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Language
English
Description
"A current, constructive, and actionable exploration of today's racial landscape, offering straightforward clarity that readers of all races need to contribute to the dismantling of the racial divide. In So You Want to Talk About Race, Editor at Large of The Establishment, Ijeoma Oluo offers a contemporary, accessible take on the racial landscape in America, addressing head-on such issues as privilege, police brutality, intersectionality, micro-aggressions,...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Describes how a period of transition in the journalist author's life marked by her empty nest, a recent illness and her aging parents led her to forge a deep friendship with a gifted Kenyan gardener with whom she transformed her yard and shared long-buried secrets.
4) Use your difference to make a difference: how to connect and communicate in a cross-cultural world
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Recent years have seen dramatic changes to several institutions worldwide. Our increasingly interconnected, digitized, and globalized world presents immense opportunities and unique challenges. Modern businesses and schools interact with individuals and organizations from a diverse range of cultural and national backgrounds--increasing the likelihood for miscommunication, errors in strategy, and unintended consequences in the process. This has also...
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Series
Publisher
Lumen/Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"Esta colección de charlas -- definidas por el propio Eco como un collage sobre las bases del racismo y de la intolerancia -- evidencia el abismo que dista entre actuar con la cabeza y actuar con las vísceras. Una guía concisa, visionaria y única por su claridad y autoridad, rabiosamente actual en este momento tan delicado en el que la incomprensión y lo retrógrado parecen imponerse. Un manual imprescindible para mirar al otro con nuevos ojos...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A study in the collision between Western medicine and the beliefs of a traditional culture focuses on a hospitalized child of Laotian immigrants whose belief that illness is a spiritual matter comes into conflict with doctors' methods.
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Having conversations about race is uncomfortable. But for progress between individuals (and our communities) to happen, we need to be able to speak openly and honestly. Podcast hosts of The Kinswomen Yseult and Hannah use their own friendship and experiences from different racial backgrounds to offer guidance on navigating these layered conversations. In Real Friends Talk About Race, the duo share their two perspectives on the ways in which culture,...
10) Next door
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In this wordless picture book, a Deaf child and his mother set out on a walk through their neighborhood. When they return home, they visit the family in the apartment next door who are newcomers to the country. A friendship blooms between the boy and his new neighbor, a young Syrian girl. Although they speak different languages, ASL and Arabic, they find a point of connection without using their voices. This tender tale about communication, connection...
Author
Publisher
Zondervan Reflective
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In today's racially diverse world, Christians can no longer ignore discussions about cultural identity and cross-cultural engagement. We need a guide to navigate relationships with people who have different cultural and ethnic backgrounds than we do in a way that leads to real connections. In Becoming All Things, Michelle Ami Reyes offers a discussion on the challenges surrounding cross-cultural relationships in America today, including the reasons...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Aunty Joy Murphy Wandin, the senior Aboriginal elder of the Wurundjeri people, channels her passion for storytelling into a remarkable and utterly unique picture book that invites readers to discover some of the history and traditions of her people. Indigenous artist Lisa Kennedy gives the Wurundjeri Welcome to Country form in beautiful paintings rich with blues and browns, as full of wonder and history as the tradition they depict.
13) Western
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Deutsch
Description
An intense, slow-burning thriller, this film follows a group of German construction workers installing a hydroelectric plant in remote rural Bulgaria. The foreign land awakens the men's sense of adventure, but tensions mount when, Meinhard, the strong, silent, and newcomer to the group, starts mixing with the local villagers. The two sides speak different languages and share a troubled history. Can they learn to trust each other, or is the stage being...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"From a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, a powerful account of Derek Black's journey from white supremacist hero to apostle of tolerance"--
"From a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, the powerful story of how a prominent white supremacist changed his heart and mind Derek Black grew up at the epicenter of white nationalism. His father founded Stormfront, the largest racist community on the Internet. His godfather, David Duke, was a KKK Grand Wizard....
15) Why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?: and other conversations about race
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The classic, bestselling book on the psychology of racism-now fully revised and updated. Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see Black, White, and Latino youth clustered in their own groups. Is this self-segregation a problem to address or a coping strategy? Beverly Daniel Tatum, a renowned authority on the psychology of racism, argues that straight talk about our racial identities is essential if we are serious about enabling communication...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In 1963 Attorney General Robert Kennedy sought out James Baldwin to explain the rage that threatened to engulf black America. Baldwin brought along some friends, including playwright Lorraine Hansberry, psychologist Kenneth Clark, and a valiant activist, Jerome Smith. It was Smith's relentless, unfiltered fury that set Kennedy on his heels, reducing him to sullen silence. Kennedy walked away from the nearly three-hour meeting angry--that the black...
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