So to Speak Material:Paperback legal scholar and sociologist Dorothy

legal scholar and sociologist Dorothy Roberts reveals that the child welfare system is better understood as a “family policing system” that collaborates with law enforcement and prisons to oppress Black communities

And their mothers—each determined to see her child inherit a better life—will make choices that will haunt them for decades to come

and ambition and the need to make ends meet

" is the founder of the Nap Ministry and the bestselling author of Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto

So to Speak Material:Paperback legal scholar and sociologist DorothyA powerful, timely, dazzling new collection of poems from the National Book Awardwinning author of Lighthead The three sections of Terrance Hayes seventh collection explore how we see ourselves and our world, mapping the strange and lyrical grammar of thinking and feeling. In Watch Your Mouth, a tree frog sings to overcome its fear of birds; in Watch Your Step: The Kafka Virus, a talking cat tells jokes in the Jim Crow South; in Watch Your Head, green