racism

One Young Woman’s Rebellion Against a Society Divided by Race

The Great Peony: Safina Cameron (Pretty Publications) flips the script on racism and discrimination, imagining a world where dark-skinned people thrive in High Society, while light-skinned people make up the lower class with less access to resources and education. Jannah Bayyan has crafted a fascinating piece of speculative literary fiction…

Megan BeauregardSeptember 15, 2022

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Ellen Barker Takes Us to See a Community Divided by History and Prejudice in “East of Troost”

It’s the story of countless American cities. A harsh line severs the community, cutting Black residents off from more affluent white neighborhoods. Those who do venture across are at risk of being met with threats, violence and displacement. Whether the line was established during the segregation era or was quietly…

BookTribSeptember 6, 2022

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United We Stand: 6 Stories of Americans in the Age of Protest

To summarize 1960s America with one event or novel would be a tremendous disservice to that era. The decade was shaped by the Vietnam War, political protests, the civil rights movement, second-wave feminism, hippie counterculture and a thriving music scene. But these major events weren’t the only factors in shaping…

Megan BeauregardAugust 29, 2022

Fiction Fiction - Featured

“The Last White Man” Speculates About Racism and Prejudice

The central theme of Mohsin Hamid’s The Last White Man (Riverhead Books) is straightforward: race is a construct. In this highly anticipated novel from the author of the bestselling Exit West, the main character Anders is distressed when his skin suddenly changes to a deep, unmistakable shade of brown. He…

Michael FerryAugust 9, 2022

Nonfiction

Early Bird Books: E.R. Braithwaite Wrangles Unruly High School Students in To Sir, With Love

By treating his students as equals, a schoolteacher creates a unique bond with his class. As a black man in the 1950s, a time during which racism was rampant, the odds were against E.R. Braithwaite. Few people expected him to succeed as an engineer, much less as a high school…

BookTribApril 3, 2018

Nonfiction

Strength of a Man: Author Steve Berry Talks about the Life and Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Today, we celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Later this year, we will be marking the 50th anniversary of his assassination. Bestselling author Steve Berry has a forthcoming book, The Bishop's Pawn, a historical novel that looks at the assassination of Martin Luther King in…

Aisha K. StaggersJanuary 15, 2018

Nonfiction

Race in America: Could You be Prejudiced Without Knowing It?

Over the rest of this century, judgments about the prominence and impact of race in American society will need to take into account a series of recent critical events. The outright social rebellions in Ferguson and Baltimore, the racially motivated massacre in Charleston, and the ever-continuing series of unarmed black…

BookTrib Guest AuthorAugust 12, 2015

Nonfiction

I’m Glad I Did: Songwriter Cynthia Weil recreates her early years in the business

Rules are meant to be broken. Or at least that’s what Grammy-winning songwriter Cynthia Weil proposes in her latest young adult novel, I’m Glad I Did, a book that rides on the back of the Peace Train, giving voice to issues of racism, sexism and war. It was 1961 when…

Steph ScottMarch 1, 2015

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“The Fervor” Depicts the Horrors of Japanese Internment During WWII

Set in 1944 as World War II rages on, The Fervor (Putnam) by Alma Katsu, follows Meiko and her young daughter Aiko as they endure life in an internment camp where a mysterious disease is spreading like wildfire. What starts as a cold quickly turns into fits of violence, aggression…

Lydia LefevreApril 27, 2022

Children's Books

Trevor Noah’s Memoir Adapted for Young Readers

Host of the "The Daily Show," Trevor Noah, has become a household name, revered for his quick wit and insightful comedy on current affairs. Until the publication of his memoir, much less commonly known was Noah's perilous childhood in South Africa. His own birth as a child of mixed races…

Rebecca ProulxApril 12, 2019

Fiction

Truth Finds Its Story: The Illuminating Power of Fiction

We live in a time when history is made by Tweets, when what happens there can instantly be known here. A time when anyone with a digital device can express views, publish opinions, or comment on news within moments of it unfolding, making the (somewhat dated) concept of “information superhighway” never more accurate…or glutted. We want to be…

Lorraine Devon WilkeFebruary 8, 2019

Fiction

“That Kind of Mother” Takes on the Challenges of Race and Motherhood

Rebecca Stone desperately needs help with her newborn and Priscilla, a La Leche nurse from the hospital comes to her rescue. Having experience being a mother herself when she was a single, teen mother many years ago, Priscilla leaves her job at the hospital to become the nanny for Rebecca's…

Jennifer BlankfeinMay 29, 2018

Fiction

‘The Last Suppers’ by Mandy Mikulencak Weaves a Complicated Story about Food and Sacrifice

Set in a 1950s Louisiana penitentiary, The Last Suppers is a captivating novel. Ginny, the young daughter of a murdered prison guard, is now all grown up and cooking for the inmates at the jail. She meets with the prisoners on death row to find out what they want for their last meal…

Jennifer BlankfeinJanuary 8, 2018

Fiction

Biloxi Blues: School District in Mississippi Bans ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’

This past weekend, the film Marshall opened in theaters starring Chadwick Boseman. Marshall chronicles one case in the early career of former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. The case, prior to the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case Marshall presented before the high court and won, saw him defending a…

Aisha K. StaggersOctober 16, 2017

Fiction

Award-Winning Novelist Alexis Wright Talks to BookTrib About Her Latest Work, ‘The Swan Book’

When you find a book that is compelling, poignant and just really good, you want to tell everyone you meet about it and have the same experience that you did while reading it. The Swan Book, by acclaimed novelist, Alexis Wright, is one of those books that I could not wait to…

Rachel Fogle De SouzaFebruary 19, 2018

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AudioFile Spotlight: The Emotional Challenges of Narrating Wilkerson’s “Caste”

Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Isabel Wilkerson’s powerful new work of nonfiction, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, (Random House Audio) examines how caste, or a hereditary class system, underlies the oppression of Black people and other people of color in America. Racism certainly exists, she posits, but the country’s caste system, developed…

Aurelia C. ScottSeptember 23, 2020

One Young Woman’s Rebellion Against a Society Divided by Race

Ellen Barker Takes Us to See a Community Divided by History and Prejudice in “East of Troost”

United We Stand: 6 Stories of Americans in the Age of Protest

“The Last White Man” Speculates About Racism and Prejudice

Early Bird Books: E.R. Braithwaite Wrangles Unruly High School Students in To Sir, With Love

Strength of a Man: Author Steve Berry Talks about the Life and Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Race in America: Could You be Prejudiced Without Knowing It?

I’m Glad I Did: Songwriter Cynthia Weil recreates her early years in the business

“The Fervor” Depicts the Horrors of Japanese Internment During WWII

Trevor Noah’s Memoir Adapted for Young Readers

Truth Finds Its Story: The Illuminating Power of Fiction

“That Kind of Mother” Takes on the Challenges of Race and Motherhood

‘The Last Suppers’ by Mandy Mikulencak Weaves a Complicated Story about Food and Sacrifice

Biloxi Blues: School District in Mississippi Bans ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’

Award-Winning Novelist Alexis Wright Talks to BookTrib About Her Latest Work, ‘The Swan Book’

AudioFile Spotlight: The Emotional Challenges of Narrating Wilkerson’s “Caste”

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