{"product_id":"my-soul-look-back-in-wonder-1","title":"My Soul Look Back in Wonder","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of Dr. Geneva Smitherman, aka \"Dr. G,\" the pioneering linguist often referred to as the \"Queen of Black Language.\" In a series of narrative essays, Dr. G writes eloquently and powerfully about the role of language in social transformation and the academic, intellectual, linguistic, and societal debates that shaped her groundbreaking work as a Black Studies O.G. and a Womanist scholar-activist of African American Language.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese eleven essays narrate the development of Dr. G’s race, gender, class, and linguistic consciousness as a member of the Black Power Generation of the 1960s and 70s. In \u003ci\u003eMy Soul Look Back In Wonder\u003c\/i\u003e, Dr. G links the personal to the professional and the political, situating the struggles, and successes, of a Black woman in the Academy within the historical experiences and development of her people.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Dr. G enters her eighth decade, in this Black Lives Matter historical moment, she seeks to share the meaning and purpose of a life of study and struggle and its significance for all those who seek racial and social justice today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54262091186520,"sku":"9781032080024","price":36.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781032080024.jpg?v=1777597229","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/my-soul-look-back-in-wonder-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}