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Black ink : literary legends on the peril, power, and pleasure of reading and writing / edited by Stephanie Stokes Oliver ; foreword by Nikki Giovanni.
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- Author(s): Oliver, Stephanie Stokes, editor; Giovanni, Nikki, author of introduction, etc
- Language:
English- Publication Information:
New York : 37 Ink/Atria, 2018.- Publication Date:
2018- Physical Description:
xxiv, 244 pages ; 24 cm- Publication Type:
Book- Document Type:
Bibliographies; Essays- Subject Terms:
- Availability: 4 Holdings
- Language:
- Additional Information
- Publication Information: First 37 Ink/Atria Books hardcover edition.
- Content Notes: Foreword: Our first stories / Nikki Giovanni ; Introduction: Reading matters / Stephanie Stokes Oliver -- The peril, 1800-1900. Suspected of having a book / Frederick Douglass ; Nine years deprived of a sheet of paper / Solomon Northrup ; A whole race begins to read / Booker T. Washington ; The Negro in literature and art / W.E.B. Du Bois -- The power, 1900-1968. Books and things / Zora Neale Hurston ; Poetry is practical / Langston Hughes ; The business of the writer / James Baldwin ; Turning point / Malcolm X ; Lessons in living / Maya Angelou ; Morehouse College / Martin Luther King Jr. ; The site of memory / Toni Morrison ; Where are the people of color in children's books? / Walter Dean Myers ; Reading for revolution / Stokely Carmichael [Kwame Ture] ; Twenty-one / Alice Walker ; A temporary library in a small place / Jamaica Kincaid ; What is an African American classic? / Henry Louis Gates Jr. ; New Black scribe / Terry McMillan -- The pleasure, 1968-2017. MFA vs. POC / Junot Díaz ; Create dangerously / Edwidge Danticat ; How to write / Colson Whitehead ; From Jamaica to Minnesota to myself / Marlon James ; I once was Miss America / Roxane Gay ; The mecca / Ta-Nehisi Coates ; The danger of the single story / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -- Bonus feature. What books mean to me / President Barack Obama ; an interview with Michiko Kakutani.
- Notes: Anthology.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-240).
1 2 3 4 17 - ISBN: 9781501154287
1501154281 - Accession Number: 989963941
- Accession Number: ccp.1027575
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- Call Number: 810.9896 BLACK
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