never be daunted in public

In class we discussed how Fred Wah’s bio-text Diamond Grill can be read as creating a counter historical narrative.  We examined how he used the historical documents from the Chinese Head Tax and infused it with references to significant historical dates, the work and lives of Chinese immigrants in Canada, and racial slurs in order […]

I work in a bookstore.  Having already enrolled in this course, I began to notice the amount of biographies and memoirs that went through my till this holiday season.  There were a lot; the two most popular were I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up For Education And Was Shot By The Taliban by […]