Poetry in a new race era

Daedalus

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 154-162

  Jocson, Korina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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EID: 79551537890     PISSN: 00115266     EISSN: 15486192     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/DAED_a_00067     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Thomas L.Friedman,Finishing Our Work,The New York Times, November 4, 2008;
2. Shelby Steele, "Obama's Post-Racial Promise," Los Angeles Times, November 5, 2008.
3. Derrick Bell, Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism (New York: Basic Books, 1992).
4. Zeus Leonardo,After the Glow: Race Ambivalence and Other Educational Prognoses,; Educational Philosophy and Theory (forthcoming).
5. Many thanks to Zeus Leonardo for an engaging conversation then and the continued dialogue present here.
6. Kwame Anthony Appiah, "The Politics of Identity," Dædalus 135 (4) (2006): 15-22.
7. Korina Jocson, Youth Poets: Empowering Literacies In and Out of Schools (New York: Peter Lang, 2008).
8. Maisha Fisher, Writing in Rhythm: Spoken Word Poetry in Urban Classrooms (New York: Teachers College Press, 2007)
9. Korina Jocson, "'Taking It to the Mic': Pedagogy of June Jordan's Poetry for the People and Partnership with an Urban High School," English Education 37 (2) (2005): 44-60
10. Ruth Kim, "Spoken Art Pedagogies: Youth, Race & the Cultural Politics of an Arts Education Movement," unpublished dissertation (University of California, Santa Cruz)
11. Jen Weiss and Scott Herndon, Brave New Voices: The Youth Speaks Guide to Teaching Spoken Word and Poetry (Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 2001).
12. For more information on each organization, visit Youth Speaks, http://www.youthspeaks.org, and Urban Word nyc, http://www.urbanwordnyc.org.
13. For schedule and details on bnv's Annual Youth Poetry Slam Festival, visit http://www.bravenewvoices.org
14. Video clips of past episodes on hbo as well as sample poems performed by various teams are available at http://www.hbo.com/bravenewvoices. The series based on the bnv Festival held in Los Angeles aired on hbo in Fall 2010.
15. These and several other poems from teams Ann Arbor, Fort Lauderdale, Hawaii, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Santa Fe are featured on hbo's website, http://www.hbo.com.
16. Full episodes of the bnv series, interwoven with narratives about each poet, may also be viewed via hbo On Demand or purchased as a dvd set.
17. The video can be accessed via http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/1/2lms. For more information on the artist, visit http://yellowgurl.com.
18. http://www.zuzu1/2lms.com
19. Sapphire, Push (New York: Vintage, 1996).
20. Precious was also nominated for three Golden Globe Awards, including Best Motion Picture, Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture Drama, and Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture (Drama)
21. Mo'Nique was nominated, and won, in the latter category. Additionally, recious was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Actress in a Leading Role, Actress in a Supporting Role, Director, Film Editing, Best Picture, and Adapted Screenplay. Mo'Nique won in the category of Actress in a Supporting Role, as did Geoffrey Fletcher for Adapted Screenplay.
22. For a related discussion, see Zeus Leonardo and Margaret Hunter, "Imagining the Urban: The Politics of Race, Class, and Schooling," in International Handbook of Urban Education,
23. William T. Pink and George W. Noblit (New York: Springer, 2007).
24. Theodor Adorno, The Culture Industry, Classics Series (New York: Routledge, 1991)
25. enry A. Giroux, Fugitive Cultures: Race, Violence, and Youth (New York: Routledge, 1996)
26. Henry A. Giroux, Youth in a Suspect Society: Democracy or Disposability (New York: Palgrave, 2009).
27. Daniel Solorzano, Miguel Ceja, and Tara Yosso, "Critical Race Theory, Racial Microaggressions, and Campus Racial Climate: The Experiences of African American College Students," The Journal of Negro Education 69 (1-2) (2000): 60-73.
28. Grace Carroll, Environmental Stress and African Americans: The Other Side of the Moon (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1997)
29. Chester M. Pierce, "Offensive Mechanisms," in The Black Seventies, ed. Floyd B. Barbour (Boston: Porter Sargent, 1970), 265-282.
30. I would like to thank Gerald Early for the invitation to contribute to this volume. His critical feedback pushed the writing and further shaped the ideas presented in this essay.
31. I would also like to thank all the poets and writers whose works are included, allowing for a fuller illustration of the topic.