We are not yet equal : understanding our racial divide

Anderson, Carol (Carol Elaine), author.

Book

New York : Bloomsbury, 2018.

©2018

270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

"Carol Anderson's White Rage took the world by storm with its bold assertion: when America makes progress toward racial equality, the systemic response is a backlash that rolls back those wins. In this edition especially for teens, Anderson and ... author Tonya Bolden illuminate these dark moments of history"--Dust jacket flap.

Grades 7-8.

Ages 12-18.

African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- Juvenile literature.

African Americans -- Politics and government -- Juvenile literature.

African Americans -- Social conditions -- Juvenile literature.

White people -- United States -- Attitudes -- History -- Juvenile literature.

White people -- United States -- Politics and government -- Juvenile literature.

Opposition (Political science) -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.

Racism -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature.

Racism against Black people -- United States -- Juvenile literature.

United States -- Race relations -- History -- Juvenile literature.

Glencoe (Ill.) -- Central School research projects.

Adaptations.

Bolden, Tonya, author.

Adaptation of (work): Anderson, Carol (Carol Elaine). White rage.

Understanding our racial divide

Foreword / by Nic Stone -- Prologue -- "Original sin" -- "But for your race" -- Forty acres and a mule -- Black codes -- "We showed our hand too soon" -- "Johnson is with us!" -- Courting justice -- Derailing the Great Migration -- The sweet ordeal -- Building toward Brown -- Beating down Brown -- The NAACP and Sputnik -- Rolling back civil rights -- "Like your whole world depended on it" -- In the crosshairs: the VRA -- Beating down Brown (again!) -- The Reagan revolution -- Crack -- "Streets cleared of garbage" -- Obama -- Shelby County vs. Holder: gutting the VRA -- "Why would they try to make people hate us?" -- Epilogue.

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