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History and Current Events May 2022
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| The Trayvon Generation by Elizabeth AlexanderWhat it is: A concise exploration of how Black artists reckon with generational trauma and racist violence.
Who it's for: Readers looking for a hopeful guide to engaging with social justice issues will find much to ponder in this thought-provoking treatise.
Book buzz: Poet and Pulitzer Prize finalist Elizabeth Alexander's bittersweet expansion of her titular New Yorker article was named one of TIME's Most Anticipated Titles of 2022. |
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| You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation by Julissa ArceWhat it's about: How the myth of the "American Dream" harms people of color and reinforces white supremacy.
Read it for: Journalist Julissa Arce's candid account of her own experiences as an undocumented Mexican immigrant and how she learned to reject assimilation into white American culture. |
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