My Father Is A Woman My Mother Is Black
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My Father Is A Woman My Mother Is Black
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Author : Ivy Sewell
language : en
Publisher: Xulon Press
Release Date : 2006-05
My Father Is A Woman My Mother Is Black written by Ivy Sewell and has been published by Xulon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
White Like Her
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Author : Gail Lukasik
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2017-10-17
White Like Her written by Gail Lukasik and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
First Hitler Then Your Father And Now You
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Author : Deborah Long
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2010
First Hitler Then Your Father And Now You written by Deborah Long and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Children of Holocaust survivors categories.
"A memoir written by the daughter of two Holocaust survivors. The author describes her childhood, adolescence, and adulthood in often funny, sympathetic, and compelling stories of growing up in a suburban Chicago household with a father who wanted to live every day as though it were his last and a mother who wanted more than anything to recapture what she lost."--Back cover.
Global Critical Race Feminism
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Author : Adrien Katherine Wing
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2000-05
Global Critical Race Feminism written by Adrien Katherine Wing and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-05 with Law categories.
An anthology containing some 30 essays which focus on topics including a critique of American feminist legal scholarship; motherhood and work in cultural context; Josephine Baker and the Cold War; the campaign against female circumcision; violence against Aboriginal women in Australia; and "marketization" and the status of women in China. Includes a foreword by social justice activist and professor at the U. of California-Santa Cruz, Angela Y. Davis. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Voices Of Historical And Contemporary Black American Pioneers
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Author : Vernon L. Farmer
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2012-05-15
Voices Of Historical And Contemporary Black American Pioneers written by Vernon L. Farmer and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-15 with Social Science categories.
The stories of black American professionals, both historic and contemporary, reveal the hardships and triumphs they faced in overcoming racism to succeed in their chosen fields. This extraordinary four-volume work is the first of its kind, a comprehensive exploration of the obstacles black men and women, both historic and contemporary, have faced and overcome to succeed in professional positions. Voices of Historical and Contemporary Black American Pioneers includes the life and career histories of black American pioneers, past and present, who have achieved extraordinary success in fields as varied as aviation and astronautics, education, social sciences, the humanities, the fine and performing arts, law and government, and medicine and science. The set covers well-known figures, but is also an invaluable source of information on lesser-known individuals whose accomplishments are no less admirable. Arranged by career category, each section of the work begins with a biographical narrative of early black pioneers in the field, followed by original interviews conducted by the editors or autobiographical narratives written by the subjects. In all, more than 150 scholars and professionals share inspiring insights into how they persevered to overcome racism and succeed in an often-hostile world.
Why
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Author : Marvin V Blake
language : en
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Release Date : 2015-04-08
Why written by Marvin V Blake 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 2015-04-08 with Fiction categories.
"WHY", is an epic story, 1838 - 1863, chronicling the lives of two sisters, one white, the other black, both born in 1847, three days apart, on Virginia's wealthy Rosewood Plantation. The white sister is the child of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Billings, Master and Mistress of Rosewood, one of the richest cotton plantations in the state of Virginia. The black girl is the issue of the mating of Henry Billings, the Master of the Rosewood Plantation, and one of his female black slaves. While growing up
Womanist Forefathers
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Author : Gary L. Lemons
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2009-09-10
Womanist Forefathers written by Gary L. Lemons and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-10 with Social Science categories.
Traces a lineage of pro-feminist black men to two early radical proponents of female equality.
Telling Our Stories
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Author : Donna Y. Ford
language : en
Publisher: IAP
Release Date : 2017-04-01
Telling Our Stories written by Donna Y. Ford and has been published by IAP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-01 with Social Science categories.
Five decades ago, I was challenged to read the Moynihan Report (1965). Then and now, I take issue with much of the content, which smacks of deficit thinking, blaming the victim, and a blindness or almost total disregard for how systemic racism and social injustices contribute to family structures. I recall being professionally and personally offended by interpretations of single?parent families, which were often negative and hopeless. Moral development, criminal activity, poor educational outcomes, poverty, and apathy of many kinds were placed squarely on the shoulders of these families, especially if the families were/are headed by Black mothers. Eurocentric and middle class notions of ‘real’ families like those depicted on TV shows and movies dominate, then and now, what is deemed healthy in terms of family structures – with the polemic conclusion that nuclear families are the best and sometimes only structure in which children must be raised. These colorblind, economic blind, and racist blind studies, reports, theories, and folktales have failed to do justice to the families in which there is one caregiver. Their stories of woe and mayhem make the news and guide policies and procedures. The stories of children who have been resilient have been unheard and silenced, they have been under?reported and relegated to the status of ‘exception to the rule’. Perhaps they are exceptions, but there are more exceptions than we may know. This book is designed with those stories of resilience and success in mind. The book is not an attempt to glorify single?parent families, but such families are prevalent and increasing. High divorce rates are impactful. And some parents have chosen to not marry, which is their right. While not glorifying single?parent families, we are also not demonizing them or telling their stories void of context. Yes, income will often be low(er), time will be compromised when divided between offspring, work, and other obligations. Likewise, we are not glorifying two?parent families as being ideal; their context matters too. How healthy are married couples who don’t really love or even like each other? How healthy are those parents who have separate sleeping arrangements/bedrooms? How healthy are those families who have oppositional parenting styles and goals for their children? This is the 50th anniversary of the Moynihan Report, and I am concerned that another 50 years will pass that fails to balance out the stories of single?parent families, mainly those whose children succeed and defy the odds so often unexpected of them. I agree with Cohen, co?author of the updated report: "The preoccupation with strengthening marriage as the best route to reducing poverty and inequality has been a policymaking folly”. Further, 50 years after Moynihan released the controversial report, The Negro Family: The Case for National Action, a new brief by the Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) and the Council on Contemporary Families (CCF) titled, "Moynihan's Half Century: Have We Gone to Hell in a Hand Basket?," finds that the changes in family structure that concerned him have indeed continued, becoming widespread among Whites as well, but that they do not explain recent trends in poverty and inequality. In fact, a number of the social ills Moynihan assumed would accompany these changes in family structure—such as rising rates of poverty, school failure, crime, and violence—have instead decreased. (see this)
Enchanted Maidens
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Author : James M. Taggart
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 1990-02-04
Enchanted Maidens written by James M. Taggart and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-02-04 with Social Science categories.
Spanish villagers tell many folktales that describe in metaphorical language the struggles of young men and women as they emerge from their parental families and join in love. In this book James Taggart presents dozens of orally transmitted tales, including "Snow White," "Cinderella," "Beauty and the Beast," "Blancaflor," and dragonslayer stories, collected from seven villages in the region of CNBceres, and analyzes the differences in male and female approaches to telling them. His study shows how men and women use the tales to grapple with some of the contradictions found in gender relations in their culture, which conditions men to be sexually assertive and to marry virgins and which teaches women to fear the men who court them. Taggart interprets the male-female dialogue voiced through storytelling by linking the content of specific tales to the life experiences and gender of the storyteller. Men and women, he finds, carry out an exchange of ideas by retelling the same stories and altering the plots and characters to express their respective views of courtship. This indirect narrative dialogue conveys an understanding of the opposite sex and establishes a common model of marriage that permits men and women to overcome their fear of each other and bond in heterosexual love.