The Trayvon generation / Elizabeth Alexander.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781538737897
- ISBN: 1538737892
- Physical Description: viii, 146 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 19 cm
- Publisher: New York, NY : Grand Central Publishing, 2022.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | "What will be the sacred words? -- "here lies" -- "shock of delayed comprehension" -- "a tale of two textbooks" -- "cemetery for the illustrious negro dead" -- the trayvon generation -- "we dress our ideas in clothes to make the abstract visible" -- "whether the negro sheds tears" -- "there are black people in the future". |
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Genre: | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations^SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination^FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Prejudice. |
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Elizabeth Alexander is a prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author, renowned poet, educator, scholar, and cultural advocate.  Her most recent book, The Trayvon Generation (2022), is a galvanizing meditation on the power of art and culture to illuminate Americaâs unresolved problem with race and the challenges facing young Black America.  Among the fifteen books she has authored or co-authored, her memoir, The Light of the World, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2015 and her poetry collection American Sublime was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 2006.  Notably, Dr. Alexander composed and recited âPraise Song for the Dayâ for President Barack Obamaâs 2009 inauguration.  Over the course of an esteemed career in education, she has held distinguished professorships at Smith College, Columbia University, and Yale University, where she taught for fifteen years and chaired the African American Studies Department.  Dr. Alexander is currently president of the Mellon Foundation, the nationâs largest funder in the arts, culture, and humanities.
Elizabeth Alexander is a prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author, renowned American poet, educator, scholar, and cultural advocate. Her memoir, The Light of the World, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Awards. She composed and recited “Praise Song for the Day” for President Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration and is currently president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the nation’s largest funder in the arts, culture, and humanities.