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(0)Salamishah Tillet
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Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Tillet's cultural criticism blends literary history, biography, and memoir in an exploration of Alice Walker's National Book Award-winning novel that examines its influence against a backdrop of the civil rights encroachments of the early 1980s.
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Series
Language
English
Description
Alice Walker made history in 1982 when she became the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, both for The Color Purple. Published in the Reagan Era amid a severe backlash to civil rights, the jazz-age novel tells the story of an African-American woman haunted by domestic and sexual violence. Prominent academic and activist Salamishah Tillet combines cultural criticism, history, and memoir to explore Walker's epistolary...
Publisher
Re-emerging Films
Pub. Date
c2015
Language
English
Description
An in-depth biography of the complicated but extremely talented song stylist and her successes as a performer. From Eunice Waymon, an Juilliard-trained concert pianist, she reinvented herself as a singer and put her personal stamp on songs from the pop, folk, and jazz genres, and on her own compositions. Also covers her unwillingness to compromise in her personal and her artistic life.
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Language
English
Description
A new edition of the 1988 classic text that exposed the extreme prevalence of rape in America, coining the term acquaintance rape and establishing the disturbing statistics on sexual assault that still hold just as true today-now featuring an original preface from Gloria Steinem, a new introduction by Salamishah Tillet, an updated afterword by Mary P. Koss, PH.D., as well as an updated resources section. In 1988, Robin Warshaw wrote I Never Called...
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Series
Poetry in America volume 11
Language
English
Description
"New York State of Mind" by Nas, featuring Nas, Steve Stoute, Ben Horowitz, Salamishah Tillet, and a chorus of hip hop heads