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Title:

We are meant to rise : voices for justice from Minneapolis to the world / Carolyn Holbrook and David Mura, editors.

Publisher:

University of Minnesota Press,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

223 pages ; 21 cm

Subject:

American literature--Minnesota.
American literature--Minority authors.
American literature--Indian authors.
American literature--21st century.
Minnesota--Literary collections.
Social problems--United States--Literary collections.
Social justice--United States--Literary collections.
Minnesota--Biography.
Biographies.

Other Authors:

Holbrook, Carolyn, editor.
Mura, David, editor.

Contents:

Humility, sincerity, banana oil / Louise Erdrich. About more than a single story / Carolyn Holbrook -- Pandemic love / Ed Bok Lee - Juice / Alexs Pate -- George Floyd was killed in my neighborhood / Safy-Hallan Farah -- Queer death in exile / Ahmad Qais Munhazim -- With birthday girl blindfolded, Star Pįata considers his regrets and offers a last request / Michael Torres -- Battlegrounds and building grounds / Kao Kalia Yang -- Summer 1964 / Pamela R. Fletcher Bush -- The courage to hold together, the courage to fall apart / Mona Susan Power -- Long live the fatherless children / Anika Fajardo -- Land acknowledgment statement of a native Virginian / Mary Moore Easter -- Financial trauma / Tess Montgomery -- Cross pollination / Kathryn Haddad -- Breath: a meditation in uprising / Erin Sharkey -- Dear editor / Douglas Kearney -- What does it all mean / Tish Jones -- The trauma virus / Resmaa Menakem -- How will they take us away ; how will we stand / Bao Phi -- Healers are protectors ; protectors are healers / Marcie Rendon -- The Pachuco himself considers the audacity of language / Michael Torres -- Little brown briefcase / Suleiman Adan -- We are all summoned / Diane Wilson -- A tangent to a story about the Smith & Wesson .38, or, attempts to be fully assimilated into the White American Project have failed miserably, in the form of a self-questionnaire / Sun Yung Shin -- Today in Minneapolis / Samantha Sencer-Mura -- Let me tell you a story / Melissa Olson -- Here before / Sherrie Fernandez-Williams -- Truth, reconciliation, and four more meditations on human freedom / Arleta Little -- Didion dreams / Said Shaiye -- Speaking into existence / Kevin Yang -- The weight / Ezekiel Joubert -- Four genies / Ricardo Levins Morales -- All the stars aflame / Shannon Gibney -- Humility, sincerity, banana oil / Louise Erdrich.

Summary:

"A gathering of voices on the American experience of this past year and beyond, from Indigenous writers and writers of color from Minnesota"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1517912210
9781517912215

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1246145126

LCCN:

2021028057

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)