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Sun Yung Shin is he editor of the best-selling anthology A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota and author of the children's book Cooper's Lesson and three poetry collections, including Unbearable Splendor, winner of a Minnesota Book Award.

Obras de Sun Yung Shin

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Thanku: Poems of Gratitude (2019) — Contribuidor — 52 copias
Riding Shotgun: Women Write About Their Mothers (2008) — Contribuidor — 24 copias
When We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology (2023) — Contribuidor — 8 copias
Sisterhood: Dark Tales and Secret Histories (2018) — Contribuidor — 4 copias

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I forget exactly why I sought out this book, but I really enjoyed it. The book cover describes this as "poetry as essay," which definitely feels right. Packed with big mythology and references to classics (some of which I had to look up to refresh my memory), with themes of adoption, motherhood, and identity.

I really loved the illustrations (especially the graphs!). I loved the bits on Korean. The most memorable poem in the collection for me was just a tiny fragment of "Autoclonography," -- "you are small again a small i a short thing with a black dot for a face -- we have always wanted a dot for a face -- so much easier to look beautiful every day..."

Ambitious and moving.
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greeniezona | May 12, 2023 |
Outsiders Within reveals, while transracial adoption is a practice traditionally considered benevolent, it often exacts a heavy emotional, cultural, and even economic toll. Through compelling essays, fiction, poetry, and art, the contributors to this landmark publication carefully explore this most intimate aspect of globalization. Finally, in the unmediated voices of the adults who have matured within it, we find a rarely-considered view of adoption, an institution that pulls apart old families and identities and grafts new ones.

Moving beyond personal narrative, these transracially adopted writers from around the world tackle difficult questions about how to survive the racist and ethnocentric worlds they inhabit, what connects the countries relinquishing their children to the countries importing them, why poor families of color have their children removed rather than supported—about who, ultimately, they are. In their inquiry, they unseat conventional understandings of adoption politics, ultimately reframing the controversy as a debate that encompasses human rights, peace, and reproductive justice. Selected Reading Questionnaire.
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ACRF | 2 reseñas más. | Aug 1, 2022 |
This is a painful and thought-provoking collection of essays by local writers on their personal experiences with race in Minnesota. A common theme that I sensed throughout the essays was that unlike the overt racism for which the southern U.S. is notorious, racism in Minnesota is present, expressed and revealed subtly, often in the form of microaggressions. Which is more harmful? We Minnesotans often pride ourselves on our progressiveness and "Minnesota Nice," so I read these with feelings of both shame and anger, as well as a kind of helplessness, wondering what kind of difference I personally can make to improve the experiences of Minnesota's POC.… (más)
 
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ryner | May 26, 2020 |
This book was very interesting to read. It was very surprising to see two different languages written on every page because have not really read this kind of book before. I was able to relate to this story because not only I am Korean, but I was able to relate to the story about the part where Cooper struggles to learn his native language. English was not my first language, and I went through all the arduous situations to learn English. I think this book will provide interesting and relatable story for Korean-American students and other multicultural students. Also, it not only helps them to relate, but they may also be able to check if they understood the story by reading the Korean version of the story if they are Korean. Therefore, I will use this in my classroom, so that children can build more knowledge about how difficult learning a new language is, and learn about the ways to overcome the language barriers.… (más)
 
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soh8 | 9 reseñas más. | Oct 2, 2018 |

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