{"id":271,"date":"2021-11-01T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sectonproprod.wpengine.com\/?p=271"},"modified":"2021-11-01T16:35:56","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T16:35:56","slug":"book-review-dont-let-it-get-you-down-essays-on-race-gender-and-the-body-by-savala-nolan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sectiononprobono.org\/index.php\/2021\/11\/01\/book-review-dont-let-it-get-you-down-essays-on-race-gender-and-the-body-by-savala-nolan\/admin\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review- Don\u2019t Let It Get You Down, Essays on Race, Gender and the Body, by Savala Nolan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-color has-small-font-size text-paragraph\" style=\"color:#155e7e\"><strong>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.berkeley.edu\/our-faculty\/faculty-profiles\/susan-schechter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sue Schechter,<\/a> Berkeley Law <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-paragraph\"><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dont-Let-Get-You-Down\/dp\/1982137282\/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Don\u2019t Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender and the Body<\/a>, by Savala Nolan<\/u><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/sectonproprod.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/BookCover_DontLetItGetYouDown-1-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-273 size-medium\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sectiononprobono.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/BookCover_DontLetItGetYouDown-1-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/sectiononprobono.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/BookCover_DontLetItGetYouDown-1.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Savala Nolan has written an important work that is\u00a0a\u00a0must-read\u00a0for all who\u00a0care\u00a0about race and gender.\u00a0 She is an incredible writer, so on some level, the book is easy to read \u2013 the sentences flow and the stories are funny.\u00a0 But make no mistake, this book is also\u00a0hard to read \u2013 it will be painful for any reader who is awake.\u00a0 Nolan\u00a0makes herself incredibly vulnerable and in doing so demonstrates her power and her kindness.\u00a0 The stories she shares are painful because they are real, and because they are all too common.\u00a0 She does not\u00a0claim easy answers. She does not let us feel okay just\u00a0because we are doing the work of reading her\u00a0essays, which are really beautifully written with many sentences verging on a poetic leaning.\u00a0 Instead, she presents her truth and leaves it up to the reader what to do with it.\u00a0 For a legal audience, there will be interesting references, and for others there will be cultural references to relate to.\u00a0And for all, this is a book that you should purchase for yourself, for your friends, for your neighbors, and for others in your community \u2013 it is a must-read this year given the world and all we are claiming to confront in these scary and sad moments.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"text-paragraph\">Savala Nolan is the Executive Director of the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice at UC Berkeley School of Law.\u00a0 The book was recently published in 2021 by Simon and Schuster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sue Schechter, Berkeley Law Don\u2019t Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender and the Body, by Savala Nolan Savala Nolan has written an important work that is\u00a0a\u00a0must-read\u00a0for all who\u00a0care\u00a0about race and gender.\u00a0 She is an incredible writer, so on some level, the book is easy to read \u2013 the sentences flow and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sectiononprobono.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sectiononprobono.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sectiononprobono.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sectiononprobono.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sectiononprobono.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sectiononprobono.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sectiononprobono.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sectiononprobono.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sectiononprobono.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}