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Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"From three-time Newbery Honoree Christina Soontornvat and award-winning historian Erika Lee comes a middle grade nonfiction that shines a light on the generations of Asian Americans who have transformed the United States and who continue to shape what it means to be American. Asian American history is not made up of one single story. It’s many. And it’s a story that too often goes untold. It begins centuries before America even exists as a...
Author
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Generations of Black activists and intellectuals -- from Ida B. Wells in the fight against lynching, to Angela Y. Davis in the fight against the prison-industrial complex -- have stood within a tradition of Black Antifascism . . . The book explores the powerful ideas and activism of Paul Robeson, Mary McLeod Bethune, Claudia Jones, W.E. B. DuBois, Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, and Walter Rodney, as well as that of the Civil Rights Congress, the...
Publisher
Broadleaf Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A powerful and needed collection of essays by accomplished women writers on violence and injustice toward Black men. The catalyst for a national conversation, this book shines a new light on the dangers Black men face daily, and the emotional toll anti-Black violence takes on the women who love them, casting a vision for future activism"--
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