Institutional Freedom: A Collection of African American Studies Essays - Tapa blanda

As an African American Studies undergraduate student at University of California, Berkeley, Joy Elan wrote papers that revolved around African American life and culture in the United States. This book is a collection of her favorite and best essay topics where she explored different issues in the African American/Black community. The topics ranged from family, education, legal, gender, and political. Institutional Freedom: A Collection of African American Essays is Joy Elan’s voice and these were things that impacted her to be the person she is today: a writer, a teacher, a voice for change. She is presenting this to you to show you how to think outside the box. As she has said before, silence is not always golden and she definitely thinks that knowledge should always be shared.

Joy Elan is from Oakland and Berkeley, CA. She received her undergraduate degree in African American Studies at University of California, Berkeley and her graduate degree in Education at Stanford University. She wrote two poetry books, Signs of Life: Past, Present, and Future and Silence Is Not Always Golden: A Poetic Revolution. She has taught at a community college and is currently working with urban youth in the San Francisco Bay Area.