Esmé Louise James also identifies the key tipping points that directly inform current beliefs around sex to place the past in conversation with the present. By educating ourselves about the weird, wonderful, and varied spectrum of human sexuality and experience, we can normalize and destigmatize sex, write people of marginalized sexual identities back into the pages of history, and build toward a more liberated future.
In a nation lacking a comprehensive social safety net, people often scramble to find private solutions to structural problems. While existing scholarship primarily focuses on how adults, particularly mothers, navigate systematic gaps in social support, Language Brokers shifts our attention to bilingual children securing crucial resources for their families. Drawing upon interviews with working-class Mexican and Korean American language brokers, as well as healthcare providers, and months of participant observation in a Southern California police station, Hyeyoung Kwon reveals how children of immigrants translate more than simple verbal exchanges.
Living at the intersection of multiple forms of inequality, these youth creatively use their in-between status to resolve structural problems to ensure their families' basic citizenship rights are upheld in interactions with teachers, social workers, landlords, doctors, and police officers. In an era of widespread racialized nativism, Language Brokers provides a critical examination of American culture, laying bare the contradictions between the ideals of equality and the exclusion of immigrants. Kwon underscores that dichotomous and racialized understandings of "deserving" and "undeserving" immigrants-which are embedded in everyday interactions and institutional practices-inform the routine ways in which immigrant youth attempt to cultivate belonging for their families.
An uncompromising counternarrative, and invitation to every aspiring ally, moderate or proud American to peek inside black men's experiences during the twin-pandemic: COVID-19 and the continued pandemic of social injustices.
Through a blend of the hybrid culture that was heavily scrutinized, and the author is accustomed- equal parts urban and civil rights-these once empty pages are now intentionally filled with rawness, authenticity, and fact. Matthew invites the strong willed and curious reader to walk with him and six Black men to hear their stories.
Written during a time when facts were doubted, Walk with Me intentionally upholds feelings and experience with research. Complemented by statements from Black men in law enforcement and public health, as well as reviews from experts in the fields of well-being, racial trauma and structural whiteness, this book takes an unapologetic look at the country we love and how we can and must do better.
A warm, yet unyielding welcome into the author's mind, heart, and life experience, Walk with Me is a source of emotional resonance, and a weapon for allies to use in the fight for justice.