Essays that challenge, discomfort, disorient, galvanize, and inspire all of us to evolve now, for our shared future. In this provocative book, sixteen of Minnesota’s best writers provide a range of perspectives on what it is like to live as a person of color in one of the whitest states in the nation. They give readers a splendid gift: the gift of touching another human being’s inner reality, behind masks and veils and politeness. They bring us generously into experiences that we must understand if we are to come together in real relationships.

Minnesota communities struggle with some of the nation’s worst racial disparities. As its authors confront and consider the realities that lie beneath the numbers, this book provides an important tool to those who want to be part of closing those gaps.

With contributions by:

Sun Yung Shin
Shannon Gibney
Taiyon J Coleman
David Mura
Venessa Fuentes
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Bao Phi
Carolyn Holbrook
Heid E. Erdrich
JaeRan Kim
Rodrigo Sanchez-Chavarria
Kao Kalia Yang
Andrea Jenkins
Robert Farid Karimi
Sherry Quan Lee
David Lawrence Grant
Diane Wilson