Traveling without Moving: Essays from a Black Woman Trying to Survive in America
Taiyon J. Coleman
University of Minnesota Press
The Fair Housing Act passed in 1968, and more than fifty years later, yours seems to be the only Black family on your block in Minneapolis.
You and your Black African husband, both college graduates, make less money than some White people with a felony record and no high school diploma.
You’re the only Black student in your graduate program.
You just aren’t working hard enough.
You’re too sensitive.
Sandra Bland? George Floyd?
Don't take everything so personally.
Amid the White smiles of Minnesota Nice and the Minnesota Paradox—the insidious racism of an ostensibly inclusive place to live—what do you do? If you’re Taiyon J. Coleman, you write.