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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Viva la raza	Yolanda Alaniz	"A history of Chicana and Chicano militancy that explores the question of whether this social movement is a racial or a national struggle"--Provided by publisher.	OL11919062W
Race and reconciliation	John B. Hatch	"In this book, John B. Hatch analyzes various public discourses that have attempted to address the racialized legacy of slavery, from West Africa to the United States, and in doing so, proposes a rhe…	OL11958207W
I'd rather we got casinos, and other Black thoughts	Larry Wilmore	Within these pages are the musings, the revelations, the ruminations, and the reflections of Daily Show comic Larry Wilmore--from why black weathermen make him feel happy (or sad) and why brothas don…	OL11977270W
Entangled by white supremacy	Janet G. Hudson	"In Entangled by White Supremacy: Reform in World War I-era South Carolina, Janet G. Hudson examines the complex racial and social dynamics at play during this pivotal period of U.S. history. With cr…	OL13609290W
Simeon's story	Herb Boyd,Simeon Wright,Simeon Wright	A modern tragedy, this story has had a great impact on race relations in America. Emmett Till's kidnapping and murder, a grotesque crime in a Southern backwater that became the catalyst for the civil…	OL13852525W
Ida B. Wells-Barnett	Patricia McKissack	A biography of the black woman journalist who campaigned for the civil rights of women and other minorities and was a founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1909.	OL14860535W
The civil rights movement	Sanford Wexler	Uses speeches, articles, and other writings of those involved to trace the history of the civil rights movement in the United States, primarily from 1954 to 1965.	OL14863131W
Andrew Jackson & his Indian wars	Robert Vincent Remini	"The expulsion of Native Americans from the eastern half of the continent to the Indian Territory beyond the Mississippi River remains one of the most notorious events in U.S. history, and the man mo…	OL14865053W
Outlaw Culture	Bell Hooks	Bell hooks, one of America's leading black intellectuals, is also one of our most clear-eyed and penetrating analysts of culture. Outlaw culture--the culture of the margin, of women, of the disenfran…	OL15053153W
The African-American struggle for legal equality in American history	Carole Boston Weatherford	Traces the African American struggle, from slavery to the present, to overcome racism and racist laws thereby becoming constitutionally and legally equal to other American citizens.	OL15070655W
Dangerous liaisons	Eric Brandt	A groundbreaking study of the intersections of race and sexuality, by an all-star group of writers. From Selma and Stonewall to California’s Proposition 209 and the Defense of Marriage Act, blacks an…	OL15137195W
What shall we do with the Negro?	Paul D. Escott	Consulting a broad range of contemporary newspapers, magazines, books, army records, government documents, publications of citizens' organizations, letters, diaries, and other sources, Paul D. Escott…	OL15300925W
The Savage City	T. J. English	The safest big city in America? That would be the question a certain generation of New Yorkers would ask someone who praises New York for it's safety and prosperity. A generation that has experienced…	OL15695648W
Racism and ethnic bias	Linda Jacobs Altman	Explores the issues of racism and stereotyping in modern American society, including religious or political beliefs, or sexual orientation.	OL15839335W
Hot pursuit	Stacia Deutsch	The story of three civil rights workers who were murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, in 1964.	OL15906714W
Forging people	Jorge J. E.. Gracia	"Forging People explores the way in which Hispanic American thinkers in Latin America and Latino/a philosophers in the United States have posed and thought about questions of race, ethnicity, and nat…	OL15981054W
Black Against Empire	Waldo E. Martin,Joshua Bloom,Ron Butler	This timely special edition, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party, features a new preface by the authors that places the Party in a contemporary political …	OL16672432W
They Can't Kill Us All	Wesley Lowery	Conducting hundreds of interviews during the course of over one year reporting on the ground, Washington Post writer Wesley Lowery traveled from Ferguson, Missouri, to Cleveland, Ohio; Charleston, So…	OL17617057W
The making of Black lives matter	Christopher J. Lebron	Started in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has become a powerful and uncompromising campaign demanding redress for the bru…	OL17754093W
Against the odds	Louis Kushnick,Paul Grant,Benjamin P. Bowser	"Over the course of the past century the struggle against racism took many forms, from petitions and lawsuits to sit-ins and marches. This book records the testimony of eleven scholar-activists who c…	OL17998700W