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      By McKittrick, Katherine  Woods, Clyde Adrian
       2007., Between the Lines ; South End Press Call No: BLK 305.896 B627b    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: The global history of black people cannot be told without addressing powerful geographical shifts: massive forced migration, land dispossession, and legal as well as informal structures of segregation. From the Middle Passage to the "Whites Only" signposts of North American apartheid, the black disaporic experience is rooted firmly in the politics of place. Literature ahs long explored cultural differences in the experience of blackness in different quarters of the diaspora. But what are the real differences between being a maroon in the hills of Jamaica, a fugitive slave in Chatham, Ontario, and a runaway in the swamps of Florida? How does location impact repression and resistance, both on the ground and in the terrain of political imagination? Enter Black Geographies. In this path-breaking collection, twelve authors interrogate the intersections between space and race. For instance, some scholars, activists, and communities have sought to protect, restore, and reimagine black historical sites. Yet each of these locations has in common acts of racial hatred and state terrorism that have erased black geographies, leaving few historical structures standing. This begs the question: Can preserving and restoring such sites promote social justice and spur community redevelopment?Black geographies-invisible and visible, past and present-pose revealing questions about the politics, and possibilities, of place. (From book cover.)
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      By Ward, Jesmyn
       2016., Scribner Call No: BLK 305.896 W259f    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "National Book Award-winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping off point for this groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race from the most important voices of her generation and our time. In light of recent tragedies and widespread protests across the nation, The Progressive magazine republished one of its most famous pieces: James Baldwin's 1962 "Letter to My Nephew," which was later published in his landmark book, The Fire Next Time. Addressing his fifteen-year-old namesake on the one hundredth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, Baldwin wrote: "You know and I know, that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom one hundred years too soon." Award-winning author Jesmyn Ward knows that Baldwin's words ring as true as ever today. In response, she has gathered short essays, memoir, and a few essential poems to engage the question of race in the United States. And she has turned to some of her generation's most original thinkers and writers to give voice to their concerns. The Fire This Time is divided into three parts that shine a light on the darkest corners of our history, wrestle with our current predicament, and envision a better future. Of the eighteen pieces, ten were written specifically for this volume. In the fifty-odd years since Baldwin's essay was published, entire generations have dared everything and made significant progress. But the idea that we are living in the post-Civil Rights era, that we are a "post-racial" society is an inaccurate and harmful reflection of a truth the country must confront. Baldwin's "fire next time" is now upon us, and it needs to be talked about. Contributors include Carol Anderson, Jericho Brown, Garnette Cadogan, Edwidge Danticat, Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, Mitchell S. Jackson, Honoree Jeffers, Kima Jones, Kiese Laymon, Daniel Jose Older, Emily Raboteau, Claudia Rankine, Clint Smith, Natasha Trethewey, Wendy S. Walters, Isabel Wilkerson, and Kevin Young"--
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      By Auster, Paul, 1947-  Coetzee, J. M., 1940-
       2013., Viking/Penguin Group Call No: 816.54 A934h    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Presents the correspondence between two great friends, one a best-selling author and the other a Nobel laureate, disclosing their conversations about sports, film, fatherhood, philosophy, art, death, love, and friendship.
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      By Angelou, Maya, 1928-
       c1969., Ballantine Books Call No: Bio A581i   Edition: Ballantine Books mass market edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local "powhitetrash." At eight years old and back at her mother's side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age - and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns about love for herself and the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors ("I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare") will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned.
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      By Butler, Octavia E.
       1979., Doubleday & Company, Inc. Call No: BLK Fic But   Edition: First edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Dana, a young modern black woman is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned across the years to save him, as he will father the daughter who will become Dana's ancestor. After the first summons, Dana is drawn back, again and again, to the plantation to protect Rufus and each time, the sojourns become longer and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not her life will end, long before it has even begun.
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      By Giddings, Megan  Ojo, Adenrele  hoopla digital
       2020., Adult, 517, HarperAudio Edition: Unabridged.    Connect to this eAudiobook title Summary Note: When Lena Johnson's beloved grandmother dies, and the full extent of the family debt is revealed, the black millennial drops out of college to support her family and takes a job in the mysterious and remote town of Lakewood, Michigan. On paper, her new job is too good to be true. High paying. No out of pocket medical expenses. A free place to live. All Lena has to do is participate in a secret program-and lie to her friends and family about the research being done in Lakewood. An eye drop that makes brown eyes blue, a medication that could be a cure for dementia, golden pills promised to make all bad thoughts go away. The discoveries made in Lakewood, Lena is told, will change the world-but the consequences for the subjects involved could be devastating. As the truths of the program reveal themselves, Lena learns how much she's willing to sacrifice for the sake of her family. Provocative and thrilling, Lakewood is a breathtaking novel that takes an unflinching look at the moral dilemmas many working-class families face, and the horror that has been forced on black bodies in the name of science.
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      -- Mom and me and mom
      By Angelou, Maya
       2013., 04:01:00, Random House Audio Edition: Unabridged.    Click to access digital title.     Summary Note: Angelou details what brought her mother to send her away, and unearths the well of emotions she experienced long afterward as a result. For the first time, she reveals the triumphs and struggles of being the daughter of Vivian Baxter, an indomitable spirit whose petite size belied her larger-than-life presence, a presence absent during much of the author's early life. When her marriage began to crumble, Vivian famously sent three-year-old Maya and her older brother away from their California home to live with their grandmother in Stamps, Arkansas. Their reunion a decade later began a story that has never before been told.
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      By Evanson, Tanya, 1972-
       2018., Frontenac House Poetry Call No: QWF BLK 811.6 E92n    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "Nouveau Griot is the result of 20 years on stage and in studio. It is the text from four spoken word audio recordings made between 2004-2016: Invisible World, The Memorists, Language for Gods and ZENSHIP. This work is in the continuum of the griot, which is a French African word meaning "poet, singer and traveling musician [...] to whom supernatural powers are often attributed.""--
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      By Smith, Tracy K
       2015., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: BLK Bio S662o   Edition: First edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "A memoir about the author's coming of age as she grapples with her identity as an artist, her family's racial history, and her mother's death from cancer"--Provided by publisher.