"Life studies,"
Subtitle: 1966-1976
By: June Jordan ; Conor Tomás Reed and Talia Shalev, editors
Contributors: Reed, Conor Tomás, editor; Shalev, Talia, editor; Alcalay, Ammiel, series editor; Morgan, Kate Tarlow, consulting editor; Lawrence, Stephon, editor; Sullivan, Kendra, publisher; Mangum, Megan, book designer; City University of New York. Center for the Humanities
Series: Lost and Found, The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative -- series 7, number 3; Lost and Found, The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative -- ser. 7, no. 3.
Published: 2017
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 66
ISBN-13: 9780997679649
Subjects: History; Discrimination in housing; Poetry; Study and teaching (Elementary); African Americans; Education (Higher); Education; College students; Political activity; City University of New York
Other titles: Life studies :
Work titles: Works
Description: "Though many aspects of June Jordan's unique and dynamic forms of work and activism have been well documented, "Life Studies," traces a through line of her creative interventions to form a fuller portrait of her complex and interrelated engagements. Through essays and policy reports from her days as a housing activist, speeches, her work with children, and texts from her time at City College of New York, this project adds new layers to Jordan's legacy, showing how she created "living room" to enact a broad array of "life studies" that had great effect on many people in very different institutional, communal, and public settings." -- Publisher's website."--Publisher's website (viewed 2018 June 19).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

"Writer and educator, June Jordan was born in Harlem in 1936, grew up there and in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. She began her teaching career as a poet working with New York City public school students, following a few years of work as an organizer and researcher for a Harlem-based community action program. She would go on to teach at the City College of New York, Sarah Lawrence College, Yale University, and SUNY Stony Brook, initiating courses in Black Studies and Women's Studies and joining students in activist efforts. At the University of California at Berkeley, she founded the Poetry for the People program, which continues to this day. Throughout her life, she was a prolific writer, publishing essays in a wide variety of periodicals and authoring more than twenty books of essays, poetry, novels, and plays about issues of national and international significance. Jordan died of breast cancer in 2002."--Publisher's website (viewed 2018 June 19).
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Excerpt from Brief History of the Lower East Side; title: Excerpt from The Determining Slum; title: The voice of the children, inc; title: Excerpt from Children and The Hungering For; title: Ocean Hill Brownsville I.S. 55 graduation speech; title: Our eyes have grown; title: The city and the city college: an off-campus, off-camera perspective; title: Statement at CUNY Board of Higher Education tuition hearing -Acknowledgements; title: Biographical notes; title: Lost & Found.