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History and Current Events May 2024 |
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| Who's Afraid of Gender? by Judith ButlerGroundbreaking gender studies scholar Judith Butler explores how right-wing ideologues weaponize gender to spread fear-mongering misinformation in this thought-provoking study named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by ELLE, The New York Times, TIME, The Washington Post, and more. Further reading: He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters by Schuyler Bailar. |
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| Says Who? A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words by Anne Curzan, Ph.D.University of Michigan English professor Anne Curzan's witty guide celebrates the evolution and flexibility of language, arguing for the importance of effective communication over "proper" usage. Try this next: Rebel with a Clause: Tales and Tips from a Roving Grammarian by Ellen Jovin. |
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Live to See the Day: Coming of Age in American Poverty
by Nikhil Goyal
Sociologist Nikhil Goyal affectingly explores the impact of poverty on three Puerto Rican boys living in one of Philadelphia's poorest neighborhoods. Read-alikes: Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond; Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival, and Hope in an American City by Andrea Elliott.
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| Native Nations: A Millennium in North America by Kathleen DuValAward-winning historian Kathleen DuVal's sweeping and scholarly history offers a corrective to Eurocentric narratives about Indigenous Americans by spotlighting one thousand years of Native autonomy, governance, and resistance. For fans of: National Book Award-winning The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk. |
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A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging
by Lauren Markham
Journalist Lauren Markham's "remarkable, unnerving, and cautionary portrait of a global immigration crisis" (Kirkus Reviews) chronicles the aftermath of the 2020 burning of a large refugee camp in Greece, in which young Afghan migrants were falsely accused of arson. Try this next: The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You by Dina Nayeri.
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