Research Catalog

Title

Role call : a generational anthology of social and political Black art & literature / edited by Tony Medina, Samiya A. Bashir, Quarishi Ali Lansana ; with a foreword by Haki R. Madhubuti.

Publication

Chicago : Third World Press, c2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lansana, Quarishi Ali.
• Medina, Tony
• Bashir, Samiya A.
• Lansana, Quraysh Ali

Description

xix, 503 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subjects

• Politics, Practical > Literary collections
• Literary collections
• 1900-1999
• Black people > Literary collections
• American literature > 20th century
• Social problems > Literary collections
• African Americans > Literary collections
• American literature > African American authors

Genre/Form

Literary collections

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• What is the role of today's emerging young artists in the current struggle for equality and justice? Future generation / John Abner -- I write / Askhari -- Sankofa / Pamela Plummer -- Aya / Kim Mayhorn -- Incantation for the word / Adrian Castro -- Percussion permeates / Eric Mack -- How music relates to the brain ; No one's slave / Jeremiah Hoseah Landes -- from Girl in the mirror / Natasha Tarpley -- Dear mama / Angela Shannon -- I am my mother / Staceyann Chin -- Sticks and stones / Kim Louise -- detail -"A woman was lynched the other day" / Kim Mayhorn -- Case of blues / Gina M. Streaty -- Homage to Leonardo Drew's Number eight / Allison Joseph -- Dumas / Jabari Asim -- Believe me / Shane Book -- The poet / Sheila L. Prevost -- The good doctor writes / DJ Renegade -- After the verdict / G. Winston James -- larry / Brian Gilmore -- Kofi / Johnalynn Holland -- Harbors and spirits / Jeffrey Renard Allen -- Coltrane spoke to me one night / Tony Medina -- The role call / Thomas Sayers Ellis.
• How do the voices of the next generation define the issues and politics of today? America in control / John Abner -- on the use of charliebrown/teachatalk / r.c. glenn -- Music, man, what is it gonna be? / Morgan Michael Craft -- The rapper / Sheila L. Prevost -- Guernica / Kevin Young -- We play in the Do-It-Yourself family rooms / Kate Rushin -- retired, ronald reagan sits in his dayroom / Tyehimba Jess -- blood and wine / Samiya A. Bashir -- Corporate America comes to El Barrio / Shaggy Flores -- Jobless / Calida Garcia -- The bird cage bunch / Charlie R. Braxton -- Survivors / Kysha N. Brown -- Faces / Renaldo Davidson -- Callin out ya uncle / Tish Benson -- returned to sender / Mendi Lewis Obadike -- Dear daddy / Andrea M. Wren -- Reba is a state child and what you call fast / Kate Rushin -- Berneatha's story / Samiya A. Bashir -- Excerpt from Monster / Dael Orlandersmith -- Who's afraid of a black grrrl revolution? / Brigette M. Moore -- What it's like to be a mixed girl / Tara Betts -- Growing wild / Carol Smith Passariello -- Braiding rituals / Kenneth L. Addison -- Poem where my mother and father are absent / Shara McCallum -- The zoo / Melanie Hope -- Celebration / Jacqueline Johnson -- Black or American / Jill Robinson -- Untitled, from The consumer series / Derrick Adams -- What I am / Terrence Hayes -- My environment / Kraig A. Blue -- Justice in the Techno Age / Nancy Mercado -- Arriving with orders from Shaka Sankofa / Theodore A. Harris -- War pigs / s.r. bonafide -- Cheney and Mandela : reconciling the truth / Farai Chideya -- Cleaning the White House latrine / Tony Medina -- The future adventures of Tutor the turtle / Tim Seibles -- The cross, the gun, necklacing and black people / Theodore A. Harris -- The Bush boys / Kelly Norman Ellis -- Turtle eggs / Pamela Sneed -- Mother tongue : Unman chant / Edwin Torres -- The power of the press / Lisa C. Moore -- Lethal / Sheila L. Prevost -- Invasion of the body snatchers / Tim Seibles.
• The role call.
• Role call is an exploration of our current cultural landscape in poetry, fiction, essays, visual arts and theater-on-the-page. Girl child, Paw ain't no MLK / Shirley Carter -- This city has a broken halo / Artress Bethany White -- Catechism / Honorée Fanonne Jeffers -- Mother love ; Untitled / Shara McCallum -- Mama's boy / Roy L. Pickering Jr. -- Kneeling figure / Renaldo Davidson -- The sweeper's job / Clairesa Clay -- The month of May / Shirley Carter -- seven / Kim Ransom -- I did not intend to live past the knowing / Shirley Carter -- Eight / Lyrae Van Clieff-Stefanon -- Blue paloma / Kenneth L. Addison -- A father's love / Daniel Black -- Allow him to parent / John Abner -- My body is bread / Shay Youngblood -- Back / Tim Seibles -- Sex when I don't want it / Kiini Ibura Salaam -- Sometimes there are no words / Gwendolyn Mitchell -- Every morning / Esther Iverem -- Second birth / Emily Hooper Lansana -- Reach for the sun / Antoinette Pressley-Sanon -- My mother left me long before I was born / Staceyann Chin -- Jamaica farewell / Shara McCallum -- Babylon queens / Quashelle Curtis -- Irresistible intentions / Kagendo -- Auld lang syne / Kelly Norman Ellis -- Daily news / John Abner -- Son rise / Frank X Walker -- Social security / R. Erica Doyle -- Bodega Optimo / Stevenson Estimé -- Crematorium / Arthur Ade Amaker -- dreamy blues / Brian Gilmore -- Haiku / Lenard D. Moore -- Passing the middle / Jabari Asim -- Lynching / Sheila L. Prevost -- black men don't kill themselves / Darlene Anita Scott -- The first (and last) Anti-Clinton poem / Kenneth Carroll -- New rules of the road / Reginald Harris -- A story for America / Edwin Torres -- Negative / Kevin Young -- Vibrate plain / Eric Mack -- Clash of denial / Doug Jones -- The house of dangerous surprise / Lita Hooper -- Soundtrack for us / Janeé Bolden -- The inside / Jenoyne Adams -- Berry / Calida Garcia -- On days / Melissa McEwen -- When lost, ask for directions / Kysha N. Brown.
• Role call is a litmus test of- and a call to arms to- a generation grown fat on the limited freedoms won by the Civil Rights struggle. Is excess sin / Shirley Carter -- warning / Lissette Norman -- The escape / Samiya A. Bashir -- The ghost of Orpheus / Anthony Butts -- The Bible and the gun / Theodore A. Harris -- Irony of negro policeman / Kevin Young -- There is an emptiness approaching / Sharrif Simmons -- Alive / Navin June Norling -- better roses / Holly Bass -- What now? Losing communication / John Abner -- P.S. / Carl Hancock Rux -- Atonia / Ayesha J. Gallion -- Goodnight California / Kenneth L. Addison -- L.A. Suite / Jeffrey Renard Allen -- Cash, media & math / Stevenson Estimé -- New recipe / Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie -- That midnight train to Georgia / Melanie Hope -- On hearing of the death of Gwendolyn Brooks / James E. Cherry -- 1977 / Eisa Davis -- Arsonist / Gregory Pardlo -- Making foots / Nikky Finney -- I was there once / Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie -- To the winners / Rohan B. Preston -- Try to remember that South African man / John Keene -- Thoughts on those flags / Akintiunde -- The butt of the joke / Nikky Finney -- Children of the sun / Shirley Carter -- Glory / Thomas Sayers Ellis -- Pasadena City Hall, April 29, 1992 / Douglas Kearney -- 33 Fisher Ave. / Kenneth L. Addison -- Have you seen them? / Kate Rushin -- Boys think / Jacqueline P. Banyon -- George Washington / R. Gregory Christie -- those innocent eyes once weren't / r.c. glenn.
• Role call takes on race, sexuality, education, nationalism, spirituality, AIDS, globalization, hip hop and the prison industrial complex. Untitled, from The consumer series / Derrick Adams -- Narcissus sits by the river to take the S.A.T. / Samiya A. Bashir -- Gesture of a woman-in-process / Natasha Trethewey -- Retaining dignity / Calida Garcia -- Excerpt from The book of Sarahs, Part I / Catherine McKinley -- Nemsi / Quashelle Curtis -- Excerpt from The book of Sarahs, Part II / Catherine McKinley -- Girl in crib / Renaldo Davidson -- Detailing the nape / Nelson Demery III -- Paper armor / Eisa Davis -- The storm beneath the bone / Edwin Torres -- Silhouette with barbed wire / Hannan Saleh -- You in America now / R. Erica Doyle -- Drive / Duriel E. Harris -- Evidence / Bruce Morrow -- What I brought to the family reunion / Reginald Harris -- Cousin Rita / Nichole L. Shields -- Survivor rememory / Faith Sangoma -- Faggot / Thomas Sayers Ellis -- She / Nichole L. Shields -- Silent languages / Nelson Demery III -- bull-jean slipn in / Sharon Bridgforth -- Cum. Cum. / Karma Mayet Johnson -- bull-jean & trouble / Sharon Bridgforth -- Excerpt from The singer / Jacqueline Woodson -- where the boys are / Marvin K. White -- Period / Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon -- First day / Angela Shannon -- Snow / Sharan Strange -- Home speech / Kim Mayhorn -- Plenilunium / Andre O. Hoilette -- Scribulus / Toni Asante Lightfoot -- Lyric for a new life / Nancy Mercado -- Juking at Miz Annie's / Charlie R. Braxton -- Microscope / Natasha Trethewey -- For the distinguished historian-- / Sheree Renée Thomas -- Who is black? / Rosa Clemente -- At the Olmec Exhibit in Washington, D.C. / Alicia Vogl Sáenz -- My love affair with Jamaica / Staceyann Chin -- Evil gettin' there / Jiton Sharmayne Davidson -- Street corner revival / Kenneth L. Addison -- gawd and alluh huh sistahs / Letta Neely -- The goode Lorde / DJ Renegade -- A woman was lynched the other day / Kim Mayhorn -- Moontime & Mezuzahs / Carol Smith Passariello -- Three market women / Antoinette Pressley-Sanon -- When she carried a calabash / Adrian Castro -- The eyes that never left mine / Angela Hodison-Malele -- Through it all / G. Winston James -- Vellum / Danielle Legros Georges -- A real place / Thomas Glave -- Pest / Major L. Jackson -- statement on the killing of patrick dorismond / Quraysh Ali Lansana -- Bone memories / Rohan B. Preston -- You pay for what you get / Willie Perdomo -- Human-murderers ; We wear our flesh like flames / Theodore A. Harris -- Girl in flames / Hannan Saleh -- Death by marriage / Ta'Shia Asanti -- The runaways / Marilyn Fleming -- The list grows / Danielle Legros Georges -- Resistance to repression / Theodore A. Harris -- Free trade, free Cuba / Farai Chideya -- Our bones have numbers on them / Theodore A. Harris -- Ten pound draw / Willie Perdomo -- American visa / Samiya A. Bashir -- Afro-American / Sheila L. Prevost -- Coming to America / Okey Ndibe -- Illegal ingrate / Marlon Billups -- Criticism of political rap / Mtume ya Salaam -- Color in my life / Angela A. Williams -- Hip-hop Barbie / Quashelle Curtis -- wanda jean allen and the state / Evie Shockley -- Black boxisms : visiting room / Kim Mayhorn -- Dear Mama : remember that rose water / Stephanie Mwandishi Gadlin -- Libations for Pharaoh / Michael Simanga -- Less / Johnalynn Holland -- public school / Quraysh Ali Lansana -- Casualties / Deborah Vaughan -- Imprisonment / Sheila L. Prevost -- Ten precepts of a Zen peacemaker / Angel Kyodo Williams.
• Role call is a journey through the tropics of black rage, black love and black fire. Black love. Meditations for Betty Shabazz / Theodore A. Harris -- What love is / Toni Assante Lightfoot -- Love bigger than Yankee Stadium / Melissa McEwen -- Sins of the father / Kenneth L. Addison -- Labor poem #2 / Melanie Hope -- Nile & Onan sitting on a stoop eating ices / Cheryl L. Minor -- Illuminata / Lita Hooper -- Dream child / Bryant Smith -- The first time I saw Flo-Jo / Crystal Williams -- Let this cover you when you sleep / Bro. Yao -- The last moonsong / Sheree Renée Thomas -- My grandmother's camera / Johnalynn Holland -- Mr. Pate's barbershop / Major L. Jackson -- Gwendolyn Brooks / Anthony Walton -- A tribute to Ms. Gwendolyn Brooks / Michael Guinn -- Hydrangeas / Angela Shannon -- Speaksong / Lenard D. Moore -- Apple seed / Jessica Care Moore -- I removed your picture from the brass frame / Jenoyne Adams -- Woman / Calida Garcia -- I hate your guts / Rebecca Strait -- Nina / Renaldo Davidson -- Sarah Nell / Melissa McEwen -- The future as evaporation / Gregory Pardlo -- Choices / Toni Assante Lightfoot -- a terrorist's prayer / Charlie R. Braxton -- #6 / Changamire Semakokiro -- The availability of lead / Jeffrey Renard Allen -- Apocalypse / Charlie R. Braxton -- MVB-57 / Eric Mack.
• Role call is a journey through the tropics of black rage, black love and black fire. Black rage. Jah witnesses / Michael Datcher -- Nat Turner dreams of insurrection / Elizabeth Alexander -- In Elijah's fields / Gina M. Streaty -- detail -- "A woman was lynched the other day" / Kim Mayhorn -- What's painted on the walls / DJ Renegade -- mercury & the monk / Taj Greenlee -- Broken system / Sheila L. Prevost -- Grind / Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite -- Trees on our backs / Kevin Powell -- Smolder / Quarysh Ali Lansana -- The sound of burning hair / Nikky Finney -- Drapery factory, Gulfport, Mississippi, 1956 / Natasha Trethewey.
• Role call is a journey through the tropics of black rage, black love and black fire. Black fire. Love punany bad / Quashelle Curtis -- Cakewalk / Shayla Hawkins -- The plan / John Abner -- Identification please / Bryant Smith -- Autobiography of a black man / G.E. Patterson -- As for the body / John Keene -- Long days journey / Tony Medina -- The receptionist-part one / Yona Harvey -- The algebra of X / Kazim Ali -- God is love so are they / Renaldo Davidson -- Future / Carol Allen -- Struggle / Kevin Powell -- Hold up, motherfucka! / Starr Aché -- #9 / Stevenson Estimé.

ISBN

• 0883782391 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0883782383 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2001045718

OCLC

• 47790481
• SCSB-12243030

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library