Notes from the field
- Title
- Notes from the field / Anna Deavere Smith.
- Published by
- New York : Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2019.
- ©2019
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xxiii, 158 pages : illustrations; 21 cm
- Summary
- "Notes from the Field--originally performed as a one-person play--portrays a host of real-life figures who have witnessed, experienced, and fought the system that pushes students of color out of the classroom and into prisons. (As Smith put it in a recent interview: "Stuff that for middle-class kids or rich kids, it'd be considered mischief; for poor kids, it's really that road to prison.") We are introduced to these figures one by one: Sherrilyn Iffil, president of the NAACP; Rev. Jamal Harrison Bryant, who spoke at the funeral of Freddie Gray; Niya Kenny, a high school student who was arrested for defending a classmate against a teacher's overzealous discipline; Bree Newsome, the activist who made headlines when she removed the Confederate flag from the state house grounds of South Carolina; and many others. Taken together, these voices bear powerful witness to a great injustice of our time--and inspire us with their accounts of perseverance, resistance, and progress"--
- Uniform title
- Works. Selections
- Alternative title
- Works.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Monologues (Drama)
- Drama.
- Contents
- Prologue: Sherrilyn Ifill -- The death of Freddie Gray -- Kevin Moore -- Allen Bullock -- Jamal Harrison Bryant -- Councilman Michael Tubbs -- On the river -- Taos proctor -- Abby Abinanti -- Leticia de Santiago -- The Shakara story -- Amanda Ripley -- Niya Kenny -- Denise Dodson -- Trauma -- Sari Muhonen -- Dr. Victor Carrion, MD -- Steven Campos -- Stephanie Williams -- Bryan Stevenson -- Never give up -- James Baldwin -- Sherrilynn Ifill -- Bree Newsome -- Congressman John Lewis.
- Call number
- Sc D 19-600
- Note
- "An Anchor Books original."
- Author
- Smith, Anna Deavere, author.
- Title
- Notes from the field / Anna Deavere Smith.
- Publisher
- New York : Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2019.
- Copyright date
- ©2019
- Type of content
- text
- Type of medium
- unmediated
- Type of carrier
- volume
- LCCN
- 2018040656
- ISBN
- 9780525564591 trade paperback alkaline paper
- 0525564594 trade paperback alkaline paper
- Research call number
- Sc D 19-600