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1 online resource (1 audio file (4hr., 30 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by the author. |
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A profound meditation on race, inheritance, and queer mothering at the end of the world In a letter to her six-year-old daughter, Julietta Singh writes toward a tender vision of the world, offering children's radical embrace of possibility as a model for how we might live. In order to survive looming political and ecological disasters, Singh urges, we must break from the conventions we have inherited and begin to orient ourselves toward more equitable and revolutionary paths.The Breaks celebrates queer family-making, communal living, and Brown girlhood, complicating the stark binaries that shape contemporary US discourse. With nuance and generosity, Singh reveals the connections among the crises humanity faces-climate catastrophe, extractive capitalism, and the violent legacies of racism, patriarchy, and colonialism-inviting us to move through the breaks toward a tenable future. "In…the beauty of her insights…she exquisitely links theory and poetics to her own fears, insecurities, and certainty that one day her child will need to break away from her. This is a stunning work." "This is a lens-shifting book…It takes you into the experience of coming of age as a Brown girl who stands in the shadow of a society that fails to tell its whole truth and tries to hide its ugliness…Singh brings brown girls into the sun, and makes you want to change the ways of the world for our young people and for us all." "Singh's clarity of thought, vulnerability, and passion for social justice all render this well-structured essay a pleasure to read." |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Singh, Julietta, 1976-
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East Indians -- United States -- Biography.
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Mother and child -- United States.
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Racism -- United States.
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Queer theory -- United States.
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Singh, Julietta.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781665020053 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1665020059 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT14964387 |
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