Waiting in line at the drugstore : and other writings of James Thomas Jackson / collected by June Acosta ; introduction by Charles Champlin ; foreword by David Westheimer.

By:

Jackson, James Thomas, 1925-1985

Contributor(s):

Acosta, June

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Denton : University of North Texas Press, 1993.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 277 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0585270570
9780585270579

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Waiting in line at the drugstore.DDC classification:

305.896/073 20

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PS3560.A21574 W3 1993eb

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Preface / June Acosta -- Foreword / David Westheimer -- Introduction / Charles Champlin -- pt. I. Essays and Articles. Waiting in Line at the Drugstore. Once Upon a Time in Houston. Of Roses and a Black Family's Unusual Visitor. Terry and Me. On Learning Values, and People. Juneteenth Was Freedom Day -- A Long Time Ago. Hopeth All Things. In Search of Country. Wheel in the Midst of a Wheel. Once I Crossed the Rubicon. On Faith and Being "Born Again" The Burning of the Books. Looking Back -- and Ahead. Awakening to a Common Suffering -- and Pride. My Africa -- It is All This, and More. Black Friday: The Day Kennedy Was Shot. Welfare and the Single Man. Not a Bad Dude. Watts Workshop: From the Ashes. Some Notes on the Frederick Douglass Writers' House. Stars in a Black Night -- Beacon for a Black Dawn. Ned Bobkoff and Me. Wadsworth -- pt. II. Fiction and Poetry. Fiction (Chapters from the unpublished novel "Shade of Darkness"). Gasthaus. The Party. Reveille. Shade of Darkness. Caravansary. Corporal Willoughby's "Waw" Heavyweight. Poetry. Jean. Blues for Black. Poem from the Temple of My Mind. Coda ... #1. Coda ... #2. Daybreak. Poem for Medgar Evers. The Breadwinner. Michael Powe: Epitaph to a Beautiful Person. Watts ... '68. Excerpts from Bye, Bye, Black Sheep (Play). Act I, Scene 1. Act II, Scene 2.

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Summary: Jackson was a hard worker. He did construction work, house-painting, and other odd jobs, like sweeping out a neighborhood bar. He had to work hard to support his all-consuming habit - writing. Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times says that Thomas wrote "irregularly, idiosyncratically, entertainingly, personally and, above all, passionately ... His opinions, forceful but fair, were measured against a life that had never been easy but that had seemed to leave him.Summary: Despite all, with a profound philosophical optimism that better days were coming." From a black perspective, Jackson's work forms a particular and important testimony, both positive and negative, about life in the United States from the 1930s through the 1970s, and about life in the Army during the 1950s. One of Thomas's friends, noted producer and playwright Ned Bobkoff, wrote upon learning of the publication of the collection: "There is an indelible connection between.Summary: The Watt's Riots, the Rodney King incident - the outbreak of pain in L.A. - and the sudden renewed interest in James's work ... The cycle is with us again. James had a real vision about time and place that may be the important contribution of his writing."

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Jackson was a hard worker. He did construction work, house-painting, and other odd jobs, like sweeping out a neighborhood bar. He had to work hard to support his all-consuming habit - writing. Charles Champlin of the Los Angeles Times says that Thomas wrote "irregularly, idiosyncratically, entertainingly, personally and, above all, passionately ... His opinions, forceful but fair, were measured against a life that had never been easy but that had seemed to leave him.

Despite all, with a profound philosophical optimism that better days were coming." From a black perspective, Jackson's work forms a particular and important testimony, both positive and negative, about life in the United States from the 1930s through the 1970s, and about life in the Army during the 1950s. One of Thomas's friends, noted producer and playwright Ned Bobkoff, wrote upon learning of the publication of the collection: "There is an indelible connection between.

The Watt's Riots, the Rodney King incident - the outbreak of pain in L.A. - and the sudden renewed interest in James's work ... The cycle is with us again. James had a real vision about time and place that may be the important contribution of his writing."

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