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The Children’s Book Review | December 20, 2018
In-demand commentator on contemporary race issues Carol Anderson, along with critically acclaimed award-winning author Tonya Bolden, help teens understand racial divide.
“When America achieves milestones of progress toward full and equal black participation in democracy, the systemic response is a consistent racist backlash that rolls back those wins. We Are Not Yet Equal examines five of these moments.”
Enter for a chance to win a prize pack of books, including We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide.
- A copy of We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide (2018), by Carol Anderson with Tonya Bolden
- A copy of Crossing Ebenezer Creek (2017), by Tonya Bolden
- A copy of Inventing Victoria (2019), by Tonya Bolden
Four (4) winners receive:
- A copy of We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide (2018), by Carol Anderson with Tonya Bolden
Age Range: 12+
Giveaway begins December 20, 2018, at 12:01 A.M. MT and ends January 20, 2019, at 11:59 P.M. MT.
Written by Carol Anderson with Tonya Bolden
Publisher’s Synopsis: Carol Anderson’s White Rage took the world by storm, landing on the New York Times bestseller list and best book of the year lists from New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, and Chicago Review of Books. It launched her as an in-demand commentator on contemporary race issues for national print and television media and garnered her an invitation to speak to the Democratic Congressional Caucus. This compelling young adult adaptation brings her ideas to a new audience.
When America achieves milestones of progress toward full and equal black participation in democracy, the systemic response is a consistent racist backlash that rolls back those wins. We Are Not Yet Equal examines five of these moments: The end of the Civil War and Reconstruction was greeted with Jim Crow laws; the promise of new opportunities in the North during the Great Migration was limited when blacks were physically blocked from moving away from the South; the Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision was met with the shutting down of public schools throughout the South; the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 led to laws that disenfranchised millions of African American voters and a War on Drugs that disproportionally targeted blacks; and the election of President Obama led to an outburst of violence including the death of black teen Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri as well as the election of Donald Trump.
This YA adaptation will be written in an approachable narrative style that provides teen readers with additional context to these historic moments, photographs and archival images, and additional backmatter and resources for teens.
Ages 12-18 | Publisher: Bloomsbury YA | September 11, 2018 | ISBN-13: 978-1547600762
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About the Authors
Carol Anderson is the Charles Howard Candler Professor and Chair of African American Studies at Emory University. She is the author of many books and articles, including Bourgeois Radicals: The NAACP and the Struggle for Colonial Liberation, 1941-1960 andEyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights: 1944-1955. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
Tonya Bolden is a critically acclaimed award-winning author/co-author/editor of more than two dozen books for young people. They include Crossing Ebeneezer Creek, which received five starred reviews; Finding Family which received two starred reviews and was a Kirkus Reviews and Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year; Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl, a Coretta Scott King honor book and James Madison Book Award winner; MLK: Journey of a King, winner of a National Council of Teachers of English Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children; Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty, an ALSC Notable Children’s Book, CBC/NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People, and winner of the NCSS Carter G. Woodson Middle Level Book Award. Tonya also received the Children’s Book Guild of Washington, DC’s Nonfiction Award. A Princeton University magna cum laude baccalaureate with a master’s degree from Columbia University, Tonya lives in New York City.
For more information, visit: www.tonyaboldenbooks.com
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- Enter between 12:00 AM Mounatin Time on December 20, 2018 and 11:59 PM on January 20, 2019.
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- One (1) grand prize winner receives:
- A copy of We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide (2018), by Carol Anderson with Tonya Bolden
- A copy of Crossing Ebenezer Creek (2017), by Tonya Bolden
- An advanced readers copy of Inventing Victoria (2019), by Tonya Bolden
- Four (4) winners receive:
- A copy of We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide (2018), by Carol Anderson with Tonya Bolden
- Odds of winning will depend upon the total number of eligible entries received. Void where prohibited or restricted by law.
- Winners will be selected at random on or about January 22, 2018.
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