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Welcome to February, dear readers! Nikki Bylina-Streets is curating our Weekend Picks for the next four weeks. Thank you, Nikki, for inviting the guest contributors to share their favorite reads throughout the month. Today's guest is Nichole Beer.
| Nichole Beer is an elementary librarian in North Las Vegas, NV. She has been a librarian for 23 years, and taught high school government for 1 year. She has presented at dozens of workshops, conferences and trainings around the country. Her doctoral dissertation title is Latina/o Representations in Picture Books. She owns a pop-up cookbook company and when she isn’t cooking, she likes to travel with her husband and daughter (who is a school psychologist in the same school district). |  |
X a Novel by Ilyasah Shabazz (Daughter of Malcom X) and Kekla Magoon is part biography and part fiction. The authors are skillfully, able to simultaneously weave historical facts within this coming of age novel about Malcolm Little, ‘Red’, ‘Detroit Red’, Malcom X and at his death his legal name was El-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz. His name changes, the honor he felt from his street name, the last name of X, as to not carry the name of his ancestors enslavers and finally his conversion to The Nation of Islam and his Muslim name, are all symbols of the changes Malcolm went through on his journey to become one of the most controversial and influential civil rights heroes of the African American civil rights movement of the 20th century.
Our novel begin with Malcolm Little in elementary school in Mason, Michigan (a small town outside of Lansing). Life is not easy for the Little family, no money, no way for upward mobility, institutional racism, poverty, and discrimination leads to Malcom and two of his younger siblings being put in foster care. This is the first time Malcolm realizes what it feels like to be truly powerless and his pain is illustrated in first person narrative throughout the book.
Once Malcolm is away from Michigan and living with an older sister in Boston, he begins to find his power, he finds a way to fit in. Although, the foundation of his self-discovery is petty crime, drugs, alcohol, hustling, and women, he is for a time, for the first time, proud to be a black man in America.
The novel chronicles Malcolm’s coming of age in Boston and New York, up until his incarceration in 1948 and his self-education and conversion to the Nation of Islam.
There is an author’s note from his daughter at the end of the novel.
Our novel begin with Malcolm Little in elementary school in Mason, Michigan (a small town outside of Lansing). Life is not easy for the Little family, no money, no way for upward mobility, institutional racism, poverty, and discrimination leads to Malcom and two of his younger siblings being put in foster care. This is the first time Malcolm realizes what it feels like to be truly powerless and his pain is illustrated in first person narrative throughout the book.
Once Malcolm is away from Michigan and living with an older sister in Boston, he begins to find his power, he finds a way to fit in. Although, the foundation of his self-discovery is petty crime, drugs, alcohol, hustling, and women, he is for a time, for the first time, proud to be a black man in America.
The novel chronicles Malcolm’s coming of age in Boston and New York, up until his incarceration in 1948 and his self-education and conversion to the Nation of Islam.
There is an author’s note from his daughter at the end of the novel.
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