Some of us did not die : : new and Selected Essays of June Jordan.
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Includes index.
Part I. New and most recent essays -- Introduction : Some of us did not die -- The invisible people : an unsolicited report on black rage -- A far stretch well worth the effort -- Hunting for Jews? -- A letter to Maria -- Do you do well to be angry? -- Update on Martin Luther King, Jr., and the best of my heart -- Letter to my friend -- Part II. From Affirmative acts -- Break the law! -- A couple of words on behalf of sex (itself) -- Besting a worse case scenario -- Notes toward a model of resistance -- O.J. Simpson : innocent of what? -- Ruth and Naomi, David and Jonathan : one love -- Islam and the USA today -- I am seeking an attitude -- The light of the fire -- Part III. From Technical difficulties -- Waking up in the middle of some American dreams -- Requiem for the champ -- Can I get a witness? -- A new politics of sexuality -- For my American family : a belated tribute to a legacy of gifted intelligence and guts -- The mountain and the man who was not God : an essay on the life and ideas of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Part IV. From On call -- Nobody mean more to me than you and the future life of Willie Jordan -- The difficult miracle of black poetry in America or something like a sonnet for Phillis Wheatley -- Life after Lebanon -- White Tuesday : November 1984 -- Nicaragua : Why I had to go there -- Report from the Bahamas -- Problems of language in a democratic state -- Many rivers to cross -- For the sake of people's poetry : Walt Whitman and the rest of us -- Part V. From Civil wars -- Civil wars -- Where is the love? -- Old stories : new lives -- Notes toward a black balancing of love and hatred -- American violence and the Holy Loving Spirit -- Letter to R. Buckminster Fuller -- Letter to Michael -- Foreword to Civil wars.
Essayist June Jordan presents this collection that follows the more than 40-year span of her writing career, which includes political essays about the incomplete legacy of the civil rights movement as well as more personal essays about her experience as a single mother, and also as a black feminist bisexual.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Basic/Civitas Books, ©2002.
Year Published: 2002
Description: viii, 312 pages ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0465036929
9780465036929
0465036937
9780465036936
SUBJECTS
Jordan, June, -- 1936-2002.
Women -- United States -- Social conditions.
African Americans -- Social conditions -- 1975-
Racism -- United States.
Sexism -- United States.
Racism -- Study and teaching -- United States.
Feminism -- Study and teaching -- United States.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-
United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-2020.
United States -- Race relations.
Essays.