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Black History Month (Staff Picks 2024)

 

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1. Between the world and me

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Author:
Coates, Ta-Nehisi
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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Book, Audio CD, Large Print, OverDrive eAudiobook, OverDrive eBook
Description:
"In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation's history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of "race," a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men--bodies exploited through slavery and segregation,...

2. The bluest eye

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Author:
Morrison, Toni
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
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Description:
Pecola Breedlove, a young eleven-year-old black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in. Yet as her dreams grow more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife. A powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity.--From...

3. Go tell it on the mountain

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Author:
Baldwin, James, 1924-1987
Average Rating:
3 stars
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Description:
The story of a teenager's conversion to religion and of the history of a black American family. A reissue. James Baldwin's stunning first novel is now an American classic. With startling realism that brings Harlem and the black experience vividly to life, this is a work that touches the heart with emotion while it stimulates the mind with its narrative style, symbolism, and excoriating vision of racism in America. Moving through time from the rural...