"Though many aspects of June Jordan's unique and dynamic forms of work and activism have been well documented, "Life Studies," traces a through line of her creative interventions to form a fuller portrait of her complex and interrelated engagements. Through essays and policy reports from her days as a housing activist, speeches, her work with children, and texts from her time at City College of New York, this project adds new layers to Jordan's legacy, showing how she created "living room" to enact a broad array of "life studies" that had great effect on many people in very different institutional, communal, and public settings." -- Publisher's website."--Publisher's website (viewed 2018 June 19).
Alternative Title:
Lost and Found, The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative ; series 7, number 3 and Works. Selections. 2017
Description:
"Writer and educator, June Jordan was born in Harlem in 1936, grew up there and in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. She began her teaching career as a poet working with New York City public school students, following a few years of work as an organizer and researcher for a Harlem-based community action program. She would go on to teach at the City College of New York, Sarah Lawrence College, Yale University, and SUNY Stony Brook, initiating courses in Black Studies and Women's Studies and joining students in activist efforts. At the University of California at Berkeley, she founded the Poetry for the People program, which continues to this day. Throughout her life, she was a prolific writer, publishing essays in a wide variety of periodicals and authoring more than twenty books of essays, poetry, novels, and plays about issues of national and international significance. Jordan died of breast cancer in 2002."--Publisher's website (viewed 2018 June 19)., Includes bibliographical references., Introduction -- Excerpt from Brief History of the Lower East Side -- Excerpt from The Determining Slum -- The voice of the children, inc -- Excerpt from Children and The Hungering For -- Ocean Hill Brownsville I.S. 55 graduation speech -- Our eyes have grown -- The city and the city college: an off-campus, off-camera perspective -- Statement at CUNY Board of Higher Education tuition hearing -Acknowledgements -- Biographical notes -- Lost & Found., and Original wrappers.
Subject (Geographic):
New York (State)--New York
Subject (Name):
Alcalay, Ammiel, editor of series, City University of New York. Center for the Humanities, issuing body, City University of New York--History, Jordan, June, 1936-2002, Lawrence, Stephon, managing editor, Mangum, Megan, book designer, and Morgan, Kate Tarlow, consul
Subject (Topic):
African Americans--Education (Higher), African Americans--Education (Higher)--New York (State)--New York--20th century, College students--Political activity, College students--Political activity--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century, Discrimination in housing, Discrimination in housing--New York (State)--New York--20th century, Education, Education--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century, Poetry--Study and teaching (Elementary), and Poetry--Study and teaching (Elementary)--New York (State)--New York--20th century
National Conference on Equal Opportunity in Housing: Challenge to American Communities, (1963
Published / Created:
1963?]
Call Number:
E185.89 H6 N37 (LC)+ Oversize
Image Count:
72
Description:
Cover title: Equal opportunity in housing; challenge to American communities. and "Sponsored by the National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing."
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Topic):
African Americans, Housing, and Discrimination in housing
