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161) The bad immigrant
Author
Publisher
Interlink Books, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"An account of an immigrant family's struggle and the lessons learned about diversity Writing at the height of her powers, The Bad Immigrant cements Sefi Atta's place as one of the best storytellers of our time. Through the voice of her first male protagonist, Lukmon, Atta peels away nuanced layers to expose the realities of migration from Nigeria to the USA, such as the strains of adjustment and the stifling pressure to conform without loss of identity....
162) Lucky girl: a novel
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Soila is a lucky girl by anyone's estimation. Raised by her stern, conservative mother and a chorus of aunts, she has lived a life of privilege in Nairobi. Soila is headstrong and outspoken, and she chafes against her mother's strict rules. After a harrowing assault by a trusted family friend, she flees to New York for college, vowing never to return home. New York is not what she imagined it would be. Instead of a golden land of opportunity, Soila...
Author
Publisher
Alcove Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Genevieve Francis, a twenty-five-year-old Black reporter, assumed she'd go into her fourth year at her newspaper job with a bigger story than the latest seasonal ice cream flavor. Instead, she's relegated to doing copy edits and sensitivity reads on the articles her white colleagues write. So when Gen finally gets the opportunity to cover a prominent CEO's gala, she leaps at the chance--this will be her biggest assignment to date. The only problem:...
164) The stone face
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"First published in 1963, The Stone Face tells the tale of a young African-American man who takes refuge from American racism in France, only to find himself complicit in a racist order of another sort. Simeon Brown, a journalist who, as a teenager, lost an eye in a racist attack, lives in his native Philadelphia in a state of agonizing tension, and after a violent encounter with some white sailors on shore leave, he decides to pack up and leave for...
Author
Publisher
Umbriel Editores
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"Una novela que desafía a los lectores a reflexionar sobre sus propias creencias y prejuicios racistas. Según la crítica, esta es la novela más importante de una de las autoras best seller más comprometida del momento. Jodi Picoult es única moviendo conciencias y haciendo reflexionar al lector sobre temas polémicos, como el racismo en Estados Unidos. Ruth Jefferson es enfermera en la sala de partos de un hospital de Connecticut, una profesional...
166) Japanese by spring
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Since the publication of his first novel, The Free-Lance Pallbearers, and through works such as Mumbo Jumbo and The Last Days of Louisiana Red, Ishmael Reed has forged a reputation as "the brightest contributor to American satire since Mark Twain" (The Nation). In his boisterous and irreverent new novel, Japanese by Spring, Reed turns the full force of his satiric wit on the American university. Benjamin "Chappie" Puttbutt, a black junior professor...
Author
Series
Bitter Root ; 3
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"With Blink taking charge of the family, Cullen and Ford surrounded by monsters, and their former enemy, Dr. Sylvester, joining their cause, the Sangeryes must make their final stand to save Harlem--and humanity--to cement their legacy as monster hunters. Indubitably"--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"King Aja Ọba and Queen Lewa are revered across Africa for their political and military skills. Yet the future of their kingdom is in jeopardy, for the royal couple do not have an heir of their own. When the King kidnaps his son born to a concubine, Obinrin, she curses Ọba with the "gift" of immortality. After enjoying long, wonderful lives, both Queen Lewa and the crown prince die naturally, leaving the ageless King Ọba heartbroken and alone....
Author
Series
Bitter root ; 2
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Monster-hunting has been the Sangerye family business for generations as they battle the jinoo - hideous creatures born out of hate and racism. But now the Sangeryes face a different threat -- the deadly inzondo, a new kind of monster born out of grief and trauma. With one of their own turning into an inzondo and an army of tortured souls on the attack in 1920s Harlem, the Sangerye family must once again fight to save the world, unless their own...
Author
Publisher
PM Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The year is 1923. The Ku Klux Klan is at the height of its power in the US as membership swells into the millions and they expand beyond their original southern borders. As they grow, so do their targets. As they continue their campaigns of terror against African Americans, their list now includes Catholics and Jews, southern and eastern Europeans, all in the name of "white supremacy." But they are no longer considered a terrorist organization. By...
Author
Series
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Meet Bungleton Green--an anti-racist time traveler and the first-ever Black superhero created more than a decade before characters like Black Panther and Falcon. In 1942, almost a year after America entered the Second World War, Jay Jackson--a former railroad worker and sign painter, now working as a cartoonist and illustrator for the legendary Black newspaper The Chicago Defender--did something unexpected. He took the Defender's stale and long-running...
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