Writer and poet Sun Yung Shin will guide a discussion on race relations in Minnesota at the Ramsey County Library in Roseville at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 17.
She is the editor of the anthology, "A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota," published earlier this year by the MInnesota Historical Society Press. (Star Tribune review is here.)
The anthology includes essays by Shannon Gibney, David Lawrence Grant, IBé, David Mura, Bao Phi, Carolyn Holbrook, and many others.
"Far from the black-white paradigm, the 16 authors represent a broad spectrum of people of color," the Star Tribune review said. "The book sweeps in a Latino man, son of immigrants, who could pass for white; an African-American/Chinese woman, and the wife of an African immigrant who realizes that her husband and their son see the world much differently from how she does. ... The authors all walk, sometimes barefoot, through a reserved white culture, toeing the razor's edge between assimilation and identity."
Copies of the book can be checked out from the library reference desk, and books will also be available for purchase at the event. The library is at 2180 Hamline Av. N. in Roseville.
