S. Mitra Kalita Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

S. Mitra Kalita

I’m at a fab book launch. Please preorder my friend @dougmelville book: Invisible Generals: Rediscovering Family Legacy, and a Quest to Honor America's First Black Generals https://t.co/aPmgh2mUdw

S. Mitra Kalita

The ongoing polarization of (waves hands) everything invokes an existential question for us toiling to make mainstream institutions more inclusive. Why bother? James Baldwin articulated it best in The Fire Next Time: “Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?”

S. Mitra Kalita

I’ve been struggling to read fiction over the last year, which deeply saddened me since I was once a fairly avid reader but I’ve been distracted. @V_V_G and her Brotherless Night (with this beach as backdrop) have been the elixir to return. Here: https://t.co/7zq9KkYvo9 https://t.co/tivUAb3HeT

S. Mitra Kalita

@mayakauf Anne Fadiman The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey by Jill Bolte Taylor Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande

S. Mitra Kalita

@mayakauf Anne Fadiman The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey by Jill Bolte Taylor Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande

S. Mitra Kalita

Relying on decades in the limelight as a defender of race-based admissions, Bollinger... rightfully warns that we are about to roll back progress and devalue the diversity that defines American education, workplaces, institutions, and America itself.