Notes from the field / Anna Deavere Smith.

Notes from the field / Anna Deavere Smith.

Works. Selections

9780525564591 (paperback)
0525564594 (paperback)
9780525564607 (electronic book)

New York : Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2019]

English

xxiii, 158 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

PS3569.M465 N68 2019

812/.54

"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.

"An Anchor Books original."

On-Campus Resources > Books
All Resources