{"product_id":"a-good-time-for-the-truth-race-in-minnesota-paperback","title":"A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSun Yung Shin\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 2020 selection of One Book, One Minnesota! \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Reading this book in community offers some Minnesotans the opportunity to see their experiences broadly shared and others a chance to educate themselves--and to discover ways to act on their convictions.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this provocative book, sixteen of Minnesota's best writers provide a range of perspectives on what it is like to live as a person of color in Minnesota. They give readers a splendid gift: the gift of touching another human being's inner reality, behind masks and veils and politeness. They bring us generously into experiences that we must understand if we are to come together in real relationships.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMinnesota communities struggle with some of the nation's worst racial disparities. As its authors confront and consider the realities that lie beneath the numbers, this book provides an important tool to those who want to be part of closing those gaps.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith contributions by: \u003cbr\u003eTaiyon J. Coleman, Heid E. Erdrich, Venessa Fuentes, Shannon Gibney, David Grant, Carolyn Holbrook, IBé, Andrea Jenkins, Robert Karimi, JaeRan Kim, Sherry Quan Lee, David Mura, Bao Phi, Rodrigo Sanchez-Chavarria, Diane Wilson, and Kao Kalia Yang\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough her first dream was to be a backup dancer for former hip-hop artist Heavy D, \u003cb\u003eTaiyon J Coleman\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer, educator and consultant, and her writing has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. Currently completing her first novel, \u003ci\u003eChicago @ 15\u003c\/i\u003e, Taiyon lives in Minneapolis with her family. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eHeid E. Erdrich\u003c\/b\u003e is Ojibwe, enrolled at Turtle Mountain. She is author of four collections of poetry and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eSister Nations: Native American Writers on Community\u003c\/i\u003e. Her most recent book is \u003ci\u003eOriginal Local: Indigenous Foods, Stories, and Recipes from the Upper Midwest\u003c\/i\u003e. She mentors MFA students at Augsburg College. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eVenessa Fuentes\u003c\/b\u003e is from the Twin Cities. She is also from its arts, queer, and POC communities. Her writing has been anthologized, read at poetry picnics, shared at the dinner table, and turned into public art. Along with her son and her wife, Venessa claims the south side of Minneapolis as Home. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eShannon Gibney\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer, educator, activist, and the author of \u003ci\u003eSee No Color\u003c\/i\u003e, a young adult novel. Her writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eAl Jazeera America\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Crisis\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGawker\u003c\/i\u003e, and other venues. A Bush Artist and McKnight Writing Fellow, she lives with her husband and children in Minneapolis. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Lawrence Grant\u003c\/b\u003e has written drama for the stage, film, and television, as well as fiction and memoir. He has written major reports on racial bias in the justice system for the Minnesota Supreme Court and on racial disparities in the health care system for the Minnesota legislature. He teaches screenwriting at Independent Filmmaker Project\/Minnesota. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarolyn Holbrook, \u003c\/b\u003e recipient of a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative grant and the Minnesota Book Awards' Kay Sexton Award, is the author of \u003ci\u003eOrdinary People, Extraordinary Journeys\u003c\/i\u003e and the founder of SASE: The Write Place (now merged with Intermedia Arts). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIBé\u003c\/b\u003e is many things, and they all orbit around being father to his son and daughters. He lives in the Middle of the Atlantic, hoping his children make it to America (without leaving Africa behind). He writes poetry and passes it off as spoken word. Or maybe it is the other way around. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrea Jenkins, \u003c\/b\u003e Intermedia Arts board chair and Bush Fellow, is a writer, performer, educator, and activist. A locally and nationally recognized poet, she has earned many awards, fellowships, and commissions. She is an oral historian at the Tretter Collection at the University of Minnesota Archives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Farid Karimi\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning interdisciplinary playwright, experience designer and poet whose interactive performances feed audiences a mixed bowl of humor, pop culture, and personal history. A National Poetry Slam Champion, he has appeared in a variety of eclectic venues worldwide. His work has been published and recorded internationally. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJaeRan Kim\u003c\/b\u003e is assistant professor at University of Washington Tacoma. JaeRan's writing and scholarship focuses on the intersections of race, disability, gender, and kinship on vulnerable children and families. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSherry Quan Lee\u003c\/b\u003e approaches writing as a community resource and as culturally based art of an ordinary everyday practical aesthetic. Her most recent book, \u003ci\u003eLove Imagined: a mixed race memoir\u003c\/i\u003e, was a 2015 Minnesota Book Award finalist. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Mura\u003c\/b\u003e has written two memoirs: \u003ci\u003eTurning Japanese\u003c\/i\u003e, a Josephine Miles Book Award\/Oakland PEN winner and a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book, and \u003ci\u003eWhere the Body Meets Memory\u003c\/i\u003e. His novel is \u003ci\u003eFamous Suicides of the Japanese Empire\u003c\/i\u003e. 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