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Author
Series
Home team novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
"It's basketball season for the home team but Gus must wrestle with prejudice when he's the only one bothered by Cassie joining the boys' team and his teammate Steve makes fun of Gus's Dominican heritage"--
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"There are 1.2 million human-size rabbits living in the UK. They can walk, talk, drive cars, and they like to read Voltaire, the result of an Inexplicable Anthropomorphizing Event fifty-five years before. A family of rabbits is about to move into Much Hemlock, a cozy little village in Middle England where life revolves around summer fetes, jam making, gossipy corner stores, and the oh-so-important Best Kept Village awards. No sooner have the rabbits...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Unconscious bias can be at work without our realizing it, and even when we genuinely wish to treat all people equally, ingrained stereotypes can infect our visual perception, attention, memory, and behavior. This has an impact on education, employment, housing, and criminal justice. Now, one of the world's leading experts on implicit racial bias offers us insights into the dilemma and a path forward. In [this book], with a perspective that is at...
6) Bear and Bee
Author
Series
Bear and Bee volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A hungry bear discovers that bees are not terrible monsters who never share their honey.
Author
Language
English
Description
In the opening story, "The Perfection of Theresa Watkins," a sci-fi love story turned nightmare, a husband uses new technology to download the consciousness of his recently deceased Black wife into the body of a white woman. In "Spider King," an inmate agrees to participate in an experimental medical study offered to Black prisoners in exchange for early release, only to find his body reacting with disturbing symptoms. And in the title story, a father...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
353 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Unconscious bias: persistent, unintentional prejudiced behavior that clashes with our consciously held beliefs. We know that it exists, to corrosive and even lethal effect. We see it in medicine, the workplace, education, policing, and beyond. But when it comes to uprooting our prejudices, we still have far to go. Nordell reveals how minds, hearts, and behaviors change. She scrutinizes diversity training, deployed across the land as a corrective but...
Series
Publisher
Center for Humanities
Pub. Date
[1991?]
Physical Desc
1 video cassette (25 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Language
English
Description
Award winning documentary records an innovative experiment in which a third-grade teacher divides her all-white class into "blue-eyes" and "brown-eyes, " making each group superior or inferior on successive days. The program, NOW, demonstrates the nature and effects of bigotry by showing changes brought about in their behavior and learning patterns.
11) Linked
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Link, Michael, and Dana live in a quiet town. But it's woken up very quickly when someone sneaks into school and vandalizes it with a swastika. Nobody can believe it. How could such a symbol of hate end up in the middle of their school? Who would do such a thing? Because Michael was the first person to see it, he's the first suspect. Because Link is one of the most popular guys in school, everyone's looking to him to figure it out. And because Dana's...
Author
Series
Legacy of Orisha volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Seventeen-year-old Zélie, her older brother Tzain, and rogue princess Amari fight to restore magic to the land and activate a new generation of magi, but they are ruthlessly pursued by the crown prince, who believes the return of magic will mean the end of the monarchy.
14) Perfect
Author
Series
Flawed (Cecelia Ahern) volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Since Celestine, eighteen, was declared a public menace, she has been on the run with Carrick, the one person she can trust, but she has a secret that may save all of those branded Flawed.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 342 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Inspiring and revelatory, this is a book of stories by a late legend, for anyone who wants to really understand the world. It is based on a lifetime trying to teach a fact-based worldview, and of listening to how people misinterpret and overdramatize the facts even when they are right there in front of them. Written by Hans Rosling as he approached death, it features surprising, shocking, funny and poignant stories from Hans' life - from his difficult...
16) Imagine a wolf
Author
Publisher
Page Street Kids
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
"What do you see when you imagine a wolf? Sharp, pointy teeth? Big, hungry eyes? A soft sweater and a friendly smile? Wait a minute! The wolf in this story would rather knit than huff, puff, or blow anyone's house down. But that doesn't stop the townsfolk from crying wolf anyway. What's a kind-hearted wolf to do when everyone keeps running and screaming at 'Hello'? It's time to show the world that this wolf is the furthest thing from Big and Bad....
Author
Language
English
Description
"[This novel] tells the story of Moshe Fisher, a man who was "born without skin," so that no one is able to tell what race he belongs to; and Arrienne Christie, his quixotic soul mate who makes it her duty in life to protect Moshe from the social and emotional consequences of his strange appearance. The narrative begins with Moshe's birth in the late 1950s, four years before Jamaica's independence from colonial rule, and ends in the era of what Forbes...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When a young girl is asked where she's from--where she's really from--she's no longer as she was. She decides to turn to her dear abuelo for some help with this ever-persistent question. But he doesn't quite give her the answer she expects."--Page [2] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 254 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In this accessible and groundbreaking look at the science of prejudice, Banaji and Greenwald show that prejudice and unconscious biases toward others are a fundamental part of the human psyche.
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