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Nonwhite and woman : 131 micro essays on being in the world / edited by Darien Hsu Gee and Carla Crujido.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Norwalk, CT : Woodhall Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Edition: First editionDescription: xiii, 264 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1949116697
  • 9781949116694
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Name / Loralee Abercrombie -- Driving soundtrack / Karina L. Agbisit -- The first warm day of the year / María Alejandra Barrios -- This is not a rehearsal / Hala Alyan -- Exceptional / Anastacia-Reneé -- Weightless / Anastacia-Reneé -- How to erase an Arab / Julie Hakim Azzam -- White-haired nana / Maroula Blades -- Consignment / Kimberly Blaeser -- Living brave / Kimberly Blaeser -- On being made whole / 'Iolani Brosio -- Unearthing joy / Vivian Mary Carroll -- Mother tongue / Samantha Chagollan -- Alien / Victoria Cho -- Audition / Victoria Cho -- The color of my skin / Fela Cortés -- Sugar coated (1979) / Carla Crujido -- Are you sure that isn't your drinking name? / Margarita Cruz -- A dagli for the friend who emailed 10K words, in ascending (dis)order, a one-way yelling match of why Trump is God's savior for "We the sheeple" and why I must agree / Ella Decastro Baron -- A good hike / Camille Dungy -- More than a ghost / Tina Ehsanipour -- Pomegranates / Tina Ehsanipour -- Epistle from a poppy to a cactus / Dara Yen Elerath -- How to mount a butterfly / Dara Yen Elerath -- Steam iron / Dara Yen Elerath -- Self-portrait with no flag / Safia Elhillo -- In answer to your questions as you pass our family on the street / Theresa Falk -- To my daughter reading Tolkien / Theresa Falk -- Eggs / Alison Feuerwerker -- In my skin : an autobiography / Fatimah Finney -- Cindian / Cmarie Fuhrman -- Cindyjawea / Cmarie Fuhrman -- Dress up like an Indian / Cmarie Fuhrman -- A tale I have never lived / Helena Garcia -- Pull / Isabel Garcia-Gonzales -- Persian vs. Iranian / Gabrielle Ghaderi -- Part of the problem / Victoria K. Gonzales -- The cartography of my face / Michelle Guerrero Henry -- Hair/bhaal / Samina Hadi-Tabassum -- Passing in the Middle Kingdom / Stephanie Han -- Elegy / Ida Soon-Ok Hart -- Kkamdoongie in Korea, kolored in Kentucky, a chink in America / Ida Soon-Ok-Hart -- Reader, I hadn't named it, yet / Sadia Hassan -- Greetings from the Land of Smiles / Lisa Lee Herrick -- Beige mask #1 / Chelsea Tayrien Hicks -- Beige mask #2 / Chelsea Tayrien Hicks -- China doll / Christine C. Hsu -- Lunch / Kaitlyn Hsu -- Érase una nariz superlativa / Rogelia Lily Ibarra -- Real mom / Mee Ok Icaro -- Hyper/in/visible / Amal Iman -- R/evolution / Amal Iman -- Women in the fracklands / Toni Jensen -- Collector's item / Alyssa Jocson Porter -- Combative / Alyssa Jocson Porter -- Black everything / Tayari Jones -- Dear white evangelicals / Keena Jun -- Brown baby / Kristiana Kahakauwila -- Stranger danger / Kristiana Kahakauwila -- Voyager dust / Mohja Kahf -- The first time it happened / Blaise Allysen Kearsley -- What do we call it? / Lena Khalaf Tuffaha -- Hues of Mama / Sabina Khan-Ibarra -- Whose skin is my skin? / Saheli Khastagir -- Touch : a transcription / Amanda Mei Kim -- Broad margins / Eugenia Kim -- Jjimjilbang, bathhouse / Iris (Yi Youn) Kim -- The path / Kalehua Kim -- The quirky sidekick of color askes her book club to pick a book / Kalehua Kim -- When I am homesick / Kalehua Kim -- Or are you normal / Lydia Kim -- Currents / Yi Shun Lai -- We are bridges / Cassandra Lane -- Girl as map / Devi S. Laskar -- I words / Devi S. Laskar -- BUR to SJC : on being an only child and caregiving road warrior at 52 / Sherilyn Lee -- Heat / Lavonne Leong -- Amah / Selina Li Bi -- Postcard from Manila / Selina Li Bi -- Call and response / Joanna Mailani Lima -- 4(1)st birthday noodles / Joanna Mailani Lima -- Behind the mask / Grace Hwang Lynch -- My home / Aretha Matt -- Peril + power / DW McKinney -- (Un)taming the beast / Sarah E. McQuate -- Mean well / Claire Meuschke -- Brown / Donna Miscolta -- Running wild while Asian / Sandy Namgung -- Haz 'ą́ / Shaina A. Nez -- To my daughter's future bullies / Shaina A. Nez -- A language lost / Joan Obra -- Manifesto for the dreamland / Preeti Parikh -- Daddy's girl / Deesha Philyaw -- The exam / Deesha Philyaw -- Tell us you're a Black guy who only dates white girls without telling us you only date white girls / Deesha Philyaw -- The question / London Pinkney -- Redbone / London Pinkney -- Misnomer / Saarika Rao -- A seat at the table / Saarika Rao -- Track: "You're the one," by Fanny (1971) / Barbara Jane Reyes -- Balancing act / Roshni Riar -- By blood / Roshni Riar -- Autobiography as a Panamanian botanical index / Karen Rigby -- Lunar Geography / Karen Rigby -- Origin / Karen Rigby -- Imperfect mother / Rahna Reiko Rizzuto -- Just like / Adrienne Robillard -- Ramadan / Daleelah Saleh -- Border between / Shei Sanchez -- Not safe for work / Misty-Lynn Sanico -- Korean culture camp / Misty Shock Rule -- Mother / SJ Sindu -- Mocha / Gabriella Smith -- Along the way / Jen Soriano -- Driving to work, I think, what if I were a white man? / Liza Sparks -- Only pinks, please / Anupama Spencer -- Back to the roots / Elizabeth Su -- Meet the minority / Victoria Sun -- Cafeteria tree / Yong Takahashi -- Special education / Yong Takahashi -- Searching / Grace Talusan -- Watch out, there might be spies in the room / Jeanne Tanaka -- These hands / Imani Tolliver -- Auntie's house / Frances Kai-Hwa Wang -- Hapa / Ke`alohi Wang -- Mischling / Durthy A. Washington -- Instilled confidence / Zinaria Williams -- Giv us our crowns / Jane Wong -- MAD / Jane Wong -- Note from the cover artist -- About the poet -- Contributor notes -- Inquiry and response : some questions to consider -- Crafting the micro essay -- Read more.
Summary: Editors Darien Hsu Gee and Carla Crujido bring together 131 personal narratives written by established and emerging women of color. In 300 words or less, these true stories speak to otherness, familial relationships, impossible beauty standards, ancestral heritage, coming of age, and owning one's place in the world. This singular collection, inspired by Lucille Clifton's luminous poem, "won't you celebrate with me," sings to the beauty of how these women live and thrive in the world, and how they make their lives their own. Includes author commentaries, discussion questions for further exploration, resources for additional reading, and a guide to writing micro essays.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Nonwhite and Woman celebrates how women of color live and thrive in the world, and how they make their lives their own. The anthology's title is from Lucille Clifton's luminous poem, "won't you celebrate with me," which serves as the anthology's epigraph.

Editors Darien Hsu Gee and Carla Crujido bring together 131 personal narratives written by established and emerging women of color. In 300 words or less, these true stories speak to otherness, familial relationships, impossible beauty standards, ancestral heritage, coming of age, and owning one's place in the world. This singular collection, inspired by Lucille Clifton's luminous poem, "won't you celebrate with me," sings to the beauty of how these women live and thrive in the world, and how they make their lives their own. Includes author commentaries, discussion questions for further exploration, resources for additional reading, and a guide to writing micro essays.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-256).

Name / Loralee Abercrombie -- Driving soundtrack / Karina L. Agbisit -- The first warm day of the year / María Alejandra Barrios -- This is not a rehearsal / Hala Alyan -- Exceptional / Anastacia-Reneé -- Weightless / Anastacia-Reneé -- How to erase an Arab / Julie Hakim Azzam -- White-haired nana / Maroula Blades -- Consignment / Kimberly Blaeser -- Living brave / Kimberly Blaeser -- On being made whole / 'Iolani Brosio -- Unearthing joy / Vivian Mary Carroll -- Mother tongue / Samantha Chagollan -- Alien / Victoria Cho -- Audition / Victoria Cho -- The color of my skin / Fela Cortés -- Sugar coated (1979) / Carla Crujido -- Are you sure that isn't your drinking name? / Margarita Cruz -- A dagli for the friend who emailed 10K words, in ascending (dis)order, a one-way yelling match of why Trump is God's savior for "We the sheeple" and why I must agree / Ella Decastro Baron -- A good hike / Camille Dungy -- More than a ghost / Tina Ehsanipour -- Pomegranates / Tina Ehsanipour -- Epistle from a poppy to a cactus / Dara Yen Elerath -- How to mount a butterfly / Dara Yen Elerath -- Steam iron / Dara Yen Elerath -- Self-portrait with no flag / Safia Elhillo -- In answer to your questions as you pass our family on the street / Theresa Falk -- To my daughter reading Tolkien / Theresa Falk -- Eggs / Alison Feuerwerker -- In my skin : an autobiography / Fatimah Finney -- Cindian / Cmarie Fuhrman -- Cindyjawea / Cmarie Fuhrman -- Dress up like an Indian / Cmarie Fuhrman -- A tale I have never lived / Helena Garcia -- Pull / Isabel Garcia-Gonzales -- Persian vs. Iranian / Gabrielle Ghaderi -- Part of the problem / Victoria K. Gonzales -- The cartography of my face / Michelle Guerrero Henry -- Hair/bhaal / Samina Hadi-Tabassum -- Passing in the Middle Kingdom / Stephanie Han -- Elegy / Ida Soon-Ok Hart -- Kkamdoongie in Korea, kolored in Kentucky, a chink in America / Ida Soon-Ok-Hart -- Reader, I hadn't named it, yet / Sadia Hassan -- Greetings from the Land of Smiles / Lisa Lee Herrick -- Beige mask #1 / Chelsea Tayrien Hicks -- Beige mask #2 / Chelsea Tayrien Hicks -- China doll / Christine C. Hsu -- Lunch / Kaitlyn Hsu -- Érase una nariz superlativa / Rogelia Lily Ibarra -- Real mom / Mee Ok Icaro -- Hyper/in/visible / Amal Iman -- R/evolution / Amal Iman -- Women in the fracklands / Toni Jensen -- Collector's item / Alyssa Jocson Porter -- Combative / Alyssa Jocson Porter -- Black everything / Tayari Jones -- Dear white evangelicals / Keena Jun -- Brown baby / Kristiana Kahakauwila -- Stranger danger / Kristiana Kahakauwila -- Voyager dust / Mohja Kahf -- The first time it happened / Blaise Allysen Kearsley -- What do we call it? / Lena Khalaf Tuffaha -- Hues of Mama / Sabina Khan-Ibarra -- Whose skin is my skin? / Saheli Khastagir -- Touch : a transcription / Amanda Mei Kim -- Broad margins / Eugenia Kim -- Jjimjilbang, bathhouse / Iris (Yi Youn) Kim -- The path / Kalehua Kim -- The quirky sidekick of color askes her book club to pick a book / Kalehua Kim -- When I am homesick / Kalehua Kim -- Or are you normal / Lydia Kim -- Currents / Yi Shun Lai -- We are bridges / Cassandra Lane -- Girl as map / Devi S. Laskar -- I words / Devi S. Laskar -- BUR to SJC : on being an only child and caregiving road warrior at 52 / Sherilyn Lee -- Heat / Lavonne Leong -- Amah / Selina Li Bi -- Postcard from Manila / Selina Li Bi -- Call and response / Joanna Mailani Lima -- 4(1)st birthday noodles / Joanna Mailani Lima -- Behind the mask / Grace Hwang Lynch -- My home / Aretha Matt -- Peril + power / DW McKinney -- (Un)taming the beast / Sarah E. McQuate -- Mean well / Claire Meuschke -- Brown / Donna Miscolta -- Running wild while Asian / Sandy Namgung -- Haz 'ą́ / Shaina A. Nez -- To my daughter's future bullies / Shaina A. Nez -- A language lost / Joan Obra -- Manifesto for the dreamland / Preeti Parikh -- Daddy's girl / Deesha Philyaw -- The exam / Deesha Philyaw -- Tell us you're a Black guy who only dates white girls without telling us you only date white girls / Deesha Philyaw -- The question / London Pinkney -- Redbone / London Pinkney -- Misnomer / Saarika Rao -- A seat at the table / Saarika Rao -- Track: "You're the one," by Fanny (1971) / Barbara Jane Reyes -- Balancing act / Roshni Riar -- By blood / Roshni Riar -- Autobiography as a Panamanian botanical index / Karen Rigby -- Lunar Geography / Karen Rigby -- Origin / Karen Rigby -- Imperfect mother / Rahna Reiko Rizzuto -- Just like / Adrienne Robillard -- Ramadan / Daleelah Saleh -- Border between / Shei Sanchez -- Not safe for work / Misty-Lynn Sanico -- Korean culture camp / Misty Shock Rule -- Mother / SJ Sindu -- Mocha / Gabriella Smith -- Along the way / Jen Soriano -- Driving to work, I think, what if I were a white man? / Liza Sparks -- Only pinks, please / Anupama Spencer -- Back to the roots / Elizabeth Su -- Meet the minority / Victoria Sun -- Cafeteria tree / Yong Takahashi -- Special education / Yong Takahashi -- Searching / Grace Talusan -- Watch out, there might be spies in the room / Jeanne Tanaka -- These hands / Imani Tolliver -- Auntie's house / Frances Kai-Hwa Wang -- Hapa / Ke`alohi Wang -- Mischling / Durthy A. Washington -- Instilled confidence / Zinaria Williams -- Giv us our crowns / Jane Wong -- MAD / Jane Wong -- Note from the cover artist -- About the poet -- Contributor notes -- Inquiry and response : some questions to consider -- Crafting the micro essay -- Read more.

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