Some Of Us Did Not Die: Selected EssaysBasic Books, 5 авг. 2009 г. - Всего страниц: 320 “Forty years of tireless activism coupled with and fueled by flawless art.” —Toni Morrison Some of Us Did Not Die brings together the seminal essays of June Jordan, the widely acclaimed Black American writer known for her fierce commitment to human rights and political activism. Spanning the length of her extraordinary career, and including her last writings, the essays in this collection reveal Jordan as an incisive analyst of injustice, democracy, and literature. Willing to venture into the most painful contradictions of culture and politics, Jordan comes back with lyrical honesty, wit, and wide-ranging intelligence that resonates sharply to this day. |
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... death.” And sometimes, I suspect, whenever any of us feel defeated we may think maybe everybody should have been born a boy. Maybe everybody should have been capable of the awesome and inspiring heroism of our firefighters, and our ...
... death.” And sometimes, I suspect, whenever any of us feel defeated we may think maybe everybody should have been born a boy. Maybe everybody should have been capable of the awesome and inspiring heroism of our firefighters, and our ...
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... death—by a whitegloved Nazi officer, June 2, 1944, while she was waved to the right, first to Auschwitz, and then to the slave labor at Fallersleben. She meant that to live is not just a given: To live means you owe something big to ...
... death—by a whitegloved Nazi officer, June 2, 1944, while she was waved to the right, first to Auschwitz, and then to the slave labor at Fallersleben. She meant that to live is not just a given: To live means you owe something big to ...
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... to live.” She meant that her life hopes to honor the memory of her mother and her 5yearold brother who were waved to the left—to their death—by a white gloved Nazi officer, June 2, 1944, while she was waved to the right—first to 4 ...
... to live.” She meant that her life hopes to honor the memory of her mother and her 5yearold brother who were waved to the left—to their death—by a white gloved Nazi officer, June 2, 1944, while she was waved to the right—first to 4 ...
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... death, or both: These multiple targets bespeak a fiendishly fused hatred that is religious and racial and heterosexist, all at once. 4. There is a preferred pattern of terrorist attack upon Jewish institutions that suggests an errant ...
... death, or both: These multiple targets bespeak a fiendishly fused hatred that is religious and racial and heterosexist, all at once. 4. There is a preferred pattern of terrorist attack upon Jewish institutions that suggests an errant ...
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... death. I was thinking that, as with Numbers 25, this was an example of scripture and verse inveighing against The Other/the outsider/the impurity and that, now, that preachment was being held against its original believers. But the ...
... death. I was thinking that, as with Numbers 25, this was an example of scripture and verse inveighing against The Other/the outsider/the impurity and that, now, that preachment was being held against its original believers. But the ...
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