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	Black Futures by Kimberly Drew (Goodreads Author), Jenna Wortham (Goodreads Author) 4.55 avg rating — 1,192 ratings — published 2020 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York by Sari Botton (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Whoopi Goldberg (Contributor), Jon-Jon Goulian (Contributor) 3.80 avg rating — 1,277 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Experience Definitely Worth Allegedly Having: Travel Stories from The Hairpin by Edith Zimmerman (Editor), Carrie Frye, Maria Bustillos (Goodreads Author) 3.48 avg rating — 258 ratings — published 2013 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Edges of Ailey by Adrienne Edwards (Editor), Horace Ballard (contributor), Harmony Bench (contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“After all, it’s not addicts that should have ever been the object of our fears, but the forces that create them.”
― Jenna Wortham, Black Futures

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“In the age of digital photography, for instance, Shirley cards are hardly used anymore. But even now, there are reminders that photographic technology is neither value-free nor ethnically neutral”
― Jenna Wortham, Black Futures

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“Names and how they are pronounced, revered, and understood reveal a lot—about classism, stereotypes, and history. As part of Dr. Deborah Roberts’s research for the Pluralism series, she typed the names of more than two hundred and fifty African American women into her computer. As she typed, red lines appeared under nearly every name to indicate that the names were spelled incorrectly. For each name, there was a correct and an incorrect way that they should be rendered. “These names are African American names,” Roberts notes. “These are names born from an American history. How can they be wrong?”
― Jenna Wortham, Black Futures

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