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A poet's debut essay collection exploring American faults through the eyes of a Dominican American In Traveling Freely: Essays, Roberto Carlos Garcia explores intersecting topics such as race, identity, American socioeconomic inequality, police violence, our inability to partake in our culture as innocents, and our complicity as Americans in all that's wrong with the United States from the author's specific vantage point as a Black Dominican American man. The voice in these essays is both clear and nuanced, and as readers move through the collection, the various themes cohere into a multilayered investigation of institutional racism and the inherent exploitations of capitalism.
In essays that are uniquely straightforward and accessible, Garcia insists that in order to resist state-sanctioned violence against marginalized bodies and populations, we must understand our shared history of oppression—so that we can rise against it effectively and find new paths forward.
Contents
The Diaspora
black / Maybe
So, You're Afro-Latinx. Now What?
Trapped in History
On Junot DÍaz and the Literati
"I Am the Darker Brother": On MichÈle Stephenson's Stateless and Dominican Racism
This Is America
Ten Minutes of Terror
Men Don't Cry: On Toxic Masculinity
Traveling Freely
Distraction: Bob Hicok's Essay as Poetry's MAGA Moment
Home: An Irrevocable Condition
American Violence
Save the Babies
I Believe That We Will Win
Amiri Baraka: In Unity and Struggle
The Self Sheltered in Place: On Pessoa, Heteronyms, and the Pandemic
"... a walk through this beautiful world ..." [On Bourdain and Suicide]
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