Books, Articles & Essay by Yaa Gyasi
Transcendent Kingdom by Gifty is a sixth-year PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Transcendent Kingdom is a deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief--a novel about faith, science, religion, love.
Homegoing by Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the other. One will marry an Englishman and lead a life of comfort in the palatial rooms of the Cape Coast Castle. The other will be captured in a raid on her village, imprisoned in the very same castle, and sold into slavery.
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU CasesYaa Gyasi writes on Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954) in a collection of essays about the ACLU's "pivotal legal battles...[that] have advanced civil rights and social justice."
- White people, Black authors are not your medicine by Yaa GyasiOn "treating authors of color as tools for self-improvement is an impoverished response to centuries of harm."
- Toni Morrison Blew Away Everything I Thought About Literature by Yaa GyasiOn tackling her to-be-read pile during the pandemic, crying over Natasha Trethewey, and not finishing Ulysses.
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- Podcast: Why Yaa Gyasi Wants Us to Remember the Brain is an OrganYaa Gyasi discusses research and imperfection.
Yaa Gyasi's mentions
Misc:
- There are Black people in the future art project
Books & Research:
- The Door of No Return: The History of Cape Coast Castle and the Atlantic Slave Trade by William St. Clair
- Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas Blackmon
- Books by Kazuo Ishiguro