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And the Category Is.

Author : Ricky Tucker
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807003484
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book And the Category Is. written by Ricky Tucker and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 2023 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in Nonfiction An Electric Literature “Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of 2022” Selection A love letter to the legendary Black and Latinx LGBTQ underground subculture, uncovering its abundant legacy and influence in popular culture. What is Ballroom? Not a song, a documentary, a catchphrase, a TV show, or an individual pop star. It is an underground subculture founded over a century ago by LGBTQ African American and Latino men and women of Harlem. Arts-based and intersectional, it transcends identity, acting as a fearless response to the systemic marginalization of minority populations. Ricky Tucker pulls from his years as a close friend of the community to reveal the complex cultural makeup and ongoing relevance of house and Ballroom, a space where trans lives are respected and applauded, and queer youth are able to find family and acceptance. With each chapter framed as a “category” (Vogue, Realness, Body, et al.), And the Category Is . . . offers an impressionistic point of entry into this subculture, its deeply integrated history, and how it’s been appropriated for mainstream audiences. Each category features an exclusive interview with fierce LGBTQ/POC Ballroom members—Lee Soulja, Benjamin Ninja, Twiggy Pucci Garçon, and more—whose lives, work, and activism drive home that very category. At the height of public intrigue and awareness about Ballroom, thanks to TV shows like FX’s Pose, Tucker’s compelling narratives help us understand its relevance in pop culture, dance, public policy with regard to queer communities, and so much more. Welcome to the norm-defying realness of Ballroom.

Go Home, Ricky!

Author : Gene Kwak
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1647002559
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Go Home, Ricky! written by Gene Kwak and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a rising literary star comes a fresh, satirical novel about masculinity and tenderness, fatherhood and motherhood, set in the world of semi-professional wrestling—now in paperback After seven years on the semi-pro wrestling circuit, Ricky Twohatchet, a.k.a. Richard Powell, needs one last match before he gets called up to the big leagues. Unlike some wrestlers who only play the stereotype, Ricky believes he comes by his persona honestly—he’s half white and half Native American—even if he’s never met his father. But the night of the match in Omaha, Nebraska, something askew in their intricate choreography sets him on a course for disaster. He finishes with a neck injury that leaves him in a restrictive brace and a video already going viral: him spewing profanities at his ex-partner, Johnny America. Injury aside, he’s out of the league. Without a routine or identity, Ricky spirals downward, finally setting off to learn about his father, and what he finds will explode everything he knows about who he is—as a man, a friend, a son, a partner, and a wrestler. Go Home, Ricky! is a sometimes-witty, sometimes-heart-wrenching, but always gripping look into the complexities of identity.

Ricky's Hand

Author : David Quantick
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN 13 : 180336047X
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Ricky's Hand written by David Quantick and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Emmy Award-winning writer of Avenue 5, Veep and The Thick of It comes a funny, violent and thought-provoking horror story like nothing you’ve seen before. Ricky Smart is a nobody, a Miami Beach paparazzo who scrapes a living snapping celebs. One day Ricky wakes up and realises there’s something wrong with his hand. It’s not his hand. In fact, it’s someone else’s hand. How does he know it’s not his? Because it looks different, feels different and – perhaps the biggest clue – has a four-letter word tattooed across the knuckles. But hey, it's still a hand, and it works just fine, so that's ok. Except a week later, his other hand changes. And a few days after that, Ricky gets a new arm… Ricky is losing his mind as well as his body parts, but he has to pay rent and those seedy photos aren't going to take themselves. The world needs candid shots of pop sensation and local girl Scala Jaq, almost as much as Ricky's bank account does. Yet Scala has a secret of her own, a secret that leads them to an unlikely partnership, the strangest support group ever, and revelations that threaten existence as they know it. It's up to the celebrity and her tormentor to work out what to do with a world of misfits, explosions, and other people's bad tattoos. Because when you've looked for redemption in all the right places, you might need to try the wrong ones.

Follow Me

Author : Ricky Dillon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501132024
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Follow Me written by Ricky Dillon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this inspiring and hilarious memoir, YouTube star Ricky Dillon gives you an exciting look into his personal life and reveals the ins and outs of being a young star online. Have you ever picked up a new instrument and tried learning to play your favorite song? Or found out exactly how much sour candy you can possibly eat in one sitting? Or given yourself permission to be friendly to a total stranger who looked sad? Ricky Dillon has, and in Follow Me, he invites you to join him on a series of challenges—from serious, contemplative tasks to hilarious, outrageous stunts—that are bound to stretch your mind (as well as your muscles) and change your life for the better. Sure, trying something new or putting yourself out there—facing the unknown—can be scary, but Ricky himself understands what it’s like to face life’s great obstacles. He also knows that every day offers chances to try something new, to push yourself a little farther, and to get a little stronger both inside out. Along with the challenges, Follow Me also ushers readers into Ricky’s real life, sharing exactly how he creates his videos, what it’s like collaborating with other YouTube stars, what his family and friends mean to him, and how he juggles all of his creative endeavors—from music to fitness to writing and beyond—while keeping a positive attitude and appreciating all of life’s adventures, big and small. Inspiring, informative, and incredibly fun, Follow Me is not just a book but a full-on reading experience from one of our most beloved and hardworking social media stars.

Rendezvous Eighteenth

Author : Jake Lamar
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312336059
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Rendezvous Eighteenth written by Jake Lamar and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rendezvous Eighteenth marks the emergence of an exciting voice in crime fiction. Ricky Jenks gave up life in the U.S. years ago and is content, if not happy, with his life as a piano player in a small café in the Montmartre neighborhood of Paris. He has many friends among the other African-Americans living in Paris and is happily, if casually, involved with a French Muslim woman. But then everything changes. His American life comes crashing down on him when his estranged cousin wants help finding his runaway wife, whom he thinks might have come to Paris, even though he's vague about why. That same night Ricky finds a prostitute dead in his apartment building in Paris's Eighteenth Arrondissment, one of the most multicultural sections of Paris. That these two events could be connected is something he never imagines. This intricate, absorbing thriller is ultimately much more than a suspense novel. Lamar's detailed and vibrant portrait of life in Paris is as much the story of a black man's alienation and redemption-indeed, the story of an entire community searching for a home-as it is a taut thriller about revenge, obsession, and murder.

Auchentrolly Park Drive

Author : Marilyn Jones
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1493190970
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book Auchentrolly Park Drive written by Marilyn Jones and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-05-16 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of Baltimore in the 1950’s. It takes a look at prejudice in America and within the Black race. It is a tale of love, deception, secrets, murder ... and the supernatural.

The Political Theory of I Love Lucy

Author : Leslie Dale Feldman
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498541550
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book The Political Theory of I Love Lucy written by Leslie Dale Feldman and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2019-01-18 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at how the classic television series fits into the cultural milieu of mid-century America. I Love Lucy incorporates key themes of the 1950s American political scene and classic American values of family, social mobility, community, individualism and work, keeping in mind that “Luck” as Machiavelli said “is the arbiter of half of what we do.” As the beloved American TV queen, Lucy Ricardo is a psychologically complicated character, conflicted between her role as a 1950s housewife and her wish to be a star. She is an icon of social mobility, going from a small New York City apartment to a country house in a swanky suburb, and an example of the “transitional” woman who wants to have it all. Is she a feminist? Is she a conformist? Does she prefer the country to the city? Whether she is working on the chocolate factory assembly line, baking bread, or achieving the American dream, Lucy is always “speeding it up!”

Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2004

Author : Roger Ebert
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780740738340
Total Pages : 988 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (383 download)

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Download or read book Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2004 written by Roger Ebert and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring every review Ebert wrote from January 2001 to mid-June 2003, this treasury also includes his essays, interviews, film festival reports, and In Memoriams, along with his famous star ratings.

Weird New York

Author : Chris Gethard
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781402733833
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book Weird New York written by Chris Gethard and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a travel guide of sorts to New York's local legends and best kept secrets, filled with crazy characters, cursed roads, abandoned sites, and bizarre roadside attractions that the author feels reflect the shared modern folklore of our time.

Party Out of Bounds

Author : Rodger Lyle Brown
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820350400
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Party Out of Bounds written by Rodger Lyle Brown and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published originally by Plume in 1991, Rodger L. Brown's Party Out of Bounds is a cult classic. This twenty-fifth anniversary edition includes new photographs, a foreword by Charles Aaron, former editor and writer at SPIN magazine, and an essay on Athens, GA since the 'golden age' of Brown's story. Party Out of Bounds offers an insider's look at the phenomenon of an underground rock music culture springing from the Georgia college town of Athens. Brown uses his half-remembered memories to chronicle the 1970s and the 80s in Athens, and the spawning of such supergroups as The B-52's, Pylon, and R.E.M."--

Dead Coach Walking

Author : Tom Penders
Publisher : Reedy Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1935806025
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Dead Coach Walking written by Tom Penders and published by Reedy Press LLC. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned college basketball coach Tom Penders revisits his successful, if tumultuous, career in a new autobiography Dead Coach Walking: Tom Penders Surviving and Thriving in College Hoops. One of the winningest head coaches in NCAA Division I basketball history, Penders reflects on four decades steering programs at 7 universities-Tufts, Columbia, Fordham, Rhode Island, Texas, George Washington and Houston. As he lifted them from depths of "death row" to winning glory, he enhanced his reputation as "Turnaround Tom." Penders achieved success with distinction: he has coached more NCAA Division I basketball programs than any coach in history and has taken four different schools to the Division I Men's Basketball Tournament. He also retired in 2010 ranked 4th total among active coaches in games-coached, trailing only Connecticut's Jim Calhoun, Duke's Mike Krzyzewski and Syracuse's Jim Boeheim. In Dead Coach Walking, Penders talks about the teams he led and how he dealt with athletic directors, conference commissioners, assistants, AAU coaches, the NABC and the NCAA. The book also goes behind the scenes, revealing game strategies, coaching personalities, locker room stories, and experiences on the recruiting trail. Penders' perspective, while sometimes controversial, is riveting not to mention entertaining. Dead Coach Walking is truly as unique, quirky, and remarkable as its subject.

Life on the Hyphen

Author : Gustavo Pérez Firmat
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292735995
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Life on the Hyphen written by Gustavo Pérez Firmat and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expanded, updated edition of the classic study of Cuban-American culture, this engaging book, which mixes the author’s own story with his reflections as a trained observer, explores how both famous and ordinary members of the “1.5 Generation” (Cubans who came to the United States as children or teens) have lived “life on the hyphen”—neither fully Cuban nor fully American, but a fertile hybrid of both. Offering an in-depth look at Cuban-Americans who have become icons of popular and literary culture—including Desi Arnaz, Oscar Hijuelos, musician Pérez Prado, and crossover pop star Gloria Estefan, as well as poets José Kozer and Orlando González Esteva, performers Willy Chirino and Carlos Oliva, painter Humberto Calzada, and others—Gustavo Pérez Firmat chronicles what it means to be Cuban in America. The first edition of Life on the Hyphen won the Eugene M. Kayden National University Press Book Award and received honorable mentions for the Modern Language Association’s Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize and the Latin American Studies Association’s Bryce Wood Book Award.

Case Analyses for Abnormal Psychology

Author : Randall E. Osborne
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317445465
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Case Analyses for Abnormal Psychology written by Randall E. Osborne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Case Analyses for Abnormal Psychology, Second Edition uses case studies to explore the etiology, biology, and dynamics of psychiatric disorders in the DSM-5. Readers will learn about the new classifications and treatments for disorders while simultaneously reading the personal history of each consumer both before and during the development of each case. Every case ends with a section on the particular disorder presented, as viewed from a biological perspective. This updated edition bridges advances in abnormal psychology and neuroscience in understanding mental illness.

From Mafia Boss to the Cross

Author : Dr. Bruno Caporrimo
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1467827282
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (678 download)

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Download or read book From Mafia Boss to the Cross written by Dr. Bruno Caporrimo and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-07-25 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Carlo Bruno Caporrimo, after the tragic loss of his families fortune as a result of the carnage and massive destruction of his native Sicily during WWII, and the subsequent death of both his mother and father shortly after immigrating to America, is persuaded by a bewilderingly glamorous and glittery underworld of top New York City Mafioso to conduct nefarious family deeds. By taking the wrong road Carlo becomes engulfed in a Manhattan night life of organized crime, gambling, sex and bribery. Proclaimed by the government as a marked jewel thief and finally ordered out of New York City by the District Attorney, he sets out west to begin a new life. It is here that he finds his redemption in Calvarys Cross and his spiritual destiny fulfilled. Travel the world with Dr. Bruno Caporrimo as he proclaims the message of faith, restoration and new life in Christ Jesus. Experience his first hand accounts as a Minister of the Gospel to the nations and read of the impact that his far-reaching ministry has had on lives. Journey with him in his autobiography from mafia boss to the cross!

Silver Diaspora

Author : Christopher T. Rand
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1491739940
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (917 download)

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Download or read book Silver Diaspora written by Christopher T. Rand and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-09-26 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the outset, the members of author Christopher T. Rand's family lived in a world of great wealth. They were among the richest people in the United States. But they then faced a dilemma: compelled to choose between staying on in their ancestral world or keeping up with the times in the nation around them and integrating themselves into the American mainstream. With each generation, the pressure on these individuals to choose between escape or immersion into the society became more and more intense. In Silver Diaspora, Rand examines his family's roots in the northeastern United States and chronicles his journey through these times, against the backdrop of the family history. Embarking on a search of a better new world, Rand's parents leave the East Coast and land in California. From here, this memoir follows Rand through college at Berkeley, travels abroad, work in the petroleum industry and his experiences as a writer. Describing the people, places and experiences that impacted Rand's life, Silver Diaspora provides one man's insight into the world in the latter two-thirds of the last century.

What a Wonderful World

Author : Ricky Riccardi
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030737923X
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book What a Wonderful World written by Ricky Riccardi and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-06-21 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this richly detailed and prodigiously researched book, jazz scholar and musician Ricky Riccardi reveals for the first time the genius and remarkable achievements of the last 25 years of Louis Armstrong’s life, providing along the way a comprehensive study of one of the best-known and most accomplished jazz stars of our time. Much has been written about Armstrong, but the majority of it focuses on the early and middle stages of his career. During the last third of his career, Armstrong was often dismissed as a buffoonish if popular entertainer. Riccardi shows us instead the inventiveness and depth of his music during this time. These are the years of his highest-charting hits, including “Mack the Knife” and “Hello, Dolly"; the famed collaborations with Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington; and his legendary recordings with the All Stars. An eminently readable and insightful book, What a Wonderful World completes and enlarges our understanding of one of America’s greatest and most beloved musical icons.

Outrageous Texans

Author : Mona D. Sizer
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
ISBN 13 : 1589794028
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (897 download)

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Download or read book Outrageous Texans written by Mona D. Sizer and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 2008-06-27 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outrageous Texans profiles ten larger-than-life, eccentric, extravagant, and interesting personalities to ever come out of the Lone Star State. Mona Sizer, who is the queen of quirky Texas historical writing, details the remarkable lives of notable figures such as Janis Joplin, Miss Texas Guinan's burlesque show that was too hot for Paris, Kinky Friedman, Racehorse Haynes, Stanley Marsh 3's Cadillac Ranch, and more.