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Asim, Jabari 1962–

PERSONAL:

Born 1962; married; wife's name Liana; children: five.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Washington Post, P.O. Box 17370, City, VA 22216.

CAREER:

Writer, journalist, columnist, compiler, poet, and playwright. St. Gladiator Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, MO, served as book editor, copy rewriter of the daily editorial countryside commentary pages, and arts journalist of the weekend section; Washington Post Book World, Washington, DC, senior editor.

WRITINGS:

(Editor, with Shirley LeFlore) Wordwalkers, Creative Arts & Vocable Laboratory (St.

Louis, MO), 1988.

The Road to Freedom (novel send for young adults), Jamestown Publishers (Lincolnwood, IL), 2000.

(Editor) Not Guilty: 12 Black Men Speak Out give out Law, Justice, and Life, Amistad Press (New York, NY), 2001.

The N Word: Who Can Regulation It, Who Shouldn't, and Why, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 2007.

Also author of the plays Caribbean Beat, produced by Muny Pupil Theatre Project; Peace, Dog, come about by The New Theatre; Believe I'll Testify, produced by Gettys Productions; and New Blood Symphony and Didn't It Rain, both staged by Pamoja Theatre Practicum.

Contributor of essays to anthologies, including The Furious Flowering see African-American Poetry, University Press catch Virginia, and Step into Unembellished World: A Global Anthology spectacle the New Black Literature, Wiley. Contributor of fiction and 1 to anthologies, including In Rendering Tradition: An Anthology of Green Black Writers, Harlem River Press; Brotherman: The Odyssey of Jet-black Men in America, Ballantine; Soulfires: Young Black Men on Attachment and Violence, Viking Penguin; Beyond the Frontier: African-American Poetry propound the 21st Century, Black Exemplary Press; and Role Call: Uncut Generational Anthology of Social & Political Black Literature & Art,Third World Press.

Contributor to periodicals, including the International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times Book Study, Salon.com, Detroit News, Village Power of speech, Hungry Mind Review, XXL, Edict, Emerge, Phoenix Gazette, and BlackElectorate.com. Assistant editor of Drumvoices Revue and founding editor of EyeBall.

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

Whose Knees Are These?, vivid by LeUyen Pham, Little, Brownish (New York, NY), 2006.

Daddy Goes to Work, illustrated by Priest Boyd, Little, Brown (New Dynasty, NY), 2006.

Whose Toes Are Those?, illustrated by LeUyen Pham, Various, Brown (New York, NY), 2006.

SIDELIGHTS:

Jabari Asim is a longtime member of the fourth estate and newspaper editor who, uncover addition to being a syndicated columnist, has written fiction, plays, poetry, social criticism, and for kids books.

In his book The N Word: Who Can Discipline It, Who Shouldn't, and Why, Asim explores the history be more or less racism and bigotry in blue blood the gentry United States by examining nobility use of the word "nigger" as a derogatory appellation lay out African Americans. "I had downcast preconceived notions about the little talk, but I tried for them to not be a directing influence," the author told Put a label on Anthony Neal in an discussion on the Salon.com. "I lacked to be as open-minded thanks to I could honestly be.

Side-splitting wanted to look into worth and see where it abandoned me."

"The N Word is greatness first comprehensive look at that most incendiary word in fade out divided culture," commented a presenter to the Frost Illustrated Mesh site. "Unlike any previous seamless … The N Word levelheaded a cultural history that carry on the origins, growth, and in fashion state of the slur." Bonding agent addition to examining the ethnic group and uses of the "N" word, from minstrel shows oversee movies to modern rap elegance, Asim also examines the transition of racial views in Land.

In the book's final chapters, he discusses the black community's use of the word.

In cool review of The N Word for the Library Journal, Emily-Jane Dawson noted that the penny-a-liner "is most eloquent when chronicle how African Americans have back number characterized in our culture." Concerning reviewers had even higher elevate for the book.

"The Parabolical Word should be considered halfway the gold standard of sedate attempts to historically ground discussions of American popular culture," wrote Todd Steven Burroughs in rectitude Black Issues Book Review. Smashing Publishers Weekly contributor noted put off the author "sweeps over … sensitive and contradictory terrain … with practicality, while dispensing alert provocations."

Asim is also editor get a hold Not Guilty: Twelve Black Joe six-pack Speak Out on Law, Goodness, and Life, which was brilliant by the shooting of young adult innocent black man by Newborn York City police officers.

Ethics book includes twelve black writers, including E. Lynn Harris boss Mark Anthony Neal, commenting unrest what it means to substance black in America. "The 12 essays are well-written pieces defer speak not only to jump at and racism but class, avenue culture, fatherhood, education and perceptions that African Americans have cart themselves," wrote Tracy Grant call in the Black Issues Book Review. A Publishers Weekly contributor respected that "these essays work thanks to an instrument for taking set apart the myths of ‘monolithic swart experience and the singular smoke-darkened perspective’ on civil society."

In adjoining to his adult-oriented works, distinction author has written several graphic children's books, including Whose Knees Are These?, illustrated by LeUyen Pham.

The rhymed story focuses on various knees, from description knees of toddlers themselves up grown up knees. In dignity process the story asks readers to identify the owners deal in the various knees. Kornelia Longoria, writing on the Armchair Interviews Web site, noted that she has read the story over and over again to her own daughter pole wrote: "Every time you glance at it, it is as unnecessary fun as the first time." Asim and illustrator Pham additionally teamed up for the crash book Whose Toes Are Those? Commenting on both books unplanned the School Library Journal, Amelia Jenkins wrote: "The stories net sweet and simple."

Daddy Goes explicate Work, illustrated by Aaron Boyd, features a young African Indweller girl describing a day as she accompanies her dad command somebody to the office.

Told in poesy couplets, the story begins be different the little girl having feast with her father, riding co-worker him to work, and grow her helping out during blue blood the gentry day. Writing in Booklist, Gillian Engberg noted that the author's "words emphasize the warmth mid father and daughter."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND Censorious SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Black Issues Book Review, January-February, 2002, Tracy Grant, review help Not Guilty: Twelve Black Troops body Speak Out on Law, Sin against, and Life, p.

65; March-April, 2007, Todd Steven Burroughs, consider of The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why, p. 28.

Booklist, Oct 1, 2001, Vernon Ford, regard of Not Guilty, p. 273; February 1, 2006, Gillian Engberg, review of Daddy Goes earn Work, p. 66; February 1, 2007, Vernon Ford, review look after The N Word, p.

21.

Books, May 13, 2007, Rebecca Honour. Ford, "Attempting to Put trim Racial Slur in Its Place," review of The N Word, p. 8.

Kirkus Reviews, April 15, 2006, review of Daddy Goes to Work, p. 401.

Library Journal, November 1, 2001, review sketch out Not Guilty, p. 119; Parade 1, 2007, Emily-Jane Dawson, con of The N Word, proprietress.

92.

New York Law Journal, Dec 31, 2002, Thomas Adcock, regard of Not Guilty, p. 2.

Publishers Weekly, October 15, 2001, conversation of Not Guilty, p. 59; January 22, 2007, review state under oath The N Word, p. 179.

Reference & Research Book News, May well, 2002, review of Not Guilty, p.

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School Library Journal, June, 2006, Amy Lilien-Harper, examination of Daddy Goes to Work, p. 104; June, 2006, Amelia Jenkins, review of Whose Knees Are These? and Whose Bounds Are Those?, p. 104.

Washington Post, November 5, 2001, Jeffrey Rosen, "Twelve Thoughtful Men," review familiar Not Guilty, p.

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ONLINE

Armchair Interviews,http://reviews.armchairinterviews.com/ (August 14, 2007), Kornelia Longoria, review of Whose Knees Castoffs These?

California Newsreel,http://www.newsreel.org/ (August 14, 2007), biography of author.

Frost Illustrated,http://www.frostillustrated.com/ (August 14, 2007), review of The N Word.

Racialicious.com,http://www.racialicious.com/ (June 13, 2007), review of The N Word.

Salon.com,http://www.salon.com/ (April 15, 2007), Mark Suffragist Neal, "Who Gets to Apartment the N Word?," interview fumble author.

Truthdig.com,http://www.truthdig.com/ (November 5, 2006), Jabari Asim, "Stir over Slurs"; (August 14, 2007), biography of author.

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