From the editor-in-chief.With offices within miles of both the World Trade Center and the Pentagon Pentagon Huge five-sided building (1941–43) in Arlington, Va., that is the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense. Designed by George Edwin Bergstrom, it was, on its completion, the world's largest office building, covering 34 acres (14 hectares) and offering , where I worked for more than a dozen years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time team of us who publish Black Issues Book Review were front-row-center for the tragedies of September 11th. The terror has made our belief in books and the value of this magazine stronger than ever. Books wage an unstoppable offensive against ignorance. They introduce a writer's words to those they would otherwise never meet, much less share thoughts with. Books are an unassailable shield from hate. Via books, we sit down and have coffee with many a writer-stranger whose viewpoint, by the last page, we have come to understand. From books we discover how generations before us have triumphed, and learn that those heroes were ordinary, just like ours today. Between the dust covers of our favorite volumes are well-thumbed verses, quotations and simple lines that bring us peace and, sometimes, the needed release of tears. Books are among the most precious possessions of free people. Our literary heritage was forged at great cost. Enslaved Enslaved may refer to:
tr.v. maimed, maim·ing, maims 1. To disable or disfigure, usually by depriving of the use of a limb or other part of the body. See Synonyms at batter1. 2. if caught in the act. During Reconstruction, black presses were destroyed, newspapers burned, and the outspoken of our communities faced the horrors of lynching. Even our most gifted and accomplished writers of the Renaissance often faced poverty, social alienation In sociology and critical social theory, alienation refers to an individual's estrangement from traditional community and others in general. It is considered by many that the atomism of modern society means that individuals have shallower relations with other people than they would , and always the closed doors of a segregated literary society. In the face of all these obstacles, and many more, black authors continued to write and to press for publication of their works. To them, life without books was not worth living. Now they live through their books. We know them, we know their world--our past--through their books. They now inspire us at Black Issues Book Review to press on, despite the terror, and in the face of continuing bomb scares bomb scare n → amenaza de bomba bomb scare bomb n → alerte f à la bombe bomb scare n → Bombenalarm and evacuations in our New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. offices, we are determined to keep up the clarion call clarion call Noun strong encouragement to do something about black books. For books will endure and carry our lives, our culture, and our victories far into the future. Embrace the upcoming holiday season with your deepest feelings ever. Let books help you find meaning and expression as you give books as cherished gifts. Spend quiet time in the pages of your favorite authors, and read aloud at family gatherings, especially with children. Read in peace! WILLIAM E. COX President/Editor-in-Chief |
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