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BKLYN Civic Engagement - 2020 Census Edition

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The doorbell rang
by Pat Hutchins.
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Ma has made a dozen delicious cookies. It should be plenty for her two children. But then the doorbell rings -- and rings and rings. Each ring of the doorbell brings more friends to share the delicious cookies Ma has made.

We Count! A 2020 Census Counting Book

An interactive counting book which shows families in diverse living situations while teaching about the census.

Steal this country : a handbook for resistance, persistence, and fixing almost anything
Styron, Alexandra, author.
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A primer for teenage activism, from climate change, racial justice, and women's rights to LGBTQIA rights, immigration, and intersectionality.

I Was Their American Dream : A Graphic Memoir
Gharib, Malaka
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In this exploration of identity and culture, Malaka traces her coming of age in America, learning to code-switch between her family's Filipino and Egyptian heritage while adapting to white culture.

How does it feel to be a problem?
Moustafa Bayoumi.
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A profile of a community through the lives of seven young Arab Americans living in Brooklyn.

Infomocracy
Malka Older.
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The world operates in a “microdemocracy”, divided into “centenals,” or districts of 100,000 people, which votes on a government every ten years. Can the biggest political experiment of all time succeed, when so many have so much to gain?

A People's Future of the United States : Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
Lavalle, Victor (EDT)/ Adams, John Joseph (EDT)
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Twenty visionary stories from persons of color, indigenous writers, women, queer & trans people, Muslims and others whose imagination of a bright future for themselves is too often seen as an act of resistance.

Making Hispanics : how activists, bureaucrats, and media constructed a new American
Mora, G. Cristina, 1980- author.
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Unpacks the origin of the terms “Hispanics” and “Latinos” and the creation of a new identity category on the decennial census.

The American census : a social history
Anderson, Margo J., 1945- author.
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An examination of the history of the census as a tool for apportionment of power and rationale for American social science.