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Black Poetic Inquiry

A Daily Writing Project on Race, Culture, and Life

by Bryant Keith Alexander, Mary E. Weems ...

Series series International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI) Foundations and Futures in Qualitative Inquiry
The poems in this project were written within a 24‑hour period of each other and are presented in order of their appearance for the month of January 2024.Written as a call and response to each other, the poems are at times direct responses in content and form, or a mediation on what the offering triggered in the other. Using poetry writing as a methodological engagement with the reflective and ... Read more

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The poems in this project were written within a 24‑hour period of each other and are presented in order of their appearance for the month of January 2024.Written as a call and response to each other, the poems are at times direct responses in content and form, or a mediation on what the offering triggered in the other. Using poetry writing as a methodological engagement with the reflective and
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Epistolary Autoethnographies on Loss, Memory, and Resolution

Reflections on Black Motherhood

by Bryant Keith Alexander, Mary E. Weems ...

Series series International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI) Foundations and Futures in Qualitative Inquiry
This book uses letter writing as a form of engaging autoethnography to address relational histories and dynamics such as race, gender, loss, memory and resolution.It is structured around textual performances, poems, and dialogues in the form of letters. Set within the context of adult Black children and their Black mothers, each author uses their letters to reflect on life with and without mama, ... Read more

$67.99 USD

This book uses letter writing as a form of engaging autoethnography to address relational histories and dynamics such as race, gender, loss, memory and resolution.It is structured around textual performances, poems, and dialogues in the form of letters. Set within the context of adult Black children and their Black mothers, each author uses their letters to reflect on life with and without mama,
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Collaborative Spirit-Writing and Performance in Everyday Black Lives

by Bryant Keith Alexander, Mary E. Weems ...

Series series Qualitative Inquiry and Social Justice
Collaborative Spirit-Writing and Performance in Everyday Black Lives is about the interconnectedness between collaboration, spirit, and writing. It is also about a dialogic engagement that draws upon shared lived experiences, hopes, and fears of two Black persons: male/female, straight/gay.This book is structured around a series of textual performances, poems, plays, dialogues, calls and responses ... Read more

$55.99 USD

Collaborative Spirit-Writing and Performance in Everyday Black Lives is about the interconnectedness between collaboration, spirit, and writing. It is also about a dialogic engagement that draws upon shared lived experiences, hopes, and fears of two Black persons: male/female, straight/gay.This book is structured around a series of textual performances, poems, plays, dialogues, calls and responses
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Performative Intergenerational Dialogues of a Black Quartet

Qualitative Inquiries on Race, Gender, Sexualities, and Culture

by Bryant Keith Alexander, Mary E. Weems, Dominique C. Hill, Durell M. Callier ...

Series series International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI) Foundations and Futures in Qualitative Inquiry
Performative Intergenerational Dialogues of a Black Quartet promotes the importance of intergenerational Black dialogue as a collaborative spirit-making across race, genders, sexualities, and cultures to bridge time and space.The authors enter this dialogue in a crisis moment: a crisis moment at the confluence of a pandemic, the national political transition of leadership in the United States, the ... Read more

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Performative Intergenerational Dialogues of a Black Quartet promotes the importance of intergenerational Black dialogue as a collaborative spirit-making across race, genders, sexualities, and cultures to bridge time and space.The authors enter this dialogue in a crisis moment: a crisis moment at the confluence of a pandemic, the national political transition of leadership in the United States, the
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Mouths of Rain

An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought

Edited by Briona Simone Jones ...

Winner, Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ AnthologyWinner, Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction, Publishing Triangle AwardsA Ms. magazine, Refinery29, and Lambda Literary Most Anticipated Read of 2021A groundbreaking collection tracing the history of intellectual thought by Black Lesbian writers, in the tradition of The New Press's perennial seller Words of FireAfrican Americ... ... Read more

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Winner, Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ AnthologyWinner, Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction, Publishing Triangle AwardsA Ms. magazine, Refinery29, and Lambda Literary Most Anticipated Read of 2021A groundbreaking collection tracing the history of intellectual thought by Black Lesbian writers, in the tradition of The New Press's perennial seller Words of FireAfrican Americ...
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Unruly Therapeutic

Black Feminist Writings and Practices in Living Room

by Foluke Taylor ...

Centering the experiences of black women allows for richer therapeutic practices for everyone.“Black feminisms have provided a foundation from which it becomes more possible to speak and write of interconnection—of a spirited life, soul, a natural mystic blowing through the air—and engagement with all of this in therapeutic practice.”Part thesis, part memoir, and part poetry, this book is unlike ... Read more

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Centering the experiences of black women allows for richer therapeutic practices for everyone.“Black feminisms have provided a foundation from which it becomes more possible to speak and write of interconnection—of a spirited life, soul, a natural mystic blowing through the air—and engagement with all of this in therapeutic practice.”Part thesis, part memoir, and part poetry, this book is unlike
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In a Human Voice

by Carol Gilligan ...

Winner of the 2025 Kyoto Prize for Arts and PhilosophyCarol Gilligan's landmark book In a Different Voice – the "little book that started a revolution" – brought women's voices to the fore in work on the self and moral development, enabling women to be heard in their own right, and with their own integrity, for the first time.Forty years later, Gilligan returns to the subject matter of her classic ... Read more

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Winner of the 2025 Kyoto Prize for Arts and PhilosophyCarol Gilligan's landmark book In a Different Voice – the "little book that started a revolution" – brought women's voices to the fore in work on the self and moral development, enabling women to be heard in their own right, and with their own integrity, for the first time.Forty years later, Gilligan returns to the subject matter of her classic
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Ethnographically Speaking

Autoethnography, Literature, and Aesthetics

by Carolyn Ellis, Michael V. Angrosino, Arthur P. Bochner, Kathryn Church, Teresa Beverly Dent, Douglas Flemons, Arthur Frank, Kenneth Gergen, Mary Gergen0, H. L. Goodall1, Ross Gray2, Shelley Green3, Scott Hoy4, Vrenia Ivonoffski5, Elaine Jenks6, Stacy Holman Jones7, Christine Kiesinger8, Lesa Lockford9, Ernest Lockridge0, Ron Pelias1, Picart Kay2, Laurel Richardson3, Janice Rushing4, Christina Sinding5, Andrew C. Sparkes6, Paul Stoller7, Lisa Tillmann-Healy8 ...

Series series Ethnographic Alternatives
This volume presents the latest explorations of the literary turn in ethnographic work by many of the leading people in the area. Centering on autoethnography, personal narrative, ethnographic performance, and the blending of social science and the arts, the articles collected here emphasize embodiment, experiential understanding, participatory ways of knowing, sensuous engagement, and intimate ... Read more

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This volume presents the latest explorations of the literary turn in ethnographic work by many of the leading people in the area. Centering on autoethnography, personal narrative, ethnographic performance, and the blending of social science and the arts, the articles collected here emphasize embodiment, experiential understanding, participatory ways of knowing, sensuous engagement, and intimate
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The Sweet Spot

The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning

by Paul Bloom ...

“This book will challenge you to rethink your vision of a good life. With sharp insights and lucid prose, Paul Bloom makes a captivating case that pain and suffering are essential to happiness. It’s an exhilarating antidote to toxic positivity.” —Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of the TED podcast WorkLifeOne of Behavioral Scientist's Notable Books of 2021.. ... Read more

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“This book will challenge you to rethink your vision of a good life. With sharp insights and lucid prose, Paul Bloom makes a captivating case that pain and suffering are essential to happiness. It’s an exhilarating antidote to toxic positivity.” —Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and host of the TED podcast WorkLifeOne of Behavioral Scientist's Notable Books of 2021..
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On Freedom

Four Songs of Care and Constraint

by Maggie Nelson ...

Named a Most Anticipated/Best Book of the Month by: NPR * USA Today * Time * Washington Post * Vulture * Women’s Wear Daily * Bustle * LitHub * The Millions * Vogue * Nylon * Shondaland * Chicago Review of Books * The Guardian * Los Angeles Times * Kirkus * Publishers WeeklySo often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or li... ... Read more

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Named a Most Anticipated/Best Book of the Month by: NPR * USA Today * Time * Washington Post * Vulture * Women’s Wear Daily * Bustle * LitHub * The Millions * Vogue * Nylon * Shondaland * Chicago Review of Books * The Guardian * Los Angeles Times * Kirkus * Publishers WeeklySo often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or li...
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Nice White Ladies

The Truth about White Supremacy, Our Role in It, and How We Can Help Dismantle It

by Jessie Daniels ...

An acclaimed expert illuminates the distinctive role that white women play in perpetuating racism, and how they can work to fight itIn a nation deeply divided by race, the “Karens” of the world are easy to villainize. But in Nice White Ladies, Jessie Daniels addresses the unintended complicity of even well-meaning white women. She reveals how their everyday choices harm communities of color. White ... Read more

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An acclaimed expert illuminates the distinctive role that white women play in perpetuating racism, and how they can work to fight itIn a nation deeply divided by race, the “Karens” of the world are easy to villainize. But in Nice White Ladies, Jessie Daniels addresses the unintended complicity of even well-meaning white women. She reveals how their everyday choices harm communities of color. White
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Passing for Perfect

College Impostors and Other Model Minorities

by erin Khuê Ninh ...

Series series Asian American History & Cultu
In her engaging study, *Passing for Perfect,*erin Khuê Ninh considers the factors that drove college imposters such as Azia Kim—who pretended to be a Stanford freshman—and Jennifer Pan—who hired a hitman to kill her parents before they found out she had never received her high school diploma—to extreme lengths to appear successful. Why would someone make such an illogical choice? And how do they ... Read more

$23.09 USD

In her engaging study, *Passing for Perfect,*erin Khuê Ninh considers the factors that drove college imposters such as Azia Kim—who pretended to be a Stanford freshman—and Jennifer Pan—who hired a hitman to kill her parents before they found out she had never received her high school diploma—to extreme lengths to appear successful. Why would someone make such an illogical choice? And how do they
... Read more

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