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  Publication Date:  April 29, 2014 Format:  Audio Genre:   Legal Thriller Narrators:  David Ledoux Publisher:  Harper Audio Length:  35 hours 51 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis From #1  New York Times  bestselling author Greg Iles comes the first novel in his Natchez Burning trilogy—which also includes  The Bone Tree Mississippi Blood —an epic trilogy that interweaves crimes, lies, and secrets past and present in a mesmerizing thriller featuring Southern lawyer and former prosecutor Penn Cage.  Raised in the southern splendor of Natchez, Mississippi, Penn Cage learned all he knows of duty from his father, Dr. Tom Cage. But now the beloved family doctor has been accused of murdering the African American ...

  Publication Date:  February 23, 2021 Format:  Audio Genre:   Race, racism, race studies Narrator:  Georgina Lawton Publisher:  Harper Audio          Length:  8 hours 7 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis Raised in sleepy English suburbia, Georgina Lawton was no stranger to homogeneity. Her parents were White; her friends were White; there was no reason for her to think she was any different. But over time her brown skin and dark, kinky hair frequently made her a target of prejudice. In Georgina’s insistently color-blind household, with no acknowledgement of her difference or access to Black culture, she lacked the coordinates to make sense of who she was. It was only after her father’s death that ...

  Publication Date:  February 4, 2021 Format:  Audio Genre:   Racism Narrator:  Layla F Saad Publisher:  Blackstone Publishing            Length:  5 hours 19 min Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis When Layla Saad began an Instagram challenge called #meandwhitesupremacy, she never predicted it would spread as widely as it did. She encouraged people to own up and share their racist behaviors, big and small. She was looking for truth, and she got it. Thousands of people participated in the challenge, and over 90,000 people downloaded the  Me and White Supremacy Workbook .  The updated and expanded  Me and White Supremacy  takes the work deeper by adding more historical and cultural contex...

Release Date:  October 4, 2016 Publisher:  Penguin Audio Format:  Audio Length:  7 hours 41 minutes Narrator:  Phoebe Robinson Genre:  Race, feminism, comedy Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle   |  Paperback Synopsis:  Being a black woman in America means contending with old prejudices and fresh absurdities every day. Comedian Phoebe Robinson has experienced her fair share over the years: She's been unceremoniously relegated to the role of "the black friend", as if she is somehow the authority on all things racial; she's been questioned about her love of U2 and Billy Joel ("isn't that...white people music?"); she's been called "uppity" for having an opinion in the workplace; she's been followed around stores by security guards; and yes, people do ask her whether they can touch her hair all. The. Time. Now she's ready to take these topics to audio - and she's going to make you laugh as she's doing it. Using her trademark...

Release Date:  June 26, 2018 Publisher:  Beacon Press Format:  Paperback Pages:  126  pages Genre:   Race, Racism, Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback  |  Synopsis:  In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to ‘bad people’ (Claudia Rankine). Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including argumentation and silence. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent any meaningful cross-racial dialogue. In this in-depth exploration, DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively. Review: This bo...

Release Date:  February 28, 2017 Publisher:  Harper Audio Format:  Audio Length:  11 hours 40 minutes Narrator:  Bahni Turpin Genre:  Fiction Buy:   Audible  |  Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis:  Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil's name. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what  really  went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr. But what Starr does-or d...

Release Date:  September 29, 2015 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio Format: Audible Narrator:  Guy Lockard, Keith Nobbs Length: 6 hours 35 minutes Genre: Fiction /Race / Racial Tensions Buy: Audible | Kindle | Paperback Synopsis: Two teens - one black, one white - grapple with the repercussions of a single violent act that leaves their school, their community, and ultimately the country bitterly divided by racial tension. A bag of chips. That's all 16-year-old Rashad is looking for at the corner bodega. What he finds instead is a fist-happy cop, Paul Galluzzo, who mistakes Rashad for a shoplifter, mistakes Rashad's pleadings that he's stolen nothing for belligerence, mistakes Rashad's resistance to leave the bodega as resisting arrest, mistakes Rashad's every flinch at every punch the cop throws as further resistance and refusal to STAY STILL as ordered. But how can you stay still when someone is pounding your face into the concrete pavement? ...

Title: The Hoopster by Alan Lawrence Sitomer Publisher: Hyperion 218 pages Genre: YA Synopsis:  On the neighborhood basketball court, Andre Anderson jockeys for position among his multicultural group of buddies, but, off the court, the African-American teen's writing talent puts him in the spotlight. Given the opportunity to write a feature article on racism for the national magazine where he works as an intern, he addresses his feelings honestly. As a result, he is brutally attacked by a group of racists, hoping to silence his pen by symbolically crushing his hand in a car door. The incident incites a gamut of responses among his friends, his Latina girlfriend, and his family. His cousin, Cedric, collects a group of avengers and invites Andre's best friend, Shawn, to join them. The white teen is torn between loyalty to his pal and his nonviolent sensibilities. Andre's father, also victim of a racial attack as a teen, loses patience with his son's sullen withdra...

Title: Dragon Chica by May-Li Chai Publisher: Gemma Media 256 pages This title will be released in October 2010.  I received this book as a free advanced electronic galley from the publisher. Summary: Nea, a Chinese Cambodian teenage refugee from the Khmer Rouge, flees with what's left of her family to Texas when a miracle occurs. Struggling to get by in a strange new world, Nea's mother receives word that wealthy relatives have made it to America as well. The resolute little family stuffs Hefty bags full of belongings into the Ford and heads north. Ahead of them is the thrilling chance to help run the newly discovered family business, a Chinese restaurant in Nebraska. The family is reunited, but soon Nea discovers their miracle is not what she had expected. Tempers flare; local reception is lukewarm, if not downright hostile; fights erupt; and Nea's beloved sister Sourdi is growing up and away from her far too fast. Then the past - and a forbidden love- threate...