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Drama, Drama, Drama: Plays Straight Outta Oakland is a book for actors, drama students, and classrooms, with plays, useful rehearsal warmup exercises, audition monologues, and scene study. It utilizes a wide variety of languages--standard English, Ebonics, slang, cursing and code-switching. This selection, written by Judy Juanita from 1986-2023, includes one-act plays that have been produced, studied, and staged in theaters and venues througho...

This collection of poems examines race, marriage, family, abortion, and social changes since 1954 when Godzilla, the horror movie, and the Supreme Court ruling on integration, Brown v. Bd. of Ed, Topeka, Ks., occurred. The sixties, 70s, 80s, each get poetic treatment, as Godzilla sequels came out. Free verse, haiku, tercets, soliloquies, dramatic monologues, found and prose poems put racism, oppression, sexism, homelessness, body dismorphia, i...

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Judy Juanita, born in Berkeley and raised in Oakland, explores the emotional geography of a rough terrain. These poems of the urban diaspora of the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Area encompass blues poems, verse and free verse, the sonnet, letter poems, protest poetry and many prose poems. This work follows the urban pastorals of Sonia Sanchez, Gwendolyn Brooks and Amiri Baraka, undercut with the deadpan humor and wordplay of an E.E. Cummings. Its...

Four pieces in this text by writer Judy Juanita - a poem, drama, short story and essay - bring themes of adolescence self-determination & ethnic pride grief and regret, and the gun as romantic symbol or literal destruction, to college and high school students and to general readers. Questions for classroom or group use follow each piece. Each explores the black experience in different eras. The play is suitable for amateur theater productions ...

Homage to the Black Arts Movement: a handbook [EquiDistance Press, 2018] pays tribute to the father of that historic literary protest movement, Amiri Baraka (1934-2014), through the writing of Judy Juanita, who encountered him and emulated his work and activism when she was a twenty-year-old student at San Francisco State.This handbook joins four literary genres which scrutinize the seminal Black Arts Movement [BAM] of the 1960s and 70s, a new...

Written in first-person point of view, Virgin Soul is the semi-autobiographical tale of a young woman's struggle for identity and purpose during one of the most politically and racially charged eras of American history. Virgin Soul focuses on the college years of Geniece Hightower, "Niecy" to the aunts and uncles who raised her. At first meet, Geniece sounds like a typical young woman off to college, meeting her first boyfriend, losing her vir...

Judy Juanita views activism and feminism as it plays out in her political, artistic and spiritual life. A distinguished semifinalist for OSU's 2016 Non/Fiction Collection Prize, De Facto&hellip, blends essays, poems, graphics by the late Rini Templeton and literary criticism. An act of self-definition with the feel of memoir, these essays follow a long line of thinkers, including Anna Julia Cooper, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Audre Lorde, Alice Walk...