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My Soul Look Back in Wonder
- Narrator
- Carmen Jewel Jones
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 8 November 2022
- Run Time
- 10 hours
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
These eleven essays narrate the development of Dr. G's race, gender, class, and linguistic consciousness as a member of the Black Power Generation of the 1960s and 70s. In My Soul Look Back In Wonder, Dr. G links the personal to the professional and the political, situating the struggles, and successes, of a Black woman in the Academy within the historical experiences and development of her people.
As Dr. G enters her eighth decade, in this Black Lives Matter historical moment, she seeks to share the meaning and purpose of a life of study and struggle and its significance for all those who seek racial and social justice today.
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Details
- Author
- Geneva Napoleon Smitherman
- Narrator
- Carmen Jewel Jones
- Duration
- 10 hours
- Release Date
- 8 November 2022
- ISBN
- 9798765033869
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Sociolinguistics, Ethnic studies, Gender studies, gender groups
Synopsis
This is the story of Dr. Geneva Smitherman, aka "Dr. G," the pioneering linguist often referred to as the "Queen of Black Language." In a series of narrative essays, Dr. G writes eloquently and powerfully about the role of language in social transformation and the academic, intellectual, linguistic, and societal debates that shaped her groundbreaking work as a Black Studies O.G. and a Womanist scholar-activist of African American Language.These eleven essays narrate the development of Dr. G's race, gender, class, and linguistic consciousness as a member of the Black Power Generation of the 1960s and 70s. In My Soul Look Back In Wonder, Dr. G links the personal to the professional and the political, situating the struggles, and successes, of a Black woman in the Academy within the historical experiences and development of her people.As Dr. G enters her eighth decade, in this Black Lives Matter historical moment, she seeks to share the meaning and purpose of a life of study and struggle and its significance for all those who seek racial and social justice today.
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