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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... insistence by Granville that his daughter function as white men do can be connected to how he encountered the world as a nonwhite , or raced , immigrant man who could have traveled between the limiting worlds of black and white based on ...
... insistence to an audience of young adults , especially young black readers , to " be different from the rest , the resting other ones " 40 signifies her desire for them to embrace the beauty of their identities — their black skin ...
... insistence that black people learn to be self - sufficient ; Mrs. Hamer's Freedom Farms Cooperative serves as an example of self - sufficiency . The biography opens with information on Mrs. Hamer's mother , Ella Townsend , a domestic ...
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 |