Traveling Freely
Essays
by Roberto Carlos Garcia
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Pub Date Oct 15 2024 | Archive Date Oct 31 2024
Northwestern University Press | Curbstone Books
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Description
In Traveling Freely, Roberto Carlos Garcia explores questions of race, identity, and the inherent exploitations of capitalism—all from the author’s specific vantage point as a Black Dominican American man. For Garcia, the whole of life is subject to scrutiny. He interrogates the anti-Black streak in Dominican culture historically, socially, and within his own upbringing. He examines home and the American suburbs, racism in the publishing industry, a complicated love affair with World Cup soccer, and our complicity as Americans in all that ails the United States.
Through interpretations of film, literature, and his own life, Garcia insistently makes the case that to resist intersectional violence against marginalized people, we must understand our shared history of oppression. As he writes in “black/Maybe,” “history starts at home.”
Advance Praise
"Garcia walks through the world as a poet, seeing the invisible aspects of the human condition that he writes with familiarity and integrity. Reporting from the inside, not the outside, the poetic voice within these essays simply sings." —Randall Horton, author of Dead Weight
"Reading Traveling Freely, is exactly like the joy of reading James Baldwin for the very first time. Here is an important AfroLatinx voice illuminating valuable insights for not only understanding global race politics, but also for obtaining concrete counsel on what we can all do wherever we are. Like Baldwin, Roberto Carlos Garcia does this labor of love with the elegance of a poet that can both inform and transform us."—Tanya Kateri Hernandez, author of Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9780810147881 |
| PRICE | $20.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 136 |
