NYT - Race and Civil Rights | Santa Fe Public Library

1) Born a crime: stories from a South African childhood

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Noah, Trevor

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#1 on the Race and Civil Rights list for 2017-01-15.

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Noah's path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother, at the time such a union was punishable by five years in prison. As he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist, his mother is determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life. With an incisive...

2) Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space R

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Shetterly, Margot Lee

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#2 on the Race and Civil Rights list for 2017-01-15.

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The #1 New York Times bestseller. The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, and Kevin Costner. Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers"...

3) Between the world and me

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Coates, Ta-Nehisi

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#3 on the Race and Civil Rights list for 2017-01-15.

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"For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him -- most urgently, why he, and other black people he knew, seemed to live in fear. What were they afraid of? In Tremble for My Country, Coates takes readers along on his journey through America's history of race and its contemporary resonances through a series of awakenings -- moments...

4) The new Jim Crow: mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness

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Alexander, Michelle

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#4 on the Race and Civil Rights list for 2017-01-15.

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As the United States celebrates the nation's "triumph over race" with the election of Barack Obama, the majority of young black men in major American cities are locked behind bars or have been labeled felons for life. Although Jim Crow laws have been wiped off the books, an astounding percentage of the African American community remains trapped in a subordinate status, much like their grandparents before them.

5) Just mercy: a story of justice and redemption

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Stevenson, Bryan

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#5 on the Race and Civil Rights list for 2017-01-15.

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The founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama recounts his experiences as a lawyer working to assist those desperately in need, reflecting on his pursuit of the ideal of compassion in American justice.

6) March: Book one

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Lewis, John

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#7 on the Race and Civil Rights list for 2017-01-15.

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eComic, Graphic Novel

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Book One spans John Lewis' youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., the birth of the Nashville Student Movement, and their battle to tear down segregation through nonviolent lunch counter sit-ins, building to a stunning climax on the steps of City Hall. Many years ago, John Lewis and other student activists drew inspiration from the 1958 comic book Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story. Now, his own comics...

7) You can't touch my hair: and other things I still have to explain

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Robinson, Phoebe

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#9 on the Race and Civil Rights list for 2017-01-15.

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A hilarious and affecting essay collection about race, gender, and pop culture from celebrated stand-up comedian and WNYC podcaster Phoebe Robinson. Being a Black woman in American means contending with old prejudices and fresh absurdities. Robinson uses her trademark wit to explore examine our cultural climate and skewer our biases with humor and heart. "Being a black woman in America means contending with old prejudices and fresh absurdities every...

8) Stamped from the beginning: the definitive history of racist ideas in America

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Kendi, Ibram X

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#10 on the Race and Civil Rights list for 2017-01-15.

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"A comprehensive history of anti-black racism focuses on the lives of five major players in American history, including Cotton Mather and Thomas Jefferson, and highlights the debates that took place between assimilationists and segregationists and between racists and antiracists"-- "Americans like to insist that we are living in a postracial, color-blind society. In fact, racist thought is alive and well; it has simply become more sophisticated and...