LibGuides: African American Women Writers: Eve L. Ewing

Eve L. Ewing (1986-), American poet, sociologist, children's book author, and comic book writer, is best known for Electric Arches (2017), a collection of poems, prose pieces, and visual art that recalls her childhood in Chicago, Illinois, during the 1990s, and for Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side (2018), a monograph that explores the controversial closure of approximately 50 public schools in Chicago beginning in 2013. Threaded throughout Ewing's work as creative writer, an academic, and an activist is a fierce appreciation for Chicago, her hometown, and its history of black political resistance, community organizing, and artistic expression.

Genre: Comics and Graphic novels; Literary fiction; Poetry; Society and culture; STEM fiction

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By Eve L. Ewing

1919 by Eve L. Ewing
The Chicago Race Riot of 1919, the most intense of the riots comprising the nation's Red Summer, has shaped the last century but is not widely discussed. In 1919, award-winning poet Eve L. Ewing explores the story of this event--which lasted eight days and resulted in thirty-eight deaths and almost 500 injuries--through poems recounting the stories of everyday people trying to survive and thrive in the city. Ewing uses speculative and Afrofuturist lenses to recast history, and illuminates the thin line between the past and the present.
Black Futures by Kimberly Drew; Jenna Wortham
What does it mean to be Black and alive right now? Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham have brought together this collection of work-images, photos, essays, memes, dialogues, recipes, tweets, poetry, and more-to tell the story of the radical, imaginative, provocative, and gorgeous world that Black creators are bringing forth today. The book presents a succession of startling and beautiful pieces that generate an entrancing rhythm- Readers will go from conversations with activists and academics to memes and Instagram posts, from powerful essays to dazzling paintings and insightful infographics. In answering the question of what it means to be Black and alive, Black Futures opens a prismatic vision of possibility for every reader.
Electric Arches by Eve L. Ewing
Electric Arches is an imaginative exploration of black girlhood and womanhood through poetry, visual art, and narrative prose. Blending stark realism with the fantastical, Ewing takes us from the streets of Chicago to an alien arrival in an unspecified future, deftly navigating boundaries of space, time, and reality with delight and flexibility.