Call for Papers for the 70th Annual MPSA Political Science Conference, April 12 – 15, 2012, in Downtown Chicago Paper Proposal Deadline: 10/14; Poster Proposal Deadline 12/2. Submit a Proposal Research: A conference with about 1000 panels in all subfields, including Politics, Literature…
Category: Economic Justice/Poverty/Immigration
The War Comes Home: A Review of Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty
We think of war as happening to children in other places. In doing so, we fail to think about young people in the United States whose everyday lives mirror the lives of young people in the world’s combat zones. For…
Global Fund for Children: Publishing Books, Supporting Children Globally
The Global Fund for Children is a non-profit organization that works to improve the dignity of children, through grant-making and partnering with local, community-based organizations that serve children in 75 countries around the world, and also by publishing books…
Youme Landowne: Creating a Safe Place to Talk About Hard Things
Youme Landowne is the author and illustrator of the picture book Selavi (That is Life): A Haitian Story of Hope (Cinco Puntos Press), which tells the true story of how street children came together in Haiti to create their own…
Crossover Dreams: A Review of Dragon Chica
Reading Ann Angel’s review of Carlos Eire’s memoir Learning to Die in Miami—and then reading the book itself—got me thinking about the crossover genre, books originally published for adults that have found a wide audience of teens, or books published…
How This Girl Is Different
By the time I graduated high school, I had gained notoriety as the school nonconformist, so much so that my graduation year the faculty decided to replace the Valedictorian with the Most Representative Student. As a result, a popular and…
I and I — Experience Bob Marley
I AND I — BOB MARLEY Readers young and old experience the power of words and music, poetry and rhythm in this picture-book biography written in verse. Young people may not know Bob Marley’s name but many will recognize his…
On Writing The Queen of Water: An Interview with Laura Resau
Earlier this week I posted a review of Laura Resau and María Virginia Farinango’s novel The Queen of Water. I was fortunate to have the opportunity to interview Resau about the collaborative process, the key decisions made by the co-authors…
Domestic Slavery: A Review of The Queen of Water
Though normally dedicated to the consumption of luxury goods, last Sunday’s edition of the New York Times Magazine supplement featured an article by Barbara Ehrenreich about union organizing efforts among nannies and other domestic workers in New York City. Ehrenreich,…
Unions For the Win
Last week people in New York City and all over the United States marked the hundredth anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, which claimed the lives of 146 garment workers, most of them women and some of them as…