother was so important to medicine, why couldn’t her children afford health insurance?

Intimate in feeling, astonishing in scope, and impossible to put down, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks captures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery, as well as its human consequences.]]> 370 Rebecca Skloot 1400052173 Tracey 5 4.12 2010 The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
author: Rebecca Skloot
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2010
rating: 5
read at: 2014/11/15
date added: 2014/11/15
shelves: health, womens-studies, black-studies
review:
this book is fascinating and infuriating. it has started to open my eyes to how recent the practice of informed consent really is, and it sheds more light on differences in class, race, and education level made for great discoveries for the scientific community, but at a heavy emotional toll for the Lacks family.
]]> Black Genealogy 4001216 232 Charles L. Blockson 0130776858 Tracey 4 4.25 1977 Black Genealogy
author: Charles L. Blockson
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.25
book published: 1977
rating: 4
read at: 2011/07/14
date added: 2014/09/14
shelves: black-studies, genealogy, for-projects, pleasure-reading, reference
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]]> <![CDATA[The Negro Family in the United States]]> 8563625 686 E. Franklin Frazier Tracey 4 3.88 1939 The Negro Family in the United States
author: E. Franklin Frazier
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.88
book published: 1939
rating: 4
read at: 2010/06/22
date added: 2014/06/23
shelves: black-studies, for-projects, textbooks
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]]> <![CDATA[America's Black Founders: Revolutionary Heroes & Early Leaders with 21 Activities (Volume 32) (For Kids series)]]> 7006601
History books are replete with heroic stories of Washington, Jefferson, and Adams, but what of Allen, Russwurm, and Hawley? America’s Black Founders celebrates the lesser known but significant lives and contributions of our nation’s early African American leaders. Many know that the Revolutionary War’s first martyr, Crispus Attucks, a dockworker of African descent, was killed at the Boston Massacre. But far fewer know that the final conflict of the war, the Battle of Yorktown, was hastened to a conclusion by James Armistead Lafayette, a slave and spy who reported the battle plans of General Cornwallis to George Washington.
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Author Nancy Sanders weaves the histories of dozens of men and women—soldiers, sailors, ministers, poets, merchants, doctors, and other community leaders—who have earned proper recognition among the founders of the United States of America. To get a better sense of what these individuals accomplished and the times in which they lived, readers will celebrate Constitution Day, cook colonial foods, publish a newspaper, petition their government, and more. This valuable resource also includes a time line of significant events, a list of historic sites to visit or explore online, and Web resources for further study.
]]> 144 Nancy I. Sanders 1556528116 Tracey 0 4.09 2010 America's Black Founders: Revolutionary Heroes & Early Leaders with 21 Activities (Volume 32) (For Kids series)
author: Nancy I. Sanders
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2010
rating: 0
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date added: 2014/05/18
shelves: suggestions-for-others, black-history-for-young-people
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]]> <![CDATA[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)]]> 1 652 J.K. Rowling Tracey 4 4.57 2005 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
author: J.K. Rowling
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.57
book published: 2005
rating: 4
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date added: 2014/04/28
shelves: pleasure-reading, do-overs, re-reading
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]]> <![CDATA[The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism]]> 14894629
As historian Edward Baptist reveals in The Half Has Never Been Told, the expansion of slavery in the first eight decades after American independence drove the evolution and modernization of the United States. In the span of a single lifetime, the South grew from a narrow coastal strip of worn-out tobacco plantations to a continental cotton empire, and the United States grew into a modern, industrial, and capitalist economy. Until the Civil War, Baptist explains, the most important American economic innovations were ways to make slavery ever more profitable. Through forced migration and torture, slave owners extracted continual increases in efficiency from enslaved African Americans. Thus the United States seized control of the world market for cotton, the key raw material of the Industrial Revolution, and became a wealthy nation with global influence.

Told through intimate slave narratives, plantation records, newspapers, and the words of politicians, entrepreneurs, and escaped slaves, The Half Has Never Been Told offers a radical new interpretation of American history. It forces readers to reckon with the violence at the root of American supremacy, but also with the survival and resistance that brought about slavery’s end—and created a culture that sustains America’s deepest dreams of freedom.
]]> 498 Edward E. Baptist 046500296X Tracey 0 4.45 2013 The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
author: Edward E. Baptist
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.45
book published: 2013
rating: 0
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date added: 2014/03/23
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]]> <![CDATA[Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery (John Hope Franklin Series in African American History & Culture)]]> 13790945
Williams follows those who were separated, chronicles their searches, and documents the rare experience of reunion. She also explores the sympathy, indifference, hostility, or empathy expressed by whites about sundered black families. Williams shows how searches for family members in the post-Civil War era continue to reverberate in African American culture in the ongoing search for family history and connection across generations.]]> 251 Heather Andrea Williams 0807835544 Tracey 0 4.23 2012 Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery (John Hope Franklin Series in African American History & Culture)
author: Heather Andrea Williams
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2012
rating: 0
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date added: 2014/03/19
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]]> <![CDATA[150 Years Later: Broken Ties Mended]]> 12545548 246 Melvin J. Collier 146372568X Tracey 5 4.40 2011 150 Years Later: Broken Ties Mended
author: Melvin J. Collier
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.40
book published: 2011
rating: 5
read at: 2014/03/19
date added: 2014/03/19
shelves: genealogy, food-for-my-soul, pleasure-reading, black-studies
review:
I really like how this is much more than just a "how to" book! Melvin Collier takes the process of tracing one's family tree and shows those steps in action in his own family history research. For anyone who hesitates to do such work because they don't think they can get very far, this book should hopefully give you lots of encouragement, as well as a clear view of the kinds of information gained as you move from beginning to intermediate and advanced levels of research. The hard work pays off huge dividends not only in reconstructing his ancestors' lives, but also in reconnecting descendants of long lost family members. A thoroughly enjoyable and *very* recommended read!
]]> <![CDATA[Modern Dance, Negro Dance: Race in Motion]]> 704115 320 Susan Manning 0816637377 Tracey 0 black-studies, save-for-later 3.00 2004 Modern Dance, Negro Dance: Race in Motion
author: Susan Manning
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.00
book published: 2004
rating: 0
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date added: 2014/03/13
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]]> <![CDATA[The Dance of Freedom: Texas African Americans during Reconstruction (Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture)]]> 1563684 286 Barry A. Crouch 0292714874 Tracey 0 4.50 2007 The Dance of Freedom: Texas African Americans during Reconstruction (Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture)
author: Barry A. Crouch
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.50
book published: 2007
rating: 0
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date added: 2014/02/16
shelves: genealogy, re-reading, do-overs, black-studies, to-read, reference
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]]> <![CDATA[African Presence in Early America]]> 613052 250 Ivan Van Sertima Tracey 0 4.53 1970 African Presence in Early America
author: Ivan Van Sertima
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.53
book published: 1970
rating: 0
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date added: 2014/01/06
shelves: to-read, black-studies, considering-reading
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]]> <![CDATA[African Presence Early Eur(ser7#2)]]> 223389 345 Ivan Van Sertima 0887386644 Tracey 0 to-read 4.44 African Presence Early Eur(ser7#2)
author: Ivan Van Sertima
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.44
book published:
rating: 0
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date added: 2014/01/06
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]]> <![CDATA[The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality]]> 625893
N.B
(translation of sections of Antériorité des civilisations négres and Nations nègres et culture)]]> 336 Cheikh Anta Diop 1556520727 Tracey 4 black-studies, textbooks 4.49 1974 The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality
author: Cheikh Anta Diop
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.49
book published: 1974
rating: 4
read at: 2008/09/01
date added: 2013/12/30
shelves: black-studies, textbooks
review:
this is one of the textbooks for an Intro to African American Studies class i'm taking. it's a little tough to read at times, but i think that's because i was overwhelmed at the amount of information Diop provided to counter claims made by historians. i'm looking forward to checking out some of the sources Diop cited in his arguments. there's so much history that we don't know...so much that has been denied, disrespected, and removed in relation to Africa. this book serves as a good foundation to begin to question myths about the real roles of African cultures, including Egypt, in the development of civilization.
]]> <![CDATA[How to Teach: A Practical Guide for Librarians (Practical Guides for Librarians)]]> 18232179
This book is designed for all librarians and library staff who teach as part of their role and library school students new to teaching.]]> 198 Beverley E. Crane 0810891050 Tracey 0 2.64 2013 How to Teach: A Practical Guide for Librarians (Practical Guides for Librarians)
author: Beverley E. Crane
name: Tracey
average rating: 2.64
book published: 2013
rating: 0
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date added: 2013/12/03
shelves: to-read, professional-development, reference
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]]> <![CDATA[Finding and Using African American Newspapers]]> 18592589 Finally a book has come along that dares to address the difficult topic of African American newspaper research. Are there actually black newspapers out there? How do I locate them? Is there much in them aside from obituaries? Are they worth the time and effort?

Tim answers these questions and more as he skillfully navigates the topic armed with years of experience. After convincing the faint of heart of the absolute need to incorporate African American newspaper research into their overall research strategy, he then demystifies the process of locating African American newspapers, before providing researchers with a plethora of tips and strategies on how to track down those vital social columns -- packed full of invaluable genealogical information on your ancestors!]]> 71 Timothy N. Pinnick 0944619851 Tracey 0 2.00 2008 Finding and Using African American Newspapers
author: Timothy N. Pinnick
name: Tracey
average rating: 2.00
book published: 2008
rating: 0
read at: 2013/12/03
date added: 2013/12/03
shelves: black-studies, for-projects, genealogy, reference
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]]> Twelve Years a Slave 18478222 363 Solomon Northup 0989794806 Tracey 0 4.21 1853 Twelve Years a Slave
author: Solomon Northup
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.21
book published: 1853
rating: 0
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date added: 2013/10/20
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]]> <![CDATA[The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates]]> 7099273 Ěý
Selected by Stephen Curry as his “Underrated� Book Club Pick with Literati

The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his.

In December 2000, the Baltimore Sun ran a small piece about Wes Moore, a local student who had just received a Rhodes Scholarship. The same paper also ran a series of articles about four young men who had allegedly killed a police officer in a spectacularly botched armed robbery. The police were still hunting for two of the suspects who had gone on the lam, a pair of brothers. One was named Wes Moore.Ěý

Wes just couldn’t shake off the unsettling coincidence, or the inkling that the two shared much more than space in the same newspaper. After following the story of the robbery, the manhunt, and the trial to its conclusion, he wrote a letter to the other Wes, now a convicted murderer serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. His letter tentatively asked the questions that had been haunting Who are you? How did this happen?

That letter led to a correspondence and relationship that have lasted for several years. Over dozens of letters and prison visits, Wes discovered thatĚýthe other Wes had had a life not unlike his BothĚýhad had difficult childhoods, both were fatherless; they’d hung out on similar corners with similar crews, and both had run into trouble with the police. At each stage of their young lives they had come across similar moments of decision, yet their choices would lead them to astonishingly different destinies.

Told in alternating dramatic narratives that take readers from heart-wrenching losses to moments of surprising redemption, The Other Wes Moore tells the story of a generation of boys trying to find their way in a hostile world.]]> 233 Wes Moore 0385528191 Tracey 4 3.85 2010 The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
author: Wes Moore
name: Tracey
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author: Richard Scott Rennert
name: Tracey
average rating: 3.00
book published: 1995
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]]> <![CDATA[Powerful Words: More Than 200 Years Of Extraordinary Writings By ....]]> 1004567
This is a moving collection of excerpted writings (letters, speeches, poetry, novels, songs, and more) by famous African-Americans with thoughtful commentary on the authors, as well as the impact the writings have had on society.

Benjamin Banneker. Dred Scott. Ida B. Wells Barnett. Marcus Garvey. Langston Hughes. Rosa Parks. Malcolm X. Toni Morrison. Lauryn Hill. These and many more are the people who have helped shape African-American culture throughout history.]]> 192 Wade Hudson 0439409691 Tracey 0 4.53 2004 Powerful Words: More Than 200 Years Of Extraordinary Writings By ....
author: Wade Hudson
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.53
book published: 2004
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]]> <![CDATA[Medgar Evers and the NAACP (A Graphic History of the Civil Rights Movement)]]> 14457172 24 Gary Jeffrey 1433974959 Tracey 0 3.00 2012 Medgar Evers and the NAACP (A Graphic History of the Civil Rights Movement)
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average rating: 3.00
book published: 2012
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]]> <![CDATA[Ida B. Wells-Barnett: A Voice Against Violence (Great African Americans Series)]]> 268927 32 Patricia C. McKissack 0766016773 Tracey 0 4.33 1991 Ida B. Wells-Barnett: A Voice Against Violence (Great African Americans Series)
author: Patricia C. McKissack
name: Tracey
average rating: 4.33
book published: 1991
rating: 0
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