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viii, 312 pages ; 25 cm |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
Part I. New and most recent essays -- Introduction : Some of usdid not die -- The invisible people : An unsolicited report on black rage -- A far stretch well worth the effort -- Hunting for Jews? -- A letter to Maria -- Do you do well to be angry? -- Update on Martin Luther King, Jr. and the best of my heart -- Letter to my friend -- Part II. From Affirmative acts -- Break the law! -- A couple of words on behalf of sex (itself) -- Besting a worse case scenario -- Notes toward a model of resistance -- O.J. Simpson : Innocent of what? -- Ruth and Naomi, David and Jonathan : One love -- Islam and the USA today -- I am seeking an attitude -- The light of the fire -- Part III. From Technical difficulties -- Waking up in the middle of some American dreams -- Requiem for the champ -- Can I get a witness? -- A new politics of sexuality -- For my American family : A belated tribute to a legacy of gifted intelligence and guts -- The mountain and the man who was not God : An essay on the life and ideas of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Part IV. From On call -- Nobody mean more to me than you and the future life of Willie Jordan -- The difficult miracle of black poetry in America or something like a sonnet for Phillis Wheatley -- Life after Lebanon -- White Tuesday: November, 1984 -- Nicaragua : Why I had to go there -- Report from the Bahamas -- Problems of language in a democratic state -- Many rivers to cross -- For the sake of people's poetry : Walt Whitman and the rest of us -- Part V. From Civil wars -- Civil wars -- Where is the love? -- Old stories : New lives -- Notes toward a black balancing of love and hatred -- American violence and the Holy Loving Spirit -- Letter to R. Buckminster Fuller -- Letter to Michael -- Foreword to Civil wars |
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Jordan, June, 1936-2002.
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Women -- United States -- Social conditions.
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African Americans -- Social conditions -- 1975-
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Racism -- United States.
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Sexism -- United States.
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Racism -- Study and teaching -- United States.
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Feminism -- Study and teaching -- United States.
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United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-2020.
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United States -- Race relations.
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| ISBN |
0465036929 (alk. paper) |
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