The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself: Racial Myths and Our American Narratives by David Mura
#education, Black Lives Matter, essays, generational trauma, Global politics, historical, Minnesota interest, nonfiction, political #education, Black Lives Matter, essays, generational trauma, Global politics, historical, Minnesota interest, nonfiction, political

The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself: Racial Myths and Our American Narratives by David Mura

The Stories Whiteness Tells Itself: Racial Myths and our American Narratives by David Mura should be required reading in all high school and college classrooms – and for all Americans. Mura presents a cohesive, comprehensive, and uncompromising look into how white stories about race erase our true historical narrative and foster racism in the present.

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The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
#literarynovel, #native voices, Black Lives Matter, character driven fiction, domestic fiction, family drama, literary fiction, Minnesota Fiction, Minnesota interest, Native American Authors, Native Voices, political fiction, race, sense of place, social justice Lin Salisbury #literarynovel, #native voices, Black Lives Matter, character driven fiction, domestic fiction, family drama, literary fiction, Minnesota Fiction, Minnesota interest, Native American Authors, Native Voices, political fiction, race, sense of place, social justice Lin Salisbury

The Sentence by Louise Erdrich

Erdrich has written another masterpiece. THE SENTENCE is a compelling read that serves as a time capsule. Maybe one day we will look back and remember the Summer of 2020 – not just as a period of loss and trauma – but as the antidote to it. E.B. White famously wrote that a writer must not only reflect and interpret the world but must also sound the alarm. THE SENTENCE does just that.

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We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World, Edited by Carolyn Holbrook and David Mura
#native voices, Black Lives Matter, essays, Global politics, Minnesota interest, Native American Authors, nonfiction, poetry, political, race, social justice Lin Salisbury #native voices, Black Lives Matter, essays, Global politics, Minnesota interest, Native American Authors, nonfiction, poetry, political, race, social justice Lin Salisbury

We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World, Edited by Carolyn Holbrook and David Mura

At the dawn of summer 2020, with the world spinning from the Covid 19 pandemic, Minneapolis went into a nose dive after the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers. In the weeks and months that followed, Minneapolis became the epicenter of worldwide demands for justice. In a compelling new collection, WE ARE MEANT TO RISE, edited by Carolyn Holbrook and David Mura, Indigenous writers and writers of color bear witness to one of the most unsettling years in the history of the United States.

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Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
#literarynovel, Black Lives Matter, character driven fiction, coming of age, domestic fiction, family drama, feminist literature, historical fiction, literary fiction, women's issues Lin Salisbury #literarynovel, Black Lives Matter, character driven fiction, coming of age, domestic fiction, family drama, feminist literature, historical fiction, literary fiction, women's issues Lin Salisbury

Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson

RED AT THE BONE is a compact novel of trauma and recovery, and all the messiness in between.

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There's a Revolution Outside, My Love, Letters from a Crisis, Edited by Tracy K. Smith and John Freeman
#education, Black Lives Matter, essays, Global politics, historical, Minnesota interest, nonfiction, political, social justice Lin Salisbury #education, Black Lives Matter, essays, Global politics, historical, Minnesota interest, nonfiction, political, social justice Lin Salisbury

There's a Revolution Outside, My Love, Letters from a Crisis, Edited by Tracy K. Smith and John Freeman

The stories, poems, essays, and letters in this collection are a battle cry -- beaten down by a pandemic, police brutality, political divisiveness, and an armed insurrection – the writers question whether America has the stuff it takes to make the changes required. “As long as socio-racial segregation and discrimination persist, and as long as the presence of the state is limited to the increasingly armed police force, then neither the biggest smile nor the use of any hollow expressions of “American Nice” is going to remedy what for a very long time most people of color have lived as a daily experience of injustice in this country,” writes Sofian Merabet.

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