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1) Class act
Author
Series
New Kid volume 2
Language
English
Description
Eighth grader Drew Ellis recognizes that he is't afforded the same opportunities, no matter how hard he works, that his privileged classmates at the Riverdale Academy Day School take for granted, and to make matters worse, Drew begins to feel as if his good friend Liam might be one of those privileged kids and is finding it hard not to withdraw, even as their mutual friend Jordan tries to keep their group of friends together.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When the last descendant of the Frankenstein family loses her only son to a police shooting, she turns to science for her own justice ... putting her on a crash course with her family's original monster and his quest to eliminate humanity. An intense, unflinching story exploring the legacies of love, loss, and vengeance placed firmly in the tense atmosphere and current events of the modern-day United States.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
From award-winning novelist Victor LaValle (The Changeling) and illustrator Dietrich Smith (Shaft: Imitation of Life) comes an intense, unflinching story exploring the legacies of love, loss, and vengeance placed firmly in the tense atmosphere and current events of the modern-day United States. When the last descendant of the Frankenstein family loses her only son to a police shooting, she turns to science for her own justice ... putting her on a...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Your Black Friend and Other Strangers is a collection of culturally charged comics by cartoonist Ben Passmore. Passmore masterfully tackles comics about race, gentrification, the prison system, online dating, gross punks, bad street art, kung fu movie references, beating up God, and lots of other grown-up stuff with refreshing doses of humor and lived relatability.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First graphic edition.
Language
English
Description
"A comprehensive history of anti-black racism in graphic-novel format focuses on the lives of five major players in American history and highlights the debates that took place between assimilationists and segregationists and between racists and anti-racists."--
10) The black mage
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"When St. Ivory Academy, a historically white wizarding school, opens its doors to its first-ever black student, everyone believes that the wizarding community is finally taking its first crucial steps toward inclusivity. Or is it? When Tom Token, the beneficiary of the school's 'Magical Minority Initiative', begins uncovering weird clues and receiving creepy texts on his phone, he and his friend, Lindsay, stumble into a conspiracy that dates all...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"As a second-generation Pakistani immigrant living in East London, Sabba Khan paints a vivid snapshot of contemporary British Asian life and investigates the complex shifts experienced by different generations within immigrant communities, creating an uplifting and universal story that crosses borders and decades. Race, gender, and class are explored in a compelling personal narrative creating a strong feminist message of self-reflection and empowerment...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The year is 1923. The Ku Klux Klan is at the height of its power in the US as membership swells into the millions and they expand beyond their original southern borders. As they grow, so do their targets. As they continue their campaigns of terror against African Americans, their list now includes Catholics and Jews, southern and eastern Europeans, all in the name of white supremacy. But they are no longer considered a terrorist organization. By adding...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"On a dreary November night in 1792, Victor Frankenstein used natural--and unnatural--science to reanimate the dead. Victor eventually died, but the monster never did. It hid away in Antarctica and thought itself free of humanity. But the world isn't done with the monster and one descendant of the Frankenstein bloodline yet lives..."
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The explosion of racial hate in an Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape.
La conciencia de una ciudad impregnada de prejuicios, violencia e hipocresía es golpeada por la resistencia y el silencioso heroísmo de la lucha de un hombre por la justicia, en este clásico ganador del Premio Pulitzer que se ha traducido a más de 40 idiomas.
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Lee Wagstaff is the daughter of a black sharecropper in the depression-era town of Charon, Mississippi. When Lily Westmoreland, her white playmate, is snatched by agents of an evil creature known as Bog, Lee's father is accused of kidnapping. Lee's only hope is to follow Lily's trail into this fantastic and frightening alternate world. Along the way she enlists the help of a benevolent, blues singing, swamp monster called Bayou. Together, Lee and...
16) Josephine
Author
Pub. Date
[2017?]
Language
English
Description
In his first work since The Plane Story, Kevin Sacco brings us a wordless Civil Rights-era tale of a young boy with a complicated family life who accompanies his family's domestic - Josephine - from his Upper West Side comforts to her neighborhood haunts in Harlem. This journey subtly imbues the boy with a world view as full of blacks, whites and grays as the story's art. At the heart of this narrative is the bond the boy shares with Josephine - until...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Three Japanese American individuals with different beliefs and backgrounds decided to resist imprisonment by the United States government during World War II in different ways. Jim Akutsu, considered by some to be the inspiration for John Okada's No-No Boy, resisted the draft and argued that he had no obligation to serve the US military because he was classified as an enemy alien. Hiroshi Kashiwagi renounced his United States citizenship and refused...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
25th anniversary edition.
Language
English
Description
As a young gay man leading a closeted life in the 1960s American South, Toland Polk tries his best to keep a low profile. He's aware of the raqcial injustice all around him - the segregationist politicians, the corrupt cops, the violent Klan members - but he feels powerless to make a difference. That all changes when he crosses paths with an impassioned coed named Ginger Raines. Ginger introduces him to a lively and diverse group of civil rights activists,...
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