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I Didnt Know I Was Black Until You Told Me
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Book Synopsis I Didn't Know I Was Black Until You Told Me by : Thomas Kirst
Download or read book I Didn't Know I Was Black Until You Told Me written by Thomas Kirst and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspirational book detailing the profound changes in the life of a black child being left at a hospital after birth. Thirteen months into his life being adopted by a white couple that migrated from Europe before World War 2, who would later adopt over twenty children with different nationalities. The author writes of his emotional struggles from being abandoned and not knowing how to accept love to searching for answers to the pain and confusion that comes with growing up in white churches and schools while being black in the 1980s. Through anger, drugs, alcohol, jail, death, racism, and having the feeling there's no one to connect with to finding out who he is. The author takes you for a riveting ride through his life as he never gives up to find the answers he is looking for that haunted him throughout his life. Through life, love, hate, hurt, tears, and confusion, the author finds what he is looking for. But did he? An unbelievable ending to a lost soul that endured emotional trauma as in the end, he learns to love what he pushed away, learns to accept his life and who he is.
Book Synopsis Nobody Knows My Name by : James Baldwin
Download or read book Nobody Knows My Name written by James Baldwin and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1991-08-29 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'These essays ... live and grow in the mind' James Campbell, Independent Being a writer, says James Baldwin in this searing collection of essays, requires 'every ounce of stamina he can summon to attempt to look on himself and the world as they are'. His seminal 1961 follow-up to Notes on a Native Son shows him responding to his times and exploring his role as an artist with biting precision and emotional power: from polemical pieces on racial segregation and a journey to 'the Old Country' of the Southern states, to reflections on figures such as Ingmar Bergman and André Gide, and on the first great conference of African writers and artists in Paris. 'Brilliant...accomplished...strong...vivid...honest...masterly' The New York Times 'A bright and alive book, full of grief, love and anger' Chicago Tribune
Book Synopsis Last of the Black Titans by : Greg Wiggan
Download or read book Last of the Black Titans written by Greg Wiggan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the historical and contemporary role of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). In doing so, it provides a background on the pre-colonial entry of Africans into the Americas, as well as African educational traditions, and the struggles for education during the period of enslavement in North America. It discusses the social, historical and contemporary context that pertains to the development of Black education and the formation of HBCUs as a framework for the case study on African American college-bound students’ perceptions about attending an HBCU. Last of the Black Titans weaves in students’ perspectives regarding HBCUs and concludes with insights and recommendations regarding the future of these institutions. : 'Courier New';">size: 13.3333330154419px;">Greg Wiggan is an Associate Professor of Urban Education, Adjunct Associate Professor of Sociology, and Affiliate Faculty Member of Africana Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His research addresses urban education and urban sociology in the context of school processes that promote high achievement among African American students and other underserved minority student populations. In doing so, his research also examines the broader connections between the history of urbanization, globalization processes and the internationalization of education in urban schools. His books include: Global Issues in Education: Pedagogy, Policy, Practice, and the Minority Experience; Education in a Strange Land: Globalization, Urbanization, and Urban Schools –The Social and Educational Implications of the Geopolitical Economy; Curriculum Violence: America’s new Civil Rights Issue; Education for the New Frontier: Race, Education and Triumph in Jim Crow America 1867-1945; Following the Northern Star: Caribbean Identities and Education in North American Schools; Unshackled: Education for Freedom, Student Achievement and Personal Emancipation; and In Search of a Canon: European History and the Imperialist State. Lakia Scott is an Assistant Professor of Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Baylor University. Her research interests address urban education and student achievement.
Download or read book Too Much Soul written by Cindy Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-03 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Cindy on her journey from being adopted in Seoul, Korea by an African American couple to growing up in the Dirty South...Jackson, MS! See how she fights and loves her way through life as she searches for her identity and discovers her place in the world despite the strongholds that society tries to place on her. As unique as her life is, what will resonate is the humanity of her experiences with her family, friends, those that have impacted her life as well as the lives of those she has impacted. Become a part of her growth and glow as she continues on her journey of self-discovery, encouraging herself and others to be their most empowered, authentic selves! "Love is the beauty of the soul." - Saint Augustine #TooMuchSoul
Book Synopsis The Black Stiletto: Stars & Stripes by : Raymond Benson
Download or read book The Black Stiletto: Stars & Stripes written by Raymond Benson and published by Oceanview Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-23 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times and USA Today Best-Selling Author 1960: Election Year—The Black Stiletto—a Kennedy girl It's 1960. The Black Stiletto, in her civilian persona as Judy Cooper, volunteers to work for John F. Kennedy's presidential campaign, only to become involved in a devious behind-the-scenes plot that could change the course of history. Is the mysterious Eastern European man she briefly dated associated with a Cuban/Soviet spy ring? Closer to home, the Stiletto must challenge dangerous tongs in Chinatown after befriending a teenage boy whose father was killed by the gangs. She soon discovers what a different—and very deadly—world exists in lower Manhattan. In the present, Martin, the Stiletto's son, must deal with his mother's worsening Alzheimer's symptoms, his own mental health issues, and the dilemma of whether or not to reveal his family's secrets to the new woman in his life. Meanwhile, his daughter, Gina, continues to bring trouble to herself, exhibiting behavior that suggests she is closer in spirit to her grandmother than Martin would like. Every major character, past and present, experiences a turning point in this third chapter of The Black Stiletto Series. Perfect for fans of vigilante justice While all of the novels in The Black Stiletto Series stand on their own and can be read in any order, the publication sequence is: The Black Stiletto The Black Stiletto: Black & White The Black Stiletto: Stars & Stripes The Black Stiletto: Secrets & Lies The Black Stiletto: Endings & Beginnings
Book Synopsis Scope of Soviet Activity in the United States by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
Download or read book Scope of Soviet Activity in the United States written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 1448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Night Church written by Ed Russo and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-12-26 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homecoming Queen Sharon Moseley is found dead, naked in the woods, and laid upon an altar. FBI Special Agent Charlotte Cassidy and Agent Harris is called in to investigate the murder of this young woman in the small, Northeastern town of New Kensington. What she doesn't know is that in New Kensington, no one is innocent. Charlotte a Satanist and her FBI partner a Christian must overcome their differences to solve the crime. Meanwhile something is killing off townsfolk. Something mysterious. Something remotely human. With the FBI lagging behind a group of crazy teens who seem to be the only ones to have found the courage to stop this lurking menace in the small town life where darkness bubbling beneath New Kensington's wholesome facade.
Download or read book Truly Twisted written by Stephen Robb and published by Stephen Robb. This book was released on 2019-07-24 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crime reporter Mari Fabrizio is asked by a businessman to track down the two good Samaritans who saved his life. When they turn up dead, Mari has to ask herself if the businessman is behind the murders. Meanwhile, Mari's daughter Claire, her newspaper's photographer, is alarmed to find her new boyfriend is secretly searching for a baby killer who escaped from prison. The two stories collide in a truly twisted climax.
Book Synopsis Telling Memories Among Southern Women by : Susan Tucker
Download or read book Telling Memories Among Southern Women written by Susan Tucker and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2002-04-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Telling Memories Among Southern Women, Susan Tucker presents a revealing collection of oral-history narratives that explore the complex, sometimes enigmatic bond between black female domestic workers and their white employers from the turn of the twentieth century to the civil rights revolution of the 1960s. Based on interviews with forty-two women of both races from the Deep South, these narratives express the full range of human emotions and successfully convey the ties that united—and the tensions and conflicts that separated—these two mutually dependent groups of women.
Book Synopsis Honest June: Secrets and Spies by : Tina Wells
Download or read book Honest June: Secrets and Spies written by Tina Wells and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2023-04-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the third book in this magical series for tweens, June must juggle friendship, first love, and the fallout from a newly discovered family secret involving the entire town—all while under a truth-telling spell. After the school musical, June has to deal with the fallout of her secret blog being exposed. June’s brutally honest thoughts about her friends and family are revealed, and her community turns on her once it's known that she’s hidden her true feelings for months. How can June repair her relationships after such a betrayal? And when she discovers a family secret about the history of Featherstone Creek, how will she keep from blurting out the truth?
Book Synopsis The Whispering Roots by : Cecil Day Lewis
Download or read book The Whispering Roots written by Cecil Day Lewis and published by Jonathan Cape. This book was released on 1913 with total page 1268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Chicago Catholics and the Struggles within Their Church by : Andrew M. Greeley
Download or read book Chicago Catholics and the Struggles within Their Church written by Andrew M. Greeley and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What might one expect to learn from a probability sample study of the Archdiocese of Chicago? Can one form a national portrait of Catholics in the United States from data about Chicago? Certainly, Chicago is unique in its judgments about its clergy. As the eminent Catholic sociologist Andrew M. Greeley argues, it is this very difference that makes rigorous comparisons between Chicago Catholics and other Catholic subpopulations possible. He suggests that history and geography provide a basis for understanding the development of the Catholic Church not just in this specific area, but also in the entire United States. The Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago it composed of two counties, Lake and Cook. At the same time the Catholic population has been pushed up against the boundary of DuPage County by racial change in the city, so that much of the west and south side Catholic population of the city has moved into the southern and western suburbs. In this research area, half of the Catholics have attended college and half of those have attended graduate school. Thus, the conventional image of Chicago as a mix of ethnic immigrant neighborhoods has to be modified—although there are still many new immigrants attending special immigrant parishes. Greeley argues that the official church in Chicago, and by inference elsewhere, has not recognized the community structures that permeate the neighborhoods, that it does not grasp the religious stories that shape its peoples’ identity, and it does not understand the intense, if selective, loyalty of the archdiocese to its leadership. As part of this argument, Greeley includes transcriptions of in-depth interviews with former Catholics. This study provides a fascinating window into the world of Catholicism in twenty-first century urban America.
Book Synopsis Last Lecture by : Perfection Learning Corporation
Download or read book Last Lecture written by Perfection Learning Corporation and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book In the Supreme Court of the State of New York written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 1182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Between the World and Me by : Ta-Nehisi Coates
Download or read book Between the World and Me written by Ta-Nehisi Coates and published by One World. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SPECIAL EVENT Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race” (Rolling Stone) NAMED ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY CNN • NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • O: The Oprah Magazine • The Washington Post • People • Entertainment Weekly • Vogue • Los Angeles Times • San Francisco Chronicle • Chicago Tribune • New York • Newsday • Library Journal • Publishers Weekly In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden? Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.
Book Synopsis Delphi Collected Works of Carolyn Wells US (Illustrated) by : Carolyn Wells
Download or read book Delphi Collected Works of Carolyn Wells US (Illustrated) written by Carolyn Wells and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2019-04-26 with total page 13463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famous today as the creator of the reserved and scholarly detective Fleming Stone, Carolyn Wells was a prolific American writer of popular mystery novels, celebrated for their intricate plots and engaging characters. The first novel in the series, ‘The Clue’ (1909), features on the Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone list of essential mysteries. Throughout her career, Wells produced over 170 titles, including children’s stories, detective novels, anthologies and humorous and nonsense writings. This eBook presents Wells’ collected works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Wells’ life and works * Concise introductions to the major texts * 64 novels, with individual contents tables * Features rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * The complete Patty Fairfield and Marjorie Maynard series * Famous children’s books are illustrated with their original artwork * Includes Wells’ rare poetry collections – available in no other collection * Features Wells’ seminal non-fiction work ‘The Technique of the Mystery Story’ * Useful ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Fleming Stone Series The Clue (1909) The Gold Bag (1911) A Chain of Evidence (1912) The Maxwell Mystery (1913) Anybody But Anne (1914) The White Alley (1915) The Curved Blades (1915) The Mark of Cain (1917) Vicky Van (1918) The Diamond Pin (1919) Raspberry Jam (1920) The Mystery of the Sycamore (1921) The Mystery Girl (1922) Feathers Left Around (1923) Spooky Hollow (1923) The Alan Ford Series The Bride of a Moment (1916) Faulkner’s Folly (1917) The Pennington Wise Series The Room with the Tassels (1918) The Man Who Fell Through the Earth (1919) In the Onyx Lobby (1920) The Come Back (1921) The Luminous Face (1921) The Vanishing of Betty Varian (1922) The Affair at Flower Acres (1923) Wheels within Wheels (1923) The Patty Fairfield Series All 17 Patty Fairfield novels (too many to list) The Marjorie Maynard Series All of the Marjorie novels The Dorrance Family Series The Dorrance Domain (1905) Dorrance Doings (1906) The Two Little Women Series Two Little Women (1915) Two Little Women and Treasure House (1916) Two Little Women on a Holiday (1917) Other Novels Abeniki Caldwell (1902) Eight Girls and a Dog (1902) The Gordon Elopement (1904) The Staying Guest (1904) The Matrimonial Bureau (1905) The Emily Emmins Papers (1907) Dick and Dolly (1909) Betty’s Happy Year (1910) Ptomaine Street (1921) Face Cards (1925) The Deep-Lake Mystery (1928) Short Stories Christabel’s Crystal (1905) An Easy Errand (1910) The Adventure of the Mona Lisa (1912) The Adventure of the Clothes-Line (1915) The Poetry and Nonsense Works The Jingle Book (1899) A Phenomenal Fauna (1902) Children of Our Town (1902) A Parody Anthology (1904) A Satire Anthology (1905) Rubáiyát of a Motor Car (1906) At the Sign of the Sphinx (1906) At the Sign of the Sphinx: Second Series (1906) A Vers de Société Anthology (1907) The Seven Ages of Childhood (1908) Rubáiyát of Bridge (1909) A Nonsense Anthology (1910) The Lover’s Baedeker and Guide to Arcady (1912) The Re-Echo Club (1913) The Eternal Feminine (1913) The Book of Humorous Verse (1920) The Non-Fiction The Technique of the Mystery Story (1913) Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks
Book Synopsis Why Didn't You Tell Me? by : Carmen Rita Wong
Download or read book Why Didn't You Tell Me? written by Carmen Rita Wong and published by Crown. This book was released on 2023-08-29 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An immigrant mother’s long-held secrets upend her daughter’s understanding of her family, her identity, and her place in the world in this powerful and dramatic memoir “Riveting . . . [Wong] tells her story in vivid conversational prose that will make readers feel they’re listening to a master storyteller on a long car trip. . . . Hers is a hero’s journey.”—The New York Times Book Review ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: PopSugar, Kirkus Reviews My mother carried a powerful secret. A secret that shaped my life and the lives of everyone around me in ways she could not have imagined. Carmen Rita Wong has always craved a sense of belonging: First as a toddler in a warm room full of Black and brown Latina women, like her mother, Lupe, cheering her dancing during her childhood in Harlem. And in Chinatown, where her immigrant father, “Papi” Wong, a hustler, would show her and her older brother off in opulent restaurants decorated in red and gold. Then came the almost exclusively white playgrounds of New Hampshire after her mother married her stepfather, Marty, who seemed to be the ideal of the white American dad. As Carmen entered this new world with her new family—Lupe and Marty quickly had four more children—her relationship with her mother became fraught with tension, suspicion, and conflict, explained only years later by the secrets her mother had kept for so long. And when those secrets were revealed, bringing clarity to so much of Carmen’s life, it was too late for answers. When her mother passed away, Carmen wanted to shake her soul by its shoulders and demand: Why didn’t you tell me? A former national television host, advice columnist, and professor, Carmen searches to understand who she really is as she discovers her mother’s hidden history, facing the revelations that seep out. Why Didn’t You Tell Me? is a riveting and poignant story of Carmen’s experience of race and culture in America and how they shape who we think we are.
