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Joy Harjo, the first Native American poet to serve as US Poet
Laureate, has championed the voices of Native American peoples past
and present. Her signature laureate project gathers the work of
contemporary poets into a national, fully digital map of story,
sound and space, celebrating their vital and unequivocal
contributions to American poetry. This companion anthology features
each poem and poet from the project to offer readers a chance to
hold the wealth of poems in their hands. With work from Natalie
Diaz, Ray Young Bear, Craig Santos Perez, Sherwin Bitsui, Layli
Long Soldier, among others, Living Nations, Living Words showcases,
as Joy Harjo writes in her stirring introduction, "poetry [that]
emerges from the soul of a community, the heart and lands of the
people. In this country, poetry is rooted in the more than 500
living indigenous nations. Living Nations, Living Words is a
representative offering."
The Black Librarian in America: Reflections, Resistance, and
Reawakening is the latest in the powerful line of The Black
Librarian in America volumes. While previous editions we organized
around library types, this edition is organized in four thematic
sections" -A Rich Heritage: Black Librarian History -Celebrating
Collective and Individual Identity -Black Librarians across
Settings -Moving Forward: Activism, Anti-Racism, and Allyship"
Issues pertaining to Black librarians' intersectional identities,
capacities, and contributions take center stage. The Black
Librarian in America: Reflections, Resistance, and Reawakening is
not only the first edition to be edited entirely by Black women,
but it is officially produced by BCALA members in commemoration of
the organization's 50th anniversary. Dr. Carla Hayden (14th
Librarian of Congress) and Julius Jefferson, Jr. (president of the
American Library Association for the 2020-2021 term) contribute
moving foreword and afterword segments.
Until recently, Rosa Parks's personal papers were unavailable to
the public. In this compelling new book from the Library of
Congress, where the Parks Collection is housed, the civil rights
icon is revealed for the first time in print through her private
manuscripts and handwritten notes. Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words
illumines her inner thoughts, her ongoing struggles, and how she
came to be the person who stood up by sitting down. At the height
of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, as Parks was both pilloried and
celebrated, she found a catharsis in her writing. Her precise
descriptions of her arrest, the segregated South, and her
recollections of childhood resistance to white supremacy document a
lifetime of battling inequality. Parks expressed her thoughts on
paper using whatever was available meeting agendas, event programs,
drugstore bags. The book features one hundred color and
black-and-white photographs from the Parks collection, many
appearing in print for the first time, along with ephemera from the
long life of a private person in the public eye.
The Black Librarian in America: Reflections, Resistance, and
Reawakening is the latest in the powerful line of The Black
Librarian in America volumes. While previous editions we organized
around library types, this edition is organized in four thematic
sections" -A Rich Heritage: Black Librarian History -Celebrating
Collective and Individual Identity -Black Librarians across
Settings -Moving Forward: Activism, Anti-Racism, and Allyship"
Issues pertaining to Black librarians' intersectional identities,
capacities, and contributions take center stage. The Black
Librarian in America: Reflections, Resistance, and Reawakening is
not only the first edition to be edited entirely by Black women,
but it is officially produced by BCALA members in commemoration of
the organization's 50th anniversary. Dr. Carla Hayden (14th
Librarian of Congress) and Julius Jefferson, Jr. (president of the
American Library Association for the 2020-2021 term) contribute
moving foreword and afterword segments.
For generations, children’s books provided American readers with
their first impressions of Japan. Seemingly authoritative, and full
of fascinating details about daily life in a distant land, these
publications often presented a mixture of facts, stereotypes, and
complete fabrications.  This volume takes readers on
a journey through nearly 200 years of American children’s books
depicting Japanese culture, starting with the illustrated journal
of a boy who accompanied Commodore Matthew Perry on his historic
voyage in the 1850s. Along the way, it traces the important role
that representations of Japan played in the evolution of
children’s literature, including the early works of Edward
Stratemeyer, who went on to create such iconic characters as Nancy
Drew. It also considers how American children’s books about Japan
have gradually become more realistic with more Japanese-American
authors entering the field, and with texts grappling with such
serious subjects as internment camps and the bombing of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki.  Drawing from the Library of Congress’s
massive collection, Sybille A. Jagusch presents long passages from
many different types of Japanese-themed children’s books and
periodicals—including travelogues, histories, rare picture books,
folktale collections, and boys’ adventure stories—to give
readers a fascinating look at these striking texts. Published by
Rutgers University Press, in association with the Library of
Congress.
For generations, children’s books provided American readers with
their first impressions of Japan. Seemingly authoritative, and full
of fascinating details about daily life in a distant land, these
publications often presented a mixture of facts, stereotypes, and
complete fabrications.  This volume takes readers on
a journey through nearly 200 years of American children’s books
depicting Japanese culture, starting with the illustrated journal
of a boy who accompanied Commodore Matthew Perry on his historic
voyage in the 1850s. Along the way, it traces the important role
that representations of Japan played in the evolution of
children’s literature, including the early works of Edward
Stratemeyer, who went on to create such iconic characters as Nancy
Drew. It also considers how American children’s books about Japan
have gradually become more realistic with more Japanese-American
authors entering the field, and with texts grappling with such
serious subjects as internment camps and the bombing of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki.  Drawing from the Library of Congress’s
massive collection, Sybille A. Jagusch presents long passages from
many different types of Japanese-themed children’s books and
periodicals—including travelogues, histories, rare picture books,
folktale collections, and boys’ adventure stories—to give
readers a fascinating look at these striking texts. Published by
Rutgers University Press, in association with the Library of
Congress.
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