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Cargando... Can We Please Give the Police Department to the Grandmothers?por Junauda Petrus
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Hear me out as to why I do not like this book. Like at all. It was originally a poem. By putting it into picture book form, it no longer readers like a poem. Rather it reads, and I try to comprehend it, like a picture book. It would have been a more effective medium in a style similar to "Ain't Burned All The Bright" (if you want pictures) or "The Hill We Climb". It needs to feel like a poem. But it doesn't and with it, I feel the message it lost. Additionally, due to how it is presented, I feel as if myself, admittedly a white woman, is slighted and ignored. That I am part of the problem. Which is neither here or there (because yes, white cops have been brutal and wrong in their treatment of others.) But what about my white grandmothers? Who would give me a look and get me on the straight and narrow? What about my white grandmothers with whom I would cook gnocchi and cannoli and be reminded that I could do anything I set my mind to? What about those with abuelitas? Those who taught them to make tamales? Should we the police department to those grandmothers too? Or just those in urban populations? I don't mean to sound harsh. I love the essence of what is there. But additionally, when a poem originally uses words like "badass" and "sensual", I think of adults reading it. Not children. Not only now do caregivers need to tackle topics like brutality and incarceration they now need to tackle words too.
Lush, luminous, and celebratory Sun-splashed and star-strewn scenes depict a brown-skinned cast of grandmothers, who present across ages and gender expressions, capturing the vivacious energy of elders “comfortable in loving fiercely” that’s reflected in the language’s soaring weightlessness. Watercolorlike illustrations in close to neon shades show city scenes and a wide array of humanity...Homage to historic leaders blends as smoothly as the colors of the rainbow-filled scenes, paving the way for readers to conclude that the humor of the title has wisdom as well. a lively, upbeat, attitude-filled portrait of matriarchs cruising neighborhoods...this book offers a village solution to raising Black children that excludes incarceration. luminous illustrations capture the verve, courage, and sensuality of grandmas (who sometimes look like grandpas—a nod to gender inclusivity and complex grand-families); the richness of Black and brown communities; and the resources they possess to heal their own wounds. PremiosListas de sobresalientes
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The message is important. It forces us to reimagine a world and community where we are accountable to each other, not police, not heavy-handed laws, but where we can have compassion and accountability to our community. Our elders can help to guide and shape it. An artist friend said good art should make you feel something and force you to think, even if it is uncomfortable.
I used this to open up a conversation in a college class about language and reimagining what racial justice could look like. I also read it to my pre-teen and enjoyed it. I want both to see a different view of what community could look like, that is what art can do. ( )