Inheritance: A Visual Poem

Inheritance: A Visual PoemThey tell me to fix my hair. And by fix, they mean straighten, they mean whiten; but how do you fix this shipwrecked history of hair? In her most famous spoken word poem, author of the Pura Belpr winning novel in verse The Poet X Elizabeth Acevedo embraces all the complexities of Black hair and Afro Latinidadthe history, pain, pride, and powerful love of that inheritance. Paired with full color illustrations by artist Andrea Pippins in a format that

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while sparingly employed structured panels zoom in on emotions or change perspective

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a sharp contemporary fantasy following a precocious and cynical teen as she explores the shadowy magical underside of modern Edinburgh

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and female that exposes how white America’s love affair with “diversity” so often falls short of its ideals

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