Affirmative Acts
Subtitle: Political Essays
By: June Jordan.
Edition: 1st Anchor Books ed.
Publisher: Anchor; Anchor Books, Doubleday
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780385492256
Subjects: Jordan, June, 1936-; African Americans -- Civil rights; Affirmative action programs -- United States; African Americans -- Social conditions -- 1975-; Women's rights -- United States; Women -- United States -- Social conditions; United States -- Politics and government -- 1989-; United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
Description: Affirmative Acts: Political Essays marks the twenty-fifth book in the celebrated career of poet, essayist, activist, and professor June Jordan. The recipient of the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest and the PEN West Freedom to Write Awards, Jordan has created a widely influential and groundbreaking body of work over several decades.

With the same clear-sighted passion found in her classic essay collections Civil Wars and Living Room, in Affirmative Acts Jordan writes about controversial, critical, and timely issues that are currently at the center of American debate.