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Tell me your names and I will testify

Title
Tell me your names and I will testify / Carolyn Holbrook.
Author
Holbrook, Carolyn (Carolyn L.)
Publication
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2020]

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Description
188 pages; 21 cm
Summary
"Recipient of the 2010 Kay Sexton Award, Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify are the long-awaited collection from local literary figure Carolyn Holbrook. A collection of linked essays, Tell Me Your Names follow Holbrook's transformation from a pregnant 16-year-old incarcerated in the Minnesota juvenile justice system through her years living in Minneapolis, raising a family, and eventually to the founder of an organization that challenges conventional ideas about writers of color and provides support for them. Each essay grows from, in some way, stories that are born from silence, or being silenced; stories held inside and untold, hidden traumas: from her family history; her time incarcerated as a teen mother; her life as a teacher, especially working with children of color; cycles of domestic and sexual abuse; and why telling these stories is so necessary for working through traumas personal and collective"--
Subject
  • Holbrook, Carolyn
  • 2000-2099
  • African American women authors > 21st century > Biography
  • African American women authors > Political and social views
  • African American women authors
Genre/Form
Biographies.
Awards (note)
  • Minnesota Book Award for Memoir & Creative Nonfiction, 2021.
Contents
Prologue: Liza -- My Roots -- Coming Clean -- Tania's Birthday -- The "Award" -- Finally Independent -- Reflections on Teaching -- Expectations and Assumptions -- How Long Does it Take? -- I Want to Know My Name -- The Bank Robbery -- Neighborhood Watch -- My Daughter, Myself -- Sex and the Single Grandma -- Say What? -- Earth Angels -- Stones and Sticks.
Call Number
Sc D 21-272
ISBN
  • 9781517907631
  • 1517907632
LCCN
2019036805
OCLC
1122909527
Author
Holbrook, Carolyn (Carolyn L.), author.
Title
Tell me your names and I will testify / Carolyn Holbrook.
Publisher
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2020]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Creator/Contributor Characteristics
Minnesotans
Awards
Minnesota Book Award for Memoir & Creative Nonfiction, 2021.
Local Note
ED: U TORONTO. COLL. OF PREV. PUB. ESSAYS, POEMS, ETC. OF BLACK CANADIANS FROM PRAIRIE PROVINCES.
Local Subject
Black author.
Chronological Term
2000-2099
Research Call Number
Sc D 21-272
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