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Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
As a young anthropologist, Kulick went to the tiny village of Gapun in New Guinea to document the death of the native language, Tayap. He arrived knowing that you can't study a language without understanding the daily lives of the people who speak it: how they talk to their children, how they argue, how they gossip, how they joke. Over the course of thirty years, he returned again and again to document Tayap before it disappeared entirely. Here he...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In this incisive blend of personal narrative and deep philosophical and linguistic inquiry, journalist, filmmaker, and activist Barrett Holmes Pitner identifies a linguistic void in how we discuss race and culture in the United States. "Ethnocide," first coined in 1944 by Jewish exile Raphael Lemkin (who also coined the term genocide), describes the systemic erasure of a people's ancestral culture. Dating back to the cross-Atlantic slave trade and...
Author
Language
English
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2023 Reading Challenge September Bonus Category: A book by a Latinx Author
2023 Reading Challenge: Memoir or autobiography by someone you admire
Latinx Non-Fiction
2023 Reading Challenge: Memoir or autobiography by someone you admire
Latinx Non-Fiction
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Quiara Alegria Hudes was the sharp-eyed girl on the stairs while her family danced in her grandmother's tight South Philly kitchen, "frizzy hair cut short, bangs teased into stiff clouds, sweat glistening in the summer fog, pamper-butt babies weaving between legs." Quiara was awed by her aunts and uncles and cousins, but haunted by the secrets of the family and the unspoken stories of the barrio -- even as she tried to find her own voice in the sea...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espąol
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"Quiara Alegr̕a Hudes era la nįa de ojos penetrantes que permanec̕a resguardada en las escaleras de la casa de su abuela en el norte de Filadelfia mientras observaba a su familia bailar en su estrecha cocina. Le maravillaban sus t̕as, t̕os y primos, pero viv̕a aterrada por los secretos de la familia y las historias ocultas del barrio--todo esto mientras intentaba encontrar su propia voz entre el mar de lenguajes que la rodeaban, tanto en el...
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