{"product_id":"not-your-mamas-melting-pot-9781935218494","title":"Not Your Mama's Melting Pot","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the author: \"This is a collection which aims to lay bare a mixed-race experience: Native Americans understood only as wax models in museums, erased discourses of Indigeneity; the immigrant grind, Asian Americans in Anglo Society, anti-Hapa rhetoric reverbing in 21\u003csup\u003est\u003c\/sup\u003e century America; the quandary of Rust Belt poverty plaguing small Appalachian communities, its cycle of concrete ceilings, its left-hook-right-hook masculinity, its dirt-caked realities.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-13350957\"\u003eBenjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Backwaters Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 116\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.28d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781935218494\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1935218492\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE005070\"\u003eAmerican | Hispanic \u0026amp; Latino\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-HIS\"\u003eHistory\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-HIS054000\"\u003eSocial History\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-HIS\"\u003eHistory\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-HIS028000\"\u003eIndigenous Peoples of the Americas\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBenjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley\u003c\/b\u003e is not the Ben Kingsley best known for his Academy Award-winning role as Mahatma Gandhi. This Ben is a touch less famous, having not acted since his third-grade debut as the Undertaker in Music Man. Affrilachian author and Kundiman alum, Ben is currently the 22nd Tickner Writing Fellow and recipient of a Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship. He belongs to the Onondaga Nation of Indigenous Americans in New York. His next collection, \u003ci\u003eColonize Me\u003c\/i\u003e, is forthcoming with Saturnalia in 2019, followed by \u003ci\u003eDemos\u003c\/i\u003e, with Milkweed Editions in 2020. Peep his recent work in the anthologies \u003ci\u003eBest New Poets 2017\u003c\/i\u003e (ed. Natalie Diaz), \u003ci\u003eNative Voices: Indigenous Poetry from North America\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eProud to Be: Writing by American Warriors\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the journals \u003ci\u003eAmerican Indian Culture and Researc\u003c\/i\u003eh, \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew England Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOxford American\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTin House\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Backwaters Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47674595213609,"sku":"1935218492","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0855\/5747\/7673\/products\/img_3e01b2d3-8c73-42f7-b822-153f2a99934f.jpg?v=1708498254","url":"https:\/\/www.njcorrectionsbookstore.com\/products\/not-your-mamas-melting-pot-9781935218494","provider":"New Jersey Corrections Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}