<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[subject results for "African Americans — Social conditions — 21st century."]]></title><description><![CDATA[subject results for "African Americans — Social conditions — 21st century."]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/skokielibrary/rss/search?query=%22African%20Americans%20%E2%80%94%20Social%20conditions%20%E2%80%94%2021st%20century.%22&amp;searchType=subject&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;page=2&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 05:05:25 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[They Can't Kill Us All]]></title><description><![CDATA[A behind-the-scenes account of the #blacklivesmatter movement shares insights into the young men and women behind it, citing the racially charged controversies that have motivated members and the economic, political, and personal histories that inform its purpose.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2592056</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2592056</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lowery, Wesley]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2592056133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Ferguson, Baltimore, and A New Era in America&apos;s Racial Justice Movement</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780316312479/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fire This Time]]></title><description><![CDATA["National Book Award-winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping off point for this groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race from the most important voices of her generation and our time."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2531022</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2531022</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2531022133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A New Generation Speaks About Race</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781501126345/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy in Black]]></title><description><![CDATA["A polemic on the state of black America that argues that we don't yet live in a post-racial society"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2167148</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2167148</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Glaude, Eddie S.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2167148133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780804137416/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[12 Angry Men]]></title><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2973489</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2973489</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[und]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2973489133</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>True Stories Of Being A Black Man In America Today</subtitle><language>und</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disintegration]]></title><description><![CDATA[The African American population in the United States has always been seen as a single entity: a "Black America" with unified interests and needs. In his groundbreaking book Disintegration, longtime Washington Post journalist Eugene Robinson argues that, through decades of desegregation, affirmative action, and immigration, the concept of Black America has shattered. Now, instead of one, there are four distinct groups: a Mainstream middle-class majority with a solid stake in society; a large Abandoned minority with less hope than ever of escaping poverty; a small Transcendent elite, whose enormous wealth and power make even whites genuflect; and newly Emergent groups of mixed-race individuals and recent black immigrants who question what black even means.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2973271</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2973271</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[und]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Robinson, Eugene]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2973271133</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>The Splintering Of Black America</subtitle><language>und</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[April 4, 1968]]></title><description><![CDATA[On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr., the prophet for racial and economic justice in America, was fatally shot. Only hours earlier, he had ended his final public speech by promising that "we as a people will get to the Promised Land". Now, at the fortieth anniversary of King's assassination, acclaimed public intellectual Michael Eric Dyson gives a comprehensive reevaluation of the fate of America, specifically Black America, since that date.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2973172</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2973172</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[und]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dyson, Michael Eric]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2973172133</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>Martin Luther King, Jr.&apos;s Death And How It Changed America</subtitle><language>und</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[An American Summer]]></title><description><![CDATA["The numbers are staggering: Over the past twenty years in Chicago, 14,033 people have been killed and another roughly 60,000 wounded by gunfire. What does that do to the spirit of individuals and communities? Drawing on his decades of experience, Alex Kotlowitz set out to chronicle one summer in the city, writing of those who have emerged from the violence and whose stories reveal the capacity--and the breaking point--of the human heart and soul. The result is a spellbinding collection of deeply intimate stories that upend what we think we know about gun violence in America"--Dust jacket flap.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2909918</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2909918</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kotlowitz, Alex]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2909918133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Love and Death in Chicago</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780385538800/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black American Refugee]]></title><description><![CDATA["In the early '90s, young Tiffanie Drayton and her siblings left Trinidad and Tobago to join their mother in New Jersey, where she'd been making her way as a domestic worker, eager to give her children a shot at the American Dream. At first, life in the US was idyllic. But chasing good school districts with affordable housing left Tiffanie and her family constantly uprooted--moving from Texas to Florida then back to New Jersey. As Tiffanie came of age in the suburbs, she began to ask questions about the binary Black and white American world. Why were the Black neighborhoods she lived in crime-ridden, and the multicultural ones safe? Why were there so few Black students in advanced classes at school, if there were any advanced classes at all? Why was it so hard for Black families to achieve stability? Why were Black girls treated as something other than worthy? Ultimately, exhausted by the pursuit of a "better life" in America, twenty-year old Tiffanie returns to Tobago. She is suddenly able to enjoy the simple freedom of being Black without fear, and imagines a different future for her own children. But then COVID-19 and widely publicized instances of police brutality bring America front and center again. This time, as an outsider supported by a new community, Tiffanie grieves and rages for Black Americans in a way she couldn't when she was one."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3158906</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3158906</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Drayton, Tiffanie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3158906133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Escaping the Narcissism of the American Dream</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593298541/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Monticello]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a daring and fierce debut work of fiction, the likes of which come along once in a generation, Virginia's landscapes, emblems, and Thomas Jefferson's historic plantation set the stage for a cast of unforgettable characters fighting for their right to exist in America.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3094744</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3094744</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Johnson, Jocelyn Nicole]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3094744133</comments><format>BOOK_CD</format><subtitle>Fiction</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781250820716/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black Lives Matter]]></title><description><![CDATA[What is the Black Lives Matter movement? How have people been protesting the ongoing violence against the Black community? From its inception as a social media hashtag in 2013 to a movement with supporters around the world, Black Lives Matter has become much more than a slogan. It has changed the way people protest using social media as well as the public discourse around police brutality. Learn about how Black Lives Matter has roots in America's long struggle for racial justice and how the movement will change the future.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3223713</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3223713</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Tyner, Artika R.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3223713133</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>From Hashtag to the Streets</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781728440521/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black Lives, Lines, & Lyrics]]></title><description><![CDATA[Black Lives, Lines, & Lyrics conveys the 21st Century Black experience through lines and verse. Divided into three measures, this poetry collection provides rhythmical reflections on black experiences with racial and social injustice, a poetic account of the lives lost to police brutality and racial violence, and a lyrical celebration of the beauty, resilience, and humanity of Black people. Readers agree that this "body of art" is an "amazing book of lyrical content" and "one of the most profound books" they have read "since the likes of Zora Neale Hurston and Maya Angelou." Author D.B. Mays "invites you to gain a better understanding of Black experiences in a three-part journey." Poems, like "AmeriKKKa," "Hypocrisy on the Hill," and "The Black Book" are "thought-provoking and liberating." Part I, "Black Lyrics," provides a poetic perspective of the highs and lows of living while Black in the 21st Century, while Part II, "Black Lives," is a poetic account of the lives lost to racial violence, and Part III, "Black Lines," is a nod to Hip Hop. One reader called the work an "overdue gem that navigates through one of civilization's most sad and challenging realities. D.B. Mays covers so many bases with tremendous grace, style and clarity. A must-read for staying connected with today's call for universal peace and justice." Others wrote that there is "such a wide variety of poetry," and "compelling storytelling." Poems, such as "Stunning," "My Grandparents' Living Room," "Goldilocks," "The Run," and "#SayHerName" evoke "emotional" responses. The book aims to help people of all backgrounds gain an appreciation for the beauty and endurance of Black people while bringing the realities of the discrimination and racism that Black people face in America and really, around the world, to the forefront of our social consciousness, conversations, and communities.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3273651</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3273651</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mays, D. B.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3273651133</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781736581438/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Across the River]]></title><description><![CDATA[A heartbreaking and inspiring true story-Friday Night Lights meets Ghettoside-of a New Orleans high school football team and their head coach's mission to protect his players' lives. On the west bank of the Mississippi, across from the tourist-heavy French Quarter, lies the New Orleans neighborhood of Algiers. Short on hope and big dreams, its mostly poor and marginalized residents find joy on Friday nights in fall, when the Cougars of Edna Karr High School take the field. For three years, this team of scrappy, talented athletes have brought glory to Edna Karr and Algiers, winning three straight consecutive state championships in Louisiana's ultra-competitive Class 4A division. While planning for a fourth title, thirty-three-year-old head football coach Brice Brown is focused on something much more important: keeping the 96 teenagers on his team alive. An epidemic of gun violence plagues New Orleans and its surrounding communities and has claimed too many innocent lives, including Coach Brown's former star quarterback, Tollette "Tonka" George, shot at a local gas station. Determined to protect his boys, Coach Brown fills their days with workouts, team activities, and grueling marathon practice sessions. At night, he patrols the city in his rusted truck, iPhone in hand, dialing each of his players to make sure they made it home alive. Award-winning sports journalist Kent Babb told Coach Brown's story in the pages of the Washington Post. Now, he builds on his early reporting to offer a rich and deep portrait of this man, his players, and Algiers itself, where neighbors try to make the best of a terrible situation. Featuring eight pages of full-color photos, Across the River is an indelible true story of violence and pain, dedication and love, and the fight for life and a better future.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3196405</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3196405</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Babb, Kent]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3196405133</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>Life, Death, and Football in An American City</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780062950628/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Monticello]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a daring and fierce debut work of fiction-the likes of which comes along once in a generation-Virginia's landscapes, emblems, and Thomas Jefferson's historic plantation set the stage for a cast of unforgettable characters fighting for their right to exist in America. A young woman descended from Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings driven from her neighborhood by a white militia. A university professor studying racism by conducting a secret social experiment on his own son. A single mother desperate to buy her first home even as the world hurtles toward catastrophe. Each fighting to survive in America. Tough-minded, vulnerable, and brave, Jocelyn Nicole Johnson's precisely imagined debut explores burdened inheritances and extraordinary pursuits of belonging. Set in the near future, the eponymous novella, "My Monticello," tells of a diverse group of Charlottesville neighbors fleeing violent white supremacists. Led by Da'Naisha, a young Black descendant of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, they seek refuge in Jefferson's historic plantation home in a desperate attempt to outlive the long-foretold racial and environmental unravelling within the nation. In "Control Negro," hailed by Roxane Gay as "one hell of story," a university professor devotes himself to the study of racism and the development of ACMs (average American Caucasian males) by clinically observing his own son from birth in order to "painstakingly mark the route of this Black child too, one whom I could prove was so strikingly decent and true that America could not find fault in him unless we as a nation had projected it there." Johnson's characters all seek out home as a place and an internal state, whether in the form of a Nigerian widower who immigrates to a meager existence in the city of Alexandria, finding himself adrift; a young mixed-race woman who adopts a new tongue and name to escape the landscapes of rural Virginia and her family; or a single mother who seeks salvation through "Buying a House Ahead of the Apocalypse." United by these characters' relentless struggles against reality and fate, My Monticello is a formidable collection that bears witness to this country's legacies and announces the arrival of a wildly original new voice in American fiction. "A group of talented narrators deliver these short stories set in Virginia, which focus on the lives of African Americans." --AudioFile Earphone Award Winner A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3219525</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3219525</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Johnson, Jocelyn Nicole]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3219525133</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>Fiction</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781250820723/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Monticello]]></title><description><![CDATA["An irresistibly accessible yet startlingly bold book of short stories and a novella, inspired by Black lives in America and featuring the gripping eponymous work "My Monticello.""-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3082223</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3082223</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Johnson, Jocelyn Nicole]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3082223133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Fiction</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781250807151/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Across the River]]></title><description><![CDATA["A heartbreaking and inspiring true story of a New Orleans high school football team and their head coach's mission to protect his players' lives"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3079050</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3079050</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Babb, Kent]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3079050133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Life, Death, and Football in An American City</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780062950598/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light for the World to See]]></title><description><![CDATA[A collection of three powerful poems that take on racism and Black resistance in America by New York Times best selling author Kwame Alexander. Includes an introduction by the author.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3000073</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3000073</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alexander, Kwame]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3000073133</comments><format>BOOK_CD</format><subtitle>A Thousand Words on Race and Hope</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780358555124/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light for the World to See]]></title><description><![CDATA["From NPR correspondent and New York Times bestselling author, Kwame Alexander, comes a powerful and provocative collection of poems that cut to the heart of the entrenched racism and oppression in America and eloquently explores ongoing events.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2986840</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2986840</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alexander, Kwame]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2986840133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780358539414/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[A $500 House in Detroit]]></title><description><![CDATA[A young college grad buys a house in Detroit for $500 and attempts to restore it-and his new neighborhood-to its original glory in this deeply felt, sharply observed personal quest to create meaning and community out of the fallen...A standout. Drew Philp, an idealistic college student from a working-class Michigan family, decides to live where he can make a difference. He sets his sights on Detroit, the failed metropolis of abandoned buildings, widespread poverty, and rampant crime. Arriving with no job, no friends, and no money, Philp buys a ramshackle house for five hundred dollars in the east side neighborhood known as Poletown. The roomy Queen Anne he now owns is little more than a clapboard shell on a crumbling brick foundation, missing windows, heat, water, electricity, and a functional roof. A $500 House in Detroit is Philp's raw and earnest account of rebuilding everything but the frame of his house, nail by nail and room by room. Philp is a great storyteller...[and his] engrossing tale is also of a young man finding his footing in the city, the country, and his own generation. We witness his concept of Detroit shift, expand, and evolve as his plan to save the city gives way to a life forged from political meaning, personal connection, and collective purpose. As he assimilates into the community of Detroiters around him, Philp guides readers through the city's vibrant history and engages in urgent conversations about gentrification, racial tensions, and class warfare. Part social history, part brash generational statement, part comeback story, A $500 House in Detroit shines [in its depiction of] the 'radical neighborliness' of ordinary people in desperate circumstances. This is an unforgettable, intimate account of the tentative revival of an American city and a glimpse at a new way forward for generations to come.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3303456</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3303456</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Philp, Drew]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3303456133</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>Rebuilding An Abandoned Home and An American City</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781508239062/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accountable]]></title><description><![CDATA["When a high school student started a private Instagram account that used racist and sexist memes to make his friends laugh, he thought of it as "edgy" humor. Over time, the edge got sharper. Then a few other kids found out about the account. Pretty soon, everyone knew.  Ultimately no one in the small town of Albany, California, was safe from the repercussions of the account's discovery. Not the girls targeted by the posts. Not the boy who created the account. Not the group of kids who followed it. Not the adults--educators and parents--whose attempts to fix things too often made them worse.  In the end, no one was laughing. And everyone was left asking: Where does accountability end for online speech that harms? 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