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The Hairstons

Author : Henry Wiencek
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250276152
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Hairstons written by Henry Wiencek and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the country enters a new era of conversations around race and the enduring impact of slavery, The Hairstons traces the rise and fall of the largest slaveholding family in the Old South as its descendants—both black and white—grapple with the twisted legacy of their past. Spanning two centuries of one family’s history, The Hairstons tells the extraordinary story of the Hairston clan, once the wealthiest family in the Old South and the largest slaveholder in America. With several thousand black and white members, the Hairstons of today share a complex and compelling history: divided in the time of slavery, they have come to embrace their past as one family. For seven years, journalist Henry Wiencek combed the far-reaching branches of the Hairston family tree to piece together a family history that involves the experiences of both plantation owners and their slaves. Crisscrossing the old plantation country of Virginia, North Carolina, and Mississippi, The Hairstons reconstructs the triumphant rise of the remarkable children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren of the enslaved as they fought to take their rightful place in mainstream America. It also follows the white descendants through the decline and fall of the Old South, and uncovers the hidden history of slavery's curse—and how that curse followed slaveholders for generations. Expertly weaving stories of horror, tragedy, and heroism, The Hairstons addresses our nation’s attempt to untangle the twisted legacy of the past, and provides a transcendent account of the human power to overcome.

Redwood and Wildfire

Author : Andrea Hairston
Publisher : Tordotcom
ISBN 13 : 1250808723
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Redwood and Wildfire written by Andrea Hairston and published by Tordotcom. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrea Hairston's alternate history adventure, Redwood and Wildfire, is the winner of the Otherwise Award and the Carl Brandon Kindred Award. At the turn of the 20th century, minstrel shows transform into vaudeville, which slides into moving pictures. Hunkering together in dark theatres, diverse audiences marvel at flickering images. Redwood, an African American woman, and Aidan, a Seminole Irish man, journey from Georgia to Chicago, from haunted swampland to a "city of the future." They are gifted performers and hoodoo conjurors, struggling to call up the wondrous world they imagine, not just on stage and screen, but on city streets, in front parlors, in wounded hearts. The power of hoodoo is the power of the community that believes in its capacities to heal. Living in a system stacked against them, Redwood and Aidan's power and talent are torment and joy. Their search for a place to be who they want to be is an exhilarating, painful, magical adventure. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Campbell Chronicles and Family Sketches

Author : Ruth Hairston Early
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Campbell Chronicles and Family Sketches written by Ruth Hairston Early and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cooleemee Plantation and Its People

Author : Peter W. Hairston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780894592461
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (924 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cooleemee Plantation and Its People by : Peter W. Hairston

Download or read book The Cooleemee Plantation and Its People written by Peter W. Hairston and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Hairston (ca1695-1780) was born in Dumfriesshire, Scotland and emigrated to America in 1729. His great grandson, Peter Hairston married Alcey Perkins, niece of Elizabeth Perkins (Letcher), fought in the Revolution, moved to Saura Town in Stokes Co., NC in 1786 and bought Cooleemee in 1817. Peter Wilson Hairston (1819-1886) a later descendant built the plantation house and fought in the Civil War. He married twice: (1) Columbia Stuart and (2) Fanny Caldwell. Includes an alphabetical list for all slaves owned by the Hairston family.

The Ebony Column

Author : Eric Ashley Hairston
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 1572339845
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (723 download)

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Download or read book The Ebony Column written by Eric Ashley Hairston and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2013-06-30 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Ebony Column, Eric Ashley Hairston begins a new thread in the ongoing conversation about the influence of Greek and Roman antiquity on U.S. civilization and education. While that discussion has yielded many exceptional insights into antiquity and the American experience, it has so regularly elided the African American component that all classical influence on black writing and thought seems to vanish. That omission, Hairston contends, is disturbing not least because of its longevity— from an early period of overt stereotyping and institutionalized racism right up to the contemporary and, one would hope, more cosmopolitan and enlightened era. Challenging and correcting that persistent shortsightedness, Hairston examines several prominent black writers’ and scholars’ deep investment in the classics as individuals, as well as the broader cultural investment in the classics and the values of the ancient world. Beginning with the late-eighteenth-century verse of Phillis Wheatley, whose classically inspired poems functioned as a kind of Trojan horse to defeat white oppression, Hairston goes on to consider the oratory of Frederick Douglass, whose rhetoric and ideas of virtue were much influenced by Cicero, and the writings of educator Anna Julia Cooper, whose classical training was a key source of her vibrant feminism. Finally, he offers a fresh examination of W. E. B. DuBois’s seminal The Souls of Black Folk (1903) and its debt to antiquity, which volumes of commentary have largely overlooked. The first book to appear in a new series, Classicism in American Culture, The Ebony Column passionately demonstrates how the myths, cultures, and ideals of antiquity helped African Americans reconceptualize their role in a Euro-American world determined to make them mere economic commodities and emblems of moral and intellectual decay. To figures such as Wheatley, Douglass, Cooper, and DuBois, classical literature offered striking moral, intellectual, and philosophical alternatives to a viciously exclusionary vision of humanity, Africanity, the life of the citizen, and the life of the mind.

Queen Pin

Author : Jemeker Thompson-Hairston
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0446569143
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book Queen Pin written by Jemeker Thompson-Hairston and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-22 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written with the New York Times bestselling author, David Ritz, Jemeker Thompson tells the gripping tale of succeeding financially in the drug game, but then, after a lengthy prison term, turned her life around to inspire others just like her. Jemeker Thompson-Hairston paid a heavy price for her involvement in the drug game. Learning from her sources of a federal investigation, Jemeker went on the run. It was love for her young son that brought her back to Los Angeles, even though she knew she would be arrested. A subsequent 15-year sentence would cost her not only her legitimate business and the fortune she'd amassed through the drug trade, but the most precious thing of all: time with her child. But not all was lost. Fortunately, while Thompson-Hairston was serving out the fifteen-year sentence, one pivotal moment helped her turn her life around, setting her on a path to help and inspire others like her. Now, in Queen Pin, written with New York Times bestselling author David Ritz, she reveals in gripping detail her journey of redemption that readers won't soon forget.

Will Do Magic for Small Change

Author : Andrea Hairston
Publisher : Tordotcom
ISBN 13 : 1250808758
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Will Do Magic for Small Change written by Andrea Hairston and published by Tordotcom. This book was released on 2022-10-11 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] beautifully multifaceted story... Highly recommended.” —The New York Times Andrea Hairston's historical fantasy Will Do Magic for Small Change presents a tale of alien science and earthbound magic and the secrets families keep from each other. Cinnamon Jones dreams of stepping on stage and acting her heart out like her famous grandparents, Redwood and Wildfire. But she’s always been theatrically challenged. That won’t necessarily stop her! But her family life is a tangle of mysteries and secrets, and nobody is telling her the whole truth. Before her brother died, he gave Cinnamon The Chronicles of the Great Wanderer—a tale of a Dahomean warrior woman and an alien from another dimension who perform at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. They are a story of magic or alien science, but the connection to Cinnamon's past is unmistakable. When an act of violence wounds her family, Cinnamon and her theatre squad determine to solve the mysteries and bring her worlds crashing together. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Lies We Tell Ourselves

Author : Robin Talley
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 0373212046
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (732 download)

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Download or read book Lies We Tell Ourselves written by Robin Talley and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes questions for discussions and an excerpt from another novel.

Master of Poisons

Author : Andrea Hairston
Publisher : Tordotcom
ISBN 13 : 1250260558
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Master of Poisons written by Andrea Hairston and published by Tordotcom. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is a prayer hymn, a battle cry, a love song, a legendary call and response bonfire talisman tale. This is medicine for a broken world." —Daniel José Older Named a Best of 2020 Pick for Kirkus Review's Best Books of 2020 Award-winning author Andrea Hairston weaves together African folktales and postcolonial literature into unforgettable fantasy in Master of Poisons The world is changing. Poison desert eats good farmland. Once-sweet water turns foul. The wind blows sand and sadness across the Empire. To get caught in a storm is death. To live and do nothing is death. There is magic in the world, but good conjure is hard to find. Djola, righthand man and spymaster of the lord of the Arkhysian Empire, is desperately trying to save his adopted homeland, even in exile. Awa, a young woman training to be a powerful griot, tests the limits of her knowledge and comes into her own in a world of sorcery, floating cities, kindly beasts, and uncertain men. Awash in the rhythms of folklore and storytelling and rich with Hairston's characteristic lush prose, Master of Poisons is epic fantasy that will bleed your mind with its turns of phrase and leave you aching for the world it burns into being. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Blind Ambition

Author : Ever Lee Hairston
Publisher : Brown Girls Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625179154
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book Blind Ambition written by Ever Lee Hairston and published by Brown Girls Publishing. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a child, Ever Lee Hairston faced one disappointment after the other. A product of share-cropping parents and raised on one of the biggest plantations in the South, Ever allowed those disappointments to diminish her self-confidence and sully her self-esteem. Not to mention, that for years, the young Ever hid a terrible secret, which she hadn’t told anyone – not her family, her friends, her teachers, and as she got older, even her employers. Ever Lee didn’t want to accept that she was slowly losing her eyesight. As darkness began to envelop her, and inspired by the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Ever eventually decided to stop feeling sorry for herself and face her fears. Through two turbulent marriages, a host of setbacks, and a life that was getting harder and harder to manage, Ever encountered defeats, but was determined not to be defeated. Now, decades after she lost her eyesight, her powerful story is one of inspiration and ambition....and helping others realize their lives have purpose as they reach their full potential in spite of any obstacles in their paths.

No Excuses

Author : Walter A. Hairston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615419541
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book No Excuses written by Walter A. Hairston and published by . This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hairston grew up in poverty and in times of racial segregation; he lived through times of hardship in the Great Depression and experienced homelessness in 1947 yet he persevered on his journey to create a better life for himself and for his family. Three successful careers later, Hairston now lives in the "upstairs house" of his childhood dreams.

The History of Pittsylvania County, Virginia

Author : Maud Carter Clement
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN 13 : 0806379898
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book The History of Pittsylvania County, Virginia written by Maud Carter Clement and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1973 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book rings with the names of early inhabitants and prominent citizens. For the genealogist there is the important and wholly fortuitous list of tithables of Pittsylvania County for the year 1767, which enumerates the names of nearly 1,000 landowners and property holders, amounting in sum to a rough census of the county in its infancy. Additional lists include the names, some with inclusive dates of service, of sheriffs, justices of the peace, members of the House of Delegates, 1776-1928, members of the Senate of Virginia, 1776-1928, clerks of the court, and judges.

The Black Experience and Navigating Higher Education Through a Virtual World

Author : Hairston, Kimetta R.
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799875393
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book The Black Experience and Navigating Higher Education Through a Virtual World written by Hairston, Kimetta R. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2021-06-25 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The treasure of the Black experience at a Historically Black College/University (HBCU) is that it offers a personal and intimate experience rooted in Black heritage that cannot be found at other institutions. On campus, face-to-face instruction and activities focused on addressing issues that plague the Black community are paramount. This provides students with small classroom environments and the personal support from administrators, faculty, and staff. In March 2020, the Black experience was interrupted when a global pandemic forced governors to declare states of emergencies and mandate stay-at-home orders. The stay-at-home orders forced universities to transition into fully remote environments. Doing so heightened an array of emotions compounded by the reality of previously recognized disparities in resources and funding amongst higher education institutions. As a result of this abrupt transformation, the HBCU experience was impacted by positive and negative implications for Black people at the campus, local, state, and national levels. The Black Experience and Navigating Higher Education Through a Virtual World explores the reality of the Black experience from various perspectives involving higher education institutions with a focus on HBCUs. The book provides an overview and analysis of a virtual experience that goes beyond the day-to-day technological implications and exposes innovative ideas and ways of navigating students and faculty through a remote world. It focuses on heightening the awareness of disparities through the Black experience in a virtual environment, provides guidance on transitioning to fully remote environments, examines leadership dynamics in virtual environments, analyzes mental health balance, and examines implications on the digital divide. Covering topics such as online course delivery, self-health, and social justice, this book is essential for graduate students, academicians, diversity officers in the academy, professors, and researchers.

Landmarks of Our Fathers

Author : John Hairston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692683965
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book Landmarks of Our Fathers written by John Hairston and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Vertebrate Zoology

Author : Nelson G. Hairston
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521417037
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Vertebrate Zoology written by Nelson G. Hairston and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1994-06-24 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a major new textbook that is intended to lead students away from purely descriptive zoology courses into an experimental approach that emphasizes asking and answering questions about nature. The book gives a panoramic view of vertebrate life, classification, ecology and behaviour. Section I of the book describes the major groups of vertebrates and their origins. The second section covers classification and its methodology. Section III describes the ecology of vertebrates from two standpoints: how individuals cope with environmental extremes, and principles of population and community ecology as illustrated by experiments carried out in the field. Section IV describes the geographic distribution of vertebrates. The fifth section discusses migration. Vertebrate behaviour is the subject of the final section and covers observations and the theories and experiments they have inspired.

The Family of Early

Author : Ruth Hairston Early
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Family of Early written by Ruth Hairston Early and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tunes for Bears to Dance To

Author : Robert Cormier
Publisher : Delacorte Press
ISBN 13 : 0307548449
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Tunes for Bears to Dance To written by Robert Cormier and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Money’s tight and Henry is lucky to have the job at Mr. Hairston’s grocery store. His parents are both lost in despair following the death of Henry’s older brother, and Henry is glad for the opportunity to feel like he’s helping. Saving to buy a marker for Eddie’s grave, Henry tries to ignore Mr. Hairston’s commentary about the customers. But Henry is shocked when he is told he’s being laid off. That is, unless he agrees to do one thing, one terrible thing.