{"id":3125380,"date":"2019-12-01T01:15:21","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T06:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.friendsjournal.org\/book\/this-promise-of-change-one-girls-story-in-the-fight-for-school-equality\/"},"modified":"2019-12-01T01:15:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T06:15:21","slug":"this-promise-of-change-one-girls-story-in-the-fight-for-school-equality","status":"publish","type":"fpb_book","link":"https:\/\/www.friendsjournal.org\/es\/book\/this-promise-of-change-one-girls-story-in-the-fight-for-school-equality\/","title":{"rendered":"This Promise of change: One Girl\u2019s story in the fight for school equality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsjournal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/This-Promise-of-Change.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3033573\" src=\"https:\/\/www.friendsjournal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/This-Promise-of-Change-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.friendsjournal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/This-Promise-of-Change-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/www.friendsjournal.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/This-Promise-of-Change.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/a>De Jo Ann Allen Boyce y Debbie Levy. Bloomsbury Children\u2019s Books, 2019. 320 p\u00e1ginas. 17,99 $\/tapa dura; 12,99 $\/tapa blanda (disponible en marzo de 2020); 12,59 $\/eBook. Recomendado para edades de 8 a 12 a\u00f1os.    <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Esta promesa de cambio <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">es una memoria en verso que ofrece un relato \u00edntimo de la integraci\u00f3n escolar desde la perspectiva de alguien que la vivi\u00f3: Jo Ann Allen Boyce, una de un grupo de 12 estudiantes negros que se matricularon en Clinton High School en Clinton, Tennessee, en 1956 tras una orden judicial de integraci\u00f3n. La poes\u00eda en verso libre con recortes de noticias, entrevistas y otras fuentes primarias intercaladas ofrece tanto un contexto hist\u00f3rico amplio como una historia personal. Captura tanto la visi\u00f3n general de la integraci\u00f3n como el detalle de lo que se sinti\u00f3 para una chica de instituto que simplemente quer\u00eda ir a la escuela, hacer amigos y sentir que pertenec\u00eda a su ciudad.  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">La historia encaja bien con esta forma. Adem\u00e1s de contar duras verdades sobre la realidad de la integraci\u00f3n (miles de personas de pueblos vecinos acudieron a Clinton para protestar por la matriculaci\u00f3n de los estudiantes negros; el KKK asalt\u00f3 la colina que conduc\u00eda al barrio donde viv\u00edan Boyce y muchos de sus compa\u00f1eros; el ministro blanco que los escolt\u00f3 a la escuela un d\u00eda fue golpeado, casi hasta la muerte, por una turba de manifestantes), es una historia sobre c\u00f3mo Boyce llega a comprender las profundidades de la crueldad a la que llegar\u00e1n sus vecinos blancos para resistirse a la integraci\u00f3n. Es una historia sobre c\u00f3mo son el racismo, los prejuicios y la discriminaci\u00f3n, c\u00f3mo funcionan sobre el terreno cada d\u00eda. En un poema titulado \u201cHan vuelto (lunes, 26 de noviembre)\u201d, ambientado el lunes despu\u00e9s de Acci\u00f3n de Gracias, pregunta a la turba reunida para acosarla a ella y a sus amigos de camino a la escuela:   <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Sobre pavo y salsa<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00bfdieron gracias<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">y planearon<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">dar pena?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. . . . . . . .<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00bfQui\u00e9n da gracias,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">solo para reunirse en la escuela<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">empujando, burlando y escupiendo?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Los momentos de introspecci\u00f3n que ofrece <\/span><i><br \/>\n  <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Esta promesa de cambio<\/span><br \/>\n<\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">  son complejos, y tocan cuestiones sobre el racismo y la identidad racial que son m\u00e1s complicadas que el blanco y el negro. En un poema dirigido a las chicas blancas de Clinton High School que la tratan, en el mejor de los casos, con frialdad y, en el peor, con crueldad, Boyce alza a sus antepasados: <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As\u00ed que mis dos bisabuelas,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">esclavas,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tuvieron hijos con tez clara,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. . . . . . . .<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lo suficientemente blancos como para pasar por blancos,<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lo que significa que<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">en las ramas de mi \u00e1rbol geneal\u00f3gico<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hay antepasados<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">que son tan blancos<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">como t\u00fa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">La elecci\u00f3n de los autores de yuxtaponer la voz de Boyce con fuentes primarias significa que muchas voces se unen en este libro para mostrar muchas facetas de una historia, y la corta duraci\u00f3n de los poemas que componen cada cap\u00edtulo crea oportunidades org\u00e1nicas para hacer una pausa, reflexionar y hacer preguntas. Esto es lo que lo convierte en un libro eficaz para los j\u00f3venes lectores: se exponen muchas cosas y se hacen muchas preguntas, pero se presentan pocas respuestas concretas. Estas se dejan para que el lector las analice.  <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5090,"featured_media":3082825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[10409,10323],"fpb_issue_category":[10665],"class_list":["post-3125380","fpb_book","type-fpb_book","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-libros-de-diciembre-de-2019-una-estanteria-de-jovenes-amigos","category-resenas-de-libros-cuaqueros","fpb_issue_category-ninos-cuaqueros"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>This Promise of change: One Girl\u2019s story in the fight for school equality - Friends Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsjournal.org\/es\/book\/this-promise-of-change-one-girls-story-in-the-fight-for-school-equality\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"This Promise of change: One Girl\u2019s story in the fight for school equality\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"De Jo Ann Allen Boyce y Debbie Levy. 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