Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Early life [ ] Jordan was born the only child of immigrant parents, Granville Ivanhoe and Mildred Maud Jordan, in,. Her father worked as a postal worker for the and her mother as a part-time nurse. When Jordan was five, the family moved to the area of,. While life in the Jordan household was often turbulent, Jordan credits her father with passing on his love of literature, and she began writing her own poetry at the age of seven.

Jordan describes the complexities of her early childhood in her 2000 memoir, Soldier: A Poet's Childhood, which she dedicated to her father. In this short memoir she explores her complicated relationship with a man who encouraged her to read broadly and memorize passages of classical texts, but who would also beat her for the slightest misstep and call her 'damn black devil child'. In her 1986 essay 'For My American Family' Jordan explores the many conflicts to be dealt with in the experience of being raised by black immigrant parents whose visions of their offspring's future far exceeded the urban ghettos of the present. In Soldier: A Poet's Childhood, Jordan recalls her father telling her 'There was a war on against colored people, I had to become a soldier'. While grateful to America for allowing him to escape poverty and seek a better life for his family, her father was conscious of the struggles his daughter would face and encouraged her to fight. After attending 's for a year, Jordan enrolled in, an elite preparatory school in New England. Throughout her education Jordan became 'completely immersed in a white universe' by attending predominantly white schools; however, she was also able to construct and develop her identity as a black American and a writer.

In 1953, Jordan graduated from high school and enrolled. Jordan later expressed how she felt about in her 1981 book Civil Wars, writing: 'No one ever presented me with a single Black author, poet, historian, personage, or idea for that matter.

Nor was I ever assigned a single woman to study as a thinker, or writer, or poet, or life force. Nothing that I learned, here, lessened my feeling of pain or confusion and bitterness as related to my origins: my street, my family, my friends. Nothing showed me how I might try to alter the political and economic realities underlying our Black condition in white America.' Due to this disconnect with the predominantly male, white curriculum, Jordan left Barnard college without graduating. Personal life [ ] At Barnard College, Jordan met student Michael Meyer, whom she married in 1955. She subsequently followed her husband to the, where she pursued graduate studies in anthropology.

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She also enrolled at the university but soon returned to Barnard, where she remained until 1957. In 1958, Jordan gave birth to the couple's only child, Christopher David Meyer. The couple divorced in 1965, leaving Jordan to raise her son alone. After the, Jordan found that she was starting to hate all white people. She wrote, '.it came to me that this condition, if it lasted, would mean that I had lost the point: not to resemble my enemies, not to dwarf my world, not to lose my willingness and ability to love.' — June Jordan, From that time on, Jordan wrote with love.

She also self-identified as bisexual in her writing, which she refused to deny, even when it was stigmatized. Career [ ] Jordan's first published book, Who Look at Me (1969), was a collection of poems for children.

It was followed by 27 more books in her lifetime, and one ( Some of Us Did Not Die: Collected and New Essays) of which was in press when she died. Two more have been published posthumously: Directed By Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan (, 2005), and the 1970 poetry collection SoulScript, edited by Jordan, has been reissued.

She was also an essayist, columnist for, novelist, biographer, and librettist for the musical/opera, composed by and produced. When asked about the writing process of I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky Jordan stated: 'The composer, John [Adams], said he needed to have the whole libretto before he could begin, so I just sat down last spring and wrote it in six weeks I mean, that's all I did. I didn't do laundry, anything. I put myself into it 100 percent. What I gave to John and Peter [Sellars] is basically what Scribner's has published now.' Jordan's teaching career began in 1967 at the.

Between 1968 and 1978 she taught at,, and. She then became the director of The Poetry Center and was an English professor at from 1978 to 1989.

From 1989 to 2002 she was a full professor in the departments of English, Women's Studies, and African American Studies at the. Jordan was known as 'the Poet of the People', and at Berkeley, she founded the 'Poetry for the People' program in 1991. Its aim was to inspire and empower students to use poetry as a means of artistic expression. Reflecting on how she began with the concept of the program, Jordan said: 'I did not wake up one morning ablaze with a coherent vision of Poetry for the People!

The natural intermingling of my ideas and my observations as an educator, a poet, and the African-American daughter of poorly documented immigrants did not lead me to any limiting ideological perspectives or resolve. Poetry for the People is the arduous and happy outcome of practical, day-by-day, classroom failure and success'. Jordan composed three guideline points that embodied the program, which was published with a set of her students' writings in 1995, entitled June Jordan's Poetry for the People: A Revolutionary Blueprint. Literary Topics & Impact [ ] Jordan felt strongly about the writer's use of Black English, and she encouraged young black writers to use that idiom in their writing. She would continue to impact young writers throughout her writing career with her works, Dry Victories (1972), New Life (1975), and Kimako's Story (1981).

Although Kimako's Story was her last work written for children, she would go on to describe her own childhood in her memoir Soldier: A Poet's Childhood. Jordan depicted in detail her relationship with her father in the book, and gave as her motivation: 'I wanted to honor my father, first of all, and secondly, I wanted people to pay attention to a little girl who is gifted intellectually and creative, and to see that there's a complexity here that we may otherwise not be prepared to acknowledge or even search for, let alone encourage, and to understand that this is an okay story. This is a story, I think, with a happy outcome, you know.' Despite her work for young writers and children, however, Jordan dealt with complex issues in the political arena, engaging topics 'like race, class, sexuality, capitalism, single motherhood, and liberation struggles across the globe.'

Passionate about feminist and Black issues, Jordan 'spent her life stitching together the personal and political so the seams didn't show.' Her poetry, essays, plays, journalism, and children's literature integrated these issues with her own experience, offering commentary that was both insightful and instructive. When asked about the role of the poet in society in an interview before her death, Jordan replied: 'The rold of the poet, beginning with my own childhood experience, is to deserve the trust of people who know that what you do is work with words.' Contributions to Feminist Theory [ ] 'Report from the Bahamas' [ ] In her 1982 classic personal essay 'Report from the Bahamas', Jordan reflects on her travel experiences, various interactions, and encounters while in.

Writing in narrative form, she boldly discusses both the possibilities and difficulties of coalition and self-identification on the basis of race, class, and gender identity. Although not widely recognized in its first appearance in 1982, this profound essay has gained much classroom status throughout the United States in Women's and gender studies, sociology, and anthropology. Jordan reveals several issues as well as important terms regarding race, class, and gender identity.

Privilege [ ] In essentially every one of Jordan's works, including her poems and essays, she repeatedly emphasizes the term or the idea of privilege when discussing issues of race, class, and gender identity. She refuses to privilege oppressors who are similar to or more like certain people than other oppressors might be. There should be no thought of privilege because all oppression and oppressors should be viewed at an equal standpoint. Concepts of race, class, and gender [ ] '[In 'Report from the Bahamas'] Jordan describes the challenges of translating languages of gender, sexuality, and blackness across diasporic space, through the story of a brief vacation in the Bahamas.' Vacationing in the Bahamas, Jordan finds that the shared oppression indicated by race, class, and gender is not a sufficient basis for solidarity.

She notes, ' these factors of race and class and gender absolutely collapse.whenever you try to use them as automatic concepts of connection. They may serve well as indicators of commonly felt conflict, but as elements of connection they seem about as reliable as precipitation probability for the day after the night before the day.' ' As Jordan reflects on her interactions with a series of black Bahamian women, from the hotel maid 'Olive' to the old women street sellers hawking trinkets, she writes, 'I notice the fixed relations between these other Black women and myself. They sell and I buy or I don't. They risk not eating. I risk going broke on my first vacation afternoon. We are not particularly women anymore; we are parties to a transaction designed to set us against each other.

Naruto Shippuden Episode 358 Download Animepremium. (41) Interspersing reflections of her trip with scenes of herself as a teacher advising students, Jordan details how her own expectations are constantly surprised. For instance, she recounts how an Irish woman graduate student with a Bobby Sands bumper sticker provides much needed assistance to a South African student suffering from domestic violence; the incident is at variance with Jordan's own history of being terrorized by Irish teenagers hurling racial epithets. Jordan's concluding lines thus emphasize the imperative to forge connection actively rather than assuming it on the basis of shared histories: 'I am saying that the ultimate connection cannot be the enemy.

The ultimate connection must be the need that we find between us.I must make the connection real between me and these strangers everywhere before those other clouds unify this ragged bunch of us, too late.' Common identity vs. Individual identity [ ] Jordan firmly acknowledges and explains that we as human beings possess two very contrasting identities.

The first identity is the common identity, which is the one that has been imposed on us by a long history of societal standards, controlling images, pressure, a variety of stereotypes, and stratification. The second is the individual identity that we ourselves have chosen once we are given the chance and feel are ready to expose our true selves. Death and legacy [ ] Jordan died of at her home in, aged 65.

Shortly before her death, she completed Some of Us Did Not Die, her seventh collection of political essays (and 27th book), which was published posthumously. In it she describes how her early marriage to a white student while at Barnard College immersed her in the racial turmoil of America in the 1950s, and set her on the path of social activism. The June Jordan School for Equity, or JJSE (formerly known as the Small School for Equity) in was named after her by the founding group of students who, through a democratic process of research, debate, and voting, chose her over and.

[ ] A conference room is also named after her in UC Berkeley's Eshleman Hall, which is used by the. [ ] Honors and awards [ ] Jordan received numerous honors and awards, including a 1969-70 Rockefeller grant for creative writing, a in 1979, a fellowship in 1982, and the Achievement Award for International Reporting from the in 1984. She also won the from 1995 to 1998 as well as the Ground Breakers-Dream Makers Award from in 1994. She was included in Who's Who in America from 1984 until her death. She received the Chancellor's Distinguished Lectureship from and the PEN Center USA West Freedom to Write Award (1991). In 2005, Directed by Desire: Collected Poems, a posthumous collection of her work, had to compete (and won) in the category 'Lesbian Poetry' at the, even though Jordan identified as bisexual. However, led the bisexual community in a multi-year campaign eventually resulting in the addition of a Bisexual category, starting with the 2006 Awards.

Reception [ ] Author commented: 'In political journalism that cuts like razors in essays that blast the darkness of confusion with relentless light; in poetry that looks as closely into lilac buds as into death's mouth. [Jordan] has comforted, explained, described, wrestled with, taught and made us laugh out loud before we wept.I am talking about a span of forty years of tireless activism coupled with and fueled by flawless art.' Poet noted: 'whatever her theme or mode, June Jordan continually delineates the conditions of survival- of the body, and mind, and the heart'. Stated: 'Jordan makes us think of, of. She is among the bravest of us, the most outraged. She feels for all of us. She is the universal poet.'

Wrote: 'In a borough that has landmarks for the writers,, and, to name just three, there ought to be a street in Bed-Stuy called June Jordan Place, and maybe a plaque reading, 'A Poet and Soldier for Humanity Was Born Here.' ' Bibliography [ ] • Who Look at Me, Crowell, 1969, • Soulscript (editor), Doubleday, 1970, • The Voice of the Children, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970 (co-editor), • Some Changes, Dutton, 1971, •.. • Dry Victories, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972, • Fannie Lou Hamer, Crowell, 1972, • New Days: Poems of Exile and Return, Emerson Hall, 1974, • New Life, Crowell, 1975, • Things That I Do in the Dark: Selected Poems, 1954–1977, Random House, 1977, • Passion, Beacon Press, 1980, • Kimako's Story, Houghton Mifflin, 1981, • Civil Wars, Beacon Press, 1981,;.

Simon and Schuster. • Living Room: New Poems, Thunder's Mouth Press, 1985, • On Call: Political Essays,, 1985, • Lyrical Campaigns: Selected Poems, Virago, 1989, • Moving Towards Home, Virago, 1989, • Naming Our Destiny, Thunder's Mouth Press, 1989, • Technical Difficulties: African-American Notes on the State of the Union, Pantheon Books, 1992, • Technical Difficulties: New Political Essays • Haruko: Love Poems, High Risk Books, 1994, •, Scribner, 1995 •. Taylor & Francis. • Kissing God Goodbye, Anchor Books, 1997, • Affirmative Acts: Political Essays, Anchor Books, 1998, •.

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