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Race-baiter : how the media wields dangerous words to divide a nation / by Deggans, Eric.(CARDINAL)400493;
"Gone is the era of Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite, when news programs fought to gain the trust and respect of a wide spectrum of American viewers. Today, the fastest-growing news programs and media platforms are fighting hard for increasingly narrow segments of the public and playing on old prejudices and deep-rooted fears, coloring the conversation in the blogosphere and the cable news chatter to distract from the true issues at stake. Using the same tactics once used to mobilize political parties and committed voters, they send their fans coded messages and demonize opposing groups, in the process securing valuable audience share and website traffic. Race-baiter is a term born out of this tumultuous climate, coined by the conservative media to describe a person who uses racial tensions to arouse the passion and ire of a particular demographic. Even as the election of the first black president forces us all to reevaluate how we think about race, gender, culture, and class lines, some areas of modern media are working hard to push the same old buttons of conflict and division for new purposes. In Race-Baiter, veteran journalist and media critic Eric Deggans dissects the powerful ways modern media feeds fears, prejudices, and hate, while also tracing the history of the word and its consequences, intended or otherwise"--
Subjects: Journalism; Prejudices in the press; Television broadcasting of news; Television and politics; Journalism; Prejudices in mass media;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The Watsons go to Birmingham-- 1963 (AR) / by Curtis, Christopher Paul.(CARDINAL)351524;
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning
Subjects: Fiction.; African Americans; Families; Prejudices; Siblings; Siblings.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963 [large print] / by Curtis, Christopher Paul,author.(CARDINAL)351524;
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.920LAccelerated Reader ARNewbery Honor Book, 1996.
Subjects: Large print books.; Large print books.; Fiction.; Juvenile works.; African Americans; Families; Prejudices; Siblings; Siblings.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963 : a novel / by Curtis, Christopher Paul.(CARDINAL)351524;
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.920LAccelerated Reader ARAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Fiction.; Siblings.; African Americans; Families; Prejudices; Siblings;
Available copies: 22 / Total copies: 23
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Thinking critically: the Black Lives Matter movement by Karson, Olivia,author.(CARDINAL)860115;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Has social media helped the Black Lives Matter movement? -- Has the BLM movement changed attitudes about race? -- Has the Black Lives Matter movement resulted in meaningful police reform?"The adoption of the Black Lives Matter movement into daily American life has been far from seamless. The incidence of police brutality and mass incarceration in the United States is the highest in the world. While the BLM movement continues to shine light on the systemic racism endemic in law enforcement and the criminal justice system, many Americans remain deeply divided on the most effective ways to address these issues"--Provided by publisher.Ages 14-18b
Subjects: Black lives matter movement; African Americans; Racial profiling in law enforcement; Racismz; Racism; Race discrimination; Prejudices; Racism.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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News and the media / by Dufresne, Emilie, author.;
What is the news? -- What is the media? -- News and the media -- Media throughout history -- Media tomorrow -- Media and censorship -- News and bias -- Fake news -- Staying safe online -- Jobs in the media -- Advertising -- The media and you -- Diversity in the media -- Change and the media -- Activity -- Glossary -- Index.Students today live in a media-rich world of breaking news headlines and social media posts. With the vital information in this book, students will learn how to navigate the many facets of this evolving media so they can stay informed while also objective. Complete with captivating diagrams and photographs, this resource will help students understand how the news and media have evolved, how to spot bias, and how to stay safe online. Students will learn about growing media careers. Your readers will build digital literacy and use the media to become more engaged citizens in the world community.
Subjects: Advertising.; Attribution of news.; Censorship.; Citizen journalism; Cultural pluralism; Democracy; Discrimination.; Fake news.; Freedom of the press; Journalism.; Journalism; Journalism; Journalism; Journalism; Mass media and culture; Mass media.; Mass media; Media literacy.; Multiculturalism.; National characteristics, American.; News audiences.; Prejudices.; Press and politics; Press and politics; Television and politics; Television broadcasting of news; Television broadcasting; Censorship.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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England in the age of Austen / by Black, Jeremy,1955-author.(CARDINAL)176965;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Dedicated fans of Jane Austen's novels will delight in accompanying historian Jeremy Black through the drawing rooms, chapels, and battlefields of the time in which Austen lived and wrote. In this exceedingly readable and sweeping scan of late 18th- and early 19th-century Britain, Black provides a historical context for a deeper appreciation of classic novels such as Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility. While Austen's novels bring to life complex characters living in intimate surroundings, England in the Age of Austen provides a fuller account of what the village, the church, and the family home would really have been like. In addition to seeing how Austen's own reading helped her craft complex characters like Emma, Black also explores how recurring figures in the novels, such as George III or Fanny Burney, provide a focus for a historical discussion of the fiction in which they appear. Jane Austen's world was the source of her works and the basis of her readership, and understanding that world gives fans new insights into the multifaceted narratives she created"--
Subjects: Austen, Jane, 1775-1817;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Anti-Semitism : hatred on the rise / by Blohm, Craig E.,1948-author.(CARDINAL)663489;
Includes bibliographical references and index."For thousands of years Jews have been subjected to prejudice, harassment, and violent attacks. The twenty-first century is witnessing a disturbing increase in the hatred of Jews. [This book discusses anti-Semitism and the groups working against it]"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Antisemitism; Jews;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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He who fears the wolf / by Fossum, Karin,1954-(CARDINAL)528147;
Inspector Sejer is investigating the brutal murder of a woman who lived alone in the middle of the woods. The chief suspect is another loner, a schizophrenic recently escaped from a mental institution. The only witness is a twelve-year-old boy, overweight, obsessed with archery, and a resident at a home for delinquents. When a demented man robs a nearby bank and accidentally takes the suspect hostage, the three mistfits are drawn into an uneasy alliance. Shrewdly, patiently, Inspector Sejer confronts a case where the strangeness of the crime is matched only by the strangeness of the criminals, and where small-town prejudices warp every piece of information he tries to collect.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Police; Police.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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How does it feel to be a problem? : being young and Arab in America / by Bayoumi, Moustafa.(CARDINAL)704408;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-290).A study of the Arab- and Muslim-American experience as reflected in the lives of seven young men and women in Brooklyn evaluates their encounters with prejudice and their relationships with friends and family members in the Middle East.1010L
Subjects: Interviews.; Arab American youth; Arab American youth; Arab American youth; Arab Americans; Race awareness;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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