Get Funky, Get Swoll (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

Aprašymas

Get Funky, Get Swoll explores, demonstrates, and indicts the multifaceted and multifarious ways white supremacy, white culture, and, in very specific instances white people, have had a profound and tragic impact on the human experience of those people known as Black. The collection's opening examines and explores and indicts intimate racism--the kind that exists between friends and friend groups and lovers; the kind which does not holler or thump or coming crashing into the heart but does so quietly, stealthily, inflicting grave harm. The book's latter half incorporates a series of love poems to Black people in general and specifically to Black females--a Black female muse, and the ethereal, transcendental, metaphysical Black Female. These poems serve as a countermeasure to the insidious impact--past, present, and still to come--of a society that pushes the simultaneous endeavor of self-hate while offering its own pale flesh as a refuge. Get Funky, Get Swoll attempts to make complex once again the so-called Black experience. Which is really the human experience. Cabey's collection functions not only as a reminder of the tragic impact of white supremacy on the hearts and minds and souls of Black people, but as a sign-post indicating that there is still more danger headed our way, and we need to--all of us--hold on to whatever spirit we have left.