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We Are Not Yet Equal
We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide | Carol Anderson, Tonya Bolden
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Carol Anderson's White Rage took the world by storm, landing on the New York Times bestseller list and best book of the year lists from New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, and Chicago Review of Books. It launched her as an in-demand commentator on contemporary race issues for national print and television media and garnered her an invitation to speak to the Democratic Congressional Caucus. This compelling young adult adaptation brings her ideas to a new audience. When America achieves milestones of progress toward full and equal black participation in democracy, the systemic response is a consistent racist backlash that rolls back those wins. We Are Not Yet Equal examines five of these moments: The end of the Civil War and Reconstruction was greeted with Jim Crow laws; the promise of new opportunities in the North during the Great Migration was limited when blacks were physically blocked from moving away from the South; the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision was met with the shutting down of public schools throughout the South; the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 led to laws that disenfranchised millions of African American voters and a War on Drugs that disproportionally targeted blacks; and the election of President Obama led to an outburst of violence including the death of black teen Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri as well as the election of Donald Trump. This YA adaptation will be written in an approachable narrative style that provides teen readers with additional context to these historic moments, photographs and archival images, and additional backmatter and resources for teens.
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ImperfectCJ
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Despite some accurate but misleadingly presented information (eg, on p 124, data about PhDs in the natural sciences), this book presents a compelling and accessible argument that systemic racism exists in the US and that it is intentional. I'm left with a few ideas for action, including supporting causes that seek to increase voter registration and turnout and promoting more equitable resource allocation in my area's public schools.

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megnews
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This stuff just makes me sick. 🤮 What a horrible, hateful person and attitude.

Susanita Ugh. He was shot right down the road from me. 4y
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megnews
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megnews
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We hear the same sentiments today. If only we had done this right from the get go.

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megnews
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This sounds eerily familiar

BarbaraTheBibliophage 😰😰😰🤬🤬🤬 4y
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megnews
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Things we never hear about the Founding Fathers saying.

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UnRuLee
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I didn‘t realize until I started this that it‘s adapted for younger readers from White Rage (which was also on my reading list). It succinctly details the history of racism and, yes, white rage from slavery up through President Obama. It‘s infuriating and heartbreaking. I learned some things I didn‘t know before. We have to do better.

Lovesbooks87 This book was eye opening. There was so much I had no idea happened in our history until I read this book. 4y
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Lovesbooks87
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This is the history that needs to be in the textbooks that we are teaching students in school. I am ashamed to say that a lot of the black history that was in this book I had never heard of. We need to do better with teaching this painful part of our nations history. It can‘t be sugar coated. It needs to be learned to make sure it never happens again! Very important and powerful read! One that will stick with me!!!

ImperfectCJ This one's on my daughter's booklist for history this year. Looking forward to reading it and filling in the gaps in my education. 4y
Lovesbooks87 @ImperfectCJ it did fill in the gaps in my education. I am so glad someone posted about this on Facebook or I never would of heard about it. There is also one about voting that I got as well. It is by the same author. I just can‘t imagine how someone can have so much hate for someone just because the color of their skin. 4y
Stephjotsdown Thanks for sharing. Adding this to my TBR. After reading Stamped from the beginning by Ibram X Kendi, I realised that the issue of racism is America is so so complex. Racism is everywhere, even so apparent in my country Malaysia, but racism in America is complicated to a different level. 4y
Lovesbooks87 @Stephjotsdown your welcome. I read the ya edition of Stamped and it was a powerful read. I agree that racism in America is so complicated and complex. By reading both of these books it is shown me how much worse it is than I ever imagined. Hoping that with everything going on it can be a turning point in for our nation. That we can all educate ourselves. 4y
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Peddler410
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Started this one on Saturday. I‘m learning a lot.

BarbaraTheBibliophage I respect Dr. Anderson so much! It‘s terrific that she‘s collaborating on a YA edition of her work. 5y
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kate_reads
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Evening reading 🤜🏽🤛🏽

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