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M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A

Author : A. Van Jordan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393059076
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A written by A. Van Jordan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MacNolia Cox won the Akron District Spelling Bee, and at the age of 13 she became the first African American to reach the final round of the national competition. The Southern judges, it is thought, kept her from winning by presenting a word not on the official list. The word that tripped MacNolia, ironically, was "nemesis." When she died 40 years later, the girl who "was almost/ The national spelling champ" had become a cleaning woman, a grandmother, and "the best damn maid in town." Cox's ambition and her later frustration find incisive shape in this remarkably varied meditation on ambition, racism, discouragement and ennui, where successive pages can bring to mind a handbook of poetic forms (a double sestina, Japanese-inspired syllabics, a blues ghazal and prose poems based on definitions of prepositions), Ann Carson's "TV Men" poems, Rita Dove's Thomas and Beulah and the documentary film Spellbound. Jordan (Rise) begins in Cox's later life, giving voice to her husband, John Montiere, at "The Moment Before He Asks MacNolia Out on a Date," then to MacNolia herself when in 1970 her son dies just after his return from Vietnam. As counterpoints, Jordan intersperses poems about African-Americans who won more lasting public acclaim, among them Richard Pryor, Josephine Baker and the great labor organizer and orator A. Philip Randolph. Jordan's most quotable poems, however, return to the voice of the 13-year-old speller, who "learned the word chiaroscuro/ By rolling it on my tongue// Like cotton candy the color/ Of day and night." (June) Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information. Library Journal.

How Do You Spell Unfair?: MacNolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee

Author : Carole Boston Weatherford
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 1536232033
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book How Do You Spell Unfair?: MacNolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee written by Carole Boston Weatherford and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Coretta Scott King Author Honor Book "This moving picture book portrays a girl who met injustice with dignity and excelled."—Booklist (starred review) From a multi-award-winning pair comes a deeply affecting portrait of determination against discrimination: the story of young spelling champion MacNolia Cox. MacNolia Cox was no ordinary kid. Her idea of fun was reading the dictionary. In 1936, eighth grader MacNolia Cox became the first African American to win the Akron, Ohio, spelling bee. And with that win, she was asked to compete at the prestigious National Spelling Bee in Washington, DC, where she and a girl from New Jersey were the first African Americans invited since its founding. She left her home state a celebrity—right up there with Ohio’s own Joe Louis and Jesse Owens—with a military band and a crowd of thousands to see her off at the station. But celebration turned to chill when the train crossed the state line into Maryland, where segregation was the law of the land. Prejudice and discrimination ruled—on the train, in the hotel, and, sadly, at the spelling bee itself. With a brief epilogue recounting MacNolia’s further history, How Do You Spell Unfair? is the story of her groundbreaking achievement magnificently told by award-winning creators and frequent picture-book collaborators Carole Boston Weatherford and Frank Morrison.

The Necessary Past

Author : Annette Debo
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810146894
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Necessary Past written by Annette Debo and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncovering how poetry refigures Black history to imagine a more just present and future “Poets are lyric historians,” proclaimed Langston Hughes. Today, historical poetry offers a lyric history necessary to our current moment—poetry with the power to correct the past, realign the present, and create a more hopeful, or even hoped-for, future. The Necessary Past: Revising History in Contemporary African American Poetry focuses on six of today’s most celebrated poets: Elizabeth Alexander, Natasha Trethewey, A. Van Jordan, Kevin Young, Frank X Walker, and Camille T. Dungy. Their works reimagine the interiority of Black historical figures like the so-called Venus Hottentot Sara Baartman and the would-be spelling champion MacNolia Cox, the African American Native Guard who fought in the Civil War and the unknown victims of domestic violence, Jack Johnson and Jean-Michel Basquiat, Medgar Evers and those freed and enslaved in the early nineteenth century. These poets shift the power dynamic in revising our shared history, reconfiguring who speaks and whose stories are told, and writing a past that frees readers to change the present and envision a more just future.

The Cineaste

Author : A. Van Jordan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393239152
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book The Cineaste written by A. Van Jordan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each poem is inspired by the poet's reaction to a film, whose director and date appear before the poem. The poems range widely: from The great train robbery (1903), Birth of a nation, Chien Andalou, to Blazing Saddles, or the 2010 remake of Metropolis.

New Formalisms and Literary Theory

Author : V. Theile
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137010495
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book New Formalisms and Literary Theory written by V. Theile and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together scholars who have critically followed New Formalism's journey through time, space, and learning environment, this collection of essays both solidifies and consolidates New Formalism as a burgeoning field of literary criticism and explicates its potential as a varied but viable methodology of contemporary critical theory.

Reading for Our Lives

Author : Maya Payne Smart
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593332180
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Reading for Our Lives written by Maya Payne Smart and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning journalist and literacy advocate provides a clear, step-by-step guide to helping your child thrive as a reader and a learner. When her child went off to school, Maya Smart was shocked to discover that a good education in America is a long shot, in ways that few parents fully appreciate. Our current approach to literacy offers too little, too late, and attempting to play catch-up when our kids get to kindergarten can no longer be our default strategy. We have to start at the top. The brain architecture for reading develops rapidly during infancy, and early language experiences are critical to building it. That means parents’ work as children’s first teachers begins from day one too—and we need deeper knowledge to play our positions. Reading for Our Lives challenges the bath-book-bed mantra and the idea that reading aloud to our kids is enough to ensure school readiness. Instead, it gives parents easy, immediate, and accessible ways to nurture language and literacy development from the start. Through personal stories, historical accounts, scholarly research, and practical tips, this book presents the life-and-death urgency of literacy, investigates inequity in reading achievement, and illuminates a path to a true, transformative education for all.

Poet's Choice

Author : Edward Hirsch
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780151013562
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Poet's Choice written by Edward Hirsch and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of revised and expanded writings culled from the author's popular Washington Post Book World "Poet's Choice" column demonstrates how poetry responds to world challenges and introduces the work of more than 130 writers.

The Great Depression for Kids

Author : Cheryl Mullenbach
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613730543
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book The Great Depression for Kids written by Cheryl Mullenbach and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American history before and after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 Providing a balanced, realistic picture of a time rife with hardships, The Great Depression for Kids brings the era and key concepts to life. Kids learn about the harsh realities that most Americans could not escape, such as massive unemployment, natural disasters, and economic collapse. They also learn that the 1930s were a time when neighbors helped neighbors; sports figures behaved admirably; and an army of young men rebuilt the nation's forests, roads, and parks. Librarians delivered books on horseback, a curly-haired child star charmed moviegoers to "stand up and cheer" in the darkest of days, and a little African American girl became the first of her race to participate in the National Spelling Bee. Beginning with an in-depth look at the 1920s, the book builds readers' background knowledge to help set the stage for the decline of the economy over the next decade. Twenty-one crosscurricular activities help kids learn how to research, buy, and sell stocks; use scientific methods to conduct a survey, re-create Depression glassware; and much more.

Callaloo

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Callaloo written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Black South journal of arts and letters.

Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library

Author : Carole Boston Weatherford
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 1536220639
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library written by Carole Boston Weatherford and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A must-read for a deeper understanding of a well-connected genius who enriched the cultural road map for African Americans and books about them.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Amid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance stood an Afro–Puerto Rican named Arturo Schomburg. This law clerk’s passion was to collect books, letters, music, and art from Africa and the African diaspora and bring to light the achievements of people of African descent through the ages. A century later, his groundbreaking collection, known as the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, has become a beacon to scholars all over the world. In luminous paintings and arresting poems, two of children’s literature’s top African-American scholars track Arturo Schomburg’s quest to correct history.

African American Review

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book African American Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Echoing Ida Collection

Author : Cynthia R. Greenlee
Publisher : Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 155861284X
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (586 download)

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Download or read book The Echoing Ida Collection written by Cynthia R. Greenlee and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Founded in 2012, Echoing Ida is a writing collective of Black women and nonbinary writers who-like their foremother Ida B. Wells-Barnett-believe the "way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them." Their community reporting spans a wide variety of topics: reproductive justice and abortion politics; new and necessary definitions of family; trans visibility; stigma against Black motherhood; Black mental health; and more. The Echoing Ida Collection gathers the best of Echoing Ida for the first time, and features a foreword by Michelle Duster, activist and great-granddaughter of Ida B. Wells-Barnett"--

Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer

Author : Carole Boston Weatherford
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1536203254
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer written by Carole Boston Weatherford and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-12-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2016 Caldecott Honor Book A 2016 Robert F. Sibert Honor Book A 2016 John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award Winner Stirring poems and stunning collage illustrations combine to celebrate the life of Fannie Lou Hamer, a champion of equal voting rights. “I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.” Despite fierce prejudice and abuse, even being beaten to within an inch of her life, Fannie Lou Hamer was a champion of civil rights from the 1950s until her death in 1977. Integral to the Freedom Summer of 1964, Ms. Hamer gave a speech at the Democratic National Convention that, despite President Johnson’s interference, aired on national TV news and spurred the nation to support the Freedom Democrats. Featuring vibrant mixed-media art full of intricate detail, Voice of Freedom celebrates Fannie Lou Hamer’s life and legacy with a message of hope, determination, and strength.

Dare You To

Author : Katie McGarry
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1488086400
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Dare You To written by Katie McGarry and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 2 in Katie McGarry’s award-winning, powerful and romantic Pushing the Limits series, perfect for fans of Jennifer L. Armentrout, Stephanie Perkins and Simone Elkeles! "Everything—setting, characters, romance—about this novel works and works well." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Well-paced, satisfying romance." —Publishers Weekly (starred review) "I dare you…" If anyone knew the truth about Beth Risk’s home life, they’d send her mother to jail and seventeen-year-old Beth who knows where. So she protects her mom at all costs. Until the day her uncle swoops in and forces Beth to come live with him and an aunt who doesn’t want her there. Now she’s starting over in a school where she doesn’t fit in. At all. Except with the one guy who shouldn’t get her, but does…. Ryan Stone is the town golden boy, a popular baseball star jock—with secrets he can’t tell anyone. Not even the friends he shares everything with, including the constant dares to do crazy things. The craziest? Asking out the Skater girl who couldn’t be less interested in him. But what begins as a dare becomes an intense attraction and suddenly, the boy with the flawless image is risking his future for the girl he loves. And the girl who shouldn’t let anyone get too close is daring herself to want it all…. Originally published in May 2013.

All Aunt Hagar's Children LP

Author : Edward P. Jones
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060853514
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book All Aunt Hagar's Children LP written by Edward P. Jones and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2006-09-05 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward P. Jones, a prodigy of the short story, returns to the form that first won him praise in this new collection of stories, All Aunt Hagar's Children. Here he turns an unflinching eye to the men, women, and children caught between the old ways of the South and the temptations that await them in the city, people who in Jones's masterful hands emerge as fully human and morally complex. With the legacy of slavery just a stone's throw behind them and the future uncertain, Jones's cornucopia of characters will haunt readers for years to come.

Unspeakable

Author : Carole Boston Weatherford
Publisher : Carolrhoda Books ®
ISBN 13 : 172842464X
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book Unspeakable written by Carole Boston Weatherford and published by Carolrhoda Books ®. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Coretta Scott King Book Awards for Author and Illustrator A Caldecott Honor Book A Sibert Honor Book Longlisted for the National Book Award A Kirkus Prize Finalist A Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book "A must-have"—Booklist (starred review) Celebrated author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator Floyd Cooper provide a powerful look at the Tulsa Race Massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in our nation's history. The book traces the history of African Americans in Tulsa's Greenwood district and chronicles the devastation that occurred in 1921 when a white mob attacked the Black community. News of what happened was largely suppressed, and no official investigation occurred for seventy-five years. This picture book sensitively introduces young readers to this tragedy and concludes with a call for a better future. Download the free educator guide here: https://lernerbooks.com/download/unspeakableteachingguide

Blue Front

Author : Martha Collins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Blue Front written by Martha Collins and published by . This book was released on 2006-05-30 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning account of racism, mob violence, and cultural responsibility as rendered by the poet Martha Collins the victim hanged, though not on a tree, this was not the country, they used a steel arch with electric lights, and later a lamppost, this was a modern event, the trees were not involved. —from "Blue Front" Martha Collins's father, as a five-year-old, sold fruit outside the Blue Front Restaurant in Cairo, Illinois, in 1909. What he witnessed there, with 10,000 participants, is shocking. In Blue Front, Collins describes the brutal lynching of a black man and, as an afterthought, a white man, both of them left to the mercilessness of the spectators. The poems patch together an arresting array of evidence—newspaper articles, census data, legal history, postcards, photographs, and Collins's speculations about her father's own experience. The resulting work, part lyric and part narrative, is a bold investigation into hate, mob mentality, culpability, and what it means to be white in a country still haunted by its violently racist history.