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The fire this time: a new generation speaks about race edited by Jesmyn Ward.

The fire this time: a new generation speaks about race edited by Jesmyn Ward.
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305.896/FIR
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ISBN 9781408892589
1408892588
Shelf Location 305.896/FIR
Title The fire this time : a new generation speaks about race / edited by Jesmyn Ward.
Publication Details London ::
2019. Bloomsbury Publishing,,
©2016.
Collation viii, 226 pages ; : 20 cm. ;
General Note Originally published: New York: Scribner, 2016.
Contents The Tradition / by Jericho Brown -- Introduction / by Jesmyn Ward -- Part I: Legacy -- Homegoing, AD / by Kima Jones -- The Weight / by Rachel Ghansah / Lonely in America / by Wendy S. Walters -- Where Do We Go from Here? / by Isabel Wilkerson -- "The Dear Pledges of Our Love": A Defense of Phillis Wheatley's Husband / Honoree Jeffers -- White Rage / by Carol Anderson -- Cracking the Code / by Jesmyn Ward -- Part II: Reckoning -- Queries of Unrest / by Clint Smith -- Blacker Than Thou / by Kevin Young -- Da Art of Storytellin' (a prequel) / by Kiese Laymon -- Black and Blue / by Garnette Cadogan --The Condition of Black Life is One of Mourning / by Claudia Rankine -- Know Your Rights! / by Emily Raboteau -- Composite Pops / by Mitchell Jackson -- Part III: Jubilee -- Theories of Time and Space / by Natasha Trethewey -- Love in the Time of Contradiction / by Daniel Jose Older -- Message to My Daughters / by Edwidge Danticat.
Abstract/Summary In this bestselling collection of essays and poems, Jesmyn Ward gathers a new generation of writers and thinkers to speak on race. From Claudia Rankine to Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah, Kiese Laymon to Carol Anderson, these voices shine a light on the darkest corners of American history, wrestle with the struggles the country faces today and imagine a better future.
Subject African Americans -- Social conditions -- 21st century
Racism -- United States
African Americans in literature
African Americans in popular culture
Blacks -- Race identity
American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism
United States -- Race relations.
Other Author Ward, Jesmyn
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