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Bigger Than Bravery: Black Resilience and Reclamation in a Time of Pandemic
Edited by Valerie Boyd

    Publication Date: Sep 20, 2022
    List Price: $18.95
    Format: Paperback, 240 pages
    Classification: Nonfiction
    ISBN13: 9781940596471
    Imprint: Lookout Books
    Publisher: Lookout Books
    Parent Company: Lookout Books

    Description of Bigger Than Bravery: Black Resilience and Reclamation in a Time of Pandemic by Valerie Boyd

    An anthology of Black resilience and reclamation, with contributions by Pearl Cleage, Aunjanue Ellis, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Tayari Jones, Kiese Laymon, Imani Perry, Deesha Philyaw, Khadijah Queen, Alice Walker, and more

    Born of a desire to bring together the voices of those most harshly affected by the intersecting pandemics of Covid-19 and systemic racism, Bigger Than Bravery explores comfort and compromise, challenge and resilience, throughout an unprecedented time—the Great Pause that became the Great Call. Award-winning author and scholar of the Black archive Valerie Boyd curates this anthology of original essays and poems, placed alongside some of the most influential nonfiction published on the subject, inviting readers into a conversation of restorative joy and enduring wisdom.

    Karen Good Marable cranks “Whip My Hair” from the car windows during quarantine joyrides with her daughter. Deesha Philyaw ponders loneliness as she sorts Zoom meetings into those that require a bra and those that don’t. Writing in the moment though not of it, Pearl Cleage reflects on what has and hasn’t changed since the AIDS epidemic. And Jason Reynolds harnesses heat and flavor to carry on his father’s legacy. While sorrow and outrage have their say, the stories in these pages are bright with family, music, food, and home, teaching us how to nourish ourselves and our communities.

    Looking ahead as much as it looks back, Bigger Than Bravery offers a window into a hopeful, complex present and establishes an essential record of how Black people in America insist on joy as an act of resistance.




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