Anti-Racist Blurbs
This book "is not only an essential instruction manual but also a memoir of the author’s own path from anti-black racism to anti-white racism and, finally, to antiracism," says NPR.
What is How to be an Anti-Racist, by Ibram X. Kendi?
“The happier Terence all the choir inspir’d,/His soul replenish’d, and his bosom fir’d,/But say, ye Muses, why this partial grace,/To one alone of Afric’s fable race;/From age to age transmitting thus his name/With the first glory in the rolls of fame?”
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
In 2020, she won "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal."
Who is Louise Glück?
10,000,000 Swedish krona; or roughly $1.15 million
What is the Nobel Prize purse?
Is he an author? Are you an author? When you stop and think about it for a second, what really is an author?
"Two years after Obama’s election, _________ put the entire criminal justice system on trial, exposing racial discrimination from lawmaking to policing to the denial of voting rights to ex-prisoners. This bestseller struck the spark that would eventually light the fire of Black Lives Matter," says Ibram X. Kendi
What is The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander?
"The field of power is the space of relations of force between agents or between institutions having in common the possession of the capital necessary to occupy the dominant positions in different fields (notably economic or cultural). It is the site of struggles between holders of different powers (or kinds of capital) which… have at stake the transformation or conservation of the relative value of different kinds of capital...”
Who is Pierre Bourdieu?
In 2016, he won for "having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition."
Who is Bob Dylan?
$45
What is the retail hardcover price of Barack Obama's recent memoir, A Promised Land?
Likes: books with "conscience and purpose"; "intense localism"; language as spoken. Dislikes: sentimentality.
Who is William Dean Howells?
This Oprah's Book Club pick was hailed as "an instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far" by Dwight Garner.
What is Caste by Isabel Wilkerson?
"I would suggest further that the fetishized mass cultural form of the list, as an instance of the social imaginary, determines the form of the critique of the canon in the university, the fixation on the syllabus as an exclusive list."
Who is John Guillory?
In 1993, she, "who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality," won.
Who is Toni Morrison?
$65 million
What is the combined multi-book advance Penguin Random House paid Michelle and Barack Obama?
This Frenchman coined the term paratext.
Who is Gérard Genette?
"Based on the viral Instagram challenge that captivated participants worldwide, __ ___ _____ _________ takes readers on a 28-day journey, complete with journal prompts, to do the necessary and vital work that can ultimately lead to improving race relations," says the publisher.
What is Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad?
“My argument is that the discipline's most significant achievement was to secure for Americans a belief in their success as a culture. I call this achievement the ‘creation of American civilization.’”
Who is David Shumway?
In 1976, he won "for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work."
Who is Saul Bellow?
$2 billion
What is the purchase price Penguin Random House paid for Simon & Schuster?
Get you a man who can do both, they say. He gave us "hysterical realism," as well as the 2018 novel Upstate.
Who is James Wood?
"A necessary book for all people invested in societal change," says Claudia Rankine.
What is White Fragility, by Robin DiAngelo?
"Plainly put, I’m interested in things insofar as they prove capable of teaching me something about people. Indeed, I would argue that a reasoned insistence upon the primacy of the human subject must remain a responsible component of contemporary cultural studies scholarship, for the very reason that the work of people making things usually precedes the ability of things to make, or to influence, people."
Who is Shelia Liminig?
In 1930, he became the first American winner, "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters."
Who is Sinclair Lewis?
$15,000
What is the Pulitzer Prize purse?
She's taken shots at the "hysterical criticism" that currently prevails, and her own debut novel, Fake Accounts, is due out in February.
Who is Lauren Oyler?