Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art

by Tony Medina (Editor), Samiya Bashir (Editor), Quraysh Ali Lansana (Editor)

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""Welcome to the 21st Century"" bids the opening line of this literary ""multimedia"" experience, brought to us by three leading Black author-activists of the post-Civil Rights Movement generation. This collection of more than 300 poems, essays, paintings, photos, and mixed media representations features myriad voices of the generation bridging the gap between the children of the Civil Rights Movement and those of the present hip hop movement.

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Tony Medina is a key figure in the current spoken-word poetry scene. He is the author of several collections of poems. He lives in New York City. (Bowker Author Biography)
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Fiction and Literature
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810.8Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican literature in EnglishAnthologies and Collections
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PS508 .N3 .R64Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureCollections of American literature
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