![]() ![]() society, are put forth in jest as if they are innocuous.”ĭr. Especially when buffered in Seuss’ rhyming verse, his racist depictions, already normalized in U.S. “Generations of Americans have grown up with depictions of Asians that ranged from grotesque to comical. Seuss’ racism,” Ishizuka told NBC Asian America. “No doubt, the long-standing prevalence of racist Asian imagery within the larger widespread anti-Asian sentiment in the U.S. Seuss' books have been able to get away with this racism for so long in part because of the persistence of anti-Asian racism in the U.S. ![]() Karen Ishizuka, chief curator at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, said Dr. ![]() Though Seuss’ art has been around for decades - “Mulberry Street,” his first children’s book, was published more than 80 years ago - widespread criticism of his work is relatively recent. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Although Jones was born in Memphis, Tennessee, where his family is from, he grew up in the warm summer heat of Lewisville, Texas with a Buddhist mother, Kingsley, their dog, and the constant threat of death for being black and gay. Each of the twenty-one chapters starts with a date and the place something important happened in his youth, then proceeds with an anecdote that generated a realization or something that changed the course of the events. Winner of the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction in 2019, How We Fight for Our Lives is a chronological and geographical narration. We sacrifice former versions of ourselves.” How a human being builds an identity is a long story-Jones knows it when he claims “People don’t just happen. And later, memories resurrected and sharpened into new words, stronger than before, are a way of saying this is my truth, this is my life, this is how I fight now. Growing up with the task of being the perfect son, citizen, student, of keeping quiet or being invisible, and then with the intention of defying that ‘perfection.’ The memoir written by the author of the poetry collection Prelude to Bruise (2014), Saeed Jones’s How We Fight for Our Lives works as a question to an entire nation: “If America was going to hate me for being black and gay, then make a weapon out of myself” Perhaps that weapon is forged by a burning desire to no longer be appeased. Growing up an only child of a single mother. Growing up in the South of the United States. ![]() ![]() I feel warm inside, and I want to squirm in my seat. Whenever he walks by, I feel my heart beating faster from excitement. I have no idea if I’ll like Jake as a person, but I certainly love how he looks without his shirt. He’s got cheerleaders climbing all over him, and I’ve been watching him long enough to know that he goes for tall blond girls, not short brunettes.īesides, for now it’s kind of fun to just enjoy the attraction. Jake and I don’t run in the same circles. He’s the quarterback and the hottest guy on the planet-or at least in the Chicago suburb of Oak Lawn, Illinois. ![]() I’m not the only girl watching Jake, of course. Out there on that field, practicing every day. Something I know nothing about, but pretend I love because that’s where I see him. “Nora, come on, this is boring,” Leah says as we sit on the bleachers watching the game. I’m seventeen years old when I first meet him. ![]() I wake up screaming his name, my sheets soaked through with cold sweat.įor a moment, I’m disoriented. He lifts the knife one last time, and the pool of blood turns into an ocean, the rip current sucking me in. ![]() Inhuman shrieks of pain and agony that slice me open, leaving my mind as raw and mangled as her flesh. ![]() I want to move, but I’m restrained, tied in place, the ropes cutting into my skin as I struggle against them. I want to scream, but I can’t draw in enough air. I’m drowning in blood, suffocating in it. I can taste it, smell it, feel it covering me. The pool of dark red liquid on the floor is spreading, multiplying. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Mary was 15 Charles decided it was time for Mary to be married and it had to be a Protestant bridegroom for Mary. She never thought she would be subject to the same fate as most before her. Princesses were political bargaining chips and all of that went completely over Mary’s head. She had never really given any thought to marriage or the fact that princesses were normally married off for the political gain of their country. She could have gone on living that way forever and been happy. Mary was a daydreamer and she knew she had an ideal life she was a beauty at court that was petted and loved by her father, uncle, and handsome illegitimate cousin Duke of Monmouth. Both girls had it all, beauty, titles, wealth, family, education, and good health except for bad eyes, they were all very happy together. ![]() Mary’s younger sister Anne and her grew up in a close family. ![]() Mary’s parents married for love and besides her fathers affairs with numerous mistresses her childhood was a happy one. Her uncle Charles sadly had no legitimate male heirs making Mary’s father next in line for the throne and her second if her father had no male heirs. Her father James the Duke of York heir apparent doted on his favorite daughter. ![]() In Post-Restoration England Princess Mary was the favorite niece of King Charles II. ![]() ![]() I almost put the entire lot into the recycling, but noticed this one, thankfully. ![]() Neil added: “A lady handed in a carrier bag of mainly tatty late Victorian fiction most of which was falling apart. ![]() The book was handed into the store earlier this year. The previous highest priced item in my time here was an 1832 hand-coloured map of London, which was sold in the shop for £800.”Ĭlick here for more news and sport from the Stirling area. It’s certainly the most amount of money received for an item since I started here five years ago. “I think it may be a once-in-a-lifetime donation. Hardback ARCTURUS ORNATE CLASSICS English. Oxfam Stirling books and music manager Neil Paterson said: “The hammer price was £3400, but the buyer paid £4284 after commission and fees. 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![]() ![]() Over the Thanksgiving holidays I pushed myself (body, mind, and spirit) a bit extra and that pushed the muscles and joints a bit more than they liked to be pushed. They also sent along a white T-shirt inscribed with the Noxicare logo. tube of their Noxicare™ Natural Pain Relief cream for me to try out and see how I like it. ![]() I began my investigation and now the good folks at Noxicare ™ have provided a 1.5 oz. I saw it on another blogger's website and thought it interesting. ![]() Noxicare™ Natural Pain Relief cream is a new product to me. But it is good to know that those times I actually do ingest pain relievers, I take a lower amount to get the job done. Use plant based and natural pain reliever products. So whenever I can intelligently and with good conscience deviate from heavy medications I do so.Įxample, I prefer to try topical creams and lotions before I ingest something to alleviate pain. We take several prescription medications and use over-the-counter products as well. Prior to that, I was becoming more conscious of ingredients in our foods and in products that we use on our bodies. My husband and my daughter both had cancer two years ago. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ' These are poems of exquisite beauty, unashamed of romance, and undaunted by looking directly into the horrors of war, the silences of history. the chief of police/facedown in a pool of Coca-Cola./A palm-sized photo of his father soaking/beside his left ear.' This is an unusual, important book: both gentle and visceral, vulnerable and assured, and its blend of humanity and power make it one of the best first collections of poetry to come out of America in years. Steeped in war and cultural upheaval and wielding a fresh new language, Vuong writes about the most profound subjects - love and loss, conflict, grief, memory and desire - and attends to them all with lines that feel newly-minted, graceful in their cadences, passionate and hungry in their tender, close attention: '. An extraordinary debut from a young Vietnamese American, Night Sky with Exit Wounds is a book of poetry unlike any other. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. ![]() Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Mike- Happy Birthday and I hope the Houses and Odes go on and on into 1262- Frank.” Near fine in the rare original slipcase. Number 25 of the rare first edition O’Hara’s classic work of poetry, published in an edition of 75 hardbound copies. ![]() |