I had the pleasure of writing an introduction to a fabulous issue of On Second Thought, the magazine of the North Dakota Humanities Council. The issue has a mix of personal narratives and scholarly-yet-accessible pieces about New Americans. In North Dakota, we try to be cognizant of the fact that about 95% of us are […]
A “sermon” delivered by Kevin Brooks to the Fargo-Moorhead Unitarian Universalist Congregation on June 12, 2016. [Part 1] I am a professor of English, and in my professional work I have discovered that there is a field called “refugee studies.” This field is dominated by sociologists, anthropologists, social psychologists, and economists. There is also the […]
