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xvii, 299 pages ; 21 cm |
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| Contents |
Salutation in search of / Patricia Smith -- Learning from the ghosts of the Civil War / Randall Kenan -- Mourning / Edwidge Danticat -- Why the rebellion had to begin here / Su Hwang -- On the complex flavors of Black joy / Michael Kleber-Digger -- Letter from fault lines of Midwestern racism / Amaud Jamaul Johnson -- I cannot stop: a response to the murder of George Floyd / Layli Long Soldier -- Be safe out there (and other American delusions, rhetorical and otherwise) / Sofian Merabet -- I hated that I had to see your face through plexiglass / Nyle Fort -- Let these protests bring light to America / Daniel Peňa -- Letters from a Seattle protest / Claudia Castro Luna -- Finding justice in the streets / Pitchaya Sudbanthad -- A riotous antodyne / Indigo Moot -- A letter to Black America / Tracy K. Smith -- Where is Black life lived? / Joshua Bennett -- On the endless mourning of the present / Honorée Fanonne Jeffers -- On protests, laughter, and finding breath / Ali Black -- Letters to Juneteeth / Gregory Pardlo -- Letter from Burlington / Major Jackson -- Black prayer / James Noél -- Sense / Dawn Lundy Martin -- Black motherhood in sleepless times / Idrissa Simmonds-Nastili -- Letter to a mother who survived and thrived / Cynthia Tucker -- "Maybe" (letter to a daughter who will wear two masks) Jasmon Drain -- This'll hurt me more / Camille T. Dungy -- Have I ever told you all the courts I've loved / Ross Gay -- Letter from exile: finding home in a pandemic / Samiya Bashir -- A generational uprising / Héctor Tobar -- When the shadow is looming / Oscar Villalon -- From plagues to protest to wildfires / Manuel Muňoz -- Postcards from quarantined paradise / Craig Santos Perez -- Three liberties: past, present, yet to come / Julia Alvarez -- Letter to John Robert Lewis / Nikky Finney -- Kamala Harris, mass incarceration, and me -- Refuse fascism, at the ballet box and in the street / Lilly Wachowski -- Why I'm getting out of the boiler room this election / Monica Youn -- Voting Trump out is not enough / Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor -- The fall of Trump: on presidents, dictators, and life after a regime / Francisco Goldman -- Thunder song / Sasha LaPointe -- On motherhood and ancestral resistance / Kirsten West Savali. |
| Summary |
"This kaleidoscopic portrait of an unprecedented time brings together some of our most treasured writers today--Edwidge Danticat, Layli Long Soldier, Monica Youn, Julia Alvarez, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor--to give voice to the unthinkable grief and hopeful possibilities born in an era of revolution and change." -- Provided by publisher. |
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2020: We are living through an unprecedented, revolutionary era. The Covid-19 crisis has cost people loved ones, livelihoods, and homes. Protests erupted over the constant brutality against Black Americans. This anthology fans out across a shattered America, with letters, essays, poems, and exhortations that offer a kaleidoscopic view of survival, grief, and the search for joy. -- adapted from back cover |
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Social problems -- United States -- History -- 21st century -- Public opinion.
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1980- -- Public opinion.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 2017-2021 -- Public opinion.
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COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- United States -- Public opinion.
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Essays.
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Personal correspondence.
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| Added Author |
Smith, Tracy K., editor.
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Freeman, John, 1974- editor.
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| ISBN |
0593314697 (paperback) |
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9780593314692 (paperback) : $16.95 |
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