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“We Are Extraordinarily Lucky to Be Living in These Times”: A Conversation with Grace Lee Boggs
Grace Lee Boggs is a longtime resident of Detroit, Michigan; a collaborator of West Indian historian C. L. R. James; the wife of autoworker and theorist James \"Jimmy\" Boggs; and a writer and lecturer whose audience seems to have broadened with each succeeding decade. Especially as a woman, she has ignored or defied the limits and expectations oft en placed before her, and by so doing she has opened up the possibilities for how people of all genders think about their lives, how they participate in radical political activism, and how they engage with theory. In recent years, she has spoken as a participant in and theoretician for a web of interconnected social movements. During the fall of 2011, the filmmaker Grace Lee helped Boggs to issue two short vimeo messages directed toward the Occupy Wall Street movement. Two years later, the same filmmaker released a feature-length documentary titled American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs.
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The rock in my throat
\"In this moving true story, Kao Kalia Yang shares her experiences as a Hmong refugee child navigating life at home and school in America while carrying the weight of her selective mutism\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Where rivers part : a story of my mother's life
\"In the 1960s when Kalia's mother, Chue, was born, the US was actively recruiting Hmong Laotians to assist with CIA efforts in Laos's Secret War. By the time Chue was a teenager, the US had completely vacated Laos, and the country erupted into genocidal attacks on the Hmong people, who were perceived as traitorous for their involvement. Notably, from 1964-1973, Laos became victim to the heaviest bombardment by the United States against communist Pathet Lao, becoming the most heavily bombed country in history. Fearing vengeful soldiers looking to take their lives, Chue and her family quickly fled their village for the jungle, leaving all that they knew behind. Perpetually on the run, the family was often on the brink of starvation, and death loomed. During this tumultuous period, Chue met her husband, Bee, and unwittingly left her mother behind forever when she escaped to a refugee camp with his family, a mistake she would regret for the rest of her life. There, Chue, Bee, and their daughters lived in a state of constant fear and hunger until they finally made it to America. The determined couple enrolled in high school classes despite being in their late twenties and worked grueling factory jobs to provide for their family, yet most who meet Chue know nothing of her extraordinary resilience and traumatic past. In Where Rivers Part, told from her mother's point of view, Kao Kalia Yang unveils her mother's epic struggle towards safety and the important undocumented history of a time and place most US readers know nothing about, offering insight into America's Secret War in Laos with tenderness and unvarnished clarity. In doing so, she excavates the plight of many refugees, who suffer silently and are often overlooked as one of the essential foundations of this country. For readers of The Wild Swans by Jung Chang, The Spirit Catches You When You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman, and those who flock to stories about survival during wartime, Where Rivers Part is not only a personal account of resilience and survival but also a powerful and transporting look into Laos's Secret War and the lived experiences of the Hmong people\"-- Provided by publisher.
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George Morrison: Anishinaabe Expressionist Artist
In this article, the author discusses the life and works of an Anishinaabe expressionist artist George Morrison. Morrison was an eminent expressionist painter with a singular romantic vision and an erudite sense of natural reason and liberty. He created an elusive shimmer of \"endless space,\" the color and eternal motion of nature. The horizons he painted were inspired by nature and lightened by his watch and visual memories of Lake Superior near the Grand Portage Reservation in Minnesota. Morrison was inspired by expressionism, an art movement already underway at the time of his birth. In this article the author explains what an Anishinaabe artist is. (Contains 39 notes.)
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