Winner Multicultural: Nonfiction 2022 Best Book Awards
“Latina sisters: we are the best-kept secret in the history of the United States. Welcome home.“
Valeria Aloe’s Uncolonized Latinas: Transforming our Mindsets and Rising Together lays out an unprecedented, detailed map of the Latino mindset and what is holding the community back from achieving its highest potential. Along the way we meet immigrant Latinas and daughters of immigrants who, through trials and tribulations, have uncolonized their limiting mindsets and have found success in their lives and careers.
This book guides us to:
Embrace our individual and collective greatness, as we honor our stories and our ancestry.
Become more aware of the limiting cultural narratives that have been running us.
As a Latina, thrive in your career and life from a place of self-esteem, as you learn from those Latinas who figured out how to navigate the system.
As an Ally, feel confident and become more effective when mentoring diverse talent.
Through this journey we can learn how to experience transformational change—open our heart, mind, and eyes.
Finalist Multicultural: Nonfiction 2022 Best Book Awards
A Chocolate Spirit is the true story of a 35-year cross- cultural friendship that will warm your heart, make you laugh and bring tears to your eyes. It is the story of Jennie, a naïve small-town white woman, and Rosemary, a streetwise, Chicago-born black woman who meet and develop a friendship that takes the author on a journey toward racial understanding.
The friendship between the two women begins like most other friendships. They spend time together, have fun, and get to know each other. But one day their friendship goes down a totally different road when Rosemary brings up the subject of race.
In A Chocolate Spirit, Jennie describes her growing pains as she learns through this friendship about the realities of racism in America. She reveals her mistakes, her lack of understanding and her vulnerabilities. With Rosemary as friend and mentor, Jennie learns a new way of living, healing, and standing up for what is important.
Finalist Multicultural: Nonfiction 2022 Best Book Awards
Written with candor and aplomb, I BELONG HERE follows Yee’s journey from a cloistered Chinese childhood into mainstream 1960s midwestern America, navigating between dual cultures and revealing events that cause her to reimagine traditional concepts of family. Yee courageously pursues her own version of love and romance while training for the Olympic Taekwondo Team and discovers the destiny-changing power of massage and acupuncture and a future calling.
Finalist Multicultural: Nonfiction 2022 Best Book Awards
María Isidra is a proper Catholic girl raised in 1960s Spain by a strong matriarch during a repressive dictatorship. Early sexual trauma and a hefty dose of fear keep her in line for much of her childhood, but also lead her to live a double life. In her home, there is no discussing the needs of her growing body. In the street, kissing in public is forbidden.
Upon the dictator’s death in 1975, Spain bursts wide open, giving way to democracy and a cultural revolution. Barcelona’s vibrant downtown and its new freedoms seduce María Isidra. She dives into a world of activism, communal living, literature, counterculture, open sexuality, and alcohol.
Finalist Multicultural: Nonfiction 2022 Best Book Awards
Barbers and beauticians are expertly positioned to have a hand on the pulse of their communities—and Barnard the Barber is no exception. Learning from his village as the barber, the author shares those lessons learned on how we can liberate the rural South by building antiracist communities everywhere. This book provides actionable steps that each of us can take, in righteous indignation, to sign our own Emancipation Proclamations!
Finalist Multicultural: Nonfiction 2022 Best Book Awards
Voices of Diversity is a collection of poetry that encapsulates the features of social interactions. Each poem tells a story of the struggles, pains, challenges, and victories we record in our daily lives in our quest for love, inclusion, and acceptance.
This compilation seeks to help every young adult identify their voice and personality in a constantly evolving society. It endeavors to encourage this unique set of individuals to discover themselves, know where they belong in the world, and learn how they can contribute their significant quota and desired changes wherever they find themselves.
