Prejudice category: 97 books
A Guest in the House of Hip-Hop
How Rap Music Taught a Kid from Kentucky What a White Ally Should Be
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2018
Born in rural Kentucky, Mickey Hess grew up listening to the militant rap of Public Enemy while living in a place where the state song still included the word “darkies.” Listening to hip-hop made Hess think about what it meant to be white, while the environment in small-town Kentucky encouraged...
Raising Ryland
Our Story of Parenting a Transgender Child with No Strings Attached
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
This powerful, moving story—which has already touched more than seven million through a viral video created by the Whittington family—is a mother’s first-hand account of her emotional choice to embrace her transgender child.
When Hillary and Jeff Whittington posted a YouTube video chronicling...
by Dalton Higgins
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Some of Canada's most acclaimed multicultural personalities public figures intellectuals entertainers athletes and activists share stories memories insights and revelations about fatherhood from the comic to the tragic. Through critical essays first-person musings interviews conversations spoken...
The End of Blackness
Returning the Souls of Black Folk to Their Rightful Owners
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
Debra Dickerson pulls no punches in this electrifying manifesto. Outspoken journalist and author of the critically acclaimed memoir An American Story, she challenges black Americans to stop obsessing about racism and start focusing on problems they can fix. The way out of the ghetto, she asserts,...
by Charles M. Blow
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
**A New York Times Notable Book | Lambda Literary Award Winner | Long-listed for the PEN Open Book Award
“Charles Blow is the James Baldwin of our age.” — Washington Blade
“[An] exquisite memoir . . . Delicately wrought and arresting.” — New York Times**
Universally...
Living to Tell
Collected Memoirs
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2001
Spanning approximately forty years, these memoirs are tied together with the thematic thread of a writer-to-be coming of age. They chronicle his discoveries of nature, family, love, community and self. For several years he becomes immersed in music as a member of an R&B and jazz band. During the...
Johni's Journal
One Person's Truth About God's Gay Children
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
This is a true story...in as much as one person's truth can be. It is a chronological description of historical facts, painful moments and surprising revelations of my life as a gay Christian, including the admission that God spoke directly to me. Intermingled with original email excerpts I exchanged...
The Journey of an African Child
The Inspirational Story of My Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Many people have lost their way, focus, or direction due to unbearable life circumstances. There have been times in my life when I gave up hope and contemplated committing suicide. Sometimes, I barely survived challenges and regained hope to continue with my life journey. Do not let any circumstance...
The Wrong Race
In Apartheid-Racist South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
The persistent trauma of extreme, institutionalized racism can be expected to take its toll on anyone. But resilience, instead, is the main theme of Azra Daniel Francis’s latest book, a raw and deeply personal memoir that details his experience growing up in South Africa. Through vignettes of people,...
by Arthur Schopenhauer
Language: French
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: September 12, 2013
La Dialectique éristique (en allemand Eristische Dialektik, du grec ἐριστική τέχνη) est une œuvre du philosophe Arthur Schopenhauer. Rédigée vers 1830-1831 et publiée en 1864, elle est parfois éditée en France sous le titre L'Art d'avoir toujours...
by Norah Shariff
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Norah Shariff’s autobiography is likely to cause some turmoil as she takes the reader into a harsh world created by her immediate family; a world filled with obstacles preventing her from gaining precious freedom. Norah is brought up in a living nightmare, created by her father’s abuse and violence,...
Black Woman Redefined
Dispelling Myths and Discovering Fulfillment in the Age of Michelle Obama
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
It’s time for a REDEFINITION among black women in America.
In its 2011 hardcover release, Black Woman Redefined was a top-selling book and took home a 2011 Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award from the African American Literary Awards. Author Sophia A. Nelson won the 2012 Champions of...
by Anelia Schutte
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
A small town’s struggle for freedom against apartheid ‘They call her Nobantu. I call her mother.’ Anelia Schutte grew up in Knysna – a beautiful town on the coast of South Africa centred around a picturesque lagoon and popular with tourists. But there was another side to Knysna. In the hills...
by Katinka Blackford Newman
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
While going through a divorce, documentary filmmaker Katinka Blackford Newman took an antidepressant. Not unusual – except that things didn't turn out quite as she expected. She went into a four-day toxic psychosis with violent hallucinations, imagining she had killed her children, and in fact attacking...