Readying to Rise: Essays - Tapa blanda

Green, Marcus Harrison

 
9781609441432: Readying to Rise: Essays
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ISBN 10: 1609441435 ISBN 13: 9781609441432
Editorial: VertVolta Press, 2021

Sinopsis

Social justice is an ideal. It’s not a reality. And while there are moments that make it feel tantalizingly close, the moment that follows often punts it right back to the far distance. Growing up black in south Seattle, journalist and essayist Marcus Harrison Green has a keen sense of exactly where and how things break down. From his own experience in the classroom and at the hands of police to his fierce dissection of the racism baked into media and journalism, Green makes poetry of the clarity that comes after long reflection.


In this collection, Green bears sharp witness to the Black Lives Matter movement, his own journey into and out of religious faith, his grandmother’s lessons, his battle with bipolar disorder, human mortality, blatant hypocrisy, and much more.


He shines a light on what hurts the most deeply in us: not only the brutal injustice of a world built by the powerful for the powerful, but the close proximity of that brutality to a persistent kernel of hope.  


Yet because there is hope, there is conviction. Green never falters in the knowledge that the struggle itself is something to tie ourselves to and define ourselves by. With astute analyses, evocative imagery, profound empathy, and the ability to laugh at it all, these essays, even with their collective weight, leave us much lighter than they found us.


Finalist for the Washington State Book Award for Creative Nonfiction

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Acerca del autor

Marcus Harrison Green is the editor-in-chief and co-founder of the South Seattle Emerald. He writes a regular column on South Seattle personalities, social movements, juvenile justice and American society, and he is an op-ed columnist for The Seattle Times. He is a former scholar-in-residence at Town Hall Seattle, a past Reporting Fellow with YES! Magazine, and a recipient of Crosscut's Courage Award for Culture. He is the editor of Emerald Reflections: A South Seattle Emerald Anthology, Emerald Reflections 2: A South Seattle Emerald Anthology, and Fly to the Assemblies: Seattle and the Rise of the Resistance. He currently resides in Seattle's Rainier Beach neighborhood.

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Editorial
VertVolta Press
Año de publicación
2021
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ISBN 10 
1609441435
ISBN 13 
9781609441432
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Número de páginas
204
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