Everybody come alive : a memoir in essays / Marcie Alvis Walker.
| Author/creator |
Alvis-Walker, Marcie author. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | New York : Convergent, [2023] |
| Copyright Notice | ©2023 |
| Description | xiv, 267 pages ; 22 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Physical medium | case binding |
| Contents | A story before we begin -- Part I: Black. All about me: 1970s-'80s Black girl edition -- The wisdom of Solomon and Laura Ingalls -- Roots -- Rumble in the jungle -- Shiny baubles and trinkets and stones -- The rapture of the royal wedding -- Gale force winds -- Love like that -- The white lion takes her coffee black -- Part II: Woman. Dear Phyllis Schlafly, greetings from the dark side of the moon -- Jimi Hendrix lands on the moon -- The stuff I'm made of -- Deadly beautiful -- Very dark, very beautiful -- Public enemy haiku -- Black mammy beauty -- What Tamir Rice's mother said -- Black single mothers are made of stardust -- Jubilee day for afros -- The beautiful -- Part III: Holy. A bedtime fable -- Jovie, a modern retelling of the story of Job -- Monroe, the stormtrooper -- Well-don -- Prayer of petition for the canonization of Sister Thea Bowman -- Princess Nada P. Jones -- Who shot Mickey? -- The dark side of mercy -- More groves than O.J. -- Mommie and me at the well -- Eleanor Bumpurs lives next door to Mr. Cosby -- Marcie Alvis living -- Sandy (still) speaks -- Of loss and lament -- Afterword. Wakanda: Where Breonna lives forever -- Not enough and too many books. |
| Abstract | "Dazzling essays on faith, family and being a Black woman in America that explore what we do with the legacies we inherit, the faith that shapes our responses, and how we rebuild our stories for those who come after us--from the author of the popular blog Black Coffee with White Friends. On her blog, Marcie Alvis-Walker creates spaces for conversations about cultural norms, race, faith, and womanhood that encourage readers to unburden themselves from misconceptions they've inherited about the nature of God and their own identities. Now, in Everybody Come Alive, a deeply intimate and illuminating collection of lyrical essays written largely for a Black audience, Alvis-Walker invites readers into stories and personal histories from her own life. She tells candidly of her experience as a curious daughter raised under the watchful eye of the matriarchs who came before her. Readers are transported into stories of family, loyalty, and ambition; of assimilation, self-preservation, and risk; of creativity and the exercise of freedom. These essays reveal a journey of both inheritance and creation-a grappling of the things we are given, the things we must carry, and the ways we co-create life anew for ourselves and our communities. "Let us rejoice let us rejoice let us rejoice," Alvis-Walker writes. "On the bad days when no one speaks for us let us rejoice. On the long days when all seems to speak against us let us rejoice, and on the empty days when no one can see us let us rejoice let us rejoice let." Alvis-Walker's unforgettable writing challenges readers to hold the contradictions that become inevitable and essential to every moment we encounter-moments that ultimately comprise the whole of our lives"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-267). |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Alvis-Walker, Marcie. Everybody come alive New York : Convergent, 2023 9780593443736 |
| Genre/form | Anecdotes |
| Genre/form | Autobiographies |
| Genre/form | Biographies |
| Genre/form | Essays |
| Genre/form | History |
| Genre/form | Essays. |
| Genre/form | Autobiographies. |
| LCCN | 2022026401 |
| ISBN | 9780593443729 (hardcover ; acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 0593443721 (hardcover ; acid-free paper) |
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| Joyner | Ronnie Barnes African American Collection | E185.97 .A48 2023 | Featured Display - First Floor Reading Lounge | Want This? |