Still seeking an attitude : critical reflections on the work of June Jordan /
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Lanham, Md. :
Lexington Books,
[2004]
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Table of Contents:
- Editors' introduction : "olive and us: notes for an empire of barbarians" / Margret Grebowicz and Valerie Kinloch
- Poem : "Case in point" / by June Jordan
- "This is the only time to come together" : June Jordan's publics and the possibility of democracy / Nicky Marsh
- Exposing the lie of neutrality : June Jordan's affirmative acts / Christina Accomando
- Narrating nation : exploring the space of Americaness and the place of African American women through the works of June Jordan / Ramona Coleman
- Poem : "What would I do White?" by June Jordan
- Black English as a linguistic system : a statement about our rights / Valerie Kinloch
- Telling her own truth : June Jordan, standard English, and the epistemology of ignorance / Nancy McHugh
- Notes toward a multicultural writing center : the problems of language in a democratic state / Ann E. Green
- Poem : "One minus one minus one" by June Jordan
- "Affirmative acts" : language, childhood, and power in June Jordan's cross-writing / Richard Flynn
- Taking children seriously : June Jordan's contribution to African American children's literature / KaaVonia Hinton-Johnson
- Beyond "orientation" : on sex, poetry, and the violability of children / Margret Grebowicz
- Poem : "Calling on all silent minorities" by June Jordan
- Performing "righteous certainty" : the shifting poetic address of June Jordan's war resistance poetry / Phil Metres
- June Jordan's radical pedagogy : activist poetry in public education / Kirsten Bartholomew Ortega
- Finding a democratic speech : the intercultural poetics and pedagogy of June Jordan's poetry for the people / Jonathan Stalling
- Poem : "War and memory" / by June Jordan
- Writing war, writing memory / Jane Creighton
- Words & roses / Rafael Jesús González
- June, with love / Laura Flanders
- A colored democracy : "cultural exchange" revisited / Valerie Kinloch
- Directed by desire / Sara Miles.