Bøger udgivet af Chin Music

Sam Goto's Seattle Tomodachi cartoons illuminate Japanese American life in the 20th century. Daughter Kelly Goto explores his legacy in this stunning, full-color collection.

Speak, Son: A Mother's Memoir is Chagit Deitz's years-long search for a more complete picture of the struggles her son experienced during his tragically brief life. When Ben Deitz unexpectedly died in 2015, he left behind detailed journals, essays, lyrics, art, music, and many unanswered questions. In a moving narrative that interlaces Ben's writing with her own, Chagit Deitz attempts to come to terms with her insatiable longing for answers, and for her son.

Rasheena Fountain's sweeping memoir centers on stories of Black migration, exploration, and relationships to nature and place. Through a series of letters, poems, and essays that take blues-inspired leaps across time, she reflects on the movements of her ancestors and on her own journeys: from Chicago to Seattle, from city life to nature conservation, and from silence into songwriting. In Starfish Blues, Fountain seeks something "much bigger than representation": a recouping of ancestral visions of freedom for herself and her daughter, and a life that has room for her queerness, her womanhood, her Blackness, her full self.

The Voice of My Heart: Unforgettable Memories in an Unforgettable Year, edited by Merna Ann Hecht, is the newest anthology from the Stories of Arrival: Refugee and Immigrant Youth Voices Poetry Project, which takes place at Foster High School, one of the most language- and ethnically diverse high schools in the U.S. The project was founded by Merna, a poet, social justice educator, and storyteller who serves as the project teaching artist and editor. It is co-directed and in partnership with Foster High School Multilingual Learner teacher Carrie Stradley, a National Board Certified teacher. It takes place in her classroom. This is the ninth anthology produced by the project. The powerful poems in this anthology give witness to the wrenching experiences of forced migration and immigration. These global youth voices also offer readers a deeper understanding of the courage that it takes to hold on to the dream for a brighter future and a more peaceful, humane world even as they address with candor and bravery the pressing issues of our times. The colorful artwork is student created and the poems give a wide lens to the ways these young people from seventeen different countries carry the memories of beloved people and places with them and the hope and wisdom they hold for peace in their homelands and in their new home.

"Bette Alexander: The Music in Us provides an overview of Bette Alexander's mid- and late-career artworks. Over the four-decade period she has created paintings, drawings, and installations, and explored diverse subjects ranging from human figures and ritualistic objects to landscapes, long-gone synagogues of Europe, abstractions, and current events. Interspersed throughout the catalogue are short texts that provide information about Alexander's life and artworks, as if one were walking through a retrospective exhibit"--

Place and politics collide in a multimedia free-for-all—a ghost tour of a boom city trying to find its soul.

Seattle's Gang of Four civil rights activists brought four ethnic groups together in the 1960s to advocate for minority rights.