Can I Touch Your Hair?: Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship

Can I Touch Your Hair?: Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship01 01 2018 Two poets, one white and one black, explore race and childhood in this must have collection tailored to provoke thought and conversation. How can Irene and Charles work together on their fifth grade poetry project? They don't know each other . . . and they're not sure they want to. Irene Latham, who is white, and Charles Waters, who is black, use this fictional setup to delve into different experiences of race in a relatable way, exploring

This collection

full of lifting rhythms of love and remembering

it seeks an active participation by women in the process of reconstruction and remains a country firmly committed to its own history and culture

ISBN-13 : 978-1569025789

WITH WIT AND PIERCING INSIGHT

a journalist examines the long and continuing fight for voting equality

As farmers balance old subsistence and new cash crops

Ex-library edition (July 1

through masonic infiltration

yet usefully blunt

Hurling Words at Consciousness is an unflinching meditation on our globalized inequities

The moving true story of a group of young men growing up on Chicago's West side who form the first all-black high school rowing team in the nation