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We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World edited by Carolyn Holbrook & David Mira

We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World edited by Carolyn Holbrook & David Mira

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From University of Minnesota Press:

A brilliant and rich gathering of voices on the American experience of this past year and beyond, from Indigenous writers and writers of color from Minnesota

Here Indigenous writers and writers of color bear witness to one of the most unsettling years in U.S. history. Essays and poems vividly reflect the traumas we endured in 2020, beginning with the COVID-19 pandemic, deepened by the blatant murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers and the uprisings that immersed our city into the epicenter of worldwide demands for justice.

Diversity is our strength. Each new voice who becomes part of America is our strength. The writers in this anthology provide us with individualized portraits of who we are, and in doing so they can help us to know each other, our neighbors, our fellow citizens. These writers prove we are indeed more than a single story. — David Mura, from the Introduction