Presenting the latest iteration of this crucial exhibition, always a barometer of contemporary American art The 2022 Whitney Biennial is accompanied by this landmark volume. Each of the Biennial's participants is represented by a selected exhibition history, a bibliography, and imagery complemented by a personal statement or interview that foregrounds the artist's own voice. Essays by the curators and other contributors elucidate themes of the exhibition and discuss the participants. The 2022 Biennial's two curators, David Breslin and Adrienne Edwards, are known for their close collaboration with living artists. Coming after several years of seismic upheaval in and beyond the cultural, social, and political landscapes, this catalogue will offer a new take on the storied institution of the Biennial while continuing to serve--as previous editions have--as an invaluable resource on present-day trends in contemporary art in the United States.

Focuses on the role of shame and trauma as it looks at issues of race, class, color, and caste in the novels of Toni Morrison.

This is a dramaromance, about a child, Jazmyn Assant , born to a couple out of wedlock. Both parents marry other people, but her biological father's wife allows Jazmyn's mere existence to consume her. Jazmyn unveils a bed of secrets, lies, deceit and betrayal orchestrated by her father's wife and his mother. Everyone won't take this secret to their grave, the truth will be told.

In this collection of poems, words pivot, frolic, and tease evoke emotion, as notes played out on a keyboard. For example, in the poem Me Too, words transform into chords illustrating how love can bestow pleasure while, at the same time, impart pain.

As Quite as It’s Kept is a journey into the heart, mind, and soul of the author. Jacquelyn Dortch has used writing as a means of dealing with life’s joys and challenges. This book is a compilation of short stories and poems that depict major events occurring in Jacqui’s life. She credits these events as the driving forces for how she stumbled into her purpose. The ultimate reward for this author is that someone might be inspired or encouraged by her words.

Finding the perfect wife in Morgan, Will Tracy, believing that God has finally answered his prayers, soon discovers, after several unexplainable accidents, that there is much more to Morgan than meets the eye.

Based on recently discovered documents, The Jews Should Keep Quiet reassesses the hows and whys behind the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration's fateful policies during the Holocaust. Rafael Medoff delves into difficult truths: With FDR's consent, the administration deliberately suppressed European immigration far below the limits set by U.S. law. His administration also refused to admit Jewish refugees to the U.S. Virgin Islands, dismissed proposals to use empty Liberty ships returning from Europe to carry refugees, and rejected pleas to drop bombs on the railways leading to Auschwitz, even while American planes were bombing targets only a few miles away--actions that would not have conflicted with the larger goal of winning the war. What motivated FDR? Medoff explores the sensitive question of the president's private sentiments toward Jews. Unmasking strong parallels between Roosevelt's statements regarding Jews and Asians, he connects the administration's policies of excluding Jewish refugees and interning Japanese Americans. The Jews Should Keep Quiet further reveals how FDR's personal relationship with Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, American Jewry's foremost leader in the 1930s and 1940s, swayed the U.S. response to the Holocaust. Documenting how Roosevelt and others pressured Wise to stifle American Jewish criticism of FDR's policies, Medoff chronicles how and why the American Jewish community largely fell in line with Wise. Ultimately Medoff weighs the administration's realistic options for rescue action, which, if taken, would have saved many lives.