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SUMMARY:Book talk with author Scott Kurashige\, with Bao Phi and Bo Thao-Urabe - AMERICAN PERIL: THE VIOLENT HISTORY OF ANTI-ASIAN RACISM
DESCRIPTION:SUNDAY\, MAY 17th from 1PM to 3PM\nat the East Side Freedom Library \nPlease register (not required!) ahead of time so we know numbers and can stay in touch about this event. \nJoin East Side Freedom Library\, the Minnesota Historical Society\, and the Japanese American Citizens League for a powerful conversation between American Peril author Scott Kurashige and local luminaries Bao Phi and Bo Thao-Urabe. \nCopies of the book will be available for sale via the XIA Books mobile bookstore! \nAmerican Peril is a probing account that shines a new light on the problem of anti-Asian violence and inspires us to build lasting solidarity. \nAward-winning scholar Scott Kurashige presents an expansive dive into anti-Asian violence and connects domestic and global events that have been erased from the official record. Going beyond victimhood\, the book also traces the rise of Asian American community protest and activism and argues that hope lies in grassroots activism for multiracial solidarity.⁠ \nScott Kurashige is the author of The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles and coauthor\, with Grace Lee Boggs\, of The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century. \n“American Peril will become a mainstay in classrooms and libraries\, and on the shelves and nightstands of any who want to understand the pernicious role that white supremacy has played in shaping what it means to be American: carving off\, cutting out\, excluding and sometimes executing those who it judges do not belong in this nation.”—Jeff Yang\, author of The Golden Screen and coauthor of New York Times bestseller Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now
URL:https://eastsidefreedomlibrary.org/event/book-talk-with-author-scott-kurashige-with-bao-phi-and-bo-thao-urabe-american-peril-the-violent-history-of-anti-asian-racism/
LOCATION:East Side Freedom Library\, 1105 Greenbrier St\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55106
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SUMMARY:The First Rainbow Coalition - Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:This film will be screened for free as part of our Reel Stories: Housing Justice in Film series\, presented in collaboration with Trilingua Cinema\, East Side Freedom Library and East Side Housing Justice. \nMay 21st\, 7:00pm\nEast Side Freedom Library\n1105 Greenbrier Street\, St Paul \n \n“You can kill a revolutionary\, but you can’t kill the revolution.” \n-Fred Hampton \nJoin us with our partners at East Side Freedom Library for a free screening of The First Rainbow Coalition about Fred Hampton and the Chicago Black Panther Party. Then stick around for a post-screening discussion about what lessons might be drawn from the film with present day Twin Cities tenant organizers. \nSynopsis \nIn 1969\, the Chicago Black Panther Party\, notably led by the charismatic Fred Hampton\, began to form alliances across lines of race and ethnicity with other community-based movements in the city\, including the Latinx group the Young Lords Organization and the working-class young southern whites of the Young Patriots. Finding common ground\, these disparate groups banded together in one of the most segregated cities in postwar America to collectively confront issues such as police brutality and substandard housing\, calling themselves the Rainbow Coalition. The First Rainbow Coalition tells the movement’s little-known story through rare archival footage and interviews with former coalition members in the present-day. \nThis film is rated TV-PG. \nThis film will be screened in English with English subtitles. \nTrailer \n \nThis activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council\, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
URL:https://eastsidefreedomlibrary.org/event/first-rainbow-coalition-trilingua-cinema/
LOCATION:East Side Freedom Library\, 1105 Greenbrier St\, Saint Paul\, MN\, 55106
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