June Jordan (1936–2002)
Forfatter af Some of us did not die : new and selected essays of June Jordan
Om forfatteren
June Jordan, Professor of African American Studies at U.C. Berkeley, was born in Harlem. Her eleven books of poetry include Kissing God Goodbye and Haruko/Love Poems. She was also the author of five children's books, a novel, three plays, a memoir, and five volumes of political essays, the most vis mere recent of which is Affirmative Acts. For more than ten years, she wrote a regular political column for The Progressive. She was the founder of Poetry for the People at U.C. Berkeley, where she received the Berkeley Citation for Distinguished Achievement. Among June Jordan's numerous honors were a Rockefeller grant, the PEN Center U.S.A. West Freedom to Write Award, and a Special United States Congressional Recognition for "outstanding contributions to literature, the civil rights movement, and in recognition of outstanding and invaluable service to the community." June Jordan died in Berkeley, California on June 14, 2002 vis mindre
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Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study (1992) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver — 514 eksemplarer
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought (1995) — Bidragyder — 234 eksemplarer
Wise Women: Over Two Thousand Years of Spiritual Writing by Women (1996) — Bidragyder — 201 eksemplarer
Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient… (1992) — Bidragyder — 159 eksemplarer
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (2009) — Bidragyder — 114 eksemplarer
In Search of Color Everywhere: A Collection of African-American Poetry (1656) — Omslagsfotograf/tegner/... — 100 eksemplarer
War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing (2016) — Bidragyder — 86 eksemplarer
Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry (2013) — Bidragyder — 42 eksemplarer
Democracy in Print: The best of the Progressive Magazine, 1909-2009 (2009) — Bidragyder — 14 eksemplarer
The Bluelight Corner: Black Women Writing on Passion, Sex, and Romantic Love (1998) — Bidragyder — 9 eksemplarer
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- Jordan, June Millicent (birth name)
- Fødselsdato
- 1936-07-09
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- 2002-06-14
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- female
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- USA
- Fødested
- Harlem, New York, USA
- Dødssted
- Berkeley, California, USA
- Dødsårsag
- cancer (breast)
- Uddannelse
- Barnard College
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- poet
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- University of California, Berkeley
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