Affirmative Acts

Name: Affirmative Acts
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ISBN: 9780385492256

ISBN-10: 0385492251

ISBN-13: 9780385492256

Edition: 1998

Authors: June Jordan

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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…

Book details

List price: $12.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/20/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Mandela and the Kingdom Come


Intifada, USA


Thomas Was Not the Point


The Big-Time Coward


On the Night of November 3, 1992


Valentine's Day, 1992


The Light of the Fire


Willing and Able


I Am Seeking an Attitude


The Truth of Rodney King


Islam and the USA Today


Bosnia Betrayed


Freedom Time


A Good Fight


Ruth and Naomi, David and Jonathan: One Love


Give Me Two Reasons


A Powerful Hatred


We Are All Refugees


O. J. Simpson: Innocent of What?


An Angry Black Woman on the Subject of the Angry White Man


Where I Live Now


Where I Live Now, Part Two


In the Land of White Supremacy


My Mess, and Ours


Justice at Risk


Getting Down on My Street


On Bisexuality and Cultural Pluralism


Eyewitness in Lebanon


Notes Toward a Model of Resistance


Besting a Worst Case Scenario


On the Politics of Change


A Good News' Blues: A Jazz Prose-Poem


The Revolution Now: Update on Beloved Community


Root Canal to the Future of Women


Tribute to Paul Robeson


Affirmative Acts: Language, Information, and Power


Bilingual Education and Home Language


Update on Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Best of My Heart


A Couple of Words on Behalf of Sex (Itself)


Break the Law!