Research Catalog

Title

Black lives have always mattered a collection of essays, poems, and personal narratives / edited by Abiodun Oyewolfe.

Publication

New York : 2 LeafPress, an imprint of the Intercultural Alliance of Artisis & Scholars, Inc. (IAAS), [2017]

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Details

Additional Authors

Oyewole, Abiodun

Description

xiv, 353 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

BLACK LIVES HAVE ALWAYS MATTERED, A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS, POEMS AND PERSONAL NARRATIVES, edited by Abiodun Oyewole, extends beyonothe Black Lives Matter movement's primary agenda of police brutality to acknowledge that even when affronted with slavery, segregation and Jim Crow, racial injustice and inequality, black lives have always mattered. This anthology of essays, personal narratives, poetry and prose is organized into five sections: "Mourning Black Lives That Mattered," "Black Skin/White Masks," "Black Spaces/Black Places," "Black Lives Remembered/Reclaimed," and "The Legacy of Black Protest Continues," addressing a wide range of hot-button issues and racial disparities that disproportionately impact the black community. While written primarily by African American poets, writers, activists and scholars, selections are also from people of the Latino and African diasporas and white activists. Collectively, these 79 contributors provide a call-to-action that challenges readers to confront long-held values and beliefs about black lives, as well as white privilege and fragility, as it surveys the historical and contemporary ravages of racism and its persistence of structural inequality. More importantly, BLACK LIVES HAVE ALWAYS MATTERED provides a first-hand perspective to a problem known to the African American community long before the Black Lives Matter movement revealed it to the general public: that black lives have always mattered. Connecting the past to the present, the contributors of BLACK LIVES HAVE ALWAYS MATTERED provide an eye-opening and engaging collection that has the potential to reignite a broader push for black liberation and equality for all. ₋ -- Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

2LP explorations in diversity.

Uniform Title

2LP explorations in diversity.

Subjects

• Black lives matter movement
• African Americans > Social conditions
• Blacks > Race identity
• United States
• Racism > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction: Why We've Always Mattered / Abiodun Oyewole --- Mourning Black Lives That Mattered ---Table Talk / Angel C. Dye --How Do I Tell My Son?/Rasaq Malik-- A Mother's Fear / Kimberly Garrett Brown -- Bargains Of Life / Ali D. Collins -- It Could Have Been Me/ Melba Joyce Boyd -- Rooms Of Murder/ Ayshia Elizabeth Stephenson -- An Open Letter to the Voyeurs/Tara Betts-- Why Being a Black Father in America Today Frightrns and Angers Me/John Warner Smith-- Black Death/Melissa Dunmore-- A Fuse Blew/ Maria James-Thiaw-- Mourning: Black Life, Black Death/ Yael Kenan-- Black Lives Matter/DaChardae Roncoli-- Matter/Carletta Joy Maker-- And Told That She Didn't See What She Saw/ Tim Wood--- Black Skin/White Masks --- Black/S. Baltimore Jones--Indentured/Jesus Papoleto Melendez--Was My Father just Another Pig?/ Dedria Humphries Barker--Milshaking/JoeAnn Hart--A Southern Woman Speaks Out About Black LIves Matter/ Clara B.Freeman-- Loggerhead Turtle Skull..After the Cynotype by Alexix Doshas--Erren Geraud Kelly-- If/then / jason n.vasser-- White Privilege/Karen Ford--Skin/Michael E. Reid-- How to Play Dead/ Brittny Ray Crowell--No Seat at the Table/Thelma Zirkelbach--Neighborhood Youth Corps Volunteer/Wanda Easter Burch--We Are Assata/Quincy Scott Jones--- Black Spaces/Black Places --- Africa/Alan Britt--A Far Cry From Home/Sean C. Harrison--Black Lives Have Always Mattered Imani's Life Mattered/Viicki L. Ward--The World I Didn't Know Existed/Lisa Braxton-- Woe Unto You Judeasippi/ C. Leigh Mclnnis--Not Just/Kimmika L. H. Willams-Witherspoon--Flatline/Ronnie McGrath--Today Might Be a Good Day/Bernard Keller--Atlanta Night/Ellin Sarot--Grade A Stock/Mark B. Springer--Nightmares/Je'Lesia M. Jones--Our Names Remain Stuck in America's Throat/Janel Cloyd--Black Exodus/Amelia Simone Herbert--Seven Slices Brookshire,Texas/Fikisha Lois Cumbo--My Country,'Tis of Thee/Adam Szetela--Will the Freedom Bird Sing?/Cynthia Leann Jones--America/Samantha McCrory --- Black Lives Remembered/Reclaimed --- Celebrate the Leaves/Stephaine Freeman--Close Quaters/Shanna L.Smith--The Incident Revisited/Marcia L. McNair--Text to Resurrect Revolution/Bob McNeil--Amy Spain/Abiodun Oyewole--The Man Behind The Mask/Anna Christian--When a Man Loves a Woman/Christine E. Eber--Leroy and I/J. Kates--Miss Johnson is Dead/Gil Fagiani--Mammy Warriors: An Homage to BLack Maids/Bettye Kearse--On Kissing her Husband Goodbye/Esther Whitman Johnson--Dignity/Jeffrey A. Scott--Epitaph of a Poet/Gabrielle David-- Just a Few More Dreams/Michelle Mann--Insufficient/Victorio Reyes Asili--Black Lives Have Always Mattered/Debra R. Riley ---The Legacy Of Black Protest Continues--- Legions: A Kwansaba/Ran Walker-- From Montgomery to Ferguson The Civil Rights Movement and Black Lives Matter/Willam Harris--Black Live Matter:The Politics of Race and Movement in the 21st Century/Deva R.Woodly-- Famous/Jalayna Walton--Where Have you Been?/F. I. Goldhaber--Demanding a Seat at the Table: Personal Narratives from Four Women of Color/Kimberly Marie Ashby

Call Number

Sc E 20-480

ISBN

• 1940939615
• 9781940939612

OCLC

1001329259

Title

Black lives have always mattered a collection of essays, poems, and personal narratives / edited by Abiodun Oyewolfe.

Publisher

New York : 2 LeafPress, an imprint of the Intercultural Alliance of Artisis & Scholars, Inc. (IAAS), [2017]

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

2LP explorations in diversity.

2LP explorations in diversity.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Oyewole, Abiodun, editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 20-480