violence

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violence

Never been a time

the 1917 race riot that sparked the civil rights movement
2008
Offers an account of the 1917 race riot in East St. Louis, Illinois; discusses the media's reaction to it; and details the aftermath.

Belfast diary

war as a way of life
1995
A personal account of the violence as seen on a daily basis in war torn Belfast through the eyes of an American journalist.

Freeze frame

2010
Fifteen-year-old Kyle believes he does not deserve to live after accidentally shooting and killing his best friend.

Bullies

a friendship
2016
Alex Abramovich relates details about his friendship with Trevor Latham, a man who bullied him in grade school and founded the Oakland motorcycle club the East Bay Rats; discusses his experiences living in Oakland and immersing himself in the club; and examines the social conditions of Oakland during the early twenty-first century.

Al Qaeda, the Islamic State, and the global jihadist movement

2015
" ... provides a concise overview of Al Qaeda's trajectory ... [and] the inner workings of this complex organization, ... offer[ing] readers answers to the fundamental questions about Al Qaeda and the Islamic State: who they are, where they came from, where they're going, and--perhaps most critically--what [people] can do about it"--Back cover.

Violence in America

1984
Explores violence on the domestic scene in the light of the fact that more people in the U.S. have been killed by shooting since 1900 than were lost in all American wars from the Revolution through Vietnam.

Race and crime

2017
"[Examines] issues in the headlines concerning racial bias, crime, and police violence ... Shines a light on biases and assumptions that link race with crime in the media, and encourages readers to reflect on these biases in the information they consume daily. Readers are asked to consider the roles that policing, prisons, immigration, and the media play in enforcing racism, and to examine their effects throughout history, which include hate crimes in the forms of slavery, genocide, and police violence"--Provided by publisher.

Footnotes in Gaza

2009
A graphic novel that explores the 1956 incident that left more than one hundred Palestinians dead in 1956 in Rafah, a small town at the tip of the Gaza Strip.

Rage in the streets

a history of American riots
2016
A history of mob violence in the United States, from the time of the American Revolution to the riots in Los Angeles in 1992.

Double danger

1994
When a student is knifed at Brentwood High, Darby, Jake, and the other members of the school television news team make a video about violence in schools.

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