Gendered Resistance Sam Firman tenant activists raised the stakes

tenant activists raised the stakes by challenging the newly-dominant ideal of homeownership in racially segregated suburbs

Drawing on interviews with the artist

An extensive instructor package includes PPTs

including questions for reflection and group exercises

It includes the best-known Alice poems as well as "Sylvie and Bruno"

Gendered Resistance Sam Firman tenant activists raised the stakesInspired by the searing story of Margaret Garner, the escaped slave who in 1856 slit her daughter's throat rather than have her forced back into slavery, the essays in this collection focus on historical and contemporary examples of slavery and women's resistance to oppression from the nineteenth century to the twenty first. Each chapter uses Garner's example the real life narrative behind Toni Morrison's Beloved and the opera Margaret Garner as a