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

Other author Holbrook, Carolyn, editor.
Other author Mura, David editor.
Format Book
PublicationMinneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2021]
Copyright Date©2021
Description223 pages ; 21 cm
Subjects
American literature--Minnesota.
American literature--Minority authors.
American literature--Indian authors.
American literature--21st century.
Social problems--United States. --Literary collections.
Social justice--United States. --Literary collections.
Minnesota--Literary collections.
Minnesota--Biography.

Contents Introduction: Call and response / David Mura -- 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 Piñata 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 -- Covid-19 and Asian Americans / David Mura -- 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 -- A time for healing / Carolyn Holbrook -- 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.
Abstract "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.
Issued in other formOnline version: We are meant to rise Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2021 9781452966472
Genre/formBiographies.
Genre/formLiterary collections.
Genre/formBiographies.
LCCN 2021028057
ISBN9781517912215 (paperback)
ISBN1517912210 (paperback)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PS283 .M6 W43 2021 ✔ Available Place Hold