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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

Barack Obama"In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It...

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Ann Patchett"Two families come together in a traffic accident during a snowstorm. Nothing terribly unusual there, except that a woman has purposely thrown herself under a car to protect a stranger. It...

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On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family

Book ListsComing to AmericaKeywordsImmigrantsRace RelationsChinese Americans

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Black and White Sat Down Together: The Reminiscences of an NAACP Founder

Book ListsDifferent Stories: The African-American Experience in Non-fictionKeywordsCivil Rights Movement1920s1930sRace Relations1910s1900-1909History is much more than slaveryNAACP

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Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story

Book ListsDifferent Stories: The African-American Experience in Non-fictionKeywords1970sRace RelationsNorth CarolinaAfrican AmericansHistory is much more than slaveryVietnam veterans

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The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White

Book ListsDifferent Stories: The African-American Experience in Non-fictionHistory BooksKeywordsSlaveryCivil War - U.S.Antebellum VirginiaRace RelationsFree blacksNorth CarolinaPlantationsInterracial...

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Slaves in the Family

Book ListsDifferent Stories: The African-American Experience in Non-fictionKeywordsSlavery19th century18th centuryRace RelationsPlantationsNational Book AwardSouth CarolinaBall family

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Laughing in the Dark: From Colored Girl to Woman of Power - A Journey from...

Book ListsAfrican-American Success StoriesDifferent Stories: The African-American Experience in Non-fictionKeywordsRace RelationsAfrican American womenjournalistsprisonersContemporary Black American Lives

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Life on the Color Line: The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was...

Book ListsAfrican-American Success StoriesDifferent Stories: The African-American Experience in Non-fictionKeywordsRace RelationsSegregationInterracial marriagesContemporary Black American Lives

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The Good Black: A True Story of Race in America

Book ListsDifferent Stories: The African-American Experience in Non-fictionKeywordsRace Relationscorporate cultureDiscriminationContemporary Black American Liveslaw firms

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Different and Wonderful: Raising Black Children in a Race-Conscious Society

Book ListsParenting for African AmericansKeywordsRace RelationsSelf-esteemParentingAfrican American parents

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Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker: The Unlikely Friendship of Elizabeth Keckley &...

Book ListsWomen's History MonthKeywordsSlaveryCivil War - U.S.Abraham LincolnRace Relations1860sAfrican American womenPresidents' spouses

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Sweethearts of Rhythm: The Story of the Greatest All-girl Swing Band in the...

Book ListsWomen's History MonthKeywordsMusiciansWorld War II1940sRace RelationsJim Crow lawsswing musicwomen musicians

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The Seventeenth Child by Dorothy Marie Rice & Lucille Mabel Walthall Payne

Virginia JohnsonBiographies & MemoirsHistory & Historical FictionHistory & PoliticsTrue ReadsAfrican AmericanVirginia History1930sRace Relationssharecroppersfirst-hand accountsNon-fiction...

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The Lions of Little Rock

Book Lists2013 Top Teen Pick PossibilitiesKeywordsFriendshipMiddle SchoolFamily LifeRace Relationsschool integrationbashfulness

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Symbols of Racism Talk and Race Relations Panel Discussion

Michele BrownRacismRace Relationslibrary programLibraryPoint BlogHistory BlogCarlos Cato, a graduate of the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute, will host two discussions on race at...

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A History Of Detective Stories: Asian Detectives

John GainesBooks and ReadingDramaHistorical FictionMysteryWeekly Feature ArticlesDetectivesMoviesRacismRace RelationsHawaiiA History of Detective FictionAsian AmericansThis is the second installment in...

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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

Barack Obama"In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It...

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