{"product_id":"jam-on-the-vine-9780802124678","title":"Jam on the Vine","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this \"captivating saga\" of the post-Reconstruction era, a black female journalist blazes her own trail--\"unforgettable; gripping; an instant classic\" (\u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIvoe Williams, the precocious daughter of a Muslim cook and a metalsmith from central-east Texas, discovers a lifelong obsession with journalism when she steals a newspaper from her mother's white employer. Living in the segregated quarter of Little Tunis, Ivoe immerses herself in the printed word until she earns a scholarship to the prestigious Willetson Collegiate in Austin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFinally fleeing the Jim Crow South to settle in Kansas City, Ivoe and Ona, her former teacher and present lover, start the first female-run African American newspaper, \u003ci\u003eJam On the Vine\u003c\/i\u003e. In the throes of the Red Summer--the 1919 outbreak of lynchings and race riots across the Midwest--Ivoe risks her freedom and her life to call attention to the atrocities of the American prison system.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInspired by the legacy of trailblazing black women like Ida B. Wells and Charlotta Bass, LaShonda Katrice Barnett's \u003ci\u003eJam On the Vine\u003c\/i\u003e is both an epic vision of the hardships that defined an era and \"an ode to activism, writ[ten] with a scholar's eye and a poet's soul\" (Tayari Jones, \u003ci\u003eO The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lashonda Katrice Barnett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Grove Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/09\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802124678\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLaShonda Katrice Barnett\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1974 and grew up in Park Forest, Illinois. She is the author of a story collection and editor of the volumes: \u003cem\u003eI Got Thunder: Black Women Songwriters On Their Craft\u003c\/em\u003e (2007) and \u003cem\u003eOff the Record: Conversations with African American \u0026amp; Brazilian Women Musicians\u003c\/em\u003e (Rowman \u0026amp; Littlefield, Spring 2014). For short fiction, she received the College Language Association Award and the New York Money for Women\/Barbara Deming Memorial Artist Grant. Recent awards for writing and historical fiction research include the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities \u0026amp; National Endowment for the Humanities grant; Mystic Seaport's Munson Institute of Maritime Culture Paul Cuffe Memorial Fellowship; Sewanee Writers Conference Tennessee Williams Scholarship and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center Advanced Fiction fellowship. A graduate of the University of Missouri, she received an M.A. in Women's History from Sarah Lawrence College and a Ph.D. in American Studies from the College of William and Mary. She has taught literature and history at Columbia University, Sarah Lawrence College, Hunter College and Brown University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Grove Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45440014418035,"sku":"9780802124678","price":19.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_f7b0f3cd-eb26-4557-b9a2-e95ac472ab1b.jpg?v=1788440266","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/jam-on-the-vine-9780802124678","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}