![]() ![]() In her own words, here is Maud Newton's Book Notes music playlist for her memoir Ancestor Trouble:Īncestor Trouble is about my own ancestors, and about the significance of ancestors more broadly, from our times back through the millennia. She’s a transparent and at times lyrical writer." "Newton is a logical thinker and a hyperacute observer, with a prodigious memory and a lacerating honesty. In Maud Newton's smart and readable memoir Ancestor Trouble, she researches her family tree to expose universal truths. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. ![]() Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. ![]()
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![]() ![]() At the time of writing, Cleaver, then in his thirties, had served time in youth detention centers and several stints in prison. The first section, “Letters from Prison,” discusses Cleaver’s history of crime and experience in prisons. DuBois, Malcolm X, James Baldwin, and other political and philosophical writers. While in prison, Cleaver experienced a political awakening by reading the works of Thomas Paine, Karl Marx, W.E.B. Soul on Ice is divided into four parts that describe the author’s journey from a “supermasculine” but disadvantaged young man into a radical Black liberationist. However, Cleaver’s surprising late-in-life turn from the radical left towards conservative politics casts him and his memoir in a different light. ![]() After his release from prison, Cleaver became a prominent member of the Black Panthers, advocating urban guerilla warfare against a corrupt police force. His essays were instrumental in forming the philosophies and ideas behind the black power movement. The essays were first published in Ramparts magazine in 1965, and then collected in book form after Cleaver’s release in 1968. Eldridge Cleaver’s Soul on Ice is a memoir and collection of essays written while the author served time in Folsom Prison. ![]() ![]() ![]() Goade is of Tlingit descent and is tribally enrolled with the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska. Lindstrom is of Anishinaabe /Métis descent and is tribally enrolled with the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe. ![]() ![]() We Are Water Protectors includes essential notes from Lindstrom and Goade, as well as a glossary and further reading. ![]() This ominous, frightening threat is followed by my favorite illustration in the book, and possibly one of my favorite picture book illustrations ever (below). Wreck everything in its path," and Goade expands on these words with illustrations of a snake/oil pipeline hybrid with a fiery tongue and a haze of pollution surrounding it. Water is sacred, she said." The narrator recounts the Anishinaabe prophecy that warns of a "black snake that will destroy the land. It nourished us inside our mother's body. Through the voice of her narrator, Lindstrom introduces readers to the ancestry, inheritance and communal responsibility of Native Nations, starting with these words, "Water is the first medicine, Nokomis told me. It is also a work that is powerfully poetic and straightforward in its message and richly layered and complex for readers ready to dive deeper. We Are Water Protectors is a stunning picture book that and a call to action. ![]() ![]() (Helpful hint about the Tooth Fairy history in the US: Look for a 1927 play by Esther Watkins Arnold called The Tooth Fairy and especially a short story of the same name by Lee Rogow, published in Collier’s magazine in 1949.) The groups can teach the class about their findings. For example, in Spain and Mexico the tooth fairy is a mouse named Perez! (That’s another story with a fascinating history!) Have small groups of students make PowerPoint presentations of different tooth traditions, perhaps assigning each group a different region of the world. ![]() ![]() Also, what are the traditions surrounding losing teeth in other cultures? One helpful book is Throw Your Tooth on the Roof: Tooth Traditions from Around the World by Selby Beeler. Have students research to find out how the Tooth Fairy became part of US culture.They can also interview family members to get their first or most memorable tooth losing stories. ![]() Ask students to write stories about losing their first tooth or the most memorable time they lost a tooth. ![]() ![]() And Bissinger was there to record in fascinating detail the story of a mayor and a city that has implications far beyond Philadelphia's borders. Yet Rendell was able to achieve one of the most remarkable turnarounds in recent American urban history. In 1992 the city was facing an immediate fiscal crisis as its bonds slipped to ''junk'' ratings. Philadelphia had been losing jobs and residents since the 1950's, and As the new Mayor he was facing enough problems to daunt even Benjamin Franklin. For Rendell had little reason to inviteĪ reporter to observe his private strategy sessions and top-level negotiations. This appeared to be one more of the impulsively overconfident decisions that had led Rendell, a liberal Democrat and a former Philadelphia District Attorney, to as many defeats as victories in his political career. Rendell for extraordinary access to report the inside story ofīig-city politics in Philadelphia, the Mayor immediately agreed. ![]() But in 1991, when Buzz Bissinger (who had won a Pulitzer Prize at The Philadelphia Inquirer) asked Mayor-elect Edward G. The endless corridors to courtrooms for sentencing. ![]() ![]() ![]() N the dilapidated grandeur of Philadelphia's City Hall, investigative reporters are customarily treated as warily as the chained felons who used to shuffle down And some of it works, in this reporter's account of a city and its struggle to stay alive. ![]() |