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Social justice rhetoric is prevalent in contemporary America, but
are we as a nation ready to do the work to effect real change?
Emily Allen Williams has gathered a group of essays that
interrogate matters of inclusion, diversity, equity, and access. In
doing so, the essays contribute to what Williams call "tilling the
ground," i.e. a process by which the nation is prepared for the
changes that must follow the rhetoric through the work of diversity
and inclusion in a variety of social arenas. With subject matters
ranging from the Black Lives Matter movement and children's
literature to the contemporary workplace and university, the
collected essays present and analyze progress that is already being
made and outline ways for our society to continue to move this
process forward until the rhetoric of social justice manifests in
actual conditions of inclusion, diversity, equity, and access
throughout the nation.
The contributors in this study examine the historical Harlem
community during its renaissance period as well as its present-day
community. A cursory investigation of the existent that focus on
the Harlem community during its renaissance of the early twentieth
century reveals that the compilations are primarily ones that
present the subjects' life stories through the lens of praise
songs. This book, however, presents the Harlem community through a
lens that reveals more grounded and researched analyses that bring
the influences and contributions of the Harlem Renaissance to a
level of relevance in the twenty-first century from one or more
critical vantage points. This study aims to move beyond the more
obvious and foregrounded artistic contributions towards analyses of
the Harlem Renaissance alongside analyses of a twenty-first century
Harlem community and its present day contributions.
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