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UNC Libraries Release Open Source 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge Syllabus
By Lisa Peet
The University Libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recently released the syllabus of the 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge, focused on libraries and archives, as an open source interactive PDF. The syllabus was created as part of the multipart Reckoning Initiative at University Libraries. |
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The Booker Prize Announces Shortlist | Book Pulse
By Kate Merlene
The Booker Prize releases its shortlist. Patricia Smith is awarded the 2021 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for lifetime achievement. The shortlist for the 2021 Polari Prize has also been announced. The Omega Sci-Fi Awards launches the Feminist Futures Award to recognize “an outstanding feminist sci-fi story," and StokerCon 2022 announces its guests of honor. |
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PREMIUM
The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics
By Mae Ngai
Ngai’s thoroughly researched work is essential for anyone studying the Chinese diaspora in the Anglo American world, or gold rushes generally. Readers interested in Chinese immigrants in the 19th-century United States should also consider Gordon H. Chang’s Ghosts of Gold Mountain. |
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PREMIUM
American Revolution: The Essential Reference Guide
Ed. by Spencer C. Tucker
A basic but lucid and effective look at the American Revolution, with an emphasis on the major personalities, military maneuvers, and events of the war. General readers and high school students will find it useful. |
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ACADEMIC BESTSELLERS: U.S. History
By LJ Reviews
A Promised Land, Four Hundred Souls, What Racism Costs Everyone, and more in U.S. History titles: September 2020 to date as identified by GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO. 1. A Promised Land.
Obama, Barack
Crown
2020. ISBN 9781524763169. $45.00 2. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
Editor: Ibram X. Kendi
One World Ballantine
2021. ISBN 9780593134047. $32.00 3. Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together.
McGhee, Heather C.
One World Ballantine
2021. ISBN 9780525509561. $28.00 |
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Governor's Advisory Council (PA) seeks a Deputy Secretary of Education/Commissioner for Libraries/State Librarian |
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