Invisible Invincible Black Women Growing Up In Bronzeville
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Invisible Invincible Black Women Growing Up In Bronzeville
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Author : Portia McClain
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-02-08
Invisible Invincible Black Women Growing Up In Bronzeville written by Portia McClain and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-08 with categories.
As a young lad visiting Jackson, Mississippi, during many summers, Portia sat on the front porch and listened intently as her great-grandmother and grandmother told stories of perseverance, triumph, blessings, and strength. This experience and the richness of their recollection of love and family while also enduring the obstacles of oppression and segregation shaped the fiber of who she is. A full understanding of her identity and knowledge of family history kept her strong and resilient and gave her a foundation for survival to weather any storm. Portia was born at the very beginning of the civil rights era to parents who migrated from the South, and she was a teenager at the height of the 60s movement. This incredible and insightful next generation story you will read, Invisible, Invincible Black Women Growing Up in Bronzeville, is a combination of history that has been handed down along with an eyewitness account of the things Portia saw during and after the Great Migration to the north. Portia is a woman of compassion, vulnerability, toughness, and wisdom; this combination makes some see her as complex at first glance. She is a trailblazer for positive change and has a keen discernment of people. After many sacrifices for others, Portia completed her bachelors and masters degrees in education. She is currently an adjunct professional and is a special education teacher with the State Board of Education. Portias work as a student learning advocate has been featured in the local newspapers. The end goal of the book and its story is to remind anyone that you can overcome and survive and know that, amid any and all the broken dreams in life, you can still achieve your life mission and have happiness and contentment.
Invisible Invincible Black Women Growing Up In Bronzeville
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Author : Portia McClain
language : en
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Release Date : 2021-03-22
Invisible Invincible Black Women Growing Up In Bronzeville written by Portia McClain and has been published by Page Publishing Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-22 with Family & Relationships categories.
As a young lad visiting Jackson, Mississippi, during many summers, Portia sat on the front porch and listened intently as her great-grandmother and grandmother told stories of perseverance, triumph, blessings, and strength. This experience and the richness of their recollection of love and family while also enduring the obstacles of oppression and segregation shaped the fiber of who she is. A full understanding of her identity and knowledge of family history kept her strong and resilient and gave her a foundation for survival to weather any storm.Portia was born at the very beginning of the civil rights era to parents who migrated from the South, and she was a teenager at the height of the '60s movement. This incredible and insightful next generation story you will read, Invisible, Invincible Black Women Growing Up in Bronzeville, is a combination of history that has been handed down along with an eyewitness account of the things Portia saw during and after the Great Migration to the north.Portia is a woman of compassion, vulnerability, toughness, and wisdom; this combination makes some see her as complex at first glance. She is a trailblazer for positive change and has a keen discernment of people.After many sacrifices for others, Portia completed her bachelor's and master's degrees in education. She is currently an adjunct professional and is a special education teacher with the State Board of Education. Portia's work as a student learning advocate has been featured in the local newspapers.The end goal of the book and its story is to remind anyone that you can overcome and survive and know that, amid any and all the broken dreams in life, you can still achieve your life mission and have happiness and contentment.
Invisible Woman
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Author : Ika Hügel-Marshall
language : en
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Release Date : 2001
Invisible Woman written by Ika Hügel-Marshall and has been published by Burns & Oates this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Hugel-Marshall is the daughter of a Bavarian woman and an African- American soldier she didn't meet until many years later. Left at age 7 in an orphanage, where she was taken to have the "black demon" exorcised from her, Hugel-Marshall tells of her long struggle to come to terms with life as a German among people who seemed determined to disavow her existence. In her late 30s, she began to meet other Afro-Germans and explore her identity. A friend of the writer Audre Lord, she eventually published a number of works on anti-racist education. Her memoir is punctuated with snippets of poetry and illustrated with family snapshots. (The work has no index.) Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Shapeshifters
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Author : Aimee Meredith Cox
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2015-08-07
Shapeshifters written by Aimee Meredith Cox and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-07 with Social Science categories.
In Shapeshifters Aimee Meredith Cox explores how young Black women in a Detroit homeless shelter contest stereotypes, critique their status as partial citizens, and negotiate poverty, racism, and gender violence to create and imagine lives for themselves. Based on eight years of fieldwork at the Fresh Start shelter, Cox shows how the shelter's residents—who range in age from fifteen to twenty-two—employ strategic methods she characterizes as choreography to disrupt the social hierarchies and prescriptive narratives that work to marginalize them. Among these are dance and poetry, which residents learn in shelter workshops. These outlets for performance and self-expression, Cox shows, are key to the residents exercising their agency, while their creation of alternative family structures demands a rethinking of notions of care, protection, and love. Cox also uses these young women's experiences to tell larger stories: of Detroit's history, the Great Migration, deindustrialization, the politics of respectability, and the construction of Black girls and women as social problems. With Shapeshifters Cox gives a voice to young Black women who find creative and non-normative solutions to the problems that come with being young, Black, and female in America.
A Song For Gwendolyn Brooks
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Author : Alice Faye Duncan
language : en
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
Release Date : 2020-02-28
A Song For Gwendolyn Brooks written by Alice Faye Duncan and has been published by Union Square & Co. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-28 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
“A stirring, accessible introduction to Gwendolyn Brooks and a must-have for all elementary collections.” —School Library Journal (Starred review) “The combination of biography and Brooks' own poems makes for a strong, useful, and beautiful text . . . A solid introduction to a brilliant writer”—Kirkus. Acclaimed writer Alice Faye Duncan tells the story of poet Gwendolyn Brooks, the first Black author to win the Pulitzer Prize. SING a song for Gwendolyn Brooks. Sing it loud—a Chicago blues. With a voice both wise and witty, Gwendolyn Brooks crafted poems that captured the urban Black experience and the role of women in society. She grew up on the South Side of Chicago, reading and writing constantly from a young age, her talent lovingly nurtured by her parents. Brooks ultimately published 20 books of poetry, two autobiographies, and one novel. Alice Faye Duncan has created her own song to celebrate Gwendolyn’s life and work, illuminating the tireless struggle of revision and the sweet reward of success.
Exquisite
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Author : Suzanne Slade
language : en
Publisher: Abrams
Release Date : 2020-04-07
Exquisite written by Suzanne Slade and has been published by Abrams this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-07 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
A picture-book biography of celebrated poet Gwendolyn Brooks, the first Black person to win the Pulitzer Prize A 2021 Coretta Scott King Book Award Illustrator Honor Book A 2021 Robert F. Sibert Informational Honor Book A 2021 Association of Library Service to Children Notable Children's Book Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000) is known for her poems about “real life.” She wrote about love, loneliness, family, and poverty—showing readers how just about anything could become a beautiful poem. Exquisite follows Gwendolyn from early girlhood into her adult life, showcasing her desire to write poetry from a very young age. This picture-book biography explores the intersections of race, gender, and the ubiquitous poverty of the Great Depression—all with a lyrical touch worthy of the subject. Gwendolyn Brooks was the first Black person to win the Pulitzer Prize, receiving the award for poetry in 1950. And in 1958, she was named the poet laureate of Illinois. A bold artist who from a very young age dared to dream, Brooks will inspire young readers to create poetry from their own lives.
The American Family
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Author : David Peterson del Mar
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2011-11-07
The American Family written by David Peterson del Mar and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-07 with History categories.
Traces the movement from mutualism to individualism in the context of American family life. Families survived or even flourished during colonization, Revolution, slavery, immigration and economic upheaval. In the past century, prosperity created a culture devoted to pleasure and individual fulfilment.
Ghosts In The Schoolyard
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Author : Eve L. Ewing
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2020-02-05
Ghosts In The Schoolyard written by Eve L. Ewing and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-05 with Education categories.
“Failing schools. Underprivileged schools. Just plain bad schools.” That’s how Eve L. Ewing opens Ghosts in the Schoolyard: describing Chicago Public Schools from the outside. The way politicians and pundits and parents of kids who attend other schools talk about them, with a mix of pity and contempt. But Ewing knows Chicago Public Schools from the inside: as a student, then a teacher, and now a scholar who studies them. And that perspective has shown her that public schools are not buildings full of failures—they’re an integral part of their neighborhoods, at the heart of their communities, storehouses of history and memory that bring people together. Never was that role more apparent than in 2013 when Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced an unprecedented wave of school closings. Pitched simultaneously as a solution to a budget problem, a response to declining enrollments, and a chance to purge bad schools that were dragging down the whole system, the plan was met with a roar of protest from parents, students, and teachers. But if these schools were so bad, why did people care so much about keeping them open, to the point that some would even go on a hunger strike? Ewing’s answer begins with a story of systemic racism, inequality, bad faith, and distrust that stretches deep into Chicago history. Rooting her exploration in the historic African American neighborhood of Bronzeville, Ewing reveals that this issue is about much more than just schools. Black communities see the closing of their schools—schools that are certainly less than perfect but that are theirs—as one more in a long line of racist policies. The fight to keep them open is yet another front in the ongoing struggle of black people in America to build successful lives and achieve true self-determination.
Power Relations In Black Lives
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Author : Christa Buschendorf
language : en
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Release Date : 2017-11-30
Power Relations In Black Lives written by Christa Buschendorf and has been published by transcript Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
According to relational sociology, power imbalances are at the root of human conflicts and consequently shape the physical and symbolic struggles between interdependent groups or individuals. This volume highlights the role of power relations in the African American experience by applying key concepts of Pierre Bourdieu and Norbert Elias to black literature and culture. The authors offer new readings of power asymmetries as represented in works of canonical and contemporary black writers (Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Gwendolyn Brooks, Toni Morrison, Percival Everett, Colson Whitehead), rap music (e.g., Jay Z), images of black homelessness, and figurations of political activism (civil rights activist Bayard Rustin,
Call It Sleep
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Author : Henry Roth
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
Call It Sleep written by Henry Roth and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with Boys categories.