Fires in the mirror : Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and other identities / Anna Deavere Smith ; with a foreword by Cornel West.

1st Anchor Books ed.

lx, 141 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

The desert (Ntozake Shange). -- Static (Anonymous Lubavitcher woman). -- 101 dalmations (George C. Wolfe). -- Mirrors and distortions (Aaron M. Bernstein). -- Look in the mirror (Anynomous girl). -- Me and James's thing (The reverend Al Sharpton). -- Wigs (Rivkah Siegal). -- Rope (Angela Davis).-- Rhythm and poetry (Monique Big Mo Matthews). -- Roots (Leonard Jeffries). -- Near enough to reach (Letty Cottin Pogrebin). -- Seven verses (Minister Conrad Mohammed). -- Isaac (Letty Cottin Pogrebin). -- Lousy language (Robert Sherman). -- No blood in his feet (Rabbi Joseph Spielman). -- Mexican Standoff (The reverend canon doctor Heron Sam). -- Wa wa wa (Anonymous young man #1). -- Heil Hitler (Michael S. Miller). -- Knew how to use certain words (Henry Rice). -- My brother's blood (Norman Rosebaum). -- Sixteen hours difference (Norman Rosebaum). -- Bad boy (Anonymous young man #2). -- Chords (Sonny Carson). -- Ovens (Rabbi Shea Hecht). -- Rain (The Reverend Al Sharpton). -- Rage (Richard Green). -- The coup (Roslyn Malamud). -- Pogroms (Reuven Ostrov). -- Lingering (Carmel Cato).

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Women

812.5408 S642f 1993