Starting the Conversation: Adult Nonfiction

In our commitment to serve our community and foster the pursuit of knowledge, we offer these resources to help begin important conversations.
 

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1. A dreadful deceit: the myth of race from the colonial era to Obama's America

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Jones, Jacqueline, 1948-
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Oberlin Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
305.8 JONES
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"Traces the lives of six African Americans from the colonial era to the late 20th century, using their stories to illustrate the complex ways in which racial ideologies in this country have changed since the first Africans arrived on the nation's shores hundreds of years ago. The very idea of 'blackness,' she shows, has changed fundamentally over this period"--

2. How to be less stupid about race: on racism, white supremacy and the racial divide

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Fleming, Crystal Marie, 1981-
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Athens Drive Community - Adult Non-Fiction
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Morrisville Community - Adult Non-Fiction
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305.8 FLEMI
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"How to Be Less Stupid About Race is your essential guide to breaking through the half-truths and ridiculous misconceptions that have thoroughly corrupted the way race is represented in the classroom, pop culture, media, and politics. Centuries after our nation was founded on genocide, settler colonialism, and slavery, many Americans are kinda-sorta-maybe waking up to the reality that our racial politics are (still) garbage. But in the midst of this...