Blacker The Berry The Sweeter The Juice

Author : Wallace Thurman
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781528792998

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The Blacker the Berry by Wallace Thurman Pdf

Originally published in 1929, “The Blacker the Berry” is a novel by American novelist Wallace Henry Thurman (1902–1934). An active writer during the Harlem Renaissance, he produced essays, worked as an editor, and was a publisher of numerous newspapers and journals. His best-known work, “The Blacker the Berry”, represents a detailed exploration of the discrimination within the black community based on skin colour, with a higher value being placed on lighter skin. A moving tale of the hardships faced by African-American post-emancipation not to be missed by those interested in black history and literature. Contents include: “If I Had Known by Alice Dunbar-Nelson”, “ Emma Lou”, “Harlem”, “Alva”, “Rent Party”, “Pyrrhic Victor”. Read & Co. Classics is proudly republishing this classic novel now in a brand new edition, complete with the introductory poem “If I Had Known” by Alice Dunbar-Nelson.

Author : Cynthia Johnson-Smitherman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1737520834

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Blacker the Berry the Sweeter the Juice by Cynthia Johnson-Smitherman Pdf

Author : Shirlee Haizlip
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1995-01-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780671899332

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Sweeter the Juice by Shirlee Haizlip Pdf

Author's memoir and history of her family spanning six generations, chronicling what it is like to be racially mixed.

Author : Lawrence Hill
Publisher : HarperCollins Canada
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781554686582

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Black Berry, Sweet Juice by Lawrence Hill Pdf

Lawrence Hill’s remarkable novel, Any Known Blood, a multi-generational story about a Canadian man of mixed race, was met with critical acclaim and it marked the emergence of a powerful new voice in Canadian writing. Now Hill, himself a child of a black father and white mother, brings us Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada, a provocative and unprecedented look at a timely and engrossing topic. In Black Berry, Sweet Juice, Hill movingly reveals his struggle to understand his own personal and racial identity. Raised by human rights activist parents in a predominantly white Ontario suburb, he is imbued with lingering memories and offers a unique perspective. In a satirical yet serious tone, Hill describes the ambiguity involved in searching for his identity -- an especially complex and difficult journey in a country that prefers to see him as neither black nor white. Interspersed with slices of his personal experiences, fascinating family history and the experiences of thirty-six other Canadians of mixed race interviewed for this book, Black Berry, Sweet Juice also examines contemporary racial issues in Canadian society. Hill explores the terms used to describe children of mixed race, the unrelenting hostility towards mix-race couples and the real meaning of the black Canadian experience. It arrives at a critical time when, in the highly publicized and controversial case of Elijah Van de Perre, the son of a white mother and black father in British Columbia, the Supreme Court of Canada has just granted custody to Elijah’s mother, Kimberly Van de Perre. A reflective, sensitive and often humourous book, Black Berry, Sweet Juice is a thought provoking discourse on the current status of race relations in Canada and it’s a fascinating and important read for us all.

Author : Leslie C. Jackson,Beverly Greene
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000-07-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1572305851

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Psychotherapy with African American Women by Leslie C. Jackson,Beverly Greene Pdf

Focusing on the breadth of issues that affect psychotherapy with African American women, this unique volume is designed to help clinicians develop a broader understanding of what is useful and what is problematic when applying psychodynamic concepts to their clients. From an array of seasoned clinicians, chapters present innovative and creative reformulations of theory and technique that build upon and challenge existing models. Issues addressed include the psychological dilemmas confronting diverse African American women as they negotiate a society that is hostile to them on multiple levels; how ethnicity, class, gender, sexual orientation and other differences come into play within the therapeutic dyad; and approaches to unraveling the complex interplay of sociopolitical, intrapsychic, and interpersonal concerns in treatment. Filled with illustrative clinical material and pointers for practice, the volume will enhance the cultural competence of mental heath practitioners and students across a range of disciplines.

Author : Lena Matthews
Publisher : Loose Id Llc
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1596328231

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The Blacker the Berry by Lena Matthews Pdf

"For Love's Sake Only" The last thing Charlotte Sane expects to find at a Rodeo is her dream man, but even she can't deny the instant attraction that leads her straight into the arms of a handsome cowboy named Ty Wilcox. The two have nothing in common. Nothing except insane, inexplicable, but undeniable desire. Ty knows from the instant they first kiss that he and Charlotte are meant to be together. Proving it to strong-willed Charlotte? A whole different bull-ride. The headstrong beauty is running scared, but she's got another thought coming if she thinks Ty will let her walk away. "The Blacker the Berry" Tamara Holifield could never have guessed one little favor would change her entire world, but it does. When her best friend Charlotte's husband Ty asks her to come out to visit and cheer up the homebound pregnant woman, she readily agrees. The only problem with Ty's plan is Tamara's lack of a car. Luckily for her, he has a solution, in the form of his best friend, lawyer Russell Crichton. Russell could never have imagined doing a favor for Ty would alter his perception of beauty or disrupt his entire life, but it does. Starting up a new venture is going to take time and focus and the last thing he needs is the distraction of his sexy carpooler. Russell never believed he would be attracted to a plus-size woman, nor did city-slicker Tamara think she would ever have anything in common with a white cowboy, but sizzling sex soon changes both their minds. Now, if they can look past their obvious differences, they might just find out that the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice. "Publisher's Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable."

Author : Zora Neale Hurston
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0813523168

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Sweat by Zora Neale Hurston Pdf

Now frequently anthologized, Zora Neale Hurston's short story "Sweat" was first published in Firell, a legendary literary magazine of the Harlem Renaissance, whose sole issue appeared in November 1926. Among contributions by Gwendolyn Bennett, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, and Wallace Thurman, "Sweat" stood out both for its artistic accomplishment and its exploration of rural Southern black life. In "Sweat" Hurston claimed the voice that animates her mature fiction, notably the 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God; the themes of marital conflict and the development of spiritual consciousness were introduced as well. "Sweat" exemplifies Hurston's lifelong concern with women's relation to language and the literary possibilities of black vernacular. This casebook for the story includes an introduction by the editor, a chronology of the author's life, the authoritative text of "Sweat," and a second story, "The Gilded Six-Bits." Published in 1932, this second story was written after Hurston had spent years conducting fieldwork in the Southern United States. The volume also includes Hurston's groundbreaking 1934 essay, "Characteristics of Negro Expression," and excerpts from her autobiography, Dust Tracks on a Road. An article by folklorist Roger Abrahams provides additional cultural contexts for the story, as do selected blues and spirituals. Critical commentary comes from Alice Walker, who led the recovery of Hurston's work in the 1970s, Robert Hemenway, Henry Louis Gates, Gayl Jones, John Lowe, Kathryn Seidel, and Mary Helen Washington.

Author : Eric Cummins
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804722323

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The Rise and Fall of California’s Radical Prison Movement by Eric Cummins Pdf

This is a history of the California prison movement from 1950 to 1980, focusing on the San Francisco Bay Area's San Quentin State Prison and highlighting the role that prison reading and writing played in the creation of radical inmate ideology in those years. The book begins with the Caryl Chessman years (1948-60) and closes with the trial of the San Quentin Six (1975-76) and the passage of California's Determinate Sentencing Law (1977). This was an extraordinary era in the California prisons, one that saw the emergence of a highly developed radical convict resistance movement inside prison walls. This inmate groundswell was fueled at times by remarkable individual prisoners, at other times by groups like the Black Muslims or the San Quentin chapter of the Black Panther Party. But most often resistance grew from much wider sources and in quiet corners: from dozens of political study groups throughout the prison; from an underground San Quentin newspaper; and from covert attempts to organize a prisoners' union. The book traces the rise and fall of the prisoners' movement, ending with the inevitably bloody confrontation between prisoners and the state and the subsequent prison administration crackdown. The author examines the efforts of prison staff to augment other methods of inmate management by attempting to modify convict ideology by means of "bibliotherapy" and communication control, and describes convict resistance to these attempts as control. He also discusses how Bay Area political activists became intensely involved in San Quentin and how such writings as Chessman's Cell 2455, Cleaver's Soul on Ice, and Jackson's Soledad Brother reached far beyond prison walls to influence opinion, events, and policy.

Author : April Sinclair
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504018654

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Coffee Will Make You Black by April Sinclair Pdf

“A funny, fresh novel about growing up African-American in 1960s Chicago” by an author who “writes like Terry McMillan’s kid sister” (Entertainment Weekly). In this hilarious and insightful coming-of-age novel, author April Sinclair introduces the charming Jean “Stevie” Stevenson, a young woman raised on Chicago’s South Side during an era of irrevocable social upheaval. Curious and witty, bold but naïve, Stevie grows up debating the qualities of good hair and dark skin. As the years pass, her family and neighborhood are changed by the times, from the War on Poverty to race riots and the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., from “Black Is Beautiful” to Black Power. Against this remarkable backdrop, Stevie makes the sometimes harrowing, often comic, always enthralling transformation into a young adult—socially aware, discovering her sexuality, and proud of her identity. “Whether she’s dealing with a subject as monumental as the civil rights movement or as intimate as Stevie’s first sexual encounters,” writes the Los Angeles Times, “Sinclair never fails to make you laugh and never sacrifices the narrative to make a point.” Winner of the Carl Sandburg Award from the Friends of the Chicago Public Library and named a best book of the year in young adult fiction by the American Library Association, Coffee Will Make You Black is an exquisite portrait of adolescence that will resonate with readers of all ages.

Author : Cary D. Wintz,Paul Finkelman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : African American arts
ISBN : 1579584578

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Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance: A-J by Cary D. Wintz,Paul Finkelman Pdf

From the music of Louis Armstrong to the portraits by Beauford Delaney, the writings of Langston Hughes to the debut of the musical Show Boat, the Harlem Renaissance is one of the most significant developments in African-American history in the twentieth century. The Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance, in two-volumes and over 635 entries, is the first comprehensive compilation of information on all aspects of this creative, dynamic period. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclopedia of Harlem Renaissance website.

Author : Anand Prahlad
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : African American proverbs
ISBN : 1604737697

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African-American Proverbs in Context by Anand Prahlad Pdf

A groundbreaking study of proverbs in African-American speech from slave times to the present.

Author : Sylvia Black
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1257044982

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The Blacker the Berry, the Sweeter the Juice by Sylvia Black Pdf

When Bob gets fired from his security job because he was caught sleeping and wakes up a white man all hell brake's loose. The car dealership gets robbed, he goes to jail and a series of other mishaps happen to him. Success doesn't come easy for Bob. When he went to sleep he was a black man, how did this happen? Bob doesn't ask another questions because he's now able to get a good paying job, have the finest things, and get treated real well, but he goes through hell and high water to get there. How is he going to explain this to his wife? Was He dreaming or was this for real. Find out for yourself.

Author : Touré
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781439177556

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Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness? by Touré Pdf

How do we make sense of what it means to be Black in a world with room for both Michelle Obama and Precious? Tour , an iconic commentator and journalist, defines and demystifies modern Blackness with wit, authority, and irreverent humor. In the age of Obama, racial attitudes have become more complicated and nuanced than ever before. Americans are searching for new ways of understanding Blackness, partly inspired by a President who is unlike any Black man ever seen on our national stage. This book aims to destroy the notion that there is a correct or even definable way of being Black. It’s a discussion mixing the personal and the intellectual. It gives us intimate and painful stories of how race and racial expectations have shaped Tour ’s life as well as a look at how the concept of Post-Blackness functions in politics, psychology, the Black visual arts world, Chappelle’s Show, and more. For research Tour has turned to some of the most important luminaries of our time for frank and thought-provoking opinions, including Rev. Jesse Jackson, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Cornel West, Michael Eric Dyson, Melissa Harris-Lacewell, Malcolm Gladwell, Harold Ford, Jr., Kara Walker, Kehinde Wiley, Chuck D, and many others. Their comments and disagreements with one another may come as a surprise to many readers. Of special interest is a personal racial memoir by the author in which he depicts defining moments in his life when he confronts the question of race head-on. In another chapter—sure to be controversial—he explains why he no longer uses the word “nigga.” Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness? is a complex conversation on modern America that aims to change how we perceive race in ways that are as nuanced and spirited as the nation itself.

Author : Joyce Carol Thomas
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780060253752

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The Blacker the Berry by Joyce Carol Thomas Pdf

We are color struck The way an artist strikes His canvas with his brush of many hues Look closely at these mirrors these palettes of skin Each color is rich in its own right Black is dazzling and distinctive, like toasted wheat berry bread; snowberries in the fall; rich, red cranberries; and the bronzed last leaves of summer. In this lyrical and luminous collection, Coretta Scott King honorees Joyce Carol Thomas and Floyd Cooper celebrate these many shades of black beautifully.

Author : Karl Koenig
Publisher : Pendragon Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Music
ISBN : 1576470245

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Jazz in Print (1859-1929) by Karl Koenig Pdf

This anthology was compiled to aid the scholar working on the origins and evolution of jazz. Covering materials published through 1929, it also begins with article from 1859 which do not concern jazz directly, but will serve to present a solid foundation for understanding the American music scene from which jazz developed. Chronologically listed and well-indexed, the hundreds of articles comprise, in effect, a history of jazz as it evolved. Beginning with accounts of Negro music in the pre-jazz era, continuing in an exploration of spirituals, followed by a description of ragtime, we finally learn about the development of jazz from its practitioners and informed audiences of the time.