Peckerwood Please Or The P Word
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Peckerwood Please Or The P Word
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Author : Eddie Thomas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003-04-14
Peckerwood Please Or The P Word written by Eddie Thomas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-04-14 with categories.
Peckerwood Please Or The P Word
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Author : Eddie J. Thomas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003-05
Peckerwood Please Or The P Word written by Eddie J. Thomas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-05 with Social Science categories.
PREFACE THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE JOHN HOWARD GRIFFIN. AS THE WHITE AUTHOR OF THE 1960'S BEST SELLER, "BLACK LIKE ME," HE UNDERSTOOD THE MEANING OF RACIAL PREJUDICE AND DISCRIMINATION. HIS WAS NOT THE UNDERSTANDING THAT COMES FROM THE INTELLECTUAL DETACHMENT OF OBJECTIVE AND SAFE OBSERVATION. HIS UNDERSTANDING WAS BASED ON THE DIRECT PERSONAL EXPERIENCE RESULTING FROM AN ACTUAL CHANGE IN SKIN COLOR. IT WAS THIS DIRECT PERSONAL EXPERIENCE THAT GAVE HIM THE UNIQUE STATUS OF BEING AN INDIVIDUAL WHO PERSONALLY UNDERSTOOD RACIAL INJUSTICE FROM BOTH THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE DOMINATE GROUP AND THE SUBORDINATE GROUP. PHRASES LIKE "WALK A MILE IN MY SHOES" AND "DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVE THEM DO UNTO YOU," BECOME MORE THAN MERE VERBAL IDEALISM WHEN USED TO DESCRIBE THE RACIAL CROSSOVER THAT GRIFFIN REALIZED. ONLY THE MOST CALLOUS OF INDIVIDUALS WOULD REMAIN STEADFAST IN SUPPORT OF BIGOTRY WHEN THE "TABLES ARE TURNED" AND THEY BECOME THE VICTIMS. THE PURPOSE OF THIS BOOK IS TO "TURN THE TABLES," PUT ONE IN "ANOTHER'S SHOES," AND TO ENCOURAGE SERIOUS INDIVIDUAL THOUGHT ABOUT RACE RELATIONS AND THE ROLE OF THE INDIVIDUAL IN SOCIETY. IF THAT IS ACHIEVED, THEN MAYBE SOCIETAL PROBLEMS OF RACE CAN BE MINIMIZED BY THE ACTIONS OF INDIVIDUALS WHO COME TO UNDERSTAND THE PHRASE "DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVE THEM DO UNTO YOU" FOR WHAT IT TRULY IS – THE GOLDEN RULE, IN THE CULTURE OF THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES (THE "OLD SOUTH") PRIOR TO THE LAST HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY, THE WORD "PECKERWOOD" WAS A DEROGATORY TERM USED TO DESCRIBE THE POOR CLASS OF SOUTHERN WHITE FARMERS. IT IS A REVERSAL OF THE NAME FOR A BIRD (THE RED-BELLIED WOODPECKER). A NOTED CHARACTERISTIC OF THE BIRD WAS A PATCH OF RED ON THE BACK OF IT'S HEAD AND NECK. POOR SOUTHERN WHITE FARMERS WERE OFTEN SUNBURNED ON THE NECK. HENCE, THE TERMS "PECKERWOOD" AND "REDNECK" ORIGINATED AS REFLECTIONS OF THAT EXPOSURE TO TOO MUCH SUN. THE NOVELIST STEPHEN LONGSTREET IS QUOTED AS SAYING "ANY WHITE MAN FROM THE SOUTH IS A PECKERWOOD." THIS BRIEF HISTORY OF THE WORD IS BASED ON INFORMATION FROM THE NEW DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN SLANG, BY ROBERT L. CHAPMAN PH.D (HARPER AND ROW, N.Y., 1986). I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE USE OF RACIALLY DEROGATORY TERMS WITH THE INTENTION OF BEING DEROGATORY AND THEIR USE IN CONJUNCTION WITH A LITERARY WORK. THIS DISTINCTION BECOMES CLEAR WHEN THE PURPOSE OF THAT LITERARY WORK IS TO MINIMIZE THE NEGATIVE ATTITUDES THAT RESULT IN THE USE OF SUCH TERMS FOR THE EXPRESSED PURPOSE OF BEING DEROGATORY. THIS IS THE SPIRIT IN WHICH I USE THE WORD "PECKERWOOD" THROUGHOUT THIS BOOK.
Inherent Vice
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Author : Thomas Pynchon
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2015-03-02
Inherent Vice written by Thomas Pynchon and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-02 with Fiction categories.
Read the cult classic behind the major new film starring Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon and Josh Brolin. Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon - private eye Doc Sportello comes, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era as free love slips away and paranoia creeps in with the L.A. fog. It's been awhile since Doc Sportello has seen his ex-girlfriend. Suddenly out of nowhere she shows up with a story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer whom she just happens to be in love with. Easy for her to say. It's the tail end of the psychedelic sixties in L.A., and Doc knows that 'love' is another of those words going around at the moment, like 'trip' or 'groovy', except that this one usually leads to trouble. Despite which he soon finds himself drawn into a bizarre tangle of motives and passions whose cast of characters includes surfers, hustlers, dopers and rockers, a murderous loan shark, a tenor sax player working undercover, an ex-con with a swastika tattoo and a fondness for Ethel Merman, and a mysterious entity known as the Golden Fang, which may only be a tax dodge set up by some dentists. In this lively yarn, Thomas Pynchon, working in an unaccustomed genre, provides a classic illustration of the principle that if you can remember the sixties, you weren't there...or...if you were there, then you...or, wait, is it...
Straight Man
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Author : Richard Russo
language : en
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Release Date : 2017-01-05
Straight Man written by Richard Russo and has been published by Atlantic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-05 with Fiction categories.
**THE BASIS FOR THE NEW TV SERIES, LUCKY HANK** Hank Devereaux is the reluctant chairman of the English department of a badly underfunded college in the Pennsylvania rust belt. Devereaux's reluctance is partly rooted in his character - he is a born anarchist - and partly in the fact that his department is savagely divided. In the course of a single week, Devereaux will have his nose mangled by an angry colleague, imagine his wife is having an affair with his dean, wonder if a curvaceous adjunct is trying to seduce him with peach pits and threaten to execute a goose on local television. All this while coming to terms with his philandering father, the dereliction of his youthful promise and the ominous failure of certain vital body functions. In short, Straight Man is classic Russo - side-splitting, poignant, compassionate and unforgettable.
The Turner Diaries
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Author : Andrew MacDonald
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2015-02-24
The Turner Diaries written by Andrew MacDonald and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-24 with Fiction categories.
What will you do when they come to take your guns? Earl Turner and his fellow patriots face this question and are forced underground when he U.S. government bans the private possession of firearms and stages the mass Gun Raids to round up suspected gun owners. The hated Equality Police begin hunting them down, hut the patriots fight back with a campaign of sabotage and assassination. An all-out race war occurs as the struggle escalates. Turner and his comrades suffer terribly, hut their ingenuity and boldness in devising and executing new methods of guerrilla warfare lead to a victory of cataclysmic intensity and worldwide scope. The FBI has labeled The Turner Diaries "the bible of the racist right." If the government had the power to ban books, this one would he at the top of its list. The Turner Diaries is the most controversial book in America today-and it's a book unlike any you've ever read!
If He Hollers Let Him Go
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Author : Chester Himes
language : en
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Release Date : 2010-12-02
If He Hollers Let Him Go written by Chester Himes and has been published by Serpent's Tail this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-02 with Fiction categories.
Robert Jones is a crew leader in a naval shipyard in Los Angeles in the 1940s. He should have a lot going for him, being educated, with a steady job and a steady relationship. But in the four days covered in this novel, the impossibility of life as a black man in a white world is made devastatingly clear. Jones is surrounded by prejudice, suspicion and paranoia, and his daily experiences influence his thoughts, dreams and behaviour. Immediately recognised as a masterful expose of racism in everyday life, If He Hollers Let Him Go is Chester Himes' first book, originally published in 1945.
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
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Author : Maya Angelou
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2009-04-21
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings written by Maya Angelou and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age—and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime. Years later, in San Francisco, Maya learns that love for herself, the kindness of others, her own strong spirit, and the ideas of great authors (“I met and fell in love with William Shakespeare”) will allow her to be free instead of imprisoned. Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings will touch hearts and change minds for as long as people read. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings liberates the reader into life simply because Maya Angelou confronts her own life with such a moving wonder, such a luminous dignity.”—James Baldwin
The New Encyclopedia Of Southern Culture
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Author : Charles Reagan Wilson
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2014-02-01
The New Encyclopedia Of Southern Culture written by Charles Reagan Wilson and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-01 with Reference categories.
This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture addresses the cultural, social, and intellectual terrain of myth, manners, and historical memory in the American South. Evaluating how a distinct southern identity has been created, recreated, and performed through memories that blur the line between fact and fiction, this volume paints a broad, multihued picture of the region seen through the lenses of belief and cultural practice. The 95 entries here represent a substantial revision and expansion of the material on historical memory and manners in the original edition. They address such matters as myths and memories surrounding the Old South and the Civil War; stereotypes and traditions related to the body, sexuality, gender, and family (such as debutante balls and beauty pageants); institutions and places associated with historical memory (such as cemeteries, monuments, and museums); and specific subjects and objects of myths, including the Confederate flag and Graceland. Together, they offer a compelling portrait of the "southern way of life" as it has been imagined, lived, and contested.
Push
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Author : Sapphire
language : en
Publisher: Vintage Books
Release Date : 2009
Push written by Sapphire and has been published by Vintage Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Fiction categories.
A courageous and determined young teacher opens up a new world of hope and redemption for sixteen-year-old Precious Jones, an abused young African American girl living in Harlem who was raped and left pregnant by her father.
A Raisin In The Sun
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Author : Lorraine Hansberry
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-09-23
A Raisin In The Sun written by Lorraine Hansberry and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-23 with Drama categories.
"Come to A Raisin in the Sun as you would to any classic. It speaks to us today as it did almost half a century ago." Bonnie Greer In south side Chicago, Walter Lee, a Black chauffeur, dreams of a better life, and hopes to use his father's life insurance money to open a liquor store. His mother, who rejects the liquor business, uses some of the money to secure a proper house for the family. Mr Lindner, a representative of the all-white neighbourhood, tries to buy them out. Walter sinks the rest of the money into his business scheme, only to have it stolen by one of his partners. In despair Walter contacts Lindner, and almost begs to buy them out, but with the help of his wife, Walter finally finds a way to assert his dignity. A Raisin in the Sun was the first play written by a Black woman to be produced on Broadway and won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. Hansberry was the youngest and the first Black writer to receive this award. Deeply committed to the Black struggle for equality and human rights, Lorraine Hansberry's brilliant career as a writer was cut short by her death when she was only 34. This new, updated edition in Methuen Drama's Modern Classics series includes the full, definitive text and a brand new introduction by Soyica Diggs Colbert.