Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption edited by Jane Jeong Trenka, Julia Chinyere Oparah and Sun Yung Shin [in Bloomsbury Review]
01 May, by in Adult Readers, Black/African American, Korean American, Latina/o/x, Nonfiction, Repost
“This book is a corrective action,” insist the three adoptee editors of this recent collection of essays and memoirs about growing up as a transracial adoptee. “Over the past fifty years, white adoptive parents, academics, psychiatrists,...
From one of my favorite writers comes a highly readable memoir of a seed-collecting trek through eastern Nepal with three botanist friends. As always, Kincaid is blunt, honest, and highly observant, never overlooking her...
Paperback reissue of the inspirational story of legendary Hank Aaron, who first had to break through color barriers in the world of professional major league baseball before he could break the Babe’s record for...
An award-winning writer, activist, musician, and professor, Julian Lester uses his own personal story as an African American to engage young readers in exploring what makes each of us unique...
For women of color, the fight for civil rights includes equitable reproductive rights. Both coercive sterilization and invasive long-term birth-control technologies have historically undermined the reproductive rights of women of color. Such practices continue...
A collection to share with your daughter – your sister, your cousin, even your mother. Thoughtful and eye-opening, this collection by women from many backgrounds recalls childhood experiences on when and how...
Horror, Hope & Redemption: A Talk with Edwidge Danticat About Her Latest Novel, The Dew Breaker
When I mention to a dear friend in England, who happens to be an excellent fiction writer herself, that I’m preparing...
All the many sounds in a little boy's happy life are caught in rhythmic sing-along songs. But the real draw – no pun intended – here is the utter joy captured in the little...
Behind the Mountains by Edwidge Danticat
Flight to Freedom by Ana Veciana-Suarez
Finding My Hat by John Son
The Stone Goddess by Minfong Ho
With the exception of the Native Americans—and some may still argue that they walked over the...
The legendary Martin Luther King, Jr. remembered as a young boy by his older sister, with images spectacularly captured by the award-winning Korean American illustrator Chris Soentpiet.
Review: 
An ultimately readable volume about race in America, which has moved beyond the black and white paradigm, written by the three co-directors of the American Assembly on Racial Equality, the...
A multicultural anthology of 37 short stories about immigration to and migration within the U.S., the so-called “Promised Land.” Contributing writers are of varied ethnic backgrounds, including Asian, African, Latino, Native American, Jewish, Middle...