Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet A. When Aya is gravely wounded, Miriam is forced to face her own past and examine her emotionally arid life. Only the coolness of her beautiful, distant single mother, Miriam, prevents her from being truly happy. Nineteen-year-old Aya has been getting her life together after a brush with the law and is working hard to earn a college degree. " Daughter tells a tragic, too-familiar story: a promising young African-American is mistakenly shot by the police in Brooklyn, NY. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana's life will end, long before it has a chance to begin." Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. "Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is taken abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. offers a transformative, riveting evening of provocative dance, music, and poetry." 5. Capturing the brutal, tender and dramatic lives of contemporary Black women, For Colored Girls. "This groundbreaking "choreopoem" is a spellbinding collection of vivid prose and free verse narratives about and performed by Black women. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When The Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange 32)."Alice Walker's The Color Purple weaves an intricate mosaic of women joined by their love for each other, the men who abuse them, and the children they care for. On Tuesday, February 28, 2017, from 11AM-1PM, a selection of the titles below will be available for loan as part of the Black Lives Matter bookmobile in the 1st floor lobby of the Stata Center (Bldg. Join us in learning more about the complexities and richness of black voices and experiences. It is an affirmation of Black folks’ contributions to this society, our humanity, and our resilience in the face of deadly oppression.To love and desire freedom and justice for ourselves is a necessary prerequisite for wanting the same for others."įor more about Black Lives Matter, please visit: īelow is a curated selection of materials from the MIT Libraries collections that highlight the Black Lives Matter movement, including materials sourced from and inspired by syllabi that have been created by educators, activists, etc., across the country (see "Recommended Resources" below).
"Black Lives Matter is an ideological and political intervention in a world where Black lives are systematically and intentionally targeted for demise.
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