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Ordinary Notes

byChristina Sharpe

Christina Sharpe assembles 248 notes that move among Black life, art, beauty, mourning, memory, family, violence, and care. Photographs, quotations, observations, and brief essays create connections without forcing them into a conventional linear argument. The ordinary becomes a site where history and racial power are continually felt, but also where pleasure, intimacy, and survival take form. Sharpe asks how to notice Black existence beyond spectacle and injury while refusing to ignore the structures surrounding it. The book is at once criticism, memoir, archive, and an invitation to sustained attention.

Publisher

Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Publication date

2023

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9780374604486