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Series
Criterion collection volume 959
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Language
English
Description
Passing through the backwoods town of Sparta, Mississippi, Philadelphia detective Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) becomes embroiled in a murder case. He forms an uneasy alliance with the bigoted police chief (Rod Steiger), who faces mounting pressure from Sparta's hostile citizens to catch the killer and run the African American interloper out of town.
344) Hidden colors 2
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Continues the history of people of African descent, including topics such as the global African presence, the science of melanin, the truth about the prison industrial complex, how thriving black economic communities were undermined in America, hidden truths about Native Americans, and more.
345) My hair is magic!
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A little girl proclaims the wonders of her natural hair.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"All too many kids of color get 'the talk.' The talk about where to keep their hands, how to wear their clothes, how to speak, how to act around police-an honest talk, a talk about survival in a racist world. The get "the talk" because they must. But white kids don't get this talk. Instead, they're barely spoken to about race at all-and that needs to change. The Other Talk begins this much-needed conversation for white kids. In an accessible, anecdotal,...
347) Carrie Mae Weems
Series
October files volume 25
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Since the 1980s, the artist Carrie Mae Weems has challenged the status of the black female body within the complex social fabric of American society. Her photographic work probes various spaces from the American kitchen table, to the historical archives of the Hampton School, to the ancient landscapes of Rome. Tugging at established roots of power that perpetuate violence and injustice, Weems's photographic portraits of her muse have not only become...
352) A woman called Moses
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
This is the story of Harriet Ross Tubman, founder of the Underground Railroad, who led hundreds of slaves to freedom in the North before the Civil War.
355) Nelson Mandela
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
A biography of the Black South African leader, focusing on his struggle to overthrow the tyrannies of apartheid.
357) Catch a fire
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The true story of a South African hero's journey to freedom. In the country's turbulent and divided times in the 1980s, Patrick Chamusso is an oil refinery foreman and soccer coach who is apolitical. That is, until he and his wife Precious are jailed. Patrick is stunned into action against the country's oppressive reigning system, even as police Colonel Nic Vos further insinuates himself into the Chamussos' lives.
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Edited by Sheena C. Howard, an award-winning author, filmmaker, and scholar, this book features a collection of essays offering an in-depth analysis of Black Panther under the lens of the latest psychological concepts-as well as delving into the lasting cultural impact of this unforgettable story"--
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