Affirmative Acts
Political Essays
by June Jordan
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Affirmative Acts: Political Essays marks the twenty-fifth book in the celebrated career of poet, essayist, activist, and professor June Jordan. The recipient of the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest and the PEN West Freedom to Write Awards, Jordan has created a widely influential and groundbreaking body of work over several decades.
With the same clear-sighted passion found in her classic essay collections Civil Wars and Living Room, in Affirmative Acts Jordan writes about controversial, critical, and timely issues that are currently at the center of American debate.
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Politics and government, Civil rights, Afro-Americans, Women's rights, Social conditions, Affirmative action programs, African Americans, Women authors, Women, New York Times reviewed, African americans, civil rights, African americans, social conditions, Women, united states, social conditions, United states, politics and government, 1989-, United states, social conditions, 1980-People
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Affirmative Acts: Political Essays
1998, Anchor, Anchor Books, Doubleday
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in English
- 1st Anchor Books ed.
0385492251 9780385492256
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Piercingly intuitive, eloquent, and caustic, Affirmative Acts is an address to the social, economic, racial, and political conflicts that mar the otherwise beautiful human experience.
In this new collection of political essays, Jordan explores the confusion of an America in the grip of pseudo-multiculturalism and political intolerance. Continuing in the tradition of her classic collections Civil Wars and Technical Difficulties, Jordan acquaints readers with moments of American life threatened by social negligence and economic despair. With her characteristic insight, Jordan unveils how these too-frequent bouts of civil unrest bring out the weakest parts of the American spirit and challenges readers to remain inspired as society approaches the millennium.
June Jordan's wisdom shines through in this brilliant collection of inspirational essays, which will be eagerly awaited by Jordan loyalists and enjoyed by her new readers.
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