After Tupac, Native American Gardening, and Partial Recall
44. Jacqueline Woodson, After Tupac and D Foster.
Gorgeous. grrlpup has been after me for a dog's age to read Woodson, and I very much see why: Woodson has a graceful, delicate touch for her characters, a demonstrated awe about folks' inner lives. As a reader, this is the sort of thing I live for.
45. Michael J. Caduto and Joseph Bruchac, Native American Gardening: Stories, Projects, and Recipes for Families.
Along with Caduto and Bruchac's Keeper series, Native American Gardening is dsigned to be part of an elementary-school practical science curriculum. I liked this one a lot: science is explicitly linked to culture and worldview; the fundamental perceptual unit is the ecology and community, not the organism or individual; cultural elements are presented as part of an integrated whole. They call this a science text, but it could just as easily be a text about culture or philosophy. I can't help but read this and imagine all the lesson-plans I'd piggyback onto it: it's rich.
46. Lucy Lippard (ed.), Partial Recall: Essays on Photographs of Native North Americans.
This book divides into two parts: the materials by Lippard (an introduction about the role of photography in the relationship between colonizers and the colonized, backed by an arresting, and sometimes troubling, collection of photos), and the twelve essays by Native authors, each about a photo he or she found interesting.
Topically, the photos chosen by the essayists span family photos, photos of famous men, photocollages by Native artists, photographs taken by one kind of outsider and another kind of outsider. (I must learn more about Matsura's work.) Taken together, the essays bust out the historical context set by Lippard in her introduction--far from Curtis' "The Vanishing Race", these are narratives of resistance and self-determination.
The collection of photographs appended by Lucy Lippard are... whoa. If you get your hands on a copy of this, definitely spend some time paging through the photos at the end.
Gorgeous. grrlpup has been after me for a dog's age to read Woodson, and I very much see why: Woodson has a graceful, delicate touch for her characters, a demonstrated awe about folks' inner lives. As a reader, this is the sort of thing I live for.
45. Michael J. Caduto and Joseph Bruchac, Native American Gardening: Stories, Projects, and Recipes for Families.
Along with Caduto and Bruchac's Keeper series, Native American Gardening is dsigned to be part of an elementary-school practical science curriculum. I liked this one a lot: science is explicitly linked to culture and worldview; the fundamental perceptual unit is the ecology and community, not the organism or individual; cultural elements are presented as part of an integrated whole. They call this a science text, but it could just as easily be a text about culture or philosophy. I can't help but read this and imagine all the lesson-plans I'd piggyback onto it: it's rich.
46. Lucy Lippard (ed.), Partial Recall: Essays on Photographs of Native North Americans.
This book divides into two parts: the materials by Lippard (an introduction about the role of photography in the relationship between colonizers and the colonized, backed by an arresting, and sometimes troubling, collection of photos), and the twelve essays by Native authors, each about a photo he or she found interesting.
Topically, the photos chosen by the essayists span family photos, photos of famous men, photocollages by Native artists, photographs taken by one kind of outsider and another kind of outsider. (I must learn more about Matsura's work.) Taken together, the essays bust out the historical context set by Lippard in her introduction--far from Curtis' "The Vanishing Race", these are narratives of resistance and self-determination.
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The collection of photographs appended by Lucy Lippard are... whoa. If you get your hands on a copy of this, definitely spend some time paging through the photos at the end.