Black Beauty Is Proud

Author : Chris A. Lundrigan
Publisher : Booktango
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-21
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781468945485

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Black Beauty is Proud by Chris A. Lundrigan Pdf

Chris Lundrigan shares a three piece suit of poetic armor in: Black Beauty is Proud. Primarily inspired by familial struggles and drug abuse—Chris rhymes the two, painting a reaching arm towards light, love, and acceptance for all. Commenting on pop-culture and politics also, "One Word Smackers" expresses empathetic opinions concerning civil rights. Beware of word plays, and tricks which lay phonetically in the homonyms and phonemes Lundrigan has chosen to toy with. This story of poems is significantly auto-biographical and will inspire readers that chose to hear their own voice, recite along with the author’s honest, playful tone.

Author : Patty Sotirin,Victoria L. Bergvall,Diane L. Shoos
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030597931

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Feminist Vigilance by Patty Sotirin,Victoria L. Bergvall,Diane L. Shoos Pdf

This collection advances vigilance as a critical feminist concept and strategy for addressing contemporary challenges. The assembled chapters develop feminist vigilance by elaborating concrete examples that emphasize action, ethics, and hope. Chapter authors expand on current feminist discussions about such issues as Black women’s self-care and anticipatory vigilance; media portrayals of race, gender, and violence; religion and social justice; technofeminist activism; postcolonial feminist critique; research ethics; and collective civic action. The contributions engage with larger discussions of social precarity, public anxiety, post-feminist appeals, and future feminist trajectories. Particular benefits of the collection include relatable content based in contemporary experiences, insightful and pragmatic conceptions of vigilance from feminist perspectives, and critical engagement with issues of intersectionality, agency, embodiment, and care ethics. The collection aims to address the need for productive academic responses to contemporary challenges to gendered identities, feminism, and intersectional relations that avoid abstractions or overwhelmingly negative analyses. Instead, this collection invites readers to engage in feminist vigilance as a fresh perspective, commitment, and strategy.

Author : Nancy Jensen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1950539164

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In Our Midst by Nancy Jensen Pdf

"Drawing upon a long-suppressed episode in American history, when thousands of German immigrants were rounded up and interned following the attack on Pearl Harbor, In Our Midst tells the story of one family's fight to cling to the ideals of freedom and opportunity that brought them to America. Nina and Otto Aust, along with their teenage sons, feel the foundation of their American lives crumbling when, in the middle of the annual St. Nikolas Day celebration in the Aust Family Restaurant, their most loyal customers, one after another, turn their faces away and leave without a word. The next morning, two FBI agents seize Nina by order of the president, and the restaurant is ransacked in a search for evidence of German collusion. Ripped from their sons and from each other, Nina and Otto are forced to weigh increasingly bitter choices to stay together and stay alive. Recalling a forgotten chapter in history, In Our Midst illuminates a nation gripped by suspicion, fear, and hatred strong enough to threaten all bonds of love--for friends, family, community, and country."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Ayana D. Byrd,Lori L. Tharps
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781466872103

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Hair Story by Ayana D. Byrd,Lori L. Tharps Pdf

“As far as neatly and efficiently chronicling African Americans and the importance of their hair, Hair Story gets to the root of things.” —Philadelphiaweekly.com Hair Story is a historical and anecdotal exploration of Black Americans’ tangled hair roots. A chronological look at the culture and politics behind the ever-changing state of Black hair from fifteenth-century Africa to the present-day United States, it ties the personal to the political and the popular. Read about: Why Black American slaves used items like axle grease and eel skin to straighten their hair. How a Mexican chemist straightened Black hair using his formula for turning sheep’s wool into a minklike fur. How the Afro evolved from militant style to mainstream fashion trend. What prompted the creation of the Jheri curl and the popular style’s fall from grace. The story behind Bo Derek’s controversial cornrows and the range of reactions they garnered. Major figures in the history of Black hair are presented, from early hair-care entrepreneurs Annie Turnbo Malone and Madam C. J. Walker to unintended hair heroes like Angela Davis and Bob Marley. Celebrities, stylists, and cultural critics weigh in on the burgeoning sociopolitical issues surrounding Black hair, from the historically loaded terms “good” and “bad” hair, to Black hair in the workplace, to mainstream society’s misrepresentation and misunderstanding of kinky locks. Hair Story is the book that Black Americans can use as a benchmark for tracing a unique aspect of their history, and it’s a book that people of all races will celebrate as the reference guide for understanding Black hair. “A comprehensive and colorful look at a very touchy subject.” —Essence

Author : Kahran Bethencourt,Regis Bethencourt
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781250204578

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GLORY by Kahran Bethencourt,Regis Bethencourt Pdf

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. From Kahran and Regis Bethencourt, the dynamite husband and wife duo behind CreativeSoul Photography, comes GLORY, a photography book that shatters the conventional standards of beauty for Black children. Featuring a foreword by Amanda Seales With stunning images of natural hair and gorgeous, inventive visual storytelling, GLORY puts Black beauty front and center with more than 100 breathtaking photographs and a collection of powerful essays about the children. At its heart, it is a recognition and celebration of the versatility and innate beauty of black hair, and black beauty. The glorious coffee-table book pays homage to the story of our royal past, celebrates the glory of the here and now, and even dares to forecast the future. It brings to life past, present, and future visions of black culture and showcases the power and beauty of recognizing and celebrating oneself. Beauty as an expression of who you are is power. When we define our own standards of beauty, we take back that power. GLORY encourages children around the world to feel that power and harness it.

Author : Murali Venugopalan,Johanna Venugopalan,Mundiyath Venugopalan
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9798823007832

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One Nice Guy Not so Nice by Murali Venugopalan,Johanna Venugopalan,Mundiyath Venugopalan Pdf

This book surveys President Biden's first two years in the White House. It examines first why he hasn't been able to keep his promise to stop the pandemic and to follow always his mantra "Follow the Science." Then there is discussion of the importance of critical thinking and examines how race was incorporated into it to generate the critical race theory the teaching of which in schools and colleges has come under sharp attack from parents whom his administration has termed domestic terrorists. His contention that white supremacy is the greatest danger to the country follows, with the added topics of the increase in crime since summer of 2020, associated looting, shooting and shop lifting and Democrats demand for better gun control and defunding of police. Open border and immigration is treated in the context of building back better border-less with the huge crowds there. After that we review the domestic policy, foreign policy, and climate policy, all of which has resulted in bankrolling trillions of dollars in the inflation nation with nothing to show the taxpayer who is suffering from increasing food and fuel prices daily. Three following chapters discuss the botched Afghanistan withdrawal, assisting Ukraine as hired hands with weapons and money to defend the Russian invasion, and China's actions to take control of Taiwan, respectively. The last chapter is about midterm elections in which control of the House of Representatives was taken over by Republicans and the prospects for completing two terms as president.

Author : Kristen Guest
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781443834384

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Black Beauty by Kristen Guest Pdf

Continuously in print and translated into multiple languages since it was first published, Anna Sewell's Black Beauty is a classic work of children's literature that is also an important text in the fields of Victorian studies and animal studies. The new Cambridge Scholars Publishing critical edition reproduces the first edition of 1877, restoring material often abridged in other modern editions. It also includes a critical introduction; contextual material that places the novel in historical ...

Author : Josephine Pullein-Thompson,Diana Pullein-Thompson,Christine Pullein Thompson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781446498965

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Black Beauty's Family by Josephine Pullein-Thompson,Diana Pullein-Thompson,Christine Pullein Thompson Pdf

Everyone's heard about Black Beauty, probably the greatest horse that ever lived. But what about the rest of his family? Here we meet some of his other extraordinary relations, each with an amazing story to tell. There's his brother, Black Ebony, who is involved in a terrible mining accident; his great niece, Black Princess, a heroine in World War One; and then there's Black Velvet, a distant relation whose life as a show jumper is about to change dramatically.

Author : Shirley Anne Tate
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317174011

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Black Beauty: Aesthetics, Stylization, Politics by Shirley Anne Tate Pdf

Previous work discussing Black beauty has tended to concentrate on Black women's search for white beauty as a consequence of racialization. Without denying either the continuation of such aesthetics or their enduring power, this book uncovers the cracks in this hegemonic Black beauty. Drawing on detailed ethnographic research amongst British women of Caribbean heritage, this volume pursues a broad discussion of beauty within the Black diaspora contexts of the Caribbean, the UK, the United States and Latin America through different historical periods to the present day. With a unique exploration of beauty, race and identity politics, the author reveals how Black women themselves speak about, negotiate, inhabit, work on and perform Black beauty. As such, it will appeal not only to sociologists, but anyone working in the fields of race, ethnicity and post-colonial thought, feminism and the sociology of the body.

Author : Anne Sewell
Publisher : Om Books International
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789382607021

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Black Beauty by Anne Sewell Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317065074

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Resistance and Empowerment in Black Women's Hair Styling by Elizabeth Johnson Pdf

Elizabeth Johnson's Resistance and Empowerment in Black Women's Hair Styling develops the argument that one way Black women define themselves and each other, is by the way they style/groom their hair via endorsement by the media through advertisement, idealized identification of Black female celebrities, and encouragement by professional celebrity hair stylists who serve as change agents. As a result, hair becomes a physical manifestation of their self-identity, revealing a private and personal mindset. Her research answers the following questions: What is the relationship between Black females' choice of hairstyles/grooming and transmitted messages of aesthetics by the dominant culture through culturally specific magazines?; What role do the natural hair blogs/vlogs play as a change agent in encouraging or discouraging consumers grooming their hair in its natural state?; What impact does a globalized consumer market of Black hair care products have on Hispanic/Latinas and Bi-Racial women?; Are Black female Generation Y members more likely to receive backlash for failure to conform their hair to dominant standards in their hair adornment in the workplace? Johnson thus demonstrates that the major concern from messages sent to Black women about their hair is its impact on Black identity. Thus, the goal of Black women should be to break with hegemonic modes of seeing, thinking, and being for full liberation. This critical and deep consciousness will debunk the messages told to Black women that their kinky, frizzy, thick hair is undesirable, bad, unmanageable, and shackling.

Author : Anna Sewell
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101574980

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Black Beauty by Anna Sewell Pdf

As part of the wonderful Collector's Library Series, Black Beauty is one of the best is one of the best-loved classics of all time. This attractive volume contains the complete and unabridged story with 12 full color illustrations, plus numerous black & white illustrations throughout. The deluxe edition features a full piece cloth case, a four color illustrated onlay on the front cover, foil stamping on front and spine, stained edges on three sides, printed endpapers with book plate, and a satin ribbon marker. This book should have an honored place in any child's library.

Author : William Grimes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195343311

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Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave by William Grimes Pdf

The Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave (1825) is the first fugitive slave narrative in American history. This authoritative, annotated edition of the Life represents an historic partnership between a prominent scholar of the African American slave narrative and Grimes's great-great-great-granddaughter, whose genealogical research has authenticated this unprecedented African American autobiography.

Author : Patricia A. Banks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135177966

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Represent by Patricia A. Banks Pdf

Examines how upper-middle class blacks forge black identities for themselves and their children through the consumption of black visual art. This book documents how the salience of race extends into the cultural life of even the most socioeconomically successful blacks.

Author : Treva B. Lindsey
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252099571

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Colored No More by Treva B. Lindsey Pdf

Home to established African American institutions and communities, Washington, D.C., offered women in the New Negro movement a unique setting for the fight against racial and gender oppression. Colored No More traces how African American women of the late-nineteenth and early twentieth century made significant strides toward making the nation's capital a more equal and dynamic urban center. Treva B. Lindsey presents New Negro womanhood as a multidimensional space that included race women, blues women, mothers, white collar professionals, beauticians, fortune tellers, sex workers, same-gender couples, artists, activists, and innovators. Drawing from these differing but interconnected African American women's spaces, Lindsey excavates a multifaceted urban and cultural history of struggle toward a vision of equality that could emerge and sustain itself. Upward mobility to equal citizenship for African American women encompassed challenging racial, gender, class, and sexuality status quos. Lindsey maps the intersection of these challenges and their place at the core of New Negro womanhood.