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Shine Shine Lauren Myracle When her best friend falls victim to a vicious hate crime, sixteen-year-old Cat sets out to discover the culprits in her small North Carolina town. OL16261093W
LIE LIE Caroline Bock Told in several voices, a group of Long Island high school seniors conspire to protect eighteen-year-old Jimmy after he brutally assaults two Salvadoran immigrants, until they begin to see the moral … OL16307864W
Patriot acts Patriot acts Alia Malek,Karen Korematsu In eighteen oral histories, Patriot Acts tells the stories of men and women who have been needlessly swept up in the War on Terror, and who have found themselves subject to rendition and torture, to … OL16471769W
October mourning October mourning Lesléa Newman,Lesléa Newman On the night of October 6, 1998, a gay twenty-one-year-old college student named Matthew Shepard was kidnapped from a Wyoming bar by two young men, savagely beaten, tied to a remote fence, and left t… OL16652623W
These mortal remains These mortal remains Milton T. Burton When an African-American deputy is shot on a roadside, Texas Caddo County Sheriff Bo Handel uncovers a white supremacist hate campaign being staged from a compound on the edge of town. OL17925585W
Viral hate Viral hate Abraham H. Foxman Revealing how the anonymous nature of the Internet is enabling the unchecked spread of bigotry, bullying, and other hate-based vitriol, explores the working examples of social media companies while o… OL18185626W
Racial Violence on Trial Racial Violence on Trial Christopher Waldrep The Civil War ended slavery, but not the brutal legacy of racism in the United States. As we've seen from the persistence of groups like the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi skinheads, police brutality, and… OL1834520W
Bad blood Bad blood Brian McGilloway "A young man is found in a riverside park, his head bashed in with a rock. The only clue to his identity is an admission stamp for the local gay club. DS Lucy Black is called in to investigate. As Lu… OL19717452W
Black Klansman Black Klansman Ron Stallworth The true story of Detective Ron Stallworth, the first black detective in the Colorado Springs Police Department, who in 1978 went undercover to investigate the KKK. OL19742770W
Violence Against Queer People Violence Against Queer People Doug Meyer "Violence against lesbians and gay men has increasingly captured media and scholarly attention. But these reports tend to focus on one segment of the LGBT community--white, middle class men--and larg… OL20027367W
All we have left All we have left Wendy Mills Interweaving stories from past and present, All We Have Left follows two girls, Alia and Jesse, who discover that hatred and love have the power to reverberate into the future. OL20034845W
Tell no tales Tell no tales Eva Dolan DS Ferreira and DI Zigic are called in from the Peterborough Hate Crimes Unit to handle the investigation but with another major case on their hands, one with disturbing Neo-Nazi overtones, they are … OL20858353W
Fremdenfeindlichkeit, Antisemitismus, Rechtsextremismus Fremdenfeindlichkeit, Antisemitismus, Rechtsextremismus Klaus Wahl Fremdenfeindliche und rechtsextremistische Straftäter und Tatverdächtige, ihre Taten, Motive, Biographien und sozialen Hintergünde sind das Thema dreier sich ergänzender empirischer Studien. Aufschlu… OL24338813W
American women against violence American women against violence Joyce Goldenstern Profiles ten American women from different regions, ethnic backgrounds, and times who are working or have worked against violence. OL2691778W
The grace of guilt The grace of guilt Gareth Young When fifteen-year-old Jessica Jackson's crush on her pastor's son leads to rape, she finds herself pregnant and rejected by her family and church. When Simon Cassell's homosexual relationship is disc… OL27059978W
Skinheads Skinheads Eberhard Seidel,Klaus Farin Ist „Skinhead“ ein neuer Name für Haß? Rund 8000 Skinheads gibt es in Deutschland. zehn Prozent werden den Neonazis zugezählt, weitere vierzig Prozent können als „rechts“ eingestuft werden. Doch nur … OL3140768W
Bigotry Bigotry Debbie Levy Presents a historical view of causes and effects of stereotypes, hate groups, hate crimes, and the legal and other methods used to combat them, with emphasis on recent incidents in the United States. OL465585W
Incident at Howard Beach Incident at Howard Beach Charles J. Hynes Late on the night of December 19, 1986, four black men were driving through the all-white community of Howard Beach, in the New York City borough of Queens, when their car broke down. By the early ho… OL4796839W
Fade to black Fade to black Alex Flinn An HIV-positive high school student hospitalized after being attacked, the bigot accused of the crime, and the only witness, a classmate with Down Syndrome, reveal how the assult has changed their li… OL5713337W
Wounded Wounded Percival L. Everett Explores issues of masculinity and homosexuality against a Western American backdrop, charting the effects of a fatal gay bashing incident on the lives of a father and son living in Wyoming. OL8386916W
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