Title
Notes from the field / Anna Deavere Smith.
Uniform Title
Works. Selections
ISBN
9780525564591 (paperback)
0525564594 (paperback)
9780525564607 (electronic book)
Published
New York : Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2019]
Language
English
Description
xxiii, 158 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Call Number
PS3569.M465 N68 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification
812/.54
Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Note
"An Anchor Books original."
Prologue: Sherrilyn Ifill
The death of Freddie Gray
Kevin Moore
Allen Bullock
Jamal Harrison Bryant
Councilman Michael Tubbs
On the river
Taos proctor
Abby Abinanti
Leticia de Santiago
The Shakara story
Amanda Ripley
Niya Kenny
Denise Dodson
Trauma
Sari Muhonen
Dr. Victor Carrion, MD
Steven Campos
Stephanie Williams
Bryan Stevenson
Never give up
James Baldwin
Sherrilynn Ifill
Bree Newsome
Congressman John Lewis.
