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Systems of oppression thrive off our inability to make peace with difference and injure the relationship we have with our own bodies

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Brown: Poems Ages 4 and up their journey becomes more andDivided into "Home Recordings" and "Field Recordings," Brown speaks to the way personal experience is shaped by culture, while culture is forever affected by the personal, recalling a black Kansas boyhood to comment on our times. From "History" a song of Kansas high school fixture Mr. W., who gave his students "the Sixties minus Malcolm X, or Watts, barely a march on Washington" to "Money Road," a sobering pilgrimage to the site of Emmett Till's