Role Call: A Generational
Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art
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Editors Tony Medina, Samiya A.
Bashir and Quraysh Ali Lansana
What is the role of today's emerging young artists in the current
struggle for equality and justice? How do the voices of the neXt
generation define the issues and politics of today?
Role Call is just that. It's a role call of a new generation of Black
writers and artists. It is an exploration of our current cultural
landscape in poetry, fiction, essays, visual arts and
theater-on-the-page. This groundbreaking anthology is the litmus
test--and a call to arms--of a generation grown fat on the limited
freedoms won by the civil rights struggle. Role Call takes on issues of
race, sexuality, education, nationalism, spirituality, AIDS,
globalization, hip hop and the rise of the prison industrial complex.
Role Call is a journey through the tropics of black rage, black love and
black fire.
About the Editors: Tony Medina, professor, poet, activist, is the
author of the poetry collections Emerge & See, No Noose Is Good Noose,
and Sermons From the Smell of a Carcass Condemned to Begging; a
children's book, DeShawn Days; and is co-editor of In Defense of Mumia.
Samiya A. Bashir, is a poet, writer and books editor for numerous
publications and websites including Black Issues Book Review, Curve and
Ms. magazines. Quraysh Ali Lansana is the author of three poetry
collections, including southside rain and cockroach children: corner
poems and street psalms; a children's book, The Big World; and editor of
three anthologies, including Glencoe/McGraw-Hill's: African American
Literature Reader.
