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182) El color de su piel
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"Bobby está agotado, ha hecho un doble turno otra vez en el restaurante para conseguir el dinero del alquiler, que su madre otra vez se gastó bebiendo. Esa noche se reencuentra con Aaron, su mejor amigo que acaba de salir irreconocible de prisión. Atrás quedaron sus cómics, su gorra y sus pantalones deportivos, se ha convertido en alguien que da miedo y lleva en su cuerpo tatuajes de supremacía blanca. En este momento, menos que nunca Bobby...
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This riveting nonfiction book for teens about race, class, gender, crime, and punishment tells the true story of an agender teen who was set on fire by another teen while riding a bus in Oakland, California. One teenager in a skirt. One teenager with a lighter. One moment that changes both of their lives forever. If it weren't for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. Both were high school students from Oakland, California, one of the...
191) Delatora
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Violet Rue Kerrigan, una mujer joven, recuerda su vida en el exilio de su familia luego de su testimonio, a los doce años, sobre lo que sabía que era el asesinato racista de un niño afroamericano por sus hermanos mayores. En una sucesión de episodios vívidamente recordados, Violet contempla las circunstancias de su vida como la hija menor inicialmente amada de siete hijos de Kerrigan que inadvertidamente "informa" sobre sus hermanos, poniendo...
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"On October 27, 2018, three congregations were holding their morning Shabbat services at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh&;s Squirrel Hill neighborhood when a lone gunman entered the building and opened fire. He killed eleven people and injured six more in the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in American history. The story made national headlines for weeks following the shooting, but Pittsburgh and the local Jewish community could not simply...
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"This first full-length survey of American civil rights "cold cases" examines unsolved racially motivated murders over nearly four decades, beginning in 1934. The author covers all cases reviewed by the federal government to date, as well as a larger number of cases that were ignored without official explanation."--Publisher description.
196) Violence against queer people: race, class, gender, and the persistence of anti-LGBT discrimination
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"Violence against lesbians and gay men has increasingly captured media and scholarly attention. But these reports tend to focus on one segment of the LGBT community--white, middle class men--and largely ignore that part of the community that arguably suffers a larger share of the violence--racial minorities, the poor, and women. In Violence against Queer People, sociologist Doug Meyer offers the first investigation of anti-queer violence that focuses...
200) Valentine road
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Explores the murder of gay eighth-grader Lawrence King who was shot and killed by his classmate Brandon McInerney in Oxnard, California in 2008.
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