Racial Profiling by Deborah Kops

Racial Profiling, by Deborah Kops, is a non-fiction book. I would have to say this book is a great piece of work because it showed me how much people have used racial profiling, especially law enforcement officials. 

The thing about the book that grasped my attention was the cover of the book. There is a police officer holding a book that has the word police on it and also has the word racially on it. It caught my attention because I had an idea the book was going to deal with police officers and I am very interested in being a police officer in the future. 

This book taught me there are many cases that happened as early as the 1940s about racial profiling and how this caused destruction in many families and the government as well. I am taking Criminal Justice classes at Technology Center of DuPage right now and this book helped me understand a lot about the cases. Some of them are now laws and I have to comprehend them in order to be a police officer. 

I recommend this book to anyone who wants to be a police officer because this book will teach you many things you will have to learn in college in order to be successful.

Mariana R.

Caucasia by Danzy Senna

Danzy Senna’s book, Caucasia, is a fiction book which takes you on a ride through two young girls’ lives growing up in Roxbury in the 1970s. With a black, intellectual father, Deck Lee, whose history only goes back to his grandmother and a white mother, Sandy Lee, who grew up in Boston along with heirs from a well known historic white family, the two girls take on different appearances. Cole Lee, the older sister, has milk chocolate skin and perfect curly African hair while her little sister, Birdie Lee, takes after their mother and has creamy coffee skin and straight hair. The sisters are sent to a black power school where they both encounter hardships and trials in order to be accepted, especially Birdie who struggles to be accepted as a black student. Soon thereafter the girls are separated from each other and everything they know. Cole goes to Brazil with their father, Deck and his girl friend, Carmen, in an attempt to escape racism while Birdie goes into hiding with their activist mother, Sandy, in order to escape trouble. Birdie soon devises a plan to escape their psychotic mother and find her sister again. Read on to discover how she finds her beloved sister.
Lisa E