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Biography and Memoir March 2024
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| Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine by Uché Blackstock, MDSecond-generation physician Dr. Uché Blackstock recounts her education and career in medicine and describes how her experiences in both areas inspired her to found Advancing Health Equity, an organization dedicated to dismantling systemic racism in healthcare. Further reading: Sickening by Anne Pollock; Under the Skin by Linda Villarosa; Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington. Available on cloudLibrary |
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Focus on: Women's History Month
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| The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts: The True Story of The Bondwoman's Narrative by Gregg Hecimovich; foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr.Furman University professor Gregg Hecimovich's richly detailed investigation plumbs the identity of author Hannah Crafts, whose 1850s work The Bondwoman's Narrative remained undiscovered and unpublished for nearly 150 years and is the only known novel written by an enslaved woman and the first novel written by a Black American woman. Try this next: The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys Through American Slavery and Independence by David Waldstreicher. |
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| Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Judith Heumann with Kristen JoinerIn her thoughtful and witty debut, disability rights activist Judith Heumann chronicles her trials and triumphs in the face of an ableist society, including her time as the U.S. State Department's first Special Advisor on International Disability Rights, a position she held for seven years. Further reading: Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century edited by Alice Wong. |
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| The Correspondents: Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II by Judith MackrellJournalist Judith Mackrell's engaging and richly detailed collective biography spotlights six women journalists during World War II who braved the front lines -- and workplace sexism -- to break barriers in their profession. For fans of: Katherine Sharp Landdeck's The Women with Silver Wings. |
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| Open Skies: My Life as Afghanistan's First Female Pilot by Niloofar Rahmani with Adam SikesInternational Women of Courage Award winner Niloofar Rahmani, Afghanistan's first woman fixed-wing pilot and the country's first woman pilot since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, details her unlikely path to success in a "heart-racing account [that] will leave readers gripping their seats" (Publishers Weekly). Try this next: Book of Queens: The True Story of Middle Eastern Horsewomen Who Fought the War on Terror by Pardis Mahdavi. Available on Hoopla |
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