Black Reality

Author : Darrell Smith
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781524500108

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Black Reality by Darrell Smith Pdf

Black Reality is a detailed novel about the life of someone of the black ethnicity. People hear the rumors, but they do not understand the simple struggles we go through. The book not only gives detailed information but helps blacks see past the stereotypes and know the history of our people. We are defined by our struggles and our accomplishments. In this book, the shared method toward success and harmony is shared. Black individuals must define our culture and also build on it. Black Reality shows the truth behind the hidden racism in America. The black community will only gain equality with knowledge. Even today, the racism is just as strong. When the lives of black Americans are threatened verbally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually, this situation should not be taken lightly.

Author : Jaylon Martin
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781678176402

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Black Reality-Second Edition by Jaylon Martin Pdf

In the explosive sequel to Black Star, Petra finds herself hunted by dark forces when she discovers the dark side of being a Starsiah. Petra, Chris, Gray, and the others shelter at the surviving society of Anickan when the Gunners attack again revealing that their mission is far from being accomplished. They meet new allies like Lucas Gabriel, the former Starsiah, and Alchemy Hex, a Black Star who can harness magic. Both who are from a realm called the Black Reality. When reality is unbalanced and the universe is at risk of ending, evil rise on the surface and plot to destroy humanity and end the universe once and for all. This is the second edition.

Author : Donnetrice C. Allison
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781498519335

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Black Women's Portrayals on Reality Television by Donnetrice C. Allison Pdf

This book critically analyzes the portrayals of Black women in current reality television. Audiences are presented with a multitude of images of Black women fighting, arguing, and cursing at one another in this manufactured world of reality television. This perpetuation of negative, insidious racial and gender stereotypes influences how the U.S. views Black women. This stereotyping disrupts the process in which people are able to appreciate cultural and gender difference. Instead of celebrating the diverse symbols and meaning making that accompanies Black women's discourse and identities, reality television scripts an artificial or plastic image of Black women that reinforces extant stereotypes. This collection's contributors seek to uncover examples in reality television shows where instantiations of Black women's gendered, racial, and cultural difference is signified and made sinister.

Author : Raymond L. Hall
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781483151595

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Black Separatism and Social Reality by Raymond L. Hall Pdf

Black Separatism and Social Reality: Rhetoric and Reason deals with the contemporary debate over black separatism in America. It brings together for the first time many of the perspectives, ideas, orientations, and ideologies that all directly or indirectly address the question of black separatism — pro and con — from the vantage point of their own realities. It raises fundamental issues that have recurred throughout the last century and continue unabated today, such as whether black Americans should seek their political destiny apart from white Americans, or whether economic growth within the black community can eventually lead to true ""black power."" This book is comprised of 31 chapters and begins with a historical overview and social reality of black separatism in America, how and why black separatist movements emerge and why separatism appeals to some individuals and not to others. The next section explores the similarities of white racist assumptions and black separatism as well as the arguments for and against separatism. The prospects of black separatism are analyzed, along with Pan-Africanism and black studies. A comprehensive review of the history of separatist thought and a bibliography concerning the relation of Afro-Americans with Africa are presented. The possibility of a violent confrontation between whites and blacks is also considered. Finally, the book ponders the question of whether there is a need for a distinct, ""black"" social science. This monograph will appeal to sociologists, social scientists, political scientists, politicians, blacks, and scholars of black studies.

Author : John Darnielle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781441104045

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Black Sabbath's Master of Reality by John Darnielle Pdf

Black Sabbath's Master of Reality has maintained remarkable historical status over several generations; it's a touchstone for the directionless, and common coin for young men and women who've felt excluded from the broader cultural economy. John Darnielle hears it through the ears of Roger Painter, a young adult locked in a southern California adolescent psychiatric center in 1985; deprived of his Walkman and hungry for comfort, he explains Black Sabbath as one might describe air to a fish, or love to an android, hoping to convince his captors to give him back his tapes.

Author : Loretta J. Brunious
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : African American teenagers
ISBN : 0815332351

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How Black Disadvantaged Adolescents Socially Construct Reality by Loretta J. Brunious Pdf

In a pilot study applying Berger and Luckmann's social construction of reality framework, Brunious (Loyola U., Chicago) elicits perceptions about school, popular culture, and mass media from 20 Chicago inner- city black teens. Refuting the still prevalent myth that poor African- American youth suffe

Author : Jared A. Ball
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030423551

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The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power by Jared A. Ball Pdf

This Palgrave Pivot offers a history of and proof against claims of "buying power" and the impact this myth has had on understanding media, race, class and economics in the United States. For generations Black people have been told they have what is now said to be more than one trillion dollars of "buying power," and this book argues that commentators have misused this claim largely to blame Black communities for their own poverty based on squandered economic opportunity. This book exposes the claim as both a marketing strategy and myth, while also showing how that myth functions simultaneously as a case study for propaganda and commercial media coverage of economics. In sum, while “buying power” is indeed an economic and marketing phrase applied to any number of racial, ethnic, religious, gender, age or group of consumers, it has a specific application to Black America.

Author : Henry Louis Gates (Jr.)
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195060744

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Figures in Black by Henry Louis Gates (Jr.) Pdf

Argues that Black literature cannot be characterized strictly as social realism, and offers a textual analysis of works by eighteenth- to twentieth-century Black writers.

Author : Marquita Marie Gammage
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317370482

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Representations of Black Women in the Media by Marquita Marie Gammage Pdf

In 1920 W.E.B. Du Bois cited the damnation of women as linked to the devaluation of motherhood. This dilemma, he argues, had a crushing blow on Black women as they were forced into slavery. Black womanhood, portrayed as hypersexual by nature, became an enduring stereotype which did not coincide with the dignity of mother and wife. This portrayal continues to reinforce negative stereotypes of Black women in the media today. This book highlights how Black women have been negatively portrayed in the media, focusing on the export nature of media and its ability to convey notions of Blackness to the public. It argues that media such as rap music videos, television dramas, reality television shows, and newscasts create and affect expectations of Black women. Exploring the role that racism, misogyny and media play in the representation of Black womanhood, it provides a foundation for challenging contemporary media’s portrayal of Black women.

Author : Beretta E. Smith-Shomade
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813553887

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Watching While Black by Beretta E. Smith-Shomade Pdf

Television scholarship has substantially ignored programming aimed at Black audiences despite a few sweeping histories and critiques. In this volume, the first of its kind, contributors examine the televisual diversity, complexity, and cultural imperatives manifest in programming directed at a Black and marginalized audience. Watching While Black considers its subject from an entirely new angle in an attempt to understand the lives, motivations, distinctions, kindred lines, and individuality of various Black groups and suggest what television might be like if such diversity permeated beyond specialized enclaves. It looks at the macro structures of ownership, producing, casting, and advertising that all inform production, and then delves into television programming crafted to appeal to black audiences—historic and contemporary, domestic and worldwide. Chapters rethink such historically significant programs as Roots and Black Journal, such seemingly innocuous programs as Fat Albert and bro’Town, and such contemporary and culturally complicated programs as Noah’s Arc, Treme, and The Boondocks. The book makes a case for the centrality of these programs while always recognizing the racial dynamics that continue to shape Black representation on the small screen. Painting a decidedly introspective portrait across forty years of Black television, Watching While Black sheds much-needed light on under-examined demographics, broadens common audience considerations, and gives deference to the the preferences of audiences and producers of Black-targeted programming.

Author : Hermene Hartman,David Smallwood
Publisher : Hartman Publishing Group, Ltd.
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781545716311

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N'Digo Legacy Black Luxe 110: Entrepreneurs Edition by Hermene Hartman,David Smallwood Pdf

Iconic Black Chicagoan profiles. This volume is a book of comedians, athletes, and musicians of Chicago. A must have for everyone who cherishes the history of Chicago within the African American community. A contemporary history of over 30 years.

Author : Valerie C. Johnson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791487792

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Black Power in the Suburbs by Valerie C. Johnson Pdf

The first comprehensive study of African American suburban political empowerment.

Author : Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469653679

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Race for Profit by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Pdf

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST, 2020 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY By the late 1960s and early 1970s, reeling from a wave of urban uprisings, politicians finally worked to end the practice of redlining. Reasoning that the turbulence could be calmed by turning Black city-dwellers into homeowners, they passed the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, and set about establishing policies to induce mortgage lenders and the real estate industry to treat Black homebuyers equally. The disaster that ensued revealed that racist exclusion had not been eradicated, but rather transmuted into a new phenomenon of predatory inclusion. Race for Profit uncovers how exploitative real estate practices continued well after housing discrimination was banned. The same racist structures and individuals remained intact after redlining's end, and close relationships between regulators and the industry created incentives to ignore improprieties. Meanwhile, new policies meant to encourage low-income homeownership created new methods to exploit Black homeowners. The federal government guaranteed urban mortgages in an attempt to overcome resistance to lending to Black buyers – as if unprofitability, rather than racism, was the cause of housing segregation. Bankers, investors, and real estate agents took advantage of the perverse incentives, targeting the Black women most likely to fail to keep up their home payments and slip into foreclosure, multiplying their profits. As a result, by the end of the 1970s, the nation's first programs to encourage Black homeownership ended with tens of thousands of foreclosures in Black communities across the country. The push to uplift Black homeownership had descended into a goldmine for realtors and mortgage lenders, and a ready-made cudgel for the champions of deregulation to wield against government intervention of any kind. Narrating the story of a sea-change in housing policy and its dire impact on African Americans, Race for Profit reveals how the urban core was transformed into a new frontier of cynical extraction.

Author : Kwazulu (South Africa). Chief Minister
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105071482066

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Policy Speech by Kwazulu (South Africa). Chief Minister Pdf

Author : Jervette R. Ward
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813575087

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Real Sister by Jervette R. Ward Pdf

From The Real Housewives of Atlanta to Flavor of Love, reality shows with predominantly black casts have often been criticized for their negative representation of African American women as loud, angry, and violent. Yet even as these programs appear to be rehashing old stereotypes of black women, the critiques of them are arguably problematic in their own way, as the notion of “respectability” has historically been used to police black women’s behaviors. The first book of scholarship devoted to the issue of how black women are depicted on reality television, Real Sister offers an even-handed consideration of the genre. The book’s ten contributors—black female scholars from a variety of disciplines—provide a wide range of perspectives, while considering everything from Basketball Wives to Say Yes to the Dress. As regular viewers of reality television, these scholars are able to note ways in which the genre presents positive images of black womanhood, even as they catalog a litany of stereotypes about race, class, and gender that it tends to reinforce. Rather than simply dismissing reality television as “trash,” this collection takes the genre seriously, as an important touchstone in ongoing cultural debates about what constitutes “trashiness” and “respectability.” Written in an accessible style that will appeal to reality TV fans both inside and outside of academia, Real Sister thus seeks to inspire a more nuanced, thoughtful conversation about the genre’s representations and their effects on the black community.