June Jordan (1936–2002)
Autor(a) de Some of us did not die : new and selected essays of June Jordan
About the Author
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 mostrar mais 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 mostrar menos
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Obras por June Jordan
Associated Works
Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study (1992) — Contribuidor, algumas edições — 513 exemplares
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought (1995) — Contribuidor — 231 exemplares
Wise Women: Over Two Thousand Years of Spiritual Writing by Women (1996) — Contribuidor — 201 exemplares
Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient… (1992) — Contribuidor — 157 exemplares
Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry (2009) — Contribuidor — 113 exemplares
In Search of Color Everywhere: A Collection of African-American Poetry (1656) — Artista da capa — 99 exemplares
War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing (2016) — Contribuidor — 86 exemplares
Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry (2013) — Contribuidor — 43 exemplares
A Way Out of No Way: Writing about Growing Up Black in America (1996) — Contribuidor — 33 exemplares
Democracy in Print: The best of the Progressive Magazine, 1909-2009 (2009) — Contribuidor — 14 exemplares
The Bluelight Corner: Black Women Writing on Passion, Sex, and Romantic Love (1998) — Contribuidor — 9 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Outros nomes
- Jordan, June Millicent (birth name)
- Data de nascimento
- 1936-07-09
- Data de falecimento
- 2002-06-14
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Harlem, New York, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Berkeley, California, USA
- Causa da morte
- cancer (breast)
- Educação
- Barnard College
University of Chicago - Ocupações
- poet
essayist
dramatist
journalist
professor - Organizações
- University of California, Berkeley
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Críticas
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 36
- Also by
- 32
- Membros
- 1,501
- Popularidade
- #17,121
- Avaliação
- 4.1
- Críticas
- 9
- ISBN
- 76
- Línguas
- 2
- Marcado como favorito
- 8