{"product_id":"my-soul-look-back-in-geneva-napoleon-smitherman-9781032080017","title":"My Soul Look Back in Wonder: Memories from a Life of Study, Struggle, and Doin Battle in the Language Wars","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of Dr. Geneva Smitherman, aka \"Dr. G,\" the pioneering linguist often referred to as the \"Queen of Black Language.\" In a series of narrative essays, Dr. G writes eloquently and powerfully about the role of language in social transformation and the academic, intellectual, linguistic, and societal debates that shaped her groundbreaking work as a Black Studies O.G. and a Womanist scholar-activist of African American Language.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese eleven essays narrate the development of Dr. G's race, gender, class, and linguistic consciousness as a member of the Black Power Generation of the 1960s and 70s. In \u003ci\u003eMy Soul Look Back In Wonder\u003c\/i\u003e, Dr. G links the personal to the professional and the political, situating the struggles, and successes, of a Black woman in the Academy within the historical experiences and development of her people.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Dr. G enters her eighth decade, in this Black Lives Matter historical moment, she seeks to share the meaning and purpose of a life of study and struggle and its significance for all those who seek racial and social justice today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Geneva Napoleon Smitherman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1032080019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781032080017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/31\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d","brand":"Geneva Napoleon Smitherman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43981639483647,"sku":"9781032080017","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d5568dfb-5a85-4024-9ece-2cfd037a68a0.jpg?v=1683256712","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/my-soul-look-back-in-geneva-napoleon-smitherman-9781032080017","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}