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Nevertheless, we persisted 48 voices of defiance, strength, and courage

A powerful collection of essays from actors, activists, athletes, politicians, musicians, writers, and teens, each writing about a time in their youth when they were held back because of their race, gender, or sexual identity-- but persisted. Among others: actress Alia Shawkat was told she was too "...

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Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2018]
Edition:First edition.
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Conduct of life > Juvenile nonfiction.
Persistence > Juvenile nonfiction.
Courage > Juvenile nonfiction.
Youth > Political activity > Juvenile nonfiction.
Discrimination > Juvenile nonfiction.
Young adult literature.
Young adult non-fiction.
Autobiographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Somewhere over the rainbow / Sally Kohn
  • For brown girls who blossom on their own time / Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez
  • Own world / Alia Shawkat
  • Your golden thread / Matthew Burgess
  • As is / Alysia Reiner
  • Everyone plays / Amy Chu, with illustrations by Louie Chin
  • From high-jumping to life support to wheelchair basketball in Afghanistan / Jess Markt
  • Nevertheless, love persisted / Danielle Vabner
  • (Young) man in the mirror / Nate Smith
  • A woman's place is in the kitchen / Maneet Chauhan
  • Be bigger than your story / a conversation with Tay Anderson and Leland Melvin
  • Twisted-mouth / Jeff Gomez
  • The unfinished Maulik Pancholy pilot / Maulik Pancholy
  • You, sailor / Erin McKeown
  • Triple threat / a conversation with Tamika, Tauja, and Kenyon Catchings
  • Making it better / James Lecesne
  • They didn't succeed, I survived / Fanny Starr
  • Learning about empathy / Imran Siddiquee
  • The roots of embodied education / Liz Wolfson
  • Not a doll / Jadaida Glover
  • The quietly relentless / Soraya Chemaly
  • More than my womb / Melissa Marr
  • Just the beginning / Jesselyn Silva
  • #Nofilter / Azure Antoinette
  • I didn't fit in, what a gift / Vicki Saunders
  • Window seat / Representative Leslie Herod
  • Reflections of a younger Silvercloud / Johnny Silvercloud
  • Sometimes you are better off not knowing / Binta Niambi Brown
  • How writing a college essay taught me more about myself than life / Patricia Valoy
  • Nevertheless, I write / Amy Fox
  • The new kid / Josè Antonio Tijerino
  • Brown boy, white suburbia / Pej Vahdat
  • The practice of self-love / Wade Davis
  • Guts / J.W. Cortés
  • Black ancestry and artistry wielded against the police state / Patrisse Khan-Cullors
  • I am not Susanne, I am Soulaima / by Soulaima Gourani
  • We rise / Xiuhtezcatl Martinez
  • Rewriting the rules / Dr. Gail Schoettler
  • Beyond the baseline / a conversation with Jason and Jarron Collins
  • My growth through drought / Kiara Nirghin
  • L'amour, maybe not / Shruti Ganguly
  • Writing my own story / Jillian Mercado
  • The accidental activist / Gavin Grimm.

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