{"product_id":"not-your-mamas-melting-pot-paperback","title":"Not Your Mama's Melting Pot - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBenjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the author: \"This is a collection which aims to lay bare a mixed-race experience: Native Americans understood only as wax models in museums, erased discourses of Indigeneity; the immigrant grind, Asian Americans in Anglo Society, anti-Hapa rhetoric reverbing in 21\u003csup\u003est\u003c\/sup\u003e century America; the quandary of Rust Belt poverty plaguing small Appalachian communities, its cycle of concrete ceilings, its left-hook-right-hook masculinity, its dirt-caked realities.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBenjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley\u003c\/b\u003e is not the Ben Kingsley best known for his Academy Award-winning role as Mahatma Gandhi. This Ben is a touch less famous, having not acted since his third-grade debut as the Undertaker in Music Man. Affrilachian author and Kundiman alum, Ben is currently the 22nd Tickner Writing Fellow and recipient of a Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship. He belongs to the Onondaga Nation of Indigenous Americans in New York. His next collection, \u003ci\u003eColonize Me\u003c\/i\u003e, is forthcoming with Saturnalia in 2019, followed by \u003ci\u003eDemos\u003c\/i\u003e, with Milkweed Editions in 2020. Peep his recent work in the anthologies \u003ci\u003eBest New Poets 2017\u003c\/i\u003e (ed. Natalie Diaz), \u003ci\u003eNative Voices: Indigenous Poetry from North America\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eProud to Be: Writing by American Warriors\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the journals \u003ci\u003eAmerican Indian Culture and Researc\u003c\/i\u003eh, \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew England Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOxford American\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTin House\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 116\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.28 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47284888535289,"sku":"9781935218494","price":17.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/ZEpEY3hXZG4rQ3hrSkFQazErZDRyUT09.webp?v=1769092464","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/not-your-mamas-melting-pot-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}