This omnibus edition collects celebrated poet and activist Nikki Giovanni \'s adult prose: Racism 101, Sacred Cows and Other Edibles and seven (7) selections from Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-Five Years of Being a Black Poet, which was nominated for the National Book Award in 1971.
Rap Brown and others..
Nikki interweaves warm recollections of her personal history with incisive vignettes of cultural and political history, including her often surprising opinions of Amiri Baraka, Angela Davis, Lena Horne, Stokely Carmichael, H.
Her essays take us from her childhood in Knoxville, Tennessee, through her work in the Black revolution of the sixties, to her emergence as an acclaimed poet.
In Gemini (1971), Giovanni explores one of the most tumultuous periods in our history.
In it Nikki\'s esays and articles take on the loftiness of higher education and personal major life crises.
Sacred Cows and Other Edibles (1988) received the Ohioana Library Award.
Racism 101 adds an important chapter to the debate on American national values.
DuBois, affirmative action, President JFK and the state of urban schools.
Giovanni gives searing commentary on Spike Lee and the making of Malcolm X , W.
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Racism 101 (1994) contains essays that indict higher education for the inequities it perpetuates and contemplates the legacy of the 1960s.
This omnibus edition collects celebrated poet and activist Nikki Giovanni \'s adult prose: Racism 101, Sacred Cows and Other Edibles and seven (7) selections from Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-Five Years of Being a Black Poet, which was nominated for the National Book Award in 1971
