List: $15.00
| Sale: $10.80
Club: $7.50
Notes from the Field
Author: Anna Deavere Smith, Marcus Shelby
Narrator: Anna Deavere Smith
Unabridged: 3 hr 6 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: 05/21/2019
Category: Drama - American - African American
Synopsis
Anna Deavere Smith’s extraordinary form of documentary theater shines a light on injustices by portraying the real-life people who have experienced them. In Notes from the Field, she renders a host of figures who have lived and fought the system that pushes students of color out of the classroom and into prisons. (As Smith has put it: “Rich kids get mischief, poor kids get pathologized and incarcerated.”) Using people’s own words, culled from interviews and speeches, Smith depicts Rev. Jamal Harrison Bryant, who eulogized Freddie Gray; Niya Kenny, a high school student who confronted a violent police deputy; activist Bree Newsome, who took the Confederate flag down from the South Carolina State House grounds; and many others. Their voices bear powerful witness to a great iniquity of our time—and call us to action with their accounts of resistance and hope.