Elizabeth Acevedo's Inheritance a Visual Poem Dice But baby-sitting isn't always easy

But baby-sitting isn't always easy

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Elizabeth Acevedo's Inheritance a Visual Poem Dice But baby-sitting isn't always easyThey tell me to fix my hair. And by fix, they mean straighten, they mean whiten; but how do you fix this shipwrecked history of hair? In her most famous spoken word poem, author of the Pura Belpr winning novel in verse The Poet X Elizabeth Acevedo embraces all the complexities of Black hair and Afro Latinidadthe history, pain, pride, and powerful love of that inheritance. Paired with full color illustrations by artist Andrea Pippins in a format that