Research Catalog

Title

Black joy : stories of resistance, resilience, and restoration / Tracey Michae'l Lewis-Giggetts.

Author

Lewis-Giggetts, Tracey M.

Publication

• New York : Gallery Books, 2022.
• ©2022

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Details

Description

xxiii, 261 pages; 22 cm

Summary

• ""Black joy is unique and deeply rooted in the cultural experiences and expressions of Black people. It's ever-present and yet often hidden... Black joy has a sound. It moves in a particular way.... Like great-grandmother's talcum powder and Jean Nate, it enters the room before you do and stays long after you leave.This is why we must tap into it. This is why this book is necessary." When writer, Tracey M. Lewis-Giggetts wrote a piece for The Washington Post, "My daughter reminded me that black joy is a form of resistance" she had no idea just how much or how widely it would resonate with parents across America. As a Professor of English and Race Studies, and a writer whose work focuses on the intersection of race, trauma and healing, she knew that Black joy is truly a weapon of resistance, a tool for resilience. In the outpouring for more on the subject, Tracey saw there was a need for something longer than a thousand words on the subject. Like Hoda Kotb's I REALLY NEEDED THIS TODAY, BLACK JOY: A Strategy for Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration is an inspiring collection of stories that will recharge readers. As rich and healing as it is commercial, BLACK JOY is destined to become a book that is passed between friends, that is comfort at the end of a long day, an answer for the reader who needs a place to quiet their mind and heal their soul"--
• When Lewis-Giggetts wrote a piece on Black joy as a form of resistance for The Washington Post, she had no idea just how much or how widely it would resonate with parents across America. With this book she shows how joy has evolved, even in the midst of trauma, in her own life, and then details these instances of joy in the context of Black culture. - adapted from jacket

Subjects

• Anecdotes
• Essays
• Joy
• Conduct of life > Anecdotes
• African Americans > Social conditions > Anecdotes
• African Americans > Psychology > Anecdotes

Genre/Form

• Anecdotes.
• Essays.

Contents

Introduction -- ...as resistance. Dancing in the rain and the power of Black joy as resistance -- Breathe again: a manifesto -- The blacker the love -- Conjuring angels -- I've got dreams to remember, Granny -- Leaving Louisville -- Smells like blackness -- We've always known -- Joy in the details -- This is me -- E-40 taught me -- Tiny revolutions -- The fourth -- ...as resilience. What gets burned off -- Inside out -- Laugh loudly and often: a historical conversation -- I don't have to know -- Joy as gap filler -- Because they are watching -- Leaving Louisville: part 2 -- The right kind of chili -- If you come to the cookout, don't stay -- Cover me -- Black people invented time travel -- Accepting the nonacceptance -- ...as restoration. You -- Someday it might snow in April: the healing power of Prince -- Born to wash cars -- This is my story. This is my song. -- Do you love what you feel? -- To be seen -- One way healing comes -- Joy with no strings -- The privilege of wonder -- Time and intention -- What freedom looks like on her.

Call Number

Sc D 22-521

ISBN

• 9781982176556
• 1982176555
• 9781982176563
• 1982176563

LCCN

2021023278

OCLC

1263247503

Author

Lewis-Giggetts, Tracey M., author.

Title

Black joy : stories of resistance, resilience, and restoration / Tracey Michae'l Lewis-Giggetts.

Publisher

New York : Gallery Books, 2022.

Copyright Date

©2022

Edition

First Gallery Books hardcover edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Note

Scomburg copy with dust Jacket.

Research Call Number

Sc D 22-521