#BlackLivesMatter Resources at the Lewiston Public Library

#BlackLivesMatter Resources at the Lewiston Public Library LPL Catalog Call # Non-Fiction The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness – Michelle Alexander (2010) 364.973 A3777n Argues that by targeting Black men, the U.S. criminal justice system functions as a form of racial control, keeping racial caste in the U.S. alive and well in the 21st century. America Behind the Color Line: Dialogues with African Americans – Henry Louis Gates Jr. (2005) 305.896 G259a Examines the social and economic journey African Americans have made since the civil rights era, revealing a community united by memory and culture yet divided by wealth and lack of opportunity in an America still struggling to ensure true equality for all. The Souls of Black Folk – W.E.B. Dubois (1903) 973.0496 D816s A timeless collection of essays that explore the moral and intellectual issues surrounding the perception of African Americans in U.S. society. Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son – James Baldwin (1954) 326 B182 This collection of essays examines topics ranging from race relations in the U.S. to the role of the writer in society. The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings – James Baldwin (2010) 818.54 B181c A collection of works pondering the possibility of a Black president and what it might mean; the hypocrisy of American religious fundamentalism; the black church in America; the trials and tribulations of Black nationalism; and more. Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness? What it Means to Be Black Now – Touré (2011) 305.896 T727w Journalist Touré turns his ear to 100 prominent Black Americans to create a provocative look at the state of race in America. We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity – bell hooks (2003) 305.31 H784w Explores the way in which both White society and weak Black leaders are failing Black men and youth. In a culture that “does not love Black males,” hooks asks how Black men are expected to love themselves. Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story – Timothy B. Tyson (2005) 973.0496 T994b In 1970, a young Black Vietnam veteran was murdered by Whites outside a store in Oxford, North Carolina. The killers were acquitted by an all-White jury sparking protests. Told from the viewpoint of the 10 year-old pastor’s son, this book explores a tragic yet all-to-common and persistent episode of U.S. history. Who We Be: The Colorization of America – Jeff Chang (2014)

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Using comic strips and contemporary art, campus protests and corporate marketing campaigns, the stories of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Trayvon Martin – this book asks, how do Americans see race now? With words like "multicultural" and "post-racial," do we see each other any more clearly? A powerful and timely cultural history of the idea of “racial progress.” Black Like Me – John Howard Griffin (1960) 323.1196 G851b In the Deep South of the 1950s, a journalist uses medication to darken his skin - exchanging his privileged life as a Southern White man for the disenfranchised world of an unemployed Black man. His eyewitness account of the workings of race is chillingly relevant to this day. A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – Clayborne Carson and Kris Shepard (2001) This collection includes the text of Dr. King's best-known orations, each still hauntingly relevant in this day and age.

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Driving While Black: What to Do if You Are a Victim of Racial Profiling – Kenneth Meeks (2010) 363.2 M494d Defines the system officially known as CARD (class, age, race, dress) and offers advice about how to handle potentially life-threatening situations with the police, as well as recourse for readers who suspect their civil rights have been denied due to racial profiling. Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America – Charisse Jones and Kumea Shorter-Gooden (2004) 305.42 J76s Based on the African American Women's Voices Project, reveals that a large number of African American women feel pressure to compromise their true selves as they navigate America's racial and gender bigotry. A Shining Thread of Hope: The history of Black women in America – Darlene Clark Hine (1999) 305.4 H662s Chronicles the lives of Black women from indentured servitude in the early American colonies to the cruelty of antebellum plantations, from the reign of lynch law in the Jim Crow South to the triumphs of the Civil Rights era. Illustrates how the story of Black women in America is as much a tale of courage and hope as it is a history of struggle. Profiles in Injustice: Why Racial Profiling Cannot Work – David A. Harris (2003) 363.2 H313p As protests against racial profiling swell, the U.S. criminal justice system continues to argue that profiling is an effective crime-fighting tool. Draws on statistics to show that profiling is not only morally and legally wrong, but also ineffectual at preventing crime. African American Lives – Henry Louis Gates Jr. (2004) Offers 1,000-3,000 word biographies of some 600 noteworthy African Americans.

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How Race Survived U.S. History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama Phenomenon – David R. Roediger (2008) 305.8 R712h Explores how the idea of how race was created and recreated from the 1600’s to the present day, doing far more than persist as an exception in a progressive national history. Better for All the World: The Secret history of Forced Sterilization and America's Quest for Racial Purity – Harry Bruinius (2007) 363.9 B892b 2

A timely and gripping history of the controversial eugenics movement in America–and the scientists, social reformers and progressives who supported it. Separate and Unequal: Homer Plessy and the Supreme Court Decision that Legalized Racism – Harvey Fireside (2003) 342.73 F523s Traces the roots of the Supreme Court decision that enshrined racial separation in America. Uncovers little-known areas of U.S. history and the hypocrisy behind a law claiming to provide "separate but equal" accommodations, arguing that that these standards still exist. The Culture of Make Believe – Derrick Jensen (2002) Alienable Rights: The Exclusion of African Americans in a White Man's Land – Francis D. Adams & Barry Sanders

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Films African American Lives 1 & 2 (DVD) – Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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The Central Park Five – Sarah Burns & David McMahon

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The Black Power Mixtape, 1967-1975: A Documentary in 9 Chapters – Göran Hugo Olsson

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Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal – Stephen Vittoria

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Trouble the Water

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Biography/Memoir The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother – James McBride

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Angela Davis: An Autobiography – Angela Y. Davis

B Davis, A

No Name in the Street – James Baldwin

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Men we reaped: a memoir – Jesmyn Ward

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Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years – Sarah and A. Elizabeth Delany

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These sisters sharp memories show us the post-Reconstruction South and Booker T. Washington; Harlem's Golden Age and Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Paul Robeson. Bessie breaks barriers to become a dentist; Sadie quietly integrates the New York City system as a high school teacher. Whiteness/White Privilege Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination – Toni Morrison

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Uprooting racism: how white people can work for racial justice – Paul Kivel

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Some of my best friends are Black: the strange story of integration in America – Tanner Colby

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Our town: a heartland lynching, a haunted town, and the hidden history of white America – Cindy Carr

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Maine History Maine's visible Black history: the first chronicle of its people – Harriet H. Price

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The women who raised me: a memoir – Victoria Rowell

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Fiction/Literature/Poetry/Plays Native Son – Richard Wright

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Boy, snow, bird – Helen Oyeyemi

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Their eyes were watching God – Zora Neale Hurston

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Kindred – Octavia Butler

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Hard times require furious dancing: new poems – Alice Walker

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For colored girls who have considered suicide, when the rainbow is enuf: a choreopoem – Ntozake Shange

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Discovering Wes Moore – Wes Moore

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Malcolm X: A Graphic Biography – Andrew Helfer

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Fire in the streets – Kekla Magoon

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The rock and the river – Kekla Magoon

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Race: a history beyond black and white – Marc Aronson

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Children’s One Crazy Summer – Rita Williams-Garcia

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Many thousand gone: African Americans from slavery to freedom – Virginia Hamilton

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Brown Girl Dreaming – Jacqueline Woodson

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Let it shine : stories of Black women freedom fighters

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Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster boy – Gary Schmidt

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Harlem's little blackbird – Renée Watson & Christian Robinson

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Let's talk about race – Julius Lester & Karen Barbour

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