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Author
Publisher
MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2022].
Language
English
Description
In the Black Fantastic' assembles art and imagery from across the African diaspora that embraces ideas of the mythic and the speculative. It brings to life the forces that shape Afrofuturism - the cultural movement that conjures otherworldly visions out of the everyday of Black experience - and beyond, looking at how speculative fictions in Black art and culture are boldly reimagining perspectives on race, gender, identity and the body in the 21st...
Author
Publisher
Norton Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
After Amerley is raped by her employer's son she realizes she two choices--stay quiet and keep her job or live her truth and speak up for herself and for justice.
Ghana. Eldest of four girls, Amerley is offered a job working for one of her mother's old school friends. She has to accept: her wages will feed her family, help her sisters stay in school, and ensure that her mother won't have to worry about them. Amerley's move to Accra isn't easy, but...
63) We have a dream
Author
Publisher
Magic Cat Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Indigenous people and people of color are disproportionately affected by climate change, yet often aren't heard in global conversations. In this book, British Bangladeshi environmentalist and campaigner for equal rights Dr. Mya-Rose Craig speaks to campaigners from around the world about what needs to be done. From wildlife conservation to clean water, air pollution to plastic waste, climate justice to climate strikes, the time has come to listen...
Author
Series
Essien of Alkebulan volume 1
Publisher
Keylight Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Essien defies her village's gender roles by signing up for military enlistment, but when she begins seeing mythical beings of Alkebulan folklore and discovers she possesses superhuman abilities, she must choose between fulfilling her destiny as Goddess of Alkebulan or altering the course of history.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Photographer Michael Cunningham and author and journalist George Alexander have captured here the trinity of black women, hair, and beauty salons. Angela Garner says that "The beauty salon is the one great thing we get to share as African American women. It's therapeutic." Tisch Sims says that wearing fantasy hair makes her feel "like a goddess, a queen." From the afro to the ponytail to dreadlocks to braids to relaxed hair to fantasy hair; from "good...
Author
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts Megascope
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Last Count of Monte Cristo is a bold retelling of Alexandre Dumas's classic tale of love, betrayal, revenge, and redemption. This speculative update pushes the narrative into a future hundreds of years after the polar ice caps have melted and submerged our planet into a new era of technology and culture. In this futuristic reinterpretation, author Ayize Jama-Everett and illustrator Tristan Roach revisit the original inspiration of The Count of...
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In 1890s West Africa, when a brutal raid leaves their home in ruins, twin sisters Hassana and Husseina are kidnapped, sold into slavery, and separated, remaining connected through shared dreams of water, but will their fates ever draw them back together?
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A landmark work of Black and Native American history that reconfigures our understanding of identity, race, and belonging and the inspiring ways marginalized people have pushed to redefine their world In this paradigm-shattering work of American history, Caleb Gayle tells the extraordinary story of the Creek Nation, a Native tribe that two centuries ago both owned slaves and accepted Black people as full members. Thanks to the leadership of a chief...
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"As a mail carrier, Victor Hugo Green traveled across New Jersey every day. But with Jim Crow laws enforcing segregation since the late 1800s, traveling as a Black person in the US could be stressful, even dangerous. So in the 1930s, Victor created a guide--The Negro Motorist Green-Book--compiling information on where to go and what places to avoid so that Black travelers could have a safe and pleasant time. While the Green Book started out small,...
Publisher
HarperCollinsEspañol
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
"Una extraordinaria selección de obras esenciales, en su mayoría inéditas, que celebran la fuerza, el talento y la diversidad de las mujeres latinas, y tienden puentes que nos conectan las unas con las otras. Desde la prosa implacable de sor Juana Inés de la Cruz hasta los poderosos cantos de la chamana María Sabina; desde las luchas revolucionarias de Audre Lorde, Lolita Lebrón y Berta Cáceres hasta el activismo de Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez;...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A leading voice for social justice reveals how he stopped arguing with white people who deny the ongoing legacy of racism-and offers a proven path forward for Black people and people of color based on the history of nonviolent struggle. When the rallying cry "Black Lives Matter" was heard across the world in 2013, Andre Henry was one of the millions for whom the movement caused a political awakening and a rupture in some of his closest relationships...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Hold happiness, trials, and triumph close. Written by Your Name Is a Song author Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow with stunning collages by debut illustrator Patrick Dougher, Hold Them Close is a moving celebration of Black children. Children will see that if they look to their glorious past, embrace their present feelings, and reach for a bright future, there is much to hold close, and they can light up the world" -- Front jacket flap.
Author
Series
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In 1605 London, sixteen-year-old Joan Sands' magical ability to control metal makes her a skilled craftswoman, but her family gift for observing the Fae, who recently broke the Pact and are now brutally attacking mortals, draws Joan into political intrigue in both human and Fae worlds.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Javari knew that West Virginia would be different from his home in Bushwick, Brooklyn. But his first day at STEM Camp in a little Appalachian town is still a shock. Though run-ins with the police are just the same here. Not good. Javari will learn a lot about science ... And also about rich people, racism, and hidden agendas. But it's Cricket, a local boy, budding activist, and occasional thief, who will show him a different side of the holler--and...
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In Trace Evidence, the urgent follow-up to his award-winning debut Into Each Room We Enter without Knowing, Charif Shanahan continues his piercing meditations on the intricacies of mixed-race identity, queer desire, time, mortality, and the legacies of anti-Blackness in the US and abroad. At the collection's center sits "On the Overnight from Agadir," a poem that chronicles the poet's survival of a devastating bus accident in Morocco, his mother's...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Granofsky was widely known for her role as Lucy Hernandez in the hit series Degrassi, yet no one knew that a few years prior to landing her dream role she was bouncing between sleeping on a mattress with her Black mother in a housing project and eating Sunday dinner at a country club with her paternal Jewish grandparents, neither of whom accepted the other. With compassion and vivid storytelling, Granofsky shares her experiences of living with each...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1936, eighth grader MacNolia Cox became the first African American to win the Akron, Ohio, spelling bee. And with that win, she was asked to compete at the prestigious National Spelling Bee in Washington, DC, where she and a girl from New Jersey were the first African Americans invited since its founding. She left her home state a celebrity—right up there with Ohio’s own Joe Louis and Jesse Owens—with a military band and a crowd of thousands...
Author
Publisher
Norton Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Reeling from the death of her mother, fourteen-year-old Mati's family leaves England to visit their native Zimbabwe, where Mati finds comfort in Meticais, a gender-neutral spirit or ghost who only she can see, and who helps her navigate her mercurial interpersonal relationships and feelings of grief.
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Spanning time, styles, and traditions, a dazzling collection of essential works from 140 Latine writers, scholars, and activists from across the world--from warrior poet Audre Lorde to novelist Edwidge Danticat and performer and author Elizabeth Acevedo and artist/poet Cecilia Vicuña--gathered in one magnificent volume."--Amazon.
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