{"product_id":"9780525564591","title":"Notes from the Field","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Smith’s powerful style of living journalism uses the collective, cathartic nature of the theater to move us from despair toward hope.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Village Voice\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnna Deavere Smith’s extraordinary form of documentary theater shines a light on injustices by portraying the real-life people who have experienced them. \"One of her most ambitious and powerful works on how matters of race continue to divide and enslave the nation” (\u003ci\u003eVariety). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eSmith 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.”) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUsing 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.","brand":"Anna Deavere Smith","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":48675337470164,"sku":"9780525564591","price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_8ed092e8-91b6-44a3-baa4-a5c209153a01.jpg?v=1789514549","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9780525564591","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}