https://padlet.com/celiaburke/awxcgsxqhyjl3omq Using the list of books/genres collected during the April 26 call, please upvote/heart the book you're most eager to read. en-us 2022-06-21 19:40:27 UTC 2022-06-21 20:52:38 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/celiaburke/awxcgsxqhyjl3omq/wish/2227105820 Heather McGhee
From the financial crisis to rising student debt to collapsing public infrastructure, she found a common root problem: racism. But not just in the most obvious indignities for people of color. Racism has costs for white people, too. But how did this happen? And is there a way out?]]> 2022-06-21 19:43:26 UTC https://padlet.com/celiaburke/awxcgsxqhyjl3omq/wish/2227105820 celiaburke https://padlet.com/celiaburke/awxcgsxqhyjl3omq/wish/2227105998 As a biracial, unenrolled tribal member and the product of a scandal, Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in—both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. When her family is struck by tragedy, Daunis puts her dreams on hold to care for her fragile mother. The only bright spot is meeting Jamie, the charming new recruit on her brother’s hockey team.]]> 2022-06-21 19:43:46 UTC https://padlet.com/celiaburke/awxcgsxqhyjl3omq/wish/2227105998 https://padlet.com/celiaburke/awxcgsxqhyjl3omq/wish/2227106045 The trans-Tasman R&B superstar's raw and open memoir is a lesson that no matter how many setbacks, no matter the odds, you will succeed if you have the courage and belief to do so.]]> 2022-06-21 19:43:52 UTC https://padlet.com/celiaburke/awxcgsxqhyjl3omq/wish/2227106045 https://padlet.com/celiaburke/awxcgsxqhyjl3omq/wish/2227106288 Octavia E. Butler. Post-apocalyptic science fiction novel that provides commentary on climate change and social inequality. ]]> 2022-06-21 19:44:20 UTC https://padlet.com/celiaburke/awxcgsxqhyjl3omq/wish/2227106288 celiaburke https://padlet.com/celiaburke/awxcgsxqhyjl3omq/wish/2227106334 Nonfiction book by Potawatomi professor Robin Wall Kimmerer, about the role of Indigenous knowledge as an alternative or complementary approach to Western mainstream scientific methodologies.]]> 2022-06-21 19:44:24 UTC https://padlet.com/celiaburke/awxcgsxqhyjl3omq/wish/2227106334 celiaburke https://padlet.com/celiaburke/awxcgsxqhyjl3omq/wish/2227106464 Years ago, when plagues and natural disasters killed millions of people, much of the world stopped dreaming. Without dreams, people are haunted, sick, mad, unable to rebuild. The government soon finds that the Indigenous people of North America have retained their dreams, an ability rumored to be housed in the very marrow of their bones. Soon, residential schools pop up—or are re-opened—across the land to bring in the dreamers and harvest their dreams.]]> 2022-06-21 19:44:39 UTC https://padlet.com/celiaburke/awxcgsxqhyjl3omq/wish/2227106464 celiaburke https://padlet.com/celiaburke/awxcgsxqhyjl3omq/wish/2227106614 The Personal Librarian tells the story of an extraordinary woman, famous for her intellect, style, and wit, and shares the lengths to which she must go—for the protection of her family and her legacy—to preserve her carefully crafted white identity in the racist world in which she lives.]]> 2022-06-21 19:44:47 UTC https://padlet.com/celiaburke/awxcgsxqhyjl3omq/wish/2227106614 https://padlet.com/celiaburke/awxcgsxqhyjl3omq/wish/2227106708 Janelle Monae: ...exploring how different threads of liberation -- queerness, race, gender plurality and love—become tangled with future possibilities of memory and time in such a totalitarian landscape ... and what the costs might be when trying to unravel and weave them into freedoms.]]> 2022-06-21 19:44:58 UTC https://padlet.com/celiaburke/awxcgsxqhyjl3omq/wish/2227106708 celiaburke https://padlet.com/celiaburke/awxcgsxqhyjl3omq/wish/2227106818 2022-06-21 19:45:12 UTC https://padlet.com/celiaburke/awxcgsxqhyjl3omq/wish/2227106818 https://padlet.com/celiaburke/awxcgsxqhyjl3omq/wish/2227106843 Nikole Hannah-Jones
The 1619 Project is The New York Times Magazine’s award-winning reframing of American history that placed slavery and its continuing legacy at the center of our national narrative and explains not only the persistence of anti-Black racism and inequality in American life today, but also the roots of so much of what makes the country unique. ]]> 2022-06-21 19:45:15 UTC https://padlet.com/celiaburke/awxcgsxqhyjl3omq/wish/2227106843 celiaburke https://padlet.com/celiaburke/awxcgsxqhyjl3omq/wish/2227106951 Collection of essays and poetry edited by Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Dr. Katharine Wilkinson that sets out to highlight a wide range of women's voices in the environmental movement, most of whom are from North America.]]> 2022-06-21 19:45:29 UTC https://padlet.com/celiaburke/awxcgsxqhyjl3omq/wish/2227106951 larissajohnson17 https://padlet.com/celiaburke/awxcgsxqhyjl3omq/wish/2227116116 Yaa Gyasi
A novel of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred years in Ghana and along the way also becomes a truly great American novel. Extraordinary for its exquisite language, its implacable sorrow, its soaring beauty, and for its monumental portrait of the forces that shape families and nations - it is 🔥🔥]]> 2022-06-21 20:02:47 UTC https://padlet.com/celiaburke/awxcgsxqhyjl3omq/wish/2227116116