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Author: Valerie Chepp
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.003kg
ISBN: 9781978801103
ISBN 10: 1978801106
Pages: 228
Publication Date: 11 February 2022
Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
New Books Network: New Books in Popular Culture interview with Valerie Chepp-- New Books Network: New Books in Popular Culture In this timely and deeply incisive investigation of poet-activists in Washington, D.C., Chepp illuminates the capacity of spoken word to transcend single-axis identity politics and create visionary, intersectional coalitions. --Patrick Ryan Grzanka Editor of Intersectionality: Foundations and Frontiers This beautifully written work deftly interweaves vignettes and poems to illustrate the culture of spoken word in meticulous detail. --Jerusha O. Conner author of The New Student Activists: The Rise of Neoactivism on College and University Campuses. Speaking Truths provides a nuanced examination of the inner workings of spoken word activism, draws clear connections to a diverse body of sociological theory, and perhaps most importantly, firmly situates creative activism as a meaningful form of social justice work. --Julie Gouweloos Mobilization (10/10/2022 12:00:00 AM) Valerie Chepp's Speaking Truths beautifully adds to the growing literature on poetry slams, spoken word, and their surrounding communities. By exploring young poets as social justice activists, Chepp reminds us of the arts' undying capacity to imagine and build new, just, and more equitable worlds. Speaking Truths is a necessary offering in the burgeoning sub field of slam and spoken word studies. --Javon Johnson author of Killing Poetry: Blackness and the Making of Slam and Spoken Word Communities
This beautifully written work deftly interweaves vignettes and poems to illustrate the culture of spoken word in meticulous detail. --Jerusha O. Conner author of The New Student Activists: The Rise of Neoactivism on College and University Campuses. In this timely and deeply incisive investigation of poet-activists in Washington, D.C., Chepp illuminates the capacity of spoken word to transcend single-axis identity politics and create visionary, intersectional coalitions. --Patrick Ryan Grzanka Associate Editor of the Journal of Counseling Psychology Valerie Chepp's Speaking Truths beautifully adds to the growing literature on poetry slams, spoken word, and their surrounding communities. By exploring young poets as social justice activists, Chepp reminds us of the arts' undying capacity to imagine and build new, just, and more equitable worlds. Speaking Truths is a necessary offering in the burgeoning sub field of slam and spoken word studies. --Javon Johnson author of Killing Poetry: Blackness and the Making of Slam and Spoken Word Communities
In this timely and deeply incisive investigation of poet-activists in Washington, D.C., Chepp illuminates the capacity of spoken word to transcend single-axis identity politics and create visionary, intersectional coalitions. --Patrick Ryan Grzanka Associate Editor of the Journal of Counseling Psychology This beautifully written work deftly interweaves vignettes and poems to illustrate the culture of spoken word in meticulous detail. --Jerusha O. Connor author of Contemporary Youth Activism: Advancing Social Justice in the United States Valerie Chepp's Speaking Truths beautifully adds to the growing literature on poetry slams, spoken word, and their surrounding communities. By exploring young poets as social justice activists, Chepp reminds us of the arts' undying capacity to imagine and build new, just, and more equitable worlds. Speaking Truths is a necessary offering in the burgeoning sub field of slam and spoken word studies. --Javon Johnson author of Killing Poetry: Blackness and the Making of Slam and Spoken Word Communities
"""Speaking Truths provides a nuanced examination of the inner workings of spoken word activism, draws clear connections to a diverse body of sociological theory, and perhaps most importantly, firmly situates creative activism as a meaningful form of social justice work."" — Julie Gouweloos, Mobilization ""This beautifully written work deftly interweaves vignettes and poems to illustrate the culture of spoken word in meticulous detail.""— Jerusha O. Conner, author of The New Student Activists: The Rise of Neoactivism on College and University Campuses. ""In this timely and deeply incisive investigation of poet-activists in Washington, D.C., Chepp illuminates the capacity of spoken word to transcend single-axis identity politics and create visionary, intersectional coalitions."" — Patrick Ryan Grzanka, Editor of Intersectionality: Foundations and Frontiers ""Valerie Chepp’s Speaking Truths beautifully adds to the growing literature on poetry slams, spoken word, and their surrounding communities. By exploring young poets as social justice activists, Chepp reminds us of the arts' undying capacity to imagine and build new, just, and more equitable worlds. Speaking Truths is a necessary offering in the burgeoning sub field of slam and spoken word studies."" — Javon Johnson, author of Killing Poetry: Blackness and the Making of Slam and Spoken Word Communities New Books Network: New Books in Popular Culture interview with Valerie Chepp— New Books Network: New Books in Popular Culture"
In this timely and deeply incisive investigation of poet-activists in Washington, D.C., Chepp illuminates the capacity of spoken word to transcend single-axis identity politics and create visionary, intersectional coalitions. --Patrick Ryan Grzanka Editor of Intersectionality: Foundations and Frontiers This beautifully written work deftly interweaves vignettes and poems to illustrate the culture of spoken word in meticulous detail. --Jerusha O. Conner author of The New Student Activists: The Rise of Neoactivism on College and University Campuses. Valerie Chepp's Speaking Truths beautifully adds to the growing literature on poetry slams, spoken word, and their surrounding communities. By exploring young poets as social justice activists, Chepp reminds us of the arts' undying capacity to imagine and build new, just, and more equitable worlds. Speaking Truths is a necessary offering in the burgeoning sub field of slam and spoken word studies. --Javon Johnson author of Killing Poetry: Blackness and the Making of Slam and Spoken Word Communities
Author Information
VALERIE CHEPP is an associate staff qualitative researcher in the Lerner Research Institute at the Cleveland Clinic and associate professor of medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. Previously she served as associate professor of sociology and director of the Social Justice Program at Hamline University. She is the editor of Readings in Social Justice: Power, Inequality, & Action and co-editor of the qualitative methods book Cognitive Interviewing Methodology.
