The People Can Fly: American Promise, Black Prodigies, and the Greatest Miracle of All Time - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Little Brown and CompanyISBN-13:9780316576024ISBN-10:316576026UPC:9780316576024Book Category:Social Science, History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Cultural & Ethnic Studies, African American & Black, MemoirsBook Topic:AmericanSize:9.30 x 6.30 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SC651PEK5F
The People Can Fly: American Promise, Black Prodigies, and the Greatest Miracle of All Time
What does it mean to be deemed promising in an unjust world? The award-winning poet and MIT Distinguished Chair of the Humanities interrogates this question--and offers a more expansive vision of giftedness--in this striking, original work. "The People Can Fly will levitate your mind and enrich your soul." --Lena Waithe What does promise cost in America? Especially when that promise is seen as...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Little Brown and CompanyISBN-13:9780316576024ISBN-10:316576026UPC:9780316576024Book Category:Social Science, History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Cultural & Ethnic Studies, African American & Black, MemoirsBook Topic:AmericanSize:9.30 x 6.30 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SC651PEK5F
Dr. Joshua Bennett is the author of The Sobbing School (Penguin, 2016)--which was a National Poetry Series selection and a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. He is also the author of Being Property Once Myself (Harvard University Press, 2020), Owed (Penguin, 2020), The Study of Human Life (Penguin, 2022), and Spoken Word: A Cultural History (Knopf, 2023). He has received fellowships and awards...
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