We are not yet equal : understanding our racial divide / Carol Anderson with Tonya Bolden.

"When America makes progress toward racial equality, the systemic response is a backlash that rolls back those wins. This edition adapted from the author's White Rage especially for teens illuminates these dark moments of history." -- "This ... young adult adaptation brings her ideas to a new audien...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:MSU Children's & YA Literature Collection.
Main Authors: Anderson, Carol (Carol Elaine) (Author)
Bolden, Tonya (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury, [2018]
Series:MSU Children's & YA Literature Collection.
Subjects:
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.
United States > Race relations > History > Juvenile literature.
African Americans > Civil rights > History.
African Americans > Politics and government.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Whites > United States > Attitudes > History.
Whites > United States > Politics and government.
Opposition (Political science) > United States > History.
Racism > United States > History.
United States > Race relations > History.
YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION > History > United States.
YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION > People & Places > United States > African American.
YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION > Social Topics > Prejudice & Racism.
Civil rights.
Opposition (Political science)
Politics and government.
Race relations.
Racism.
Social conditions.
White people > Attitudes.
White people > Politics and government.
United States.
Young adult literature.
Young adult nonfiction.
Instructional and educational works.
History.
Adaptations.
Juvenile works.
Young adult non-fiction.
Genre:
Juvenile literature.
Young adult literature.
Young adult nonfiction.
Instructional and educational works.
History.
Adaptations.
Juvenile works.
Young adult non-fiction.
Physical Description:270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Variant Title:
Understanding our racial divide
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 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
  • Discussion guide.