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Author Dworkin, Aaron P., author.

Title Lessons in gratitude : a memoir on race, the arts, and mental health / by Aaron P. Dworkin.

Publication Info. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2024.

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Series Campus Voices: Stories of Excellence from the University of Michigan Series
Campus voices: stories of excellence from the University of Michigan series.
Note Includes index.
Summary Lessons in Gratitude tells the story of Aaron Dworkin, a MacArthur Fellow, social entrepreneur, and spoken word artist who has dedicated his life's work to changing the face of classical arts in the world. The themes of persistence, passion, and loyalty shine through stories of an unhappy childhood, a lifelong search for identity, and the obstacles of race, culture, and class. Readers will learn how the author greets these challenges and how they drove him to make a difference for people who are shut out of opportunity. Persistence in the face of multiple failures and false starts ultimately led Dworkin to create the Sphinx Organization, whose mission is to address the underrepresentation of Black and Latinx people in the field of the classical arts. Aaron's unique journey, which begins with his adoption by a white Jewish couple from Chicago at two weeks of age, leads him to the ultimate reunification with his birth family at the age of 31. Lessons of Gratitude is a coming of age story that examines the difficulties of biracial identity across generations and the challenges that mixed race families still face today. It is also a painful and honest adoption memoir, further complicating the narrator's experiences of racial identity throughout his life and shaping his experiences with his own children. Through his work in the arts and the impact of this work, Dworkin has been able to "pay forward" the first thing that offered him unconditional love-music.
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Note This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Subject Dworkin, Aaron P.
Sphinx Organization.
Violinists -- United States -- Biography.
African American musicians -- Biography.
Interracial adoption -- United States.
Adoptees -- United States -- Biography.
Black people in the performing arts -- United States.
Black people -- Race identity -- United States.
Violonistes -- États-Unis -- Biographies.
Musiciens noirs américains -- Biographies.
Adoption interraciale -- États-Unis.
Personnes noires dans les arts du spectacle -- États-Unis.
Personnes noires -- Identité ethnique -- États-Unis.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Added Author Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.
Other Form: Print version: Dworkin, Aaron P. Lessons in gratitude Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2024 9780472076994 (DLC) 2024014454
ISBN 9780472005765 (audiobook)
0472005766
9780472904761 (ebook other)
0472904760
9780472076994 (hardcover)
9780472056996 (paperback)
Standard No. 10.3998/mpub.12819261 doi

 
    
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