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    Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
    Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
    Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
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    Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature

    Written by Farah Jasmine Griffin

    Narrated by Farah Jasmine Griffin

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    About this audiobook

    A BRILLIANT SCHOLAR IMPARTS THE LESSONS BEQUEATHED BY THE BLACK COMMUNITY AND ITS REMARKABLE ARTISTS AND THINKERS.

    Farah Jasmine Griffin has taken to her heart the phrase “read until you understand,” a line her father, who died when she was nine, wrote in a note to her. She has made it central to this book about love of the majestic power of words and love of the magnificence of Black life.

    Griffin has spent years rooted in the culture of Black genius and the legacy of books that her father left her. A beloved professor, she has devoted herself to passing these works and their wisdom on to generations of students.

    Here, she shares a lifetime of discoveries: the ideas that inspired the stunning oratory of Frederick Douglass and Malcolm X, the soulful music of Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder, the daring literature of Phillis Wheatley and Toni Morrison,
    the inventive artistry of Romare Bearden, and many more. Exploring these works through such themes as justice, rage, self-determination, beauty, joy, and mercy allows her to move from her aunt’s love of yellow roses to Gil Scott-Heron’s “Winter in America.”

    Griffin entwines memoir, history, and art while she keeps her finger on the pulse of the present, asking us to grapple with the continuing struggle for Black freedom and the ongoing project that is American democracy. She challenges us to reckon
    with our commitment to all the nation’s inhabitants and our responsibilities to all humanity.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateSep 14, 2021
    ISBN9781705044148
    Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature

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      This book was both academic and personal. I leaarned so much from it and expect these new perspectives with aid with my future reading and life experiences. Griffin repeated anecdotes and incidents many times, and each time she added information, usually from a different perspective, that was very valuable. She also provided perspectives on much that I read that aided in my understanding.