Jabari Asim
Auteur de Fifty Cents and a Dream: Young Booker T. Washington
A propos de l'auteur
Jabari Asim is a poet, critic, and playwright who works as a senior editor at the Washington Post Book World. His work appeared most recently in Step Into a World: A Global Anthology of New Black Literature, The Salon Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literature, and Brown Sugar: A Collection of afficher plus Erotic Black Fiction. He is also the author of The Road to Freedom, a novel for young adults. He lives outside Washington, D.C., with his wife and children afficher moins
Crédit image: Jabari Asim. Photo by Mary Ishimoto Morris.
Œuvres de Jabari Asim
A Child's Introduction to African American History: The Experiences, People, and Events That Shaped Our Country (1993) 93 exemplaires
The Road to Freedom: A Story of the Reconstruction (Jamestown's American Portraits) (2001) 28 exemplaires
A Child's Introduction to Jazz: The Musicians, Culture, and Roots of the World's Coolest Music (2022) 12 exemplaires
Em algum lugar la fora 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Beyond the Frontier: African American Poetry for the 21st Century (2002) — Contributeur — 17 exemplaires
Poemhood: Our Black Revival: History, Folklore & the Black Experience: A Young Adult Poetry Anthology (2024) — Contributeur — 16 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Asim, Jabari
- Date de naissance
- 1962
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Illinois, USA
Maryland, USA - Professions
- poet
columnist (Washington Post)
playwright
novelist
editor - Organisations
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (scholar in residence)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (editor-in-chief of The Crisis|NAACP magazine)
Washington Post (deputy editor of the book review section)
National Book Critics Circle (vice president) - Prix et distinctions
- Guggenheim Fellowship (Nonfiction, 2009)
- Agent
- The Agency Group
Membres
Critiques
We Can't Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and… par Jabari Asim
good, but reading level might be too high for most high school students
Less of a short story collection than a loosely connected novel. I was immediately invested in the inhabitants of these stories, rooting for them in their trials and celebrating every good turn. I'm going to miss them.
This novel gives strong personalities to the enslaved people living with the pain of a harsh task master, an indifferent owner, loved ones sent away without warning, little knowledge of the surrounding country yet trusting in the rumors of a better place to live. Escaping was not as easy as just walking off.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 24
- Aussi par
- 8
- Membres
- 1,651
- Popularité
- #15,564
- Évaluation
- 4.1
- Critiques
- 52
- ISBN
- 99
- Langues
- 1