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(0)Jabari Asim
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
x, 278 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Reveals how the slur has both reflected and spread bigotry in America over the last 400 years. Asim pinpoints Thomas Jefferson as the source of our enduring image: in a seminal but now obscure essay, he marshaled a welter of pseudo-science to define the stereotype of a shiftless child-man with huge appetites and stunted self control. Asim reveals how nineteenth-century "science" then colluded with popular culture to amplify this slander. What began...
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
670L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Critically acclaimed author Jabari Asim and Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator E. B. Lewis give readers a fascinating glimpse into the boyhood of Civil Rights leader John Lewis. John wants to be a preacher when he grows up a leader whose words stir hearts to change, minds to think, and bodies to take action. But why wait? When John is put in charge of the family farm's flock of chickens, he discovers that they make a wonderful congregation! So he...
Author
Series
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
95 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A Child's Introduction to Jazz explores the rich history of jazz music, including profiles of famous musicians like Louis Armstrong and Billie Holliday. Written by A Child's Introduction to African American History author Jabari Asim, the book includes downloadable links throughout, to allow kids to listen along to the instruments and musical flair of jazz"--
Author
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
96 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"Critically acclaimed writer Jabari Asim guides readers ages 9-12 through the history of African Americans, from the slave trade to the Black Lives Matter movement, in the latest volume in Black Dog's bestselling, award-winning Child's Introduction series. This illustrated introduction to African American history goes beyond what's taught in the classroom giving young readers a more comprehensive look at this timely and important topic. Author Jabari...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 257 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Water Dancer meets The Prophets in this spare, gripping, and beautifully rendered novel exploring love and friendship among a group of enslaved Black strivers in the mid-nineteenth century" --
"They call themselves the Stolen. Their owners call them captives. They are taught their captors tongues and their beliefs but they have a language and rituals all their own. In a world that would be allegorical if it werent saturated in harsh truths,...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First young reader's edition.
Physical Desc
200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Raised in Charlotte, North Carolina, at the height of Jim Crow, Dovey Johnson Roundtree felt the sting of inequality at an early age and made a point to speak up for justice. She was one of the first Black women to break the racial and gender barriers in the US Army; a fierce attorney in the segregated courtrooms of Washington, DC; and a minister in the AME church, where women had never before been ordained as clergy. In 1955, Roundtree won a landmark...
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 143 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Featuring contributions from an award-winning, bestselling group of Black voices, past and present, this powerful poetry anthology elicits vital conversations about race, belonging, history and faith to highlight Black joy and pain.
