"A Black woman in America is always on the run, desperate to survive, thrive, and finally find freedom. Using a powerful blend of perspectives that move between a first-person lens of lived experience and a wider-ranging critique of U.S. culture, policy, and academia, Taiyon J. Coleman explores what it means to write her story and that of her family--an act at once a responsibility and a privilege--bringing forth the inherent contradictions between American ideals and Black reality.--
"A Black woman in America is always on the run, desperate to survive, thrive, and finally find freedom. Using a powerful blend of perspectives that move between a first-person lens of lived experience and a wider-ranging critique of U.S. culture, policy, and academia, Taiyon J. Coleman explores what it means to write her story and that of her family--an act at once a responsibility and a privilege--bringing forth the inherent contradictions between American ideals and Black reality.--Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Taiyon J. Coleman is a poet, writer, and educator whose work has been anthologized widely. A Cave Canem and VONA fellow, she is a 2017 recipient of a McKnight Foundation Artist Fellowship in Creative Prose and is one of twelve emerging children’s writers of color selected as a recipient of the 2018–2019 Mirrors and Windows Fellowship funded by the Loft Literary Center and the Jerome Foundation in Minnesota. She is associate professor of English and women’s studies at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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Contents Introduction: Mind the Gap The Thenar Space Fool’s Gold Grown Folks’ Business Poems as a Mapping of Human Potential Disparate Impacts: Moving to Minnesota to Live Just Enough for the City The Dangers of Teaching Writing While Black Tilted Uterus: When Jesus Is Your Baby Daddy Making the Invisible Visible: Mapping Racial Housing Covenants in South Minneapolis What’s Understood Don’t Need to Be Explained You Can Miss Me with That, ’Cause Plantations Were Diverse, Too Sometimes I Feel like Harriet Tubman Acknowledgments References Publication History
Contents Introduction: Mind the Gap The Thenar Space Fool’s Gold Grown Folks’ Business Poems as a Mapping of Human Potential Disparate Impacts: Moving to Minnesota to Live Just Enough for the City The Dangers of Teaching Writing While Black Tilted Uterus: When Jesus Is Your Baby Daddy Making the Invisible Visible: Mapping Racial Housing Covenants in South Minneapolis What’s Understood Don’t Need to Be Explained You Can Miss Me with That, ’Cause Plantations Were Diverse, Too Sometimes I Feel like Harriet Tubman Acknowledgments References Publication History
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