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- Africanization and Americanization Anthology, Volume 1: Africa Vs North America : Searching for Inter-racial, Interstitial, Inter-sectional, and Interstates
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- 2018
- Published by: Mwanaka Media and Publishing
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Africanization and Americanization Anthology, Volume 1: Searching for Inter-racial, Interstitial, Inter-sectional, and Interstates meeting spaces, Africa Vs North America, comprises of 107 pieces from 43 poets, 4 essayists, 6 storytellers, and 1 playwright from North America and Africa regions: professors, leading theorists and researchers. The contributors are: Barbara Foley, Barbara Howard, Biko Agozino, poets; A.D Winans, Tim Hall, C Liegh McInnis, Nat Turner, Allan Kolski Horwitz, Changming Yuan, Tiel Aisha Ansari, Diane Raptosh, Wanjohi wa Makokha, storytellers; Paris Smith, Sheree Ren�e Thomas, and journalists; Kenneth Weene and several other essayists, street poets, academicians, musicians, visual artists... This collection is vibrant, discursive, penetrating, and is invaluable to literary and language experts, poetry collections, social and human scientists, political theorists, race theorists, development practioners, students, general readers and many others.
Table of Contents
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- About editor
- p. viii
- Notes on Contributors
- pp. ix-xi
- Introduction
- pp. xxii-xxvi
- Part 1: Institutional Racism, Leadership and Governance
- Primary Facts
- pp. 1-7
- Wars come home…
- p. 9
- The Plague
- pp. 14-15
- Sizobuya-We shall return
- pp. 16-17
- I want to be Nnalongo!
- pp. 19-20
- “…Look away, look away…”
- pp. 21-23
- Banana republics
- pp. 25-26
- A Trump Postcard To Trump
- pp. 27-28
- Tattoos For The Motherland
- pp. 30-31
- On footpath with long eye of history
- pp. 33-34
- Part 2: Slave Trade
- Vessels of Dreams
- pp. 35-36
- Sun smiles to snows
- pp. 39-40
- Cracks of my skin
- p. 41
- Declaración de la Libertad
- pp. 42-43
- Head and hands
- pp. 45-46
- Foot Notes On Equality
- pp. 47-48
- Another Man Done Gone
- pp. 49-50
- Blood-rhythm
- p. 51
- The Rhythm Of Epiphany
- pp. 52-53
- Mama Millipede
- pp. 54-55
- Below Stairs
- pp. 56-57
- Pledge of My Allegiance
- pp. 58-59
- Decolonized
- pp. 60-61
- Poem Fruit
- p. 62
- Part 3: Nonfictions
- Free Merry Jay: A True Science Fiction
- pp. 111-114
- Part 4: Self Hatred
- Dawn's Cafe – Seligman
- p. 120
- Part 5: Racism, Bigotry, Tribalism and Tragedies
- Why Do You Hate Me?
- p. 121
- A Murder in Irvington
- p. 123
- NoBigotsAllowed (in the NBA)
- pp. 124-125
- Yalobusha County
- pp. 127-132
- Racism Listen! Tribalism listen!
- pp. 133-137
- "Red Summer 1919"
- pp. 138-139
- Lost Boy of Sudan
- p. 140
- When A Black Boy Walks Home Alone At Night
- pp. 144-145
- The Molassacre
- p. 148
- Part 6: Migrants, Irritants, Aliens and Assimilation
- From Exile To Inxile
- pp. 149-150
- We The Migrants
- pp. 153-155
- That song will surely trend!
- pp. 156-158
- Part 7: Fiction
- Country Club
- pp. 159-168
- Losing Iko
- pp. 175-176
- The Question
- pp. 177-178
- The Grassdreaming Tree
- pp. 179-192
- Old Man, Dreams, Writing
- pp. 193-198
- Part 8: Language, Identity, Colour and Colourism
- Languacolonization
- p. 199
- The Tongue We Dream In
- p. 200
- Anthem of the Black poet
- pp. 205-206
- Family Tree
- p. 209
- I Am Human
- p. 211
- Haiku Series on Beloved
- p. 214
- A Song For Leroi Jones / Amiri Baraka
- pp. 215-216
- Part 9: Cultural Diversity, Transcontinental, Transactional, Meeting Spaces...
- i’m off to africa
- p. 224
- to the usa
- pp. 227-228
- For Kendrick
- p. 229
- Stitched Aperture
- p. 230
- Before you go…
- p. 231
- Of Water and Justice
- p. 233
- Dear Africa
- pp. 234-235
- Dear Zygote,
- pp. 236-237
- In these fissures
- pp. 238-239
- White Girl, Black Boy
- pp. 244-245
- My mess, my message
- p. 246
- We Are Young
- p. 247
- The Impossibility of Let it Go
- pp. 248-249
- Asgardia: Second Choice
- p. 250
- Brothers at a distance
- p. 251
- Part 10: Play
- Book Marks
- pp. 253-273
Additional Information
ISBN
9780797496989
Related ISBN(s)
9780797486164
MARC Record
OCLC
1056749179
Pages
300
Launched on MUSE
2018-10-14
Language
English
Open Access
No