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From African American to Asian American, indigenous to immigrant, "multiracial" to "mixedblood," the variety of cultures in this world is matched only by the variety of stories explaining our cultural origins: stories of creation and devastation, displacement and heartbreak, wish and unknown. With writing from Jamaica Kincaid on the fallacies of national myths, Yusef Komunyakaa attaches the poisonous legacy of his hometown, Bogalusa, LA, to a blind beliefs in capitalism, and bell hooks relating the quashing of multiculturalism to the devastation of characteristics that is known as "unpredictable" - between more than 35 other examinations of the partnership between culture and characteristics - this collection items toward the difficulty of ignoring our cultural history, but also discloses how starting our eyes and our minds might provide a more livable future.
