Title:
A good time for the truth : race in Minnesota / edited by Sun Yung Shin.
ISBN:
9781681340036
Publication Information:
St. Paul, MN : Minnesota Historical Society Press, [2020]
©2016
Physical Description:
1 online resource (223 pages)
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Contents:
Introduction / Sun Yung Shin -- 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 / IBé -- 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 tress 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:
A selection of essays from minority race writers living in Minnesota, examining their experiences being people of color in the state known most for things like "Lake Wobegon," the Vikings, "Peanuts," and "Mary Tyler Moore."
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Interest grade level:
11-Adult.
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