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A good time for the truth : race in Minnesota / edited by Sun Yung Shin.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: St. Paul, MN : Minnesota Historical Society Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 223 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781681340029
  • 168134002X
Other title:
  • Race in Minnesota
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Fear of a Black mother / Shannon Gibney -- Disparate impacts : moving to Minnesota to live just enough for the city / Taiyon J. Coleman -- A surrealist history of one Asian American in Minnesota / David Mura -- With an "e" / Venessa Fuentes -- Trouble in mind : to be Black is blue in America / IB -- Brutal / Bao Phi -- Say what? / Carolyn Holbrook -- Red, white, and blank / Heid E. Erdrich -- The good kind of immigrants / JaeRan Kim -- Fighting the oppressive whiteness / Rodrigo Sanchez-Chavarria -- Dark trees in the landscape of love / Kao Kalia Yang -- The price we pay : how race and gender identity converge / Andrea Jenkins -- Songlines for future culturewalkers" : (Betty) White (Crocker) bank take Little (house on the prairie) bank / Robert Farid Karimi -- Discomfort zone : Minnesota born and raised / Sherry Quan Lee -- People like us / David Lawrence Grant -- Seeds for seven generations / Diane Wilson.
Summary: Minnesota communities struggle with some of the nation's worst racial disparities. In this provocative collection, sixteen of Minnesota's best writers provide a range of perspectives on what it is like to live as a person of color in Minnesota.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 305.8009 G646 Available 33111009654662
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Essays that challenge, discomfort, disorient, galvanize, and inspire all of us to evolve now, for our shared future.

Fear of a Black mother / Shannon Gibney -- Disparate impacts : moving to Minnesota to live just enough for the city / Taiyon J. Coleman -- A surrealist history of one Asian American in Minnesota / David Mura -- With an "e" / Venessa Fuentes -- Trouble in mind : to be Black is blue in America / IB -- Brutal / Bao Phi -- Say what? / Carolyn Holbrook -- Red, white, and blank / Heid E. Erdrich -- The good kind of immigrants / JaeRan Kim -- Fighting the oppressive whiteness / Rodrigo Sanchez-Chavarria -- Dark trees in the landscape of love / Kao Kalia Yang -- The price we pay : how race and gender identity converge / Andrea Jenkins -- Songlines for future culturewalkers" : (Betty) White (Crocker) bank take Little (house on the prairie) bank / Robert Farid Karimi -- Discomfort zone : Minnesota born and raised / Sherry Quan Lee -- People like us / David Lawrence Grant -- Seeds for seven generations / Diane Wilson.

Minnesota communities struggle with some of the nation's worst racial disparities. In this provocative collection, sixteen of Minnesota's best writers provide a range of perspectives on what it is like to live as a person of color in Minnesota.

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