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Review by Nina Knight
“To the missing Native women and all who grieve them.” The preceding dedication is how readers will begin
In the Night of Memory by Linda LeGarde Grover and once they begin, they will not be able to put this heart-wrenching story down. Told from multiple points of view of the Gallette family, this story encompasses numerous voices of Native women across generations and the pain they have endured and continue to endure. Grover does such a superb job detailing the historical and current issues facing tribal communities that this book will soon be a primary text for Native American/Indigenous literature around the world.
From jazz to hip hop, Afro-South Asian music collaborations reflect imagined, more liberatory worlds
A conversation with Elliott Powell, author of ‘Sounds from the Other Side: Afro-South Asian Collaborations in Black Popular Music’. Hip hop singer Missy Elliott at the 44th Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux. | Valentin Flauraud/Reuters
Afro-South Asian (American) musical alliances demonstrate an “other side” of Black life, history, and politics, argues Elliott Powell in his new book,
Sounds from the Other Side: Afro-South Asian Collaborations in Black Popular Music (University of Minnesota Press 2020).
Powell covers over a half-century of Black and South Asian American musical collaborations, starting from the 1960s. Included in this study are John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Rick James, OutKast, Missy Elliott, Truth Hurts, Timbaland, and also Badal Roy, Lata Mangeshkar, Rajé Shwari and others.
The PMC meets the Tucker Carlson Left
Comrade Motopu uncovers the reactionary politics underpinning Catherine Liu s new book and her social media presence.
Catherine Liu, Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2021.
Catherine Liu on the political spectrum
This essay will examine a few aspects of Catherine Liu’s new book. It will also look at her statements on social media and in interviews, to clarify the political and ideological underpinnings of her focus on the Professional Managerial Class (PMC). In their 1977 Radical America articles, Barbara and John Ehrenreich wrote as PMC scholars trying to come to terms with their class position, limitations, and possible strategies to radicalize and engage genuinely in anti-capitalist struggle. Catherine Liu’s politics are very different.
These 10 exquisite picture books for children focus on family, friends and nature It s the simple but crucial things that matter in these wise and beautiful picture books for young children. February 20, 2021 11:53am Text size Copy shortlink: I Sang You Down From the Stars, by Tasha Spillett-Sumner, illustrated by Michaela Goade. (Little, Brown, $18.99, ages 4-8. In stores April 6.)
Inniniwak (Cree) and Trinidadian writer Tasha Spillett-Sumner draws on her Native heritage to tell a loving story of a mother and infant. I loved you before I met you, she says. As the baby grows inside of her, the mother gathers significant objects a feather, a pebble, a quilt to give to her child. In January, Michaela Goade, who is Tlingit, became the first Native artist to win the prestigious Caldecott Medal (for We Are Water Protectors ). Her dreamy watercolor and mixed media illustrations for this book swirl and sparkle w