Civil Wars

By: June Jordan

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Paperback | 19 September 1995

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A meditation on the private and public fault lines which divide American society.

In Civil Wars, June Jordan's battleground is the intersection of private and public reality, which she explores through a blending of personal reflection and political analysis. From journal entries on the line between poetry and politics and a discussion of language and power in "White" versus "Black" English, to First Amendment issues, children's rights, Black studies, American violence, and sexuality, Jordan documents the very personal ways in which she meshes with the social issues of modern-day life in this country.

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Acknowledgments	p. vii
Foreword	p. xi
Introduction	p. xvii
One Way of Beginning This Book	p. xxiii
Part One
Testimony (1964)	p. 3
Letter to Michael (1964)	p. 16
Letter to R. Buckminster Fuller (1964)	p. 23
The Voice of the Children (1967)	p. 29
On Listening: A Good Way to Hear (1967)	p. 39
Black Studies: Bringing Back the Person (1969)	p. 45
Part Two
White English/Black English: The Politics of Translation (1972)	p. 59
American Violence and the Holy Loving Spirit (1972)	p. 74
Whose Burden? (1974)	p. 78
Notes Toward a Black Balancing of Love and Hatred (1974)	p. 84
On the Occasion of a Clear and Present Danger at Yale (1975)	p. 90
Notes of a Barnard Dropout (1975)	p. 96
Angola: A Victory and a Promise (1976)	p. 103
Part Three
Declaration of an Independence I Would Just as Soon Not Have (1976)	p. 115
Thinking about My Poetry (1977)	p. 122
Old Stories: New Lives (1978)	p. 130
Where Is the Love? (1978)	p. 140
Against the Wall (1978)	p. 147
In the Valley of the Shadow of Death (1978)	p. 150
Black History as Myth (1979)	p. 163
Beyond Apocalypse Now (1980)	p. 169
Civil Wars (1980)	p. 178
Permissions	p. 189
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