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Unequal a story of America

"Interconnected stories present a picture of racial inequality in America, showing systemic discrimination in all areas of society and showing the unbroken line of Black resistance to this inequality"--

Main Authors:	Dyson, Michael Eric (Author), Favreau, Marc, 1968- (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2022.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	African Americans > Civil rights > Young adult nonfiction. Civil rights workers > United States > Biography > Young adult nonfiction. Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century > Young adult nonfiction. United States > Race relations > Young adult nonfiction.

Summary:	"Interconnected stories present a picture of racial inequality in America, showing systemic discrimination in all areas of society and showing the unbroken line of Black resistance to this inequality"--
Physical Description:	xiii, 348 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Audience:	Ages 12 & up
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780759557017 0759557012
Author Notes:	Dr. Michael Eric Dyson is an award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of over twenty books, a widely celebrated professor, a prominent public intellectual, an ordained Baptist minister, and a noted political analyst. He is a two-time NAACP Image Award winner, and the winner of the American Book Award for Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster . His book The Black Presidency: Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America was a Kirkus Prize finalist. He is also a highly sought after public speaker who is known to excite both secular and sacred audiences. A native of Detroit, Michigan, he currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee. This is his first book for teens. Follow him on Twitter @michaeledyson and on his official Facebook page (facebook.com/michaelericdyson). Marc Favreau is the acclaimed author of Crash: The Great Depression and the Fall and Rise of America and Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia , and co-editor (with Ira Berlin and Steven F. Miller) of Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation . Favreau is also the director of editorial projects at The New Press. He lives with his family in New York City and Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts.

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