Art Overcomes a Dehumanizing Experience

Authors

  • Sharon Wilson Fort Hays State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.62704/8grvef47

Abstract

Punching the Air (2020) by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam is an apt metaphor for 16-year-old Amal Shahid's struggle to find his voice and survive the gentrification and racial injustice in his neighborhood, a school system that does not address his creativity, and a corrupt, racially-biased criminal justice system. In these environments he is judged by assumptions because of his race

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Published

2021-06-30

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Book Reviews