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Author : Greta Oglesby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781933794488
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (944 download)
Download or read book Mama 'n Nem written by Greta Oglesby and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rashod Ollison
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807088978
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Soul Serenade written by Rashod Ollison and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A coming-of-age memoir about a young boy in rural Arkansas who searches for himself and his distant father through soul music Growing up in rural Arkansas, young Rashod Ollison turned to music to make sense of his life. The dysfunction, sadness, and steely resilience of his family and neighbors was reflected in the R&B songs that played on 45s in smoky rooms. Steeped in the sounds, the smells, the salty language of rural Arkansas in the 1980s, Soul Serenade is the memoir of a pop music critic whose love for soul music was fostered by his father, Raymond. Drafted into the Vietnam War as a teenager, Raymond returned a changed man, “dead on the inside.” After his parents’ volatile marriage ended in divorce, Rashod was haunted by the memory of his itinerant father and his mama’s long forgotten “sunshine smile.” For six-year-old Rashod, his father’s record collection—the music of Aretha Franklin, Bobby Womack, Al Green, and others—provided solace, coherence, and escape. Moving nine times during his childhood, Rashod constantly adjusted to new schools and homes with his two sisters, Dusa and Reagan, and his mother, Dianne. Resilient and tough, while also being distant and punitive, she worked multiple jobs, striving “to make ends wave at each other if they couldn’t meet.” He spent time with his acerbic mother’s mother, Mama Teacake, and her family’s living-out-loud ways, which clashed with his father’s family—religious, discreet, and appropriate—where Rashod gravitated to Big Mama and Paw Paw, his father’s parents. Becoming aware of his same-sex attraction, Rashod felt further isolated and alone but was encouraged by mentors in the community who fostered his intelligence and talent. He became transformed through discovering the writing of Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Nikki Giovanni, and other literary greats, and these books, along with the soulful sounds of the 1970s and 80s, enabled him to thrive in spite of the instability and harshness of his childhood. In textured and evocative language, and peppered with unexpected humor, Soul Serenade is an original and captivating coming-of-age story set to an original beat.
Author : Jean Ellis Hudson
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1490778993
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Staying Power written by Jean Ellis Hudson and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-28 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love. Sickness. Death. Happiness. Accidents. Marriage. Beatings. Laughter. Changes! Susannah Brown exhibited a loving patience and her family sought her out for advice and encouragement which she always provided. Unfortunately the arthritis she had began to take its toll. Jon, Ruths husband, came home from the war with shell shock and experienced many episodes with it to his dismay. Jeff often had nightmares of the war which in some ways were worse than what actually happened. Jeff meets Melody Martin at church, began to date her, eventually married her, despite her handicap, and they had children. Zeb Stuart, Jeffs partner in building furniture, had a horrible experience with bootleg whiskey, despite Prohibition, which led him into serious trouble and a beating. Reggie Barnhouse from Britain came home with Jeff after the war and began to work on the farm. He was a good worker and enjoyed cutting up with Clyde Armour. The time they all lived through was The Roaring Twenties, called that because it was a wild ride. Many changes occurred, such as Prohibition, Henry Fords cars, radio, airplanes, a new kind of music and dancing, womens right to vote, national sports, the KKK, immigration, political corruption, oilfields, Scopes Monkey Trial and the stock market crash of 1929.
Author : Jerry Deriso
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1469119455
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (691 download)
Download or read book Save Me a Place in Heaven written by Jerry Deriso and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-09-17 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His fathers death prompted him to preserve his family memories for his descendents, but the writing quickly grew into a life essay on farm life, Southern cooking, dogs, small-town life in the 1950s, and the demise of our current culture. The book is written in the authors voice and evokes feelings of Sams, Grizzard, and Rooney. He believes our culture is being slowly destroyed from within by small dogs, cats, bad barbecue, kudzu, fat-free ice cream, cell phones, e-mail, the Internet, childproof lids, hard plastic security packaging, iPods, video players in automobiles, kids not being raised right, rudeness, fast food, moms who dont cook, high school graduates who cant read, long-winded preachers, the disappearance of real Southern cooking, and the popularity of instant grits, Diet Pepsi, and unsweetened tea. His familys history is a goldmine of great food, quirky characters, outlandish actions, and bodacious behavior; he has mined it shamelessly and offers no apologies.
Author : Linda Taylor
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595389066
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)
Download or read book In the Midst of It All written by Linda Taylor and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The friends, three professional women and a no nonsense older woman, sat near each other in church. At the Reverend's direction the congregation stood and bowed their heads for prayer. Joy Stanton, an executive assistant, divorcee, and single mom, asked God's forgiveness for the mistakes and misjudgments that changed her role from custodial parent to weekend mom. Leanne Hilliard, a married college professor, prayed for a little girl of her own. She also asked God to mend her broken marriage and to forgive her for the lover she was going to meet as soon as the service was over. Vanessa Becker, a cute, sexy Ad exec, was uncomfortable in the long-sleeved dress she was wearing on this warm Sunday, but it covered the black and blue bruises on her arms. She asked God to make her live-in boyfriend see how much she loved him so the abuse would stop. Doretha Muncie was an older woman who sat two pews up. She said her Amen, and resumed her seat. Her prayer was always the same-she asked God's forgiveness for breaking one of His commandments. The sixth one.
Author : Earl Mills
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692548936
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (489 download)
Download or read book The Thangs Mama Nem Said written by Earl Mills and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My first thoughts about this book "The Thangs Mama' nem Said, was around 2008. After reading one of Langston Hughes's poems in the dialog of African Americans after slavery, the broken English, and what I to call laze tongued poem awakened something within me and inspired me to try and write one of my own, that birthed the poem "Devil Keep On Bother'n Me." This caused me to think about the sayings I heard my great grandparents, grandparents, parents and the older people in my community use, and caused me to realize that this dialog and the sayings were slowly fading away. This made me realize that my children and grandchildren had never heard most of these sayings. In no way am I implying that we should teach our children to speak this way. I am a firm believer in using correct grammar, and speaking correctly. This book is just one way of taking a peak into our past, preserving it for the future and maybe in the process we just might get one of them gut busting laughs on the way.
Author : Chauncey "Chino Dolla" Stevens
Publisher : MasterMind Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0988821001
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (888 download)
Download or read book A Hustler's Dream I written by Chauncey "Chino Dolla" Stevens and published by MasterMind Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-10-04 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tragedy and triumph leaps from every page of this sensational memoir by Chauncey "Chino Dolla" Stevens. This book chronicles the personal and professional adventure of a boy, blindly chasing his dreams to become a man. After the death of his grandmother Chino Dolla finds himself lost in the city streets of Atlanta, GA surrounded by drugs, money, and murder. Trying to run from his past demons Chino Dolla enters the world of entertainment by starting a record label called MasterMind Music. Through his record label he finds a piece of himself and introduces the world to a charismatic rapper by the name of Yung Joc. After executive producing Yung Joc's 2006 Platinum debut album "New Joc City", Chino Dolla not only finds himself face to face with some of the world’s most famous stars and underworld figures like P. Diddy, Jay-Z, Rick Ross, T.I., Beyonce, Big Meech, Young Jeezy, Janet Jackson, and more. It also brings him face to face with betrayal, deceit and the most horrific tragedy of his life. This well-written, educating, and entertaining memoir delivers a powerful message pertaining to following your dreams and making the right choices in life. A Hustlers Dream 1 is a MUST READ!
Author : Ifeoma Ndiolo-Enaholo
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1496991915
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (969 download)
Download or read book Hidden Treasures of the Heart written by Ifeoma Ndiolo-Enaholo and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Juggle the Dice and Panorama. An overwhelming narrative about sibling rivalry and its negative effects on an otherwise exciting childhood. Set in a typical African home with a rich cultural heritage, yet infested with third world challenges of poverty, war and deprivation, Adaku battles with overcoming self imposed misery and transcending perceived barriers, limiting her from deploying and appreciating the hidden treasures of her heart.
Author : Tom Boggs
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1467039691
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Magnolia Blossoms and Bad Tasting Water written by Tom Boggs and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magnolia Blossoms and Bad Tasting Water is a series of excerpts and stories from the simple and carefree days in the rural South after World War II and through the fabulous fifties, as remembered by a man who lived it as a boy and young man, and who saw and heard about the characters and the events firsthand. It was inspired by the weekly newspaper columns entitled Days Gone Bye written by the author, Tom Boggs, over a period of more than thirteen years and still going. The chapters are filled with folks and events that are familiar to anybody who lived in those times...and for those who didn't; the history, the laughter, the funny happenings, and the serious side of the book will appeal to readers of any age or from any region of the country. This book is for those who want to spend a few light moments reading about goings on around an old courthouse, about high school football rivalries, old time religion, going to the picture show, and being ten back then. there is also remembering the fading warriors of the forties, the music of that era, the past time of hunting, fishing and bullfrog gigging, and just plain old keeping those memories alive for those who lived it...and for those who with they had.
Author : Leala Cadney
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1681976455
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (819 download)
Download or read book Once More and Again written by Leala Cadney and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book heels on the previous writing of All of Ya'll Not Hailing from the North. My trusted critics, my kinfolks, said that I didn't tell the full story, didn't even scratch the surface. So after such rig-a-mo-role, I am back to make another stob (stab) at it. Once More and Again is the second book of a series called My Country Breaks up in Town. This writing continues to tell the stories of our foreparents, incorporating some of their wild, winsome, witty, ofttimes, wicked sayings and antics. It was designed for you and our future generations in mind, to let them know from whence they came so that they ne'er (never) burn the bridge down that brought them over. Read the scripture Psalm 78:6 and see if we aren't cooking with gas on this. Learn that! Be prepared to laugh, and laugh some more, folks, as we stir your memory of how it used to be.
Author : Anna Waddell
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1524607533
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (246 download)
Download or read book Life Unscripted written by Anna Waddell and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goodbye stuck, Hello Life Transformation! I now accept and acknowledge myself for who I am, only seeking validation from my Heavenly Father. I know whose child I am and He IS the only master of my fate. Today, I commit to stand up and fight for My Life, to Rise and Shine, while encouraging others to do likewise. Anna Waddell P.S. May these words Inspire you to look at your own life, and Motivate you to seek the path to your own True Destiny.
Author : John Pritchard
Publisher : NewSouth Books
ISBN 13 : 1603061223
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Junior Ray written by John Pritchard and published by NewSouth Books. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative novel takes the reader on a wild ride inside the mind of a Mississippi Delta good-old-boy ex-deputy sheriff who is as vicious and racist as the worst 1950s-’60s stereotypes. Junior Ray Loveblood narrates the story in his own profane, colloquial voice, telling why he hates just about everybody and why he wants to shoot Leland Shaw, a shell-shocked World War II hero and poet who is hiding in a silo from what he believes are German patrols. Through a series of sleights of hand, misdirections, and near misses, Junior Ray and his sidekick Voyd give a dark tour of the Delta country as they chase their mysterious prey. Junior Ray’s thoughts are peppered with excerpts from Shaw’s notebooks - sometimes starkly different from Junior Ray’s diatribe, sometimes eerily similar—and by the end of the story, it is up to the reader to sort out whose reality is more fantastic, Shaw’s or Loveblood’s, as the one stalks the other through the pages of this highly original and darkly comedic story.
Author : Chin Ce
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9783603752
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (836 download)
Download or read book Gender Issues in African Literature written by Chin Ce and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2014-04-02 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender Issues in African Literature examines the ways in which some protagonists of African fictions are made to counter and challenge intertwined Western discourses on gender, employment, sexuality, and health. Here the conflict between Tradition and Modernity is argues from the favourite premise of male supremacist ideology showing how women have unlearned these false concepts to build a sustained feminist movement and (re)learn the value of sisterhood. There is a bold attempt to reread Achebe as a consistent in urging women to fight the seemingly oppressive structures that have traditionally discriminated against them, and to disregard their diversity and embrace their unity. A chapter of Feminist Re-writing disagrees with the attempt to equate theory with political activism and presents Feminist literature as more than a verbal assertion that points to Feminist aesthetics and politics. The use of the trauma theory and testimonio literature to explore traumatisation of female characters and its impact for Zimbabwean civil society is a useful addition to these gender studies in African literature.
Author : Chinedu Christie Nnamah Okoye PhD JP
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532082924
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Wisdom of the Rare One written by Chinedu Christie Nnamah Okoye PhD JP and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2019-09-26 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though Oduko Na Mba didn’t attend a formal school, she was an inspirational woman who possessed wisdom that guided the educated and the powerful. In Wisdom of the Rare One, Oduko’s daughter, author Dr. Chinedu Christie Nnamah Okoye, offers an insightful look at her mother’s life. In this memoir, Nnamah Okoye blends real-life events with fictional excerpts to share her mother’s story. Born around the year of 1925 and married off at the age of fourteen, Oduko, through her faith in God, raised nine children and left a legacy many envied and even emulated. She consistently exemplified her rarity at every level of her adult years of life, her character remaining consistent during times of peace, war, scarcity, and plenty. Wisdom of the Rare One shares the author’s mother’s practical and everyday wisdom, rooted in Biblical principles, that helped others build positive and healthful relationships. It pays tribute to Oduko while offering a host of anecdotes and stories that highlight the vision and acumen of a woman born at a time and in a country that placed little value on a female’s existence.
Author : Tracey Watkins
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595143288
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Paperstation written by Tracey Watkins and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about a boy who never felt loved. His parents died when he was just ten months old, and he never received the love he needed from his grandparents. The undercurrents of the inner city were just waiting to draw him in.
Author : Borbála Kovács
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331978661X
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)
Download or read book Family Policy and the Organisation of Childcare written by Borbála Kovács and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-16 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains and theorises the ways in which family policy instruments come to shape the routine care arrangements of young children. Drawing on interviews with close to a hundred parents from very different walks of life in urban and rural Romania, the book provides a rich account of the care arrangement transitions these parents experience during their children’s first five years of life. The influence of family policies emerges as complex and uneven, affecting childcare decisions both directly and indirectly by contributing to the reproduction and legitimation of age-related hierarchies of care ideals. These cultural artefacts, reflective of both longstanding institutional legacies and recent policy innovations between 2006 and 2015, are the prism through which mothers and fathers from diverse backgrounds view and make decisions about their children’s care. This unique volume will be of interest and value to students and scholars of childcare, its organisation and family policy, specifically in post-socialist contexts.
Author : Barbara H. Hudson
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book African American Female Speech Communities written by Barbara H. Hudson and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2001-06-30 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sociolinguistic study, not only are language and gender researched, but the relationship between language and ethnic group, region, and social class is also discussed. Hudson describes the ways in which some female African American writers use the language of African American female characters to reflect their membership in various speech communities. Materials used for this text include slave narratives, novels, short stories, diaries, plays, and autobiographies. The study bridges the gap between the existing research on that focuses on the Vernacular English spoken mainly by young African American males and the research which mainly focuses on the language used by white middle class females. Research in the area of African American English has investigated both its form and its use in conversational interactions. Hudson explores how African American English encompasses a range of dialects from Standard to Vernacular English, noting that there is a diversity of language types present in the African American female speech community. This book offers language researchers, social scientists, educators, and others valuable insights into language use by minority females.
