Notes from the Field

by Smith, Anna Deavere
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ISBN: 9780525564591
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Anna Deavere Smith's extraordinary form of documentary theater shines a light on injustices by portraying the real-life people who have experienced them. In Notes from the Field, she renders a host of figures who have lived and fought the system that pushes students of color out of the classroom and into prisons. (As Smith has put it: "Rich kids get mischief, poor kids get pathologized and incarcerated.") Using people's own words, culled from interviews and speeches, Smith depicts Rev. Jamal Harrison Bryant, who eulogized Freddie Gray; Niya Kenny, a high school student who confronted a violent police deputy; activist Bree Newsome, who took the Confederate flag down from the South Carolina State House grounds; and many others. Their voices bear powerful witness to a great iniquity of our time--and call us to action with their accounts of resistance and hope.
  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Smith, Anna Deavere
  • ISBN: 9780525564591
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 7.90 x 0.70
  • Number Of Pages: 192
  • Publication Year: 2019

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