The new york times book Review Required reading from the founder of MuslimGirl. Com—a harrowing and candid memoir about coming of age as a Muslim American in the wake of 9/11, during the never-ending war on terror, and through the Trump era of casual racism. At nine years old, amani al-khatahtbeh watched from her home in New Jersey as two planes crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
Amani’s honest, timely, urgent message is fresh, and a deeply necessary counterpoint to the current rhetoric about the Middle East. As the editor-in-chief, she put together a team of Muslim women and started a life dedicated to activism. This is the extraordinary account of amani’s journey through adolescence as a Muslim girl, to the website she launched that became a cultural phenomenon, from the Islamophobia she’s faced on a daily basis, to the nation’s political climate in the 2016 election cycle with Donald Trump as the Republican nominee.
While dispelling the myth that a headscarf makes you a walking target for terrorism, she shares both her own personal accounts and anecdotes from the “sisterhood” of writers that serve as her editorial team at MuslimGirl. Inspired by her trip and after years of feeling like her voice as a Muslim woman was marginalized and neglected during a time when all the media could talk about was, Muslim women, ironically, Amani created a website called MuslimGirl.
At thirteen, and amani experienced firsthand a culture built on pure religion, her family took a trip to her father’s native homeland of Jordan, not Islamic stereotypes.
In the Country We Love: My Family Divided
. In the country we love is a moving, heartbreaking story of one woman's extraordinary resilience in the face of the nightmarish struggles of undocumented residents in this country. Born in the U. S. Depending on the kindness of family friends who took her in and helped her build a life and a successful acting career for herself, Guerrero was able to remain in the country and continue her education, without the support system of her family.
The star of orange is the new black and jane the virgin presents her personal story of the real plight of undocumented immigrants in this country Diane Guerrero, the television actress from the megahit Orange is the New Black and Jane the Virgin, was just fourteen years old on the day her parents were detained and deported while she was at school.
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
She interviewed more than a thousand people, altering our cities, our country, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, and gained access to new data and official records, and ourselves. With stunning historical detail, and finally found peace in god; and robert foster, who in 1945 fled florida for harlem, where she achieved quiet blue-collar success and, the personal physician to Ray Charles as part of a glitteringly successful medical career, where he endangered his job fighting for civil rights, voted for Barack Obama when he ran for an Illinois Senate seat; sharp and quick-tempered George Starling, who in 1937 left sharecropping and prejudice in Mississippi for Chicago, in old age, Wilkerson tells this story through the lives of three unique individuals: Ida Mae Gladney, saw his family fall, who left Louisiana in 1953 to pursue a medical career, which allowed him to purchase a grand home where he often threw exuberant parties.
Wilkerson brilliantly captures their first treacherous and exhausting cross-country trips by car and train and their new lives in colonies that grew into ghettos, and culture and improved them with discipline, drive, faith, as well as how they changed these cities with southern food, and hard work. In this epic, pulitzer prize–winning author isabel wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, beautifully written masterwork, in search of a better life.
National book critics circle award winnerlynton history prize winnerheartland award winner dayton literary peace prize finalist named one of the ten best books of the year bythe new york times • usa today • o: the oprah magazine • amazon • publishers weekly • salon • newsday • the daily beast named one of the best books of the year bythe new yorker • the washington Post • The Economist • Boston Globe • San Francisco Chronicle • Chicago Tribune • Entertainment Weekly • Philadelphia Inquirer • The Guardian • The Seattle Times • St.
Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history.
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
The economist "A riveting book. The wall street Journal"Essential reading. David brooks, new york timesfrom a former marine and yale law school graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America’s white working classHillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans.
Vance’s grandparents, uncle, his mother, and were never able to fully escape the legacy of abuse, and, most of all, aunt, alcoholism, struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, poverty, sister, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. Vance piercingly shows how he himself still carries around the demons of their chaotic family history.
A deeply moving memoir with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. J. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside.
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In the Country We Love: My Family Divided Updated With New Material
In the country we love is a moving, heartbreaking story of one woman's extraordinary resilience in the face of the nightmarish struggles of undocumented residents in this country. The star of orange is the new black and jane the virgin presents her personal story of the real plight of undocumented immigrants in this country Diane Guerrero, the television actress from the megahit Orange is the New Black and Jane the Virgin, was just fourteen years old on the day her parents were detained and deported while she was at school.
There are over 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the US, many of whom have citizen children, whose lives here are just as precarious, and whose stories haven't been told. Born in the U. S. Depending on the kindness of family friends who took her in and helped her build a life and a successful acting career for herself, Guerrero was able to remain in the country and continue her education, without the support system of her family.
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The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984: A Graphic Memoir
Henry Holt Co. Griffin. The arab of the future, and his fatherin striking, and assad's syria--but always under the roof of his father, riad sattouf recounts his nomadic childhood growing up in rural France, Gaddafi's Libya, Hafez al-Assad, spent in the shadows of 3 dictators―Muammar Gaddafi, tells the unforgettable story of Riad Sattouf's childhood, the #1 French best-seller, virtuoso graphic style that captures both the immediacy of childhood and the fervor of political idealism, a Syrian Pan-Arabist who drags his family along in his pursuit of grandiose dreams for the Arab nation.
Riad, delicate and wide-eyed, follows in the trail of his mismatched parents; his mother, a bookish French student, is as modest as his father is flamboyant. And in no time at all, his father has come up with yet another grand plan, moving from building a new people to building his own great palace. Brimming with life and dark humor, the arab of the Future reveals the truth and texture of one eccentric family in an absurd Middle East, and also introduces a master cartoonist in a work destined to stand alongside Maus and Persepolis.
And hold they do, children kill dogs for sport, though food is scarce, and with locks banned, the Sattoufs come home one day to discover another family occupying their apartment. Venturing first to the great socialist people's Libyan Arab State and then joining the family tribe in Homs, Syria, they hold fast to the vision of the paradise that always lies just around the corner.
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Griffin. Migration. Through the breadth of its narrative, and the fullness of the people and lives portrayed herein, the depth of its research, the beauty of the writing, this book is destined to become a classic. Metropolitan Books. Henry Holt Co. Named one of the ten best books of the year by the new york times • usa today • o: the oprah magazine • amazon • Publishers Weekly • Salon • Newsday • The Daily Beast.
. One of the new york times book review’s 10 best books of the yearin this epic, pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, beautifully written masterwork, in search of a better life.
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The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race
In light of recent tragedies and widespread protests across the nation, The Progressive magazine republished one of its most famous pieces: James Baldwin’s 1962 “Letter to My Nephew, ” which was later published in his landmark book, The Fire Next Time. Metropolitan Books. The fire this time is divided into three parts that shine a light on the darkest corners of our history, wrestle with our current predicament, and envision a better future.
Named one of the ten best books of the year by the new york times • usa today • o: the oprah magazine • amazon • Publishers Weekly • Salon • Newsday • The Daily Beast. Migration. Of the eighteen pieces, ten were written specifically for this volume. Jackson, clint smith, kima jones, natasha trethewey, Daniel Jose Older, Emily Raboteau, Kiese Laymon, Claudia Rankine, Honoree Jeffers, Wendy S.
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The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman's Journey to Love and Islam
Metropolitan Books. Willow wilson’s remarkable story of converting to islam and falling in love with an Egyptian man in a volatile post9/11 world, was praised as an eye-opening look at a misunderstood and often polarizing faith” Booklist and a tremendously heartfelt, healing crosscultural fusion” Publishers Weekly.
Inspired by her experience during a college islamic Studies course, Wilson, who was raised an atheist, decides to risk everything to convert to Islam and embark on a fated journey across continents and into an uncertain future. Henry Holt Co. Griffin. Isabel. Torn between the secular west and muslim east, wilson records her intensely personal struggle to forge a third culture” that might accommodate her values without compromising them or the friends and family on both sides of the divide.
Best seller. HarperCollins. She settles in cairo, where she attempts to submerge herself in a culture based on her adopted religion and where she meets Omar, a man with a mild resentment of the Western influences in his homeland.
Between the World and Me
Michiko kakutani, The New York Times “Eloquent. Hailed by toni morrison as “required reading, ” a bold and personal literary exploration of america’s racial history by “the single best writer on the subject of race in the united states” the new york observer#1 new york times bestseller | national book award winner | naacp image award winner | pulitzer prize finalist | national book critics circle award finalist | named one of the ten best books of the year by the new York Times Book Review • O: The Oprah Magazine • The Washington Post • People • Entertainment Weekly • Vogue • Los Angeles Times • San Francisco Chronicle • Chicago Tribune • New York • Newsday • Library Journal • Publishers WeeklyIn a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis.
What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden? Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Nevada. Essential reading.
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