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            3 Articles Tagged Literature

            First-Year Reading First-Year Reading: Fiction
            April 26 2022

            Dolen Perkins-Valdez on her new novel, Take My Hand

            “I believe that in order to heal, we must remember. Once we remember, we acknowledge. Once we acknowledge, we can take more significant action.”   Watch Dolen Perkins-Valdez discuss her inspiration for writing Take My Hand:   Montgomery, Alabama, 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend intends to make a difference, especially in her African

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            Dolen Perkins-Valdez on her new novel, Take My Hand

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            April 26 2022
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            July 13 2020

            DISABILITY VISIBILITY is an urgent collection of contemporary essays by disabled people

            Activist Alice Wong presents a galvanizing collection of thirty-seven essays by disabled people just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century celebrates and documents disability culture in the now. From Harriet McBryde Johnson’s account of her debate with Peter Singer over her

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            DISABILITY VISIBILITY is an urgent collection of contemporary essays by disabled people

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            July 13 2020
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            May 8 2019

            FROM THE PAGE: Call Me American

            Introduced to American movies and pop music while growing up in Somalia, Abdi Nor Iftin fell in love with the idea of America long before he could find the country on a map. As the Somali Civil War broke out, Abdi grew desensitized to the violence around him: avoiding gunfire during his daily trip to

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            FROM THE PAGE: Call Me American

            First-Year Reading: Inspiration First-Year Reading: Memoir & Biography
            May 8 2019
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