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Book

Black ink : literary legends on the peril, power, and pleasure of reading and writing

Call Number

  • 305.896 B62753 (CEN)

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Edition

First 37 Ink/Atria books hardcover edition.

Publication Information

New York : 37 Ink/Atria, 2018.

Physical Description

xxiv, 244 pages ; 24 cm

Summary

"Spanning 250 years, this carefully-curated collection of 25 essays features the earliest Black authors who wrote as means of resistance in a time when their literacy was illegal and the brilliant writers who have continued their legacy--utilizing the power of the written word to create change, insert a diversity of experience into the "mainstream," and make a profound impact on our communities and the world"--

Contents

  • Suspected of having a book / Nine years deprived of a sheet of paper / A Whole race begins to read / The Negro in literature and art / Books and things / Poetry is practical / The Business of the writer / Turning point / Lessons in living / Morehouse College / The Site of memory / Where are the people of color in children's books? / Reading for revolution / Twenty-one / A Temporary library in a small place / What is an African American Classic? / New black scribe / MFA vs. POC / Create dangerously / How to write / From Jamaica to Minnesota to myself / I once was Miss America / The Mecca / The Danger of the single story / What books mean to me

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Genres

Essays.