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White Like Her

Author : Gail Lukasik
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 151072415X
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book White Like Her written by Gail Lukasik and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: White Like Her: My Family’s Story of Race and Racial Passing is the story of Gail Lukasik’s mother’s “passing,” Gail’s struggle with the shame of her mother’s choice, and her subsequent journey of self-discovery and redemption. In the historical context of the Jim Crow South, Gail explores her mother’s decision to pass, how she hid her secret even from her own husband, and the price she paid for choosing whiteness. Haunted by her mother’s fear and shame, Gail embarks on a quest to uncover her mother’s racial lineage, tracing her family back to eighteenth-century colonial Louisiana. In coming to terms with her decision to publicly out her mother, Gail changed how she looks at race and heritage. With a foreword written by Kenyatta Berry, host of PBS's Genealogy Roadshow, this unique and fascinating story of coming to terms with oneself breaks down barriers.

Cooking with Love Just Like My Mama Taught Me

Author : Sandra Paulette Pierce Mathis
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1984582755
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (845 download)

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Download or read book Cooking with Love Just Like My Mama Taught Me written by Sandra Paulette Pierce Mathis and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sandra Paulette Pierce Mathis, the author of Cooking with Love—Just Like My Mama Taught Me (Authentic Virginia Cuisine), was born and raised in Surry, Virginia-- a small rural community on the James River. With her mother’s guidance, she started baking and preparing meals by the age of nine. Although Mathis is not a professional baker, she has an extensive recipe collection that dates to the early 1980’s. She enjoys the art of cooking and baking and has twice won The Virginian- Pilot Norfolk, VA Dream Team Awards for baking. In 2016, she won 2nd Place in Norfolk for gingersnaps as well as 2nd Place statewide for gingersnaps at the Virginia State Fair in Richmond, Virginia. In 2017, an Honorable Mention for Mama’s Coconut Pie was awarded by The Virginian-Pilot Dream Team in Norfolk, Virginia.

Mama's Boy

Author : Dustin Lance Black
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1524733288
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book Mama's Boy written by Dustin Lance Black and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This heartfelt, deeply personal memoir explores how a celebrated filmmaker and activist and his conservative Mormon mother built bridges across today’s great divides—and how our stories hold the power to heal. • Adapted as an HBO documentary now streaming on HBO Max. “A beautifully written, utterly compelling account of growing up poor and gay with a thrice married, physically disabled, deeply religious Mormon mother, and the imprint this irrepressible woman made on the character of Dustin Lance Black.” —Jon Krakauer, bestselling author of Missoula and Under the Banner of Heaven Dustin Lance Black wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for Milk and helped overturn California’s anti–gay marriage Proposition 8, but as an LGBTQ activist he has unlikely origins—a conservative Mormon household outside San Antonio, Texas. There he was raised by a single mother who, as a survivor of childhood polio, endured brutal surgeries as well as braces and crutches for life. Despite the abuse and violence of two questionably devised Mormon marriages, she imbued Lance with her inner strength and irrepressible optimism. When Lance came out to his mother at age twenty-one, she initially derided his sexuality as a sinful choice. It may seem like theirs was a house destined to be divided—and at times it was. But in the end, they did not let their differences define them or the relationship that had inspired two remarkable lives. This heartfelt, deeply personal memoir explores how a mother and son built bridges across great cultural divides—and how our stories hold the power to heal.

Black in the Middle

Author : Terrion L. Williamson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1948742888
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (487 download)

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Download or read book Black in the Middle written by Terrion L. Williamson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ambitious, honest portrait of the Black experience in flyover country. One of The St. Louis Post Dispatch's Best Books of 2020. Black Americans have been among the hardest hit by the rapid deindustrialization and

Funknology

Author : Jimi Calhoun
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725287250
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Funknology written by Jimi Calhoun and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Funk is an African American musical genre that causes the average listener to have an uncontrollable desire to move their feet and dance. Funknology is a synthesis of ideas designed to cause the average reader to have an irresistible urge to move their heart. As we battle the complexities of race, and the impact poor race relations have had on society, this book will prove to be a timely read. Regardless of how much thought you have given to recent racial tensions--or how active you have been in working toward solutions for them--this book will inspire you to find ways to move your feet and your heart in the direction of a Funknology of Hope, meaning long-lasting reconciliation.

Chinese Blackbird

Author : Sherry Quan Lee
Publisher : Loving Healing Press
ISBN 13 : 1932690689
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Blackbird written by Sherry Quan Lee and published by Loving Healing Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through elegant poetry, full of exquisite imagery and detail, Quan Lee describes her personal, transformative journey in which she explores how race, class, gender, and sexual identity inform who she is.

Bett

Author : Betty Green
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1504968204
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Bett written by Betty Green and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bett is a story of the triumphs of young black baby boomers bravery in the South to push forward during the fifties, sixties, and seventies. Bett is by no means meant to make the grandchildren of African Americans frown on their past or to make the grandchildren of white Americans feel guilty. The goal is to show our youth how a people with very little to work with overcame in spite of it.

Daughters of Muscadine

Author : Monic Ductan
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 1950564355
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Daughters of Muscadine written by Monic Ductan and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two events tie together the nine stories in Monic Ductan's gorgeous debut: the 1920s lynching of Ida Pearl Crawley and the 1980s drowning of a high school basketball player, Lucy Boudreaux. Both forever shape the people and the place of Muscadine, Georgia, in the foothills of Appalachia. The daughters of Muscadine are Black southern women who are, at times, outcasts due to their race and are also estranged from those they love. A remorseful woman tries to connect with the child she gave up for adoption; another, immersed in loneliness, attempts to connect with a violent felon. Two sisters love each other deeply even when they cannot understand one another. A little girl witnessing her father's slow death realizes her own power and lack thereof. A single woman weathers the excitement—and rigors—of online dating. Covering the last one hundred years, these are stories of people whose voices have been suppressed and erased for too long: Black women, rural women, Appalachian women, and working-class women. Ductan presents the extraordinary nature of everyday lives in the tradition of Alice Walker, Deesha Philyaw, James McBride, and Dorothy Allison in an engaging, engrossing, and exciting new voice.

Heavy

Author : Kiese Laymon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501125699
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Heavy written by Kiese Laymon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times* *Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, NPR, Broadly, BuzzFeed (Nonfiction), The Undefeated, Library Journal (Biography/Memoirs), The Washington Post (Nonfiction), Southern Living (Southern), Entertainment Weekly, and The New York Times Critics* In this powerful, provocative, and universally lauded memoir—winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal and finalist for the Kirkus Prize—genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon “provocatively meditates on his trauma growing up as a black man, and in turn crafts an essential polemic against American moral rot” (Entertainment Weekly). In Heavy, Laymon writes eloquently and honestly about growing up a hard-headed black son to a complicated and brilliant black mother in Jackson, Mississippi. From his early experiences of sexual violence, to his suspension from college, to time in New York as a college professor, Laymon charts his complex relationship with his mother, grandmother, anorexia, obesity, sex, writing, and ultimately gambling. Heavy is a “gorgeous, gutting…generous” (The New York Times) memoir that combines personal stories with piercing intellect to reflect both on the strife of American society and on Laymon’s experiences with abuse. By attempting to name secrets and lies he and his mother spent a lifetime avoiding, he asks us to confront the terrifying possibility that few in this nation actually know how to responsibly love, and even fewer want to live under the weight of actually becoming free. “A book for people who appreciated Roxane Gay’s memoir Hunger” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel), Heavy is defiant yet vulnerable, an insightful, often comical exploration of weight, identity, art, friendship, and family through years of haunting implosions and long reverberations. “You won’t be able to put [this memoir] down…It is packed with reminders of how black dreams get skewed and deferred, yet are also pregnant with the possibility that a kind of redemption may lie in intimate grappling with black realities” (The Atlantic).

The Man on the Train

Author : Wanda Rhodes
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1475966822
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (759 download)

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Download or read book The Man on the Train written by Wanda Rhodes and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-05-10 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leroy Chester grows up in a small Oklahoma town knowing his mama is sad. She is all he has in the world, and he just wants her to be happy. When he turns eighteen, he embarks on a three-month journey from train to train with the hope of finding the only man she has ever loved. But when he fails and returns home, his mother is nowhere to be found. Two days later, he finds his mothers lifeless body next to the chicken coop, the victim of murder. Left distraught and without answers as to who killed his mama, Leroy drowns his troubles in whiskey. But it is not long before he determines it is Al Jenkins, his mothers ex-boyfriend, who murdered her. After he kills Jenkins in a fit of rage, he flees on the trainonly to meet up with his mothers great love, John. Before he knows it, Leroy ends Johns life too. Now on the run, Leroy lays low until fate leads him to what he hopes is a new beginning in Arkansas. The Man on the Train is the story of one mans journey from childhood into adulthood as he attempts to put a tragic, violent past behind him and start anew.

The Athens, Georgia Story: Moving to Greensboro

Author : Joshua Jones, Jr.
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 130059182X
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Athens, Georgia Story: Moving to Greensboro written by Joshua Jones, Jr. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True and insightful journal of a man's relationships and family and the homeless people and helpers he meets along the way.

Our Black Year

Author : Maggie Anderson
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1610390253
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Our Black Year written by Maggie Anderson and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maggie and John Anderson were successful African American professionals raising two daughters in a tony suburb of Chicago. But they felt uneasy over their good fortune. Most African Americans live in economically starved neighborhoods. Black wealth is about one tenth of white wealth, and black businesses lag behind businesses of all other racial groups in every measure of success. One problem is that black consumers -- unlike consumers of other ethnicities -- choose not to support black-owned businesses. At the same time, most of the businesses in their communities are owned by outsiders. On January 1, 2009 the Andersons embarked on a year-long public pledge to "buy black." They thought that by taking a stand, the black community would be mobilized to exert its economic might. They thought that by exposing the issues, Americans of all races would see that economically empowering black neighborhoods benefits society as a whole. Instead, blacks refused to support their own, and others condemned their experiment. Drawing on economic research and social history as well as her personal story, Maggie Anderson shows why the black economy continues to suffer and issues a call to action to all of us to do our part to reverse this trend.

My Animal Life

Author : Maggie Gee
Publisher : Saqi
ISBN 13 : 1846590965
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book My Animal Life written by Maggie Gee and published by Saqi. This book was released on 2011-08-12 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you become a writer, and why? Maggie Gee's journey starts a long way from the literary world in a small family in post-war Britain. At seventeen, Maggie goes, a lamb to the slaughter, to university. From the 1960s onwards she lives the defining events of her generation: the coming of the Pill and sexual freedom, tremors in the British layer-cake of class and race. In the 1980s, Maggie finally gets published, falls in love, marries and has a daughter -- but for the next three decades and beyond, she survives, and sometimes thrives, by writing. This frank, bold memoir dares to explore the big questions: success and failure, sex, death and parenthood -- our animal life. 'A wise and beautiful book about what it feels like to be alive -- I really loved it' Zadie Smith 'Exceptionally interesting and brave ... a wonderful book' Claire Tomalin 'A fine, honest, complex portrait of an artist's mind' Michele Roberts, Independent 'Every word strikes like a hammer on an anvil, throwing off sizzling sparks' Bidisha, The f word 'Anyone who yearns for that lost post-war Britain would do well to read this vivid, minutely observed memoir ...Gee has a sensuous eye for detail' Sinclair McKay, Telegraph 'It is a testament to Gee's skill with structure, her lightness of touch and her honesty, particularly about the most painful episodes, that she has fashioned this account of a fundamentally satisfying and happy writer's life into such a page-turner.' Melissa Benn, New Statesman 'Maggie Gee writes with such courage and wit. This is a vivid portrait of a woman finding her way through the maze of class ridden post war England, the 60's, feminism and how to be a mother and a writer.' Diana Melly 'Highly recommended for all aspiring writers' Bernardine Evaristo 'Observant, honest and sensitively-written...' Michael Holroyd 'Fresh and funny ... with a zest for living that bounces off the page...' Psychologies 'Sensitive, honest, courageous, stylish' The Times '[Gee's] utterly compelling on the rollercoaster of writing life, from early success to rock-bottom rejection. Often joyous; infinitely wise; passionate and poised, this is a book you'll want to sit in silence with and hug to yourself -- then start again.' Daily Mail

Mama, Don't Stop the Music!

Author : Pamela Edwards
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1685378307
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Mama, Don't Stop the Music! written by Pamela Edwards and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “God knows Mama and I traveled many roads long, hard, and far! Neither journey easy, but truly this is our only meeting place. He has reserved our time.” Mama, Don’t Stop The Music! a contemporary fiction with light paranormal twists into the supernatural, takes you on an emotional roller coaster ride. It leaves you with an experience of joy, laughter, and pain as it tells the story of a mother and daughter’s journey – one through life, the other through death. When thirty-three-year-old Nadine Allen comes face to face with her mother on her deathbed, she comes to terms with her own faults and guilt, essentially finding similarities between herself and the woman she had grown to despise. Seeing her mother battle with death, Nadine learns amazing strength and courage, while discovering a spiritual revelation within herself and a family secret that haunts her mother until the day she dies. Desperately seeking connection, acknowledgement, and forgiveness, Nadine tells the story of her life for the past twenty-one years to her comatose mother who left her at the age of twelve. Faith leads Nadine to God, her mother, and an unbreakable bond to them both through music.

Black's Obsession

Author : acVernon Menchan
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595383718
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Black's Obsession written by acVernon Menchan and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black's Trilogy are three stories of a self made man that is educated and wealthy but still very attached to his roots and his community, the only weakness he has ever had is the love he has had for a woman that for some reason he has never been able to have, Book One: Black's Obsession is the story of how he spends over thirty years in the pursuit of her and the complications and rewards that love and life brings and it tells how you may get what you want but not in the way you may want it. Synopsis from Black's Obsession Three nights before my wedding I called Cinnamon and told her that I loved her as soon as she answered the phone. She responded by saying "I love you too, you are my boy". I told her "No not friendship love, I really love you, the way a man loves a woman love". Before she could answer my fiancé came on the line and said "Girl I really love you too, but I am going to hang up now, I really need to talk to my man".

Podcasting for Profit

Author : Leesa Barnes
Publisher : Maximum Press
ISBN 13 : 1931644578
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book Podcasting for Profit written by Leesa Barnes and published by Maximum Press. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a plan for using the fast-growing world of video and audio podcasting, to promote a business and turn a profit.

Building Atlanta

Author : Herman Russell
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613746946
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Building Atlanta written by Herman Russell and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born into a blue-collar family in the Jim Crow South, Herman J. Russell built a shoeshine business when he was twelve years old—and used the profits to buy a vacant lot where he built a duplex while he was still a teen. Over the next fifty years, he continued to build businesses, amassing one of the nation’s most profitable minority-owned conglomerates. In Building Atlanta, Russell shares his inspiring life story and reveals how he overcame racism, poverty, and a debilitating speech impediment to become one of the most successful African American entrepreneurs, Atlanta civic leaders, and unsung heroes of the civil rights movement. Not just a typical rags-to-riches story, Russell achieved his success through focus, planning, and humility, and he shares his winning advice throughout. As a millionaire builder before the civil rights movement took hold and a friend of Dr. King, Ralph Abernathy, and Andrew Young, he quietly helped finance the civil rights crusade, putting up bond for protestors and providing the funds that kept King’s dream alive. He provides a wonderful behind-the-scenes look at the role the business community, both black and white working together, played in Atlanta’s peaceful progression from the capital of the racially divided Old South to the financial center of the New South.