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Manhattan my ass, you're in Oakland
 

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Manhattan my ass, you’re in Oakland

For adult readers

Winner, American Book Award 2021, Before Columbus Foundation

  • Poems of gentrification, racism, feminism, and social justice

  • “Unsettling, important, and unforgettable poetry” —Kirkus Reviews

 
 
 
 
 

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Virgin Soul
For adult readers
Virgin Soul
For adult readers

From a lauded poet and playwright, a novel of a young woman's life with the Black Panthers in 1960s San Francisco.

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Homage to the Black Arts Movement
Grade 5-12 and adults
Homage to the Black Arts Movement
Grade 5-12 and adults

Judy Juanita uses four genres to scrutinize the seminal Black Arts Movement (BAM).

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Grade 5-12 and adults
The Black Experience in Four Genres
Grade 5-12 and adults
The Black Experience in Four Genres
Grade 5-12 and adults

Four pieces in this text by writer Judy Juanita - a poem, drama, short story and essay - bring themes of adolescence, self-determination, ethnic pride, and more to college and high school students, and to general readers.

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Grade 5-12 and adults
De Facto Feminism:
For adult readers
De Facto Feminism:
For adult readers

Views activism and feminism as it plays out in one writer's political, artistic and spiritual life.

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For adult readers

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