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LEAH MILNE

(She/Her)
Indianapolis
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Covers:  Books, education, media, popular culture, race, ethnicity, history, literacy
Doesn't Cover: Math makes me nervous.
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LEAH MILNE’s Biography

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Leah Milne is the author of Novel Subjects: Authorship as Radical Self-Care, which won the 2021 Midwest MLA Book Award. She is a first-generation college student turned professor, and teaches multiethnic American, postcolonial, & young adult (YA) literature.

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Learn your Asians: Not all AAPI are the same

Learn your Asians: Not all AAPI are the same

May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month. Now is a good occasion for everyone to better acquaint themselv…

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This Black History Month, Celebrate Both the Extraordinary and the Ordinary - Ms. Magazine

This Black History Month, Celebrate Both the Extraordinary and the Ordinary - Ms. Magazine

Especially at this moment in history, it is important to recognize, acknowledge and honor both the extraordin…

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Still Here: Why Fair Media Disability Representation Matters

Still Here: Why Fair Media Disability Representation Matters

Newly released and upcoming films such as "Father Stu," which depicts a character dealing with a degenerative…

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Zora Neale Hurston was prescient on race by Leah Milne - VISIBLE Magazine

Zora Neale Hurston was prescient on race by Leah Milne - VISIBLE Magazine

In 1953, almost a year after Brown v. Board of Education determined school segregation to be unconstitutional…

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Work to do: Our full labor history must include Asian Pacific Americans

Work to do: Our full labor history must include Asian Pacific Americans

President Biden recently signed into law a bill that would explore whether to establish a National Museum of …

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Activism and "Good Trouble" in the March Trilogy

Activism and "Good Trouble" in the March Trilogy

This guest post is part of our new blog series on Comics, Race, and Society, edited by Julian Chambliss and W…

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The Indelible Lessons of Erasure

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By Lavelle Porter, Margaret Russett, Derek C. Maus, LEAH MILNE
| JSTOR Daily Verified
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. Cards on the table. I’ve probably read Percival Everett’s 2001 novel Erasure more than most people. I’ve taught it, and I’ve written about it as academic satire in my 2019 book The Blackademic Life: Academic Fiction, Higher Education, and the Black Intellectual. In fact, Erasure was one of the books that inspired The Blackademic Life.
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Naturalistic Elements in Percival Everett’s Wounded

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By LEAH MILNE, Leah Abuan, L. Abuan
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Open AccessArticle by Department of English, University of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, IN 46227, USA Humanities 2023, 12(5), 95; https://doi.org/10.3390/h12050095 (registering DOI) Received: 9 June 2023 / Revised: 2 August 2023 / Accepted: 23 August 2023 / Published: 8 September 2023 (This article belongs to the Special Issue The Continuing Challenges of Percival Everett) “The working title is Wounded. It’s a really naturalistic novel. My interest is in the form of a realistic novel.
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Work to do: Our full labor history must include Asian Pacific Americans Original

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By LEAH MILNE
| The Hill Verified
President Biden recently signed into law a bill that would explore whether to establish a National Museum of Asian Pacific American History and Culture. In his support of H.R. 3525, Biden said Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) “have literally shaped the history and the contours of this country.” The news of a potential national museum offers Americans a prime opportunity to better acquaint themselves with Asian Pacific American interventions in unionizing and union history.
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Interview

Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?

I did! I was a reporter for my high school newspaper, as well as a local paper in Miami.

When's the best time to pitch you?

Anytime!

Awards

Midwest Modern Language Association Book Award

2021
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