Growing Together Blog

  Title: White Tears/Brown Scars Author: Ruby Hamad Summary/Themes: Breaking down the stereotypes and archetypes that women of color are often forced into. Looking at how these create dangerous binaries. Notes/Quotable Moments: "White parents often bequeathed human property to their female children, with land usually passed down to the males." "When enslaved people could bear no more and attempted to flee, it was often their female owners who places notices in newspapers offering a reward for their return--with explicit instructions not to return the slave to her husband." "...we still see this kind of exclusion and appropriation of the work of women of color by white feminists today--perhaps most glaringly when white women adopt a self-serving 'intersectional feminist' identity, both as a shield against criticism from women of color and as a weapon with which to silence us by claiming we are causing division in the sisterhood...There is no sisterhoo

New fiction and non-fiction titles at the Duxbury Free Library that tell diverse stories by historically marginalized authors.  Fiction  Tell Me How to Be by Neel Patel  " From rising star Neel Patel, a darkly funny and heartbreaking debut novel about an Indian-American family confronting the secrets between them."  Find it in the Catalog   A Long Way from Doula by Max Lobe " "Bursting with local color, this hilarious, heart-warming coming-of-age  tale follows two friends on a  raucous journey a cross Cameroon as  they grapple with grief, sexuality, and  dreams of Europe."  Find it in the Catalog A Conspiracy of Mothers by Colleen Van Niekerk  "From a bold new voice in literary fiction comes a compelling story of three mothers whose lives intersect during a generation-defining period in South Africa's history." Find it in the Catalog  Under Color of Law by Aaron Philip Clark  "The murder of a police recruit pins a black LAPD detective in a de