[Last week I
followed up my Valentine’s
Day talk on Exclusion
& Inclusion: The Battle to Define America by highlighting
exclusionary moments and histories. This week I’ll flip the script and
highlight some of the inspiring inclusive figures on whom my book will likewise
focus!]
As I wrote in this
August 2017 post for the American Writers Museum blog, no single figure resisted
and rewrote the exclusion of Mexican Americans in the aftermath of the Treaty
of Guadalupe Hidalgo better than María Amparo Ruiz de Burton. For that
reason, and for all that she still has to say to our 21st century
conversations and debates, she’s an inclusive figure all Americans desperately
need to read.
Next inclusive
figures tomorrow,
Ben
PS. What do you
think? Other inspiring figures you’d highlight?
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