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Pub. Date
[2013], c2009
Language
English
Description
To make this film, director Michael Ramsdell spent six years among organizations that define themselves in ideological opposition to other groups, sometimes with extreme hatred. As he spent time with white supremacists, Muslim extremists, militant fundamentalist Christians, participants on both sides of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and American combatants in Iraq, he began to unravel the mystery of the anatomy of hate. The resulting documentary...
42) Beauty woke
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Beauty, who is of Taino Indian, African, and Boricua heritage, was taught to be strong and proud, but hatred toward people who look like her bruises her heart until her community opens her eyes to the truth.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Dara Palmer dreams of being an actress, but when she does not get a part in the school play she wonders if it is because of her different looks as an adopted girl from Cambodia, so Dara becomes determined not to let prejudice stop her from being in the spotlight.
Pub. Date
[2012], c1994
Language
English
Description
Documents kept in Moscow's archives since the end of World War II are providing the complete story behind the planning, engineering, and building of the Auschwitz complex. These documents also describe its ultimate role as a means of advancing Hitler's final solution. This historical documentary provides insight into the role played by civilian firms and their engineers in the construction of the complex, and explains the motivation that spurred them...
45) Soccer stand-off
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Eighth-grader Ethan Isaac is looking forward to the soccer season, but he gets a shock when he finds out that their new coach is Ms. Brezinka, his tough seventh grade science teacher--some of the players quit the team, but Ethan does not have that option, and he soon learns that Ms. Brezinka is as demanding a soccer coach as she was a teacher.
46) Internment
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Language
English
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If You Like Hunger Games, Read These!
If You Like the Hate U Give, Read These!
Islamic Heritage - Adult/YA
Womens History Month - YA
If You Like the Hate U Give, Read These!
Islamic Heritage - Adult/YA
Womens History Month - YA
Description
"A terrifying, futuristic United Sates where Muslim-Americans are forced into internment camps, and seventeen-year-old Layla Amin must lead a revolution against complicit silence"--
Pub. Date
[2010], c2008
Language
English
Description
Imagine walking into a public library..sitting down with a person wearing a name tag with a potentially loaded label such as "disabled," "gay," "homeless," "Muslim," "police officer," or even "teenager" and then engaging him or her in a discussion of common prejudices in order to better understand a fellow human too often obscured by a stereotype! Peace activist Ronni Abergel did, and the international Living Library Project was born. This program...
Pub. Date
[2012], c2012
Language
English
Description
Nationalist, populist, and xenophobic movements are becoming significant political forces across Europe, with some gaining enough support to win parliamentary seats. This investigation traverses the continent and goes into the heart of extreme right-wing organizations for a frightening look into what can happen when fear, ignorance, and racism intersect. Viewers are taken to a German village dominated by nostalgia for the Third Reich, and to Hungary,...
50) Hate groups USA
Pub. Date
[2005], c1998
Language
English
Description
Using the shocking racist murder of James Byrd as a starting point, this disturbing program investigates America's proliferating hate groups. The KKK's Charles Lee; the founder of Aryan Nations and his successor, Pastor Neumann Britton; and William Pierce, head of the National Alliance and author of The Turner Diaries, calmly proclaim their chilling views on "racial patriotism" and "positive hate. Countering, Julian Bond, of the NAACP; Irv Rubin,...
51) Facing Hate
Pub. Date
[2013], c1991
Language
English
Description
Hate is not only destructive, it is self-destructive, Elie Wiesel. In this moving personal testament, Nobel Laureate and human rights advocate Elie Wiesel talks with Bill Moyers about his own childhood experiences at Auschwitz and analyzes the source of Nazi hatred toward Jews, "We weren't human in their eyes." Wiesel reflects on his own apparent inability to hate, and discusses ethnic hatred at work in Bosnia and other Eastern European countries...
Pub. Date
[2011], c2009
Language
English
Description
A smattering of self-styled experts believe they can assign IQ levels to the world's racial groups. Even if their data were beyond reproach, what does that say about IQ testing? Is it objective or socioeconomically biased? British journalist Rageh Omaar searches for answers in this thoughtful, globe-spanning program. Recounting the turmoil Dr. James Watson stirred up with his 2007 remarks on race, genetics, and intelligence, Omaar describes a recent...
53) Erasing Hate
Pub. Date
[2013], c2011
Language
English
Description
Violent skinhead Bryon Widner's face, neck, and hands were covered with intimidating tattoos before he began the lengthy process of having them removed. But tattoo removal was just the outward sign of an inner transformation. Bryon had been an active and particularly vicious member of the white supremacist movement for 16 years-one of his tattoos signified a willingness to kill for the Aryan race-until meeting his wife and having a change of heart....
Pub. Date
[2010], c1996
Language
English
Description
This edition of Investigative Reports provides a chilling look at the skinheads, a volatile movement that became increasingly subtle and sophisticated in spreading its divisive and dangerous message. Unlike the original skinheads - too extreme to become a significant threat to society - the new skinheads worked hard to blend in with society as they coordinated their ongoing campaigns of extreme violence with other organized hate groups such as the...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Description
Sophie's friendship fiasco: When Sophie's efforts to protect her friends from a group of mean-spirited popular girls lead to misunderstandings at home and at school, she turns to Jesus for help. Sophie and the new girl: As the Corn Flakes and other members of the Film Club work on a school project about Cuban refugees in the 1980s, a newcomer's prejudices hurt Maggie and challenge Sophie's ability to understand and practice Jesus' teachings.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Español
Description
En cierta pradera vivían un grupo de conejos blancos y un grupo de conejos negros que no se mesclan los unos con los otros. Pero un día una conejita llamada Marcela duda de su estilo de vida.
In a certain meadow lived a group of white rabbits and a group of black rabbits that did not mix with each other until one day a bunny named Marcela questions their way of life.
Author
Series
Under the never sky trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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Description
"Aria and Perry, two teens from radically different societies--one highly advanced, the other primitive--hate being dependent on one another until they overcome their prejudices and fall in love, knowing they can't stay together"--
Pub. Date
[2012], c2011
Language
English
Description
Shortly before the NATO bombing of Kosovo in 1999, young Serbs and Albanians sat down together with one bold, improbable goal: creating a constructive cross-cultural dialog. Produced ten years later, this follow-up documentary features the participants meeting once again-an encounter in which traumatic stories are shared, grievances and sympathies are exchanged, and the roles of victim and oppressor become difficult to assign. The expertise of the...
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 2
Language
English
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A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.
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