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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... concerned.15 In the final essay collected in Civil Wars : Observations From the Front Lines of America , Jordan writes of what ... concern . " " 18 Their differences did not stop there ; other debatable topics included Hasidim , Zionism ...
... concern for Blackfolks to a concern for universal equality , Dr. King heightened the likelihood of equality in all of our lives . The more people you could hinge to the principle of equality , the more people you could rally together in ...
... concerned with the denial of civil rights for black people , but in some cases , this concern later metamor- phosed into a concern for the rights of all people treated unjustly in America and elsewhere . In many ways , Malcolm X's later ...
Contents
A Poets Childhood | 7 |
Two Who Look at Me | 31 |
Poems of Exile and Return | 49 |
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Black Literate Lives: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives Maisha T. Fisher No preview available - 2009 |