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

"A gathering of voices on the American experience of this past year and beyond, from Indigenous writers and writers of color from Minnesota"--

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Holbrook, Carolyn (Editor)
Mura, David (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2021]
Subjects:
American literature > Minnesota.
American literature > Minority authors.
American literature > Indigenous authors.
American literature > 21st century.
Minnesota > Literary collections.
Social problems > United States > Literary collections.
Social justice > United States > Literary collections.
Minnesota > Biography.
American literature.
American literature > Indian authors.
Social justice.
Social problems.
Minnesota.
United States.
2000-2099
Biographies.
Literary collections.
Genre:
Literary collections.
Biography.
Biographies.
Physical Description:223 pages ; 21 cm
Format: Book
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 acknowledgement 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.