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T Dot Griots

Author : Steven Green
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1553956311
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (539 download)

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Download or read book T Dot Griots written by Steven Green and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birthed at the popular open-mic series, La Parole, T-Dot Griots is an intimate journey through previously undocumented Canadian experiences, reporting from Toronto's black communities in fiction, poetry, articles, plays and songs. The book features contributions by over forty writers of African descent, either raised in or residing in Toronto. The griot is a West African storyteller, traditionally responsible for presiding over all of the important milestones in the life a community. T Dot Griots is a window into the communities occupied by black Canadian artists depicting their experiences living in the African diaspora. The griot carried the important function of preserving the community's history and culture through songs and recitations. Now transported across the Atlantic Ocean, non-traditional methods of expression emerge to document the existence of a little known group of people: the black community of Toronto. Toronto is widely acknowledged as the world's most culturally diverse city. T Dot Griots was produced to portray the rich cultural diversity existing within its African communities. The anthology brings together spoken word poets and PhD's, hip hop artists and playwrights, students and professionals. The book voices issues of racial inequality and immigrant experiences. It illustrates numerous spiritual vantage points and political commentaries. Most of all it is an unapologetically accurate representation of an ever growing canon of writers making Toronto their home, who wish to acknowledge the many facets of African-Canadian identity. Immerse yourself in the words, work and life of East, West and Southern Africans. Plunge into the hybridized dialect of Caribbean natives and descendents. Wade through generations of celebrated cast of Toronto's outspoken voices. Listen to the T Dot Griot tell the tale of the ages in a proudly Canadian style.

The Stone Thrower

Author : Jael Ealey Richardson
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1554987539
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (549 download)

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Download or read book The Stone Thrower written by Jael Ealey Richardson and published by Groundwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The African-American football player Chuck Ealey grew up in a segregated neighborhood of Portsmouth, Ohio. Against all odds, he became an incredible quarterback. But despite his unbeaten record in high school and university, he would never play professional football in the United States. Chuck Ealey grew up poor in a racially segregated community that was divided from the rest of town by a set of train tracks, but his mother assured him that he wouldn’t stay in Portsmouth forever. Education was the way out, and a football scholarship was the way to pay for that education. So despite the racist taunts he faced at all the games he played in high school, Chuck maintained a remarkable level of dedication and determination. And when discrimination followed him to university and beyond, Chuck Ealey remained undefeated. This inspirational story is told by Chuck Ealey’s daughter, author and educator Jael Richardson, with striking and powerful illustrations by award-winning illustrator Matt James.

Listening Up, Writing Down, and Looking Beyond

Author : Susan Gingell
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1554583926
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (545 download)

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Download or read book Listening Up, Writing Down, and Looking Beyond written by Susan Gingell and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Listening Up, Writing Down, and Looking Beyond is an interdisciplinary collection that gathers the work of scholars and performance practitioners who together explore questions about the oral, written, and visual. The book includes the voices of oral performance practitioners, while the scholarship of many of the academic contributors is informed by their participation in oral storytelling, whether as poets, singers, or visual artists. Its contributions address the politics and ethics of the utterance and text: textualizing orature and orality, simulations of the oral, the poetics of performance, and reconstructions of the oral.

Bird

Author : Zetta Elliott
Publisher : Lee & Low Books
ISBN 13 : 9781620143483
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Bird written by Zetta Elliott and published by Lee & Low Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this gentle, award-winning picture book, an African American boy nicknamed Bird uses drawing as a creative outlet as he struggles to make sense of his grandfather's death and his brother's drug addiction.

The Ringing Ear

Author : Nikky Finney
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820329253
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (292 download)

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Download or read book The Ringing Ear written by Nikky Finney and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than one hundred contemporary black poets laugh at and cry about, pray for and curse, flee and return to the South in this collection of poems, which features contributions by Nikki Giovanni, Kevin Young, Cornelius Eady, Sonia Sanchez, and other notables. Simultaneous.

Directions Home

Author : George Elliott Clarke
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442661119
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Directions Home written by George Elliott Clarke and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-09-26 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest work from pioneering scholar George Elliott Clarke, Directions Home is the most comprehensive analysis of African-Canadian texts and writers to date. Building on the discoveries of his critically acclaimed Odysseys Home, Clarke passionately analyses the beautiful complexities and haunting conundrums of this important body of literature. Directions Home explores the trajectories and tendencies of African-Canadian literature within the Canadian canon and the socio-cultural traditions of the African Diaspora. Clarke showcases the importance of little-known texts, including church histories and slave narratives, and offers studies of autobiography, crime and punishment, jazz poetics, and musical composition. The collection also includes studies of significant contemporary writers such as George Boyd and Dionne Brand, and trailblazing African-Canadian intellectuals like A.B. Walker and Anna Minerva Henderson. With its national, bilingual, and historical perspectives, Directions Home is an essential guide to African-Canadian literature.

The Black Prairie Archives

Author : Karina Vernon
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1771123753
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book The Black Prairie Archives written by Karina Vernon and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2020-02-19 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology recovers a new regional archive of “black prairie” literature, and includes writing that ranges from work by nineteenth-century black fur traders and pioneers, all of it published here for the first time, to contemporary writing of the twenty-first century. This anthology establishes a new black prairie literary tradition and transforms inherited understandings of what prairie literature looks and sounds like. It collects varied and unique work by writers who were both conscious and unconscious of themselves as black writers or as “prairie” people. Their letters, recipes, oral literature, autobiographies, rap, and poetry- provide vivid glimpses into the reality of their lived experiences and give meaning to them. The book includes introductory notes for each writer in non-specialist language, and notes to assist readers in their engagement with the literature. This archive and its supporting text offer new scholarly and pedagogical possibilities by expanding the nation’s and the region’s archives. They enrich our understanding of black Canada by bringing to light the prairies' black histories, cultures, and presences.

African-American Holidays, Festivals, and Celebrations, 2nd Ed.

Author : James Chambers
Publisher : Infobase Holdings, Inc
ISBN 13 : 0780816064
Total Pages : 789 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book African-American Holidays, Festivals, and Celebrations, 2nd Ed. written by James Chambers and published by Infobase Holdings, Inc. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 789 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents more than 100 diverse holidays and festivals observed by Americans of African descent, exploring their history, customs, and symbols. Also includes a chronology, bibliography, and index.

Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets & Emcees

Author : DuEwa Frazier
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0971905258
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (719 download)

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Download or read book Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets & Emcees written by DuEwa Frazier and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-03-13 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nominated for an NAACP Image Award in "Outstanding Literary Work - Poetry" and Writers Digest Publishing Award, Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets & Emcees is a cross-generational volume of poetry, featuring the work of fifty thought provoking and inspirational women writers, lyricists and spoken word artists from diverse cultures and backgrounds. Check the Rhyme features eighteen chapters, revealing poetry that is a representation of both emerging and established poets who write on a variety of themes including: beauty and self esteem, empowerment for youth, hip hop culture, history, love relationships, and more. The pages of Check the Rhyme are filled with insights, experiences and challenges of women who walk the warrior path, intending to shape the world with the passion that fuels their dreams.

Performing Female Blackness

Author : Naila Keleta-Mae
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1771124814
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Performing Female Blackness written by Naila Keleta-Mae and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2023-06-20 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performing Female Blackness examines race, gender, and nation in Black life using critical race, feminist and performance studies methodologies. This book examines what private and public performances of female blackness reveal about race, gender, and nation and considers how the land widely known as Canada shapes these performances. By exploring Black expressive culture in familial, literary, and performance settings, Naila Keleta-Mae theorizes that “perpetual performance” forces people who are read as female and Black to always be figuratively on stage regardless of cultural, political, or historical contexts. Written in poetry, prose, and journal form and drawing from the author’s own life and artistic works, Performing Female Blackness is ideal not only for scholars, educators, and students of the humanities, social sciences, and fine arts but also for artists and the general public too.

Shared Waters

Author : Stella Borg Barthet
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042027673
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Shared Waters written by Stella Borg Barthet and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume contains general essays on: unequal African/Western academic exchange; the state and structure of postcolonial studies; representing male violence in Zimbabwe’s wars; parihaka in the poetic imagination of Aotearoa New Zealand; Middle Eastern, Nigerian, Moroccan, and diasporic Indian women’s writing; community in post-Independence Maltese poetry in English; key novels of the Portuguese colonies; the TV series The Kumars at No. 42; fictional representations of India; the North in western Canadian writing; and a pedagogy of African-Canadian literature. As well as these, there is a selection of poems from Malta by Daniel Massa, Adrian Grima, Norbert Bugeja, Immanuel Mifsud, and Maria Grech Ganado, and essays providing close readings of works by the following authors and filmmakers: Thea Astley, George Elliott Clarke, Alan Duff, Francis Ebejer, Lorena Gale, Romesh Gunesekera, Sahar Khalīfah, Anthony Minghella, Michael Ondaatje, Caryl Phillips, Edgar Allan Poe, Salman Rushdie, Ghādah al-Sammān, Meera Syal, Lee Tamahori. Contributors: Leila Abouzeid, Hoda Barakat, Amrit Biswas, Thomas Bonnici, Stella Borg Barthet, Ivan Callus, Devon Campbell–Hall, Saviour Catania, George Elliott Clarke, Brian Crow, Pilar Cuder–Domínguez, Bärbel Czennia, Hilary P. Dannenberg, Pauline Dodgson–Katiyo, Bernadette Falzon, Daphne Grace, Adrian Grima, Kifah Hanna, Janne Korkka, T. Vijay Kumar, Chantal Kwast–Greff, Maureen Lynch Pèrcopo, Kevin Stephen Magri, Isabel Moutinho, Melanie A. Murray, Taiwo Oloruntoba–Oju, Gerhard Stilz, Jesús Varela Zapata, Christine Vogt–William.

Malaika’s Costume

Author : Nadia L. Hohn
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1773067885
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Malaika’s Costume written by Nadia L. Hohn and published by Groundwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malaika’s mother can’t buy her a carnival costume — will she still be able to dance in the parade? It’s carnival time — the first carnival since Malaika’s mother moved to Canada to find a good job and provide for Malaika and her grandmother. Her mother promised she would send money for a costume, and Malaika marks off the days on her calendar as she waits for Mummy’s letter to arrive. But when the letter finally comes, Malaika learns that there is no money for her costume. Disappointed and upset at the thought of wearing her grandmother’s hand-me-down costume, Malaika leaves the house, running into Ms. Chin, the tailor, who offers Malaika a bag of scrap fabric. With her grandmother’s help, Malaika creates a patchwork rainbow peacock costume, and dances proudly in the parade. This heartwarming story about family, community and the celebration of carnival is written in a blend of standard English and Caribbean patois. Nadia L. Hohn’s warm prose and Irene Luxbacher’s vibrant collage-style illustrations make this a strikingly original picture book. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.6 With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.1.1 Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

Ship of Souls

Author : Zetta Elliott
Publisher : Amazon Encore
ISBN 13 : 9781612182681
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (826 download)

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Download or read book Ship of Souls written by Zetta Elliott and published by Amazon Encore. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When 11-year-old Dmitri ("D") loses his mother to breast cancer, he finds himself taken in by an elderly white woman, Mrs. Martin. D loves to watch birds and, while in the park, is amazed to find an injured bird that can talk. He takes it home and soon learns there are malevolent forces inhabiting the region beneath Prospect Park and they are hunting for the bird; Nuru is a life force that has been kept hostage by the earthbound spirits who are ghosts of soldiers that died in the Revolutionary War. Nuru's mission is to guide the ship that will carry the souls of the dead back to her realm. D has been chosen as Nuru's host, and must carry the bird from Brooklyn to the African Burial Ground in lower Manhattan where the dead await deliverance.

Awaken the Mind

Author : Sean Liburd
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1453501940
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book Awaken the Mind written by Sean Liburd and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-05-08 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These words are the thoughts and offerings inspired by a man´s communication and interaction with his community. A Listener´s voice reflecting the challenges encountered on the journey of self-knowledge. A fiery truth that beckons to all African people to celebrate their ancestry while continuing the tradition of building upon the foundation for the benefit of unborn generations. Awaken the Mind: Communion with Sean Liburd the Sharing of Thoughts and Emotions, an Intimate Communication Between a People is a revealing collection of experiences and lessons that stimulate critical thinking.

Griots

Author : Milton J. Davis
Publisher : Mvmedia, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9780980084283
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (842 download)

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Download or read book Griots written by Milton J. Davis and published by Mvmedia, LLC. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of African based fantasy tales, known as the sword and soul genre.

A Wish After Midnight

Author : Zetta Elliott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781935597384
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (973 download)

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Download or read book A Wish After Midnight written by Zetta Elliott and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genna Colon desperately wants to escape from a drug-infested world of poverty, and every day she wishes for a different life. One day Genna's wish is granted and she is instantly transported back to Civil War-era Brooklyn.

A Place Inside of Me

Author : Zetta Elliott
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 0374388636
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (743 download)

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Download or read book A Place Inside of Me written by Zetta Elliott and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caldecott Honor Book Today Show Best Book for the Holidays ALA Notable Book for All Ages ALSC Notable Children's Book NCTE Notable Poetry Book Evanston Public Library's Top 100 Great Book for Kids Nerdy Award Winner for Single Poem Picture Book Bank Street Best Books of the Year In this powerful, affirming poem by award-winning author Zetta Elliott, a Black child explores his shifting emotions throughout the year. There is a place inside of me a space deep down inside of me where all my feelings hide. Summertime is filled with joy—skateboarding and playing basketball—until his community is deeply wounded by a police shooting. As fall turns to winter and then spring, fear grows into anger, then pride and peace. In her stunning debut, illustrator Noa Denmon articulates the depth and nuances of a child’s experiences following a police shooting—through grief and protests, healing and community—with washes of color as vibrant as his words. Here is a groundbreaking narrative that can help all readers—children and adults alike—talk about the feelings hiding deep inside each of us.