Oct 18, 2021 | Book Geek Shelf Talkers
By Romare Onishi Just in its name, the Cleveland Indians don’t sound like a team that helped pave the way to racially integrated baseball. However, in the book Our Team, Luke Epplin tells the story of how Cleveland became the first team in the American League to...Aug 24, 2021 | Blog, Book Geek Shelf Talkers
Review by Michaela Corniea Published in 1998, On the Outside Looking In by Cristina Rathbone is a journalist’s exploration of the lives of inner-city kids in New York. Taking place in the school year of ‘94-’95, this book opens a window into the lives of the kids...Aug 6, 2021 | Book Geek Shelf Talkers
a review by Romare Onishi I found the book, “What’s My Name, Fool?” by Dave Zirin, very interesting because I like the sport of baseball, and the book went into depth about many different aspects of the sport. I also really enjoyed the mixture of politics, sports, and...Jul 9, 2021 | Book Geek Shelf Talkers
Blog by Michèle Steinwald Published by Plays Inverse Press Like live theater, Your Healing is Killing Me by Virginia Grise is easily experienced in one sitting. Previously delivered as a performance, this manifesto intertwines the personal and the political and is...Mar 13, 2021 | Book Geek Shelf Talkers
Reviewed Mary Turck Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own by Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. focuses on James Baldwin, and I have not read enough of Baldwin, or recently enough, to appreciate it as well as I would wish. I read Baldwin (and...Sep 18, 2020 | Book Geek Shelf Talkers
By William D. Green. (Minneapolis:University of Minnesota Press, 2018.xii, 498 pp. $34.95.) Minnesota is a land not only of 10,000 lakes but also of 10,000 racial paradoxes. Despite the state’s much-celebrated history of liberalism, from the prohibition of slavery at...