Posts Tagged ‘Books’
Fighting Racism…Especially Where We Don’t Realize It Exists
In his new book, award-winning author Ibram X. Kendi “pushes those of us who believe we are not racists to become something else: antiracists, who support ideas and policies affirming that “the racial groups are equals in all their apparent differences — that there is nothing right or wrong with any racial group.” A book review by historian Jeffrey C, Stewart.
Read MoreThis Definitive History of Racist Ideas Should Be Required Reading
A new book on racism, Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, written by Ibram X. Kendi, Ph.D., a University of Florida professor of Africana studies, breaks new ground in the study of racism.
Read MoreCan Reforming Culture Save Black Youths?
In a new book, Harvard sociology professor Orlando Patterson explores the way in which culture can be used to understand and improve the lives of young African Americans.
Read MoreToday: Crowd-Funding Campaign Launched to Publish “A Time of Terror: A Survivor’s Story”
Dr. James Cameron’s memoir of his lynching, “A Time of Terror: A Survivor’s Story,” will be republished through a crowd-funding campaign.
Read MoreWas the Author of The Three Musketeers a Black Man?
Alexandre Dumas wrote some of the best-known literature, but few people know about his personal life–or ethnicity.
Read MoreDr. James Cameron Featured in New Book about Supersurvivors!
Supersurvivors explores extraordinary accomplishments in the wake of catastrophe to explain how ordinary people achieve extraordinary things.
Read MoreWhere Are the People of Color in Children’s Books?
Walter Dean Myers writes about how children’s books do not often represent the Black children who read them.
Read More12 Years a Slave to Be Part of Public High School Curriculum
Montel Williams is using his celebrity to introduce 12 Years a Slave into educational settings where students can learn about history.
Read More‘The Snowy Day’: Children’s Book With Black Protagonist is Focus of Exhibit
By Joann Loviglio, Associated Press, TheGrio PHILADELPHIA (AP) — During the height of the civil rights movement, a gentle book about a black boy in a red snowsuit crunch-crunch-crunching through the snow broke down racial barriers and now is the subject of an upcoming exhibit. Ezra Jack Keats’ beloved 1962 book, “The Snowy Day,” is credited…
Read MoreHow White Ideals Color US Race Relations
One author tackles a tired, racism belief about economic disparities and what–if anything–they say about work ethic.
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