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Book

Some of us did not die : new and selected essays of June Jordan.

Call Number

  • 814 J823 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : Basic/Civitas Books, ©2002.

Physical Description

viii, 312 pages ; 25 cm

Summary

Essayist June Jordan presents this collection that follows the more than 40-year span of her writing career, which includes political essays about the incomplete legacy of the civil rights movement as well as more personal essays about her experience as a single mother, and also as a black feminist bisexual.

Notes

Includes index.

Contents

  • Part I. New and most recent essays
  • Introduction : Some of us did 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.

Subjects

Genres

Essays.