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Ordinary notes  Cover Image Book Book

Ordinary notes / Christina Sharpe.

Summary:

A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores with immense care profound questions about loss, and the shapes of Black life that emerge in the wake. In a series of 248 brief and urgent notes that gather meaning as we read them, Christina Sharpe skillfully weaves artifacts from the past--public ones alongside others that are poignantly personal--with present-day realities and possible futures, intricately constructing an immersive portrait of everyday Black existence. Through the striking images and words in these pages, themes and tones echo: sometimes about life, art, language, beauty, memory; sometimes about history, photography, and literature--but always attending, with exquisite care, to the ordinary-extraordinary dimensions of Black life.

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  • ISBN: 9781039000582 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 379 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 23 cm
  • Publisher: Toronto, ON : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2023.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Subject: African Americans > Civil rights > 21st century.
African Americans > Social aspects > 21st century.
Civil rights > United States > 21st century.
Discrimination > African Americans > 21st century.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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CHRISTINA SHARPE is a writer, Professor, and Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University in Toronto. She is also a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Race, Gender & Class (RGC), at the University of Johannesburg and a Matakyev Research Fellow at the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands at the Arizona State University. She is the author of: In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Duke University Press, 2016)—named by the Guardian and The Walrus as one of the best books of 2016 and a nonfiction finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award—and Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects (Duke University Press, 2010).


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