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Author
Publisher
Lit Riot Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Like most Black kids who grew up without diverse representation, Jordan Calhoun learned the skill of assigning race to fictional characters. Piccolo, Panthro, Demona, Ursula...he could recognize a Black character when he saw one. He lived in an all-Black city, went to an all-Black school, and could identify characters whose struggles informed his understanding of the Black experience in America. Piccolo Is Black: A Memoir of Race, Religion, and Pop...
7) Maya Angelou
Series
Publisher
Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Shuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"With a poet's gifted ear, a novelist's sense of narrative, and a journalist's unsentimental eye, Mitchell S. Jackson candidly explores his tumultuous youth in the other America. Survival Math takes its name from the calculations Mitchell and his family made to keep safe--to stay alive--in their community, a small black neighborhood in Portland, Oregon blighted by drugs, violence, poverty, and governmental neglect. Survival Math is both a personal...