Elizabeth Alexander, "The Trayvon Generation" (Grand Central, 2022)
An interview with Elizabeth Alexander
June 13, 2022
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Elizabeth Alexander, "The Trayvon Generation" (Grand Central, 2022)
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Elizabeth Alexander, "The Trayvon Generation" (Grand Central, 2022)
Summary
The Trayvon Generation (Grand Central, 2022) expands upon Elizabeth Alexander’s gripping essay — under the same name — originally published in The New Yorker amid the 2020 summer social unrest. This collection is a mediation on race by recounting the pervasiveness of racial violence in American culture. The Trayvon Generation weaves prose, poetry, and art to cast historical and cultural resonances to understand the human experience while also humanizing the Black dead and living. This slender and exquisite book is a profound assertation that even though Black pain has become normalized, African Americans have always sought to memorialize their people to keep their spirits, memories, and joy alive.
N’Kosi Oates earned his Ph.D. in Africana Studies from Brown University. Find him on Twitter at NKosiOates.
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