Mounted: On Horses, Blackness, and Liberation Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha empowering nonfiction biography for STEM-minded

empowering nonfiction biography for STEM-minded kids

She wants to become strong and steady like a mountain

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They just want to get past it

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Mounted: On Horses, Blackness, and Liberation Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha empowering nonfiction biography for STEM-mindedJoining the growing Black creative movement currently refashioning horses and cowboy imagery, a thoughtful, probing exploration of the shared history of Blackness and horses which reveals what its image can teach us about nationhood, race, and culture. Drawing on their personal history as a former urban equestrian, Black queer person, and child of Jamaican and Filipino immigrants, essayist and art critic Bitter Kalli contends the horse should be