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Star rating for Children, race, and power
Publisher:
University Press of Virginia
Pub. Date:
1996
Language:
English
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Star rating for What the children told us
Publisher:
Sourcebooks
Language:
English
Description:
"For readers of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Hidden Figures, WHAT THE CHILDREN TOLD US tells the story of the towering intellectual and emotional partnership between the two Black psychologists who pioneered the groundbreaking "doll test," paving the way for the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case and decades of impactful civil rights activism"--
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Star rating for Groundbreaking scientists
Publisher:
Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date:
2021
Accelerated Reader:
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure:
980L
Language:
English
Description:
"Read about the men and women who have improved our lives through science including Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, astronaut Mae Jemison, inventor George Washington Carver, psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark, and many more."--
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Star rating for What the Children Told Us
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
Does racial discrimination harm Black children's sense of self? The Doll Test illuminated its devastating toll. Dr. Kenneth Clark visited rundown and under-resourced segregated schools across America, presenting Black children with two dolls: a white one with hair painted yellow and a brown one with hair painted black. "Give me the doll you like to play with," he said. "Give me the doll that is a nice doll." The psychological experiment Kenneth developed...
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Star rating for A new literary history of America
Publisher:
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date:
2009
Language:
English
Description:
America is a nation making itself up as it goes along--a story of discovery and invention unfolding in speeches and images, letters and poetry, unprecedented feats of scholarship and imagination. In these myriad, multiform, endlessly changing expressions of the American experience, the authors and editors of this volume find a new American history. In more than two hundred original essays, this book brings together the nation's many voices. From the...
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Star rating for Encyclopedia of African-American writing
Publisher:
Grey House Publishing
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
Description:
A timely survey of an important sector of American letters, African American Writers examines a multitude of black cultural leaders from the 18th century to the present. Updated through the present time, this new second edition covers the role and influence of African American cultural leaders from all walks of life Carefully written articles, with illustrations, cover the important events in a writer's life, education, major works, honors and awards,...

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