June Jordan: Her Life and LettersJune Jordan was born on July 9, 1936, in Harlem, New York, to Mildred and Granville Jordan, Jamaican natives. During her life, she became one of the most prolific, important, and influential African American writers of her time. Before her death from breast cancer in 2002, Jordan published more than 27 books, including Some of Us Did Not Die, Solider: A Poet's Childhood, Poetry for the People: Finding a Voice through Verse, Haruko Love Poems, and Naming Our Destiny. Her work Civil Wars, a collection of letters and essays, addressed such topics as violence, homosexuality, race, and black feminism. Working in many genres and touching on many themes and issues, Jordan was a powerful force in American literature. This biography reveals the woman, the writer, the poet, the activist, the leader, and the educator in all her complexity. |
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... California , Berkeley . During the summer of 1988 , Jordan was a visiting professor in the Department of Afro - American Studies at the University of Wisconsin , Madison . In 1978 , she became a member of the Board of Directors for ...
... California in the mid 1990s with Proposition 227 , or the " Anti - Bilingual Education Initiative in California . " This initiative sought to prevent use of languages other than English in California - based classrooms , end programs in ...
... California , and Jordan's position on inviting multiple languages into the classroom attests to the value of a democracy that legitimatizes the diver- sities of its students , or in her own words : " When will a legitimately American ...
Contents
A Poets Childhood | 7 |
Two Who Look at Me | 31 |
Poems of Exile and Return | 49 |
Copyright | |
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Black Literate Lives: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives Maisha T. Fisher No preview available - 2009 |