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

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781681340029
ISBN: 168134002X
Physical Description: 223 pages ; 23 cm
Publisher: St. Paul, MN : Minnesota Historical Society Press, [2016]
Copyright: 2016

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

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.