Be about beauty / Kalamu ya Salaam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Salaam, Kalamu ya, 1947- author.

Language:

English

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

290 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

[New Orleans, La.] : University of New Orleans Press, [2018]

Summary:

Activist, educator, filmmaker, writer, and poet Kalamu ya Salaam (born Vallery Ferdinand, III on 24 March 1947 in New Orleans) presents a collection of selected writings that celebrates "essential human beauty and goodness." Through essays, poetry, and speeches, ya Salaam distills his years of wisdom, reflecting on a career built on art and activism, which strove to create community while resisting the powerful who worked to tear it apart. Intensely personal and refreshingly honest, Be About Beauty covers topics close to the artist's heart: public education, jazz, Black art, Mardi Gras Indians, WWOZ radio, community, and the past and future of New Orleans and its culture.

Contents:

Pilgrim journey

New Orleans culture

Students at the center

Hard times in the Big Easy

Coda.

Notes:

"This collection is dedicated to: our organization AHIDIANA (1973-1985) & all the comrades and supporters who worked and struggled in concert with me all along the way." -- unnumbered page after title page

ISBN:

9781608011667

1608011666

OCLC:

1086613197