@article{925309,
      note = {"An Anchor Books original."},
      author = {Smith, Anna Deavere,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/925309},
      title = {Notes from the field /},
      abstract = {"Notes from the Field--originally performed as a  one-person play--portrays a host of real-life figures who  have witnessed, experienced, and fought the system that  pushes students of color out of the classroom and into  prisons. (As Smith put it in a recent interview: "Stuff  that for middle-class kids or rich kids, it'd be considered  mischief; for poor kids, it's really that road to prison.")  We are introduced to these figures one by one: Sherrilyn  Iffil, president of the NAACP; Rev. Jamal Harrison Bryant,  who spoke at the funeral of Freddie Gray; Niya Kenny, a  high school student who was arrested for defending a  classmate against a teacher's overzealous discipline; Bree  Newsome, the activist who made headlines when she removed  the Confederate flag from the state house grounds of South  Carolina; and many others. Taken together, these voices  bear powerful witness to a great injustice of our time--and  inspire us with their accounts of perseverance, resistance,  and progress"--},
      recid = {925309},
      pages = {xxiii, 158 pages :},
}