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History and Current Events September 2024 |
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Madness : race and insanity in a Jim Crow asylum
by Antonia Hylton
Tracing the legacy of slavery to the treatment of Black people's bodies and minds in our current healthcare system, a Peabody and Emmy award-winning journalist tells the 93-year-old history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the nation's last segregated asylums. Illustrations.
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Slow productivity : the lost art of accomplishment without burnout
by Cal Newport
Harnessing the wisdom of history's most creative and impactful philosophers, scientists, artists and writers who mastered the art of producing valuable work with staying power, this timely book provides a roadmap for escaping overload and arriving instead at a more timeless approach to pursuing meaningful accomplishment.
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| A Hunger to Kill: A Serial Killer, a Determined Detective, and the Quest for a Confession... by Kim Mager with Lisa PulitzerAshland, Ohio detective Kim Mager's disturbing account of her encounters with serial killer Shawn Grate, whom she interrogated following his 2016 arrest, "hums with the intensity of a real-life Silence of the Lambs" (Publishers Weekly). Try this next: When a Killer Calls: A Haunting Story of Murder, Criminal Profiling and Justice in a Small Town by John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker. |
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Latinoland: A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority
by Marie Arana
In her incisive and accessible latest, National Book Award finalist and inaugural Literary Director of the Library of Congress Marie Arana (Silver, Sword, and Stone) explores the history and politics of Latine identity in the United States. Further reading: Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity by Paola Ramos; Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism by Laura E. Gomez.
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Focus on: Hispanic Heritage Month
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| You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation by Julissa ArceJournalist Julissa Arce candidly chronicles her experiences as an undocumented Mexican immigrant and how she learned to reject assimilation into white American culture in this study that "challenges the idea of American exceptionalism with equal parts passion, fury, intimacy, and ignored history" (Kirkus Reviews). Try this next: The Other: How to Own Your Power at Work as a Woman of Color by Daniela Pierre-Bravo. |
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Crying in the bathroom : a memoir
by Erika L. Sâanchez
The New York Times best-selling author of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter returns with an and honest and often hilarious memoir-in-essays that looks back on her wild youth and journey to becoming an award-winning novelist, poet and essayist. Illustrations.
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| Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women by Sandra Guzman, editorThis thought-provoking collection of works from 140 Latine writers, scholars, and activists from around the world includes contributions from U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes, and U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Further reading: Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology edited by Alex Hernandez, Matthew David Goodwin, and Sarah Rafael García. |
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Solito : a memoir
by Javier Zamora
A young poet reflects on his 3,000-mile journey from El Salvador to the United States when he was nine years old, during which he was faced with perilous boat trips, relentless desert treks, pointed guns, arrests and deceptions during two life-altering months alongside a group of strangers who became an unexpected family.
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| Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of "Latino" by Héctor TobarWinner of the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction, this impassioned essay collection by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Héctor Tobar explores the history and evolution of Latine identity in the United States. Further reading: Latinoland: A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority by Marie Arana. |
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