High Yellow But A Black Woman Forever More

Author : Deborah Cofer
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780595384099

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High Yellow...But a Black Woman Forever More! by Deborah Cofer Pdf

"Boy, has this been one heck of a spiritual journey! Little did I know that the path leading to the Kingdom of God would take me into and through the bowels of hell, but I made it.there and back. All I can say is thank God for God, His goodness, grace and mercy." -From the Introduction to "High Yellow".But A Black Woman Forever More! A Poetic Anthology of a Spiritual Journey It is said that to know one's self is the key to reaching new horizons and maximizing human potential-and it's true. But, truly knowing one's self without knowing one's spiritual identity is akin to a person who is physically blind driving a car. It's absolutely impossible. In "High Yellow".But A Black Woman Forever More! A Poetic Anthology of a Spiritual Journey, author Deborah M. Cofer highlights her efforts and sacrifices as she explores her inner self, others, and the world around her. Every poem is its own unique story of "bringing to the surface, hashing out, understanding, and making peace with" struggle in order to arrive at new heights in her evolution, both as a woman and as a member of the human race. Cofer's poetic accounts are both powerful and deeply profound.

Author : William D. Lassek M.D.,Steven Gaulin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-29
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781101553787

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Why Women Need Fat by William D. Lassek M.D.,Steven Gaulin Pdf

The groundbreaking discovery that shows why women need fat to lose fat. Why do women struggle so much with weight? Can women ever lose weight and keep it off? In this research-driven and counterintuitive book, an anthropologist and a public health doctor team up to answer those questions. Blending anecdotal evidence with hard science, they explain how women's weight is controlled by evolution-but more important- they reveal how a change in diet three decades ago may be the reason women today are bigger than their grandmothers were. Explaining why fat (both in our diet and in our body) is crucial to long-term health, the authors show not only why women tend (and need) to get heavier after having their first child, but also destroy cultural myths like "all fat is bad for you." Providing a plan that can help any woman achieve a natural, healthy weight- without dieting- Why Women Need Fat not only gives women the tools they need to shed weight, but also a better understanding of why those last five pounds seem impossible to lose.

Author : Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781453275313

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Chicken Soup for the African American Woman's Soul by Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen Pdf

Chicken Soup for the African American Woman's Soul is a rich collection of stories that truly celebrate the mountaintops and share the valleys of the African American woman's experience; highlighting her moments of strength, as well as her struggles.

Author : Marita Golden,Susan Shreve
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1996-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780385474108

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Skin Deep by Marita Golden,Susan Shreve Pdf

Candid, poignant, provocative, and informative, the essays and stories in Skin Deep explore a wide spectrum of racial issues between black and white women, from self-identity and competition to childrearing and friendship. Eudora Welty contributes a bittersweet story of a one-hundred-year-old black woman whose spirit is as determined and strong as anything in nature. Bestselling author Naomi Wolf recalls her first exposure to racism growing up, examining the subtle forms it can take even among well-meaning people; bell hooks writes about the intersection between black women and feminist politics; and Joyce Carol Oates includes a one-act play in which racial stereotypes are reversed. Among the other writers featured in the collection are Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Susan Straight, Mary Morris, and Beverly Lowry. A groundbreaking anthology that reveals surprising insights and hidden truths to a subject too often clouded by misperceptions and easy assumptions, Skin Deep is a major contribution to understanding our culture.

Author : Caroline Rody
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : African American women
ISBN : 9780195138887

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The Daughter's Return by Caroline Rody Pdf

The Daughter's Return offers a close analysis of an emerging genre in African-American and Caribbean fiction produced by women writers who make imaginative returns to their ancestral pasts. Considering some of the defining texts of contemporary fiction--Toni Morrison's Beloved, Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, and Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven--Rody discusses their common inclusion of a daughter who returns to the site of her people's founding trauma of slavery through memory or magic. Rody treats these texts as allegorical expressions of the desire of writers newly emerging into cultural authority to reclaim their difficult inheritance, and finds a counter plot of heroines' encounters with women of other racial and ethnic groups running through these works.

Author : Phillip Thomas Tucker
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786474493

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Emily D. West and the "Yellow Rose of Texas" Myth by Phillip Thomas Tucker Pdf

For the first time, the true story of "The Yellow Rose of Texas" is told in full, revealing a host of new insights and perspectives on one of America's most popular stories. For generations, the Yellow Rose of Texas has been one of America's most popular western myths, growing larger over time and little resembling the truth of what happened on April 21, 1836, at the battle of San Jacinto, where a new Texas Republic won its independence. The woman who has been popularly connected to the story was an ordinary but also quite remarkable free black woman from the North, Emily D. West. This work reconstructs her experience, places it in full context and explores the evolution of a most fanciful myth.

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1578 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119497605

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Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Echo Brown
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781250309860

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Black Girl Unlimited by Echo Brown Pdf

A William C. Morris Award Finalist "Brown has written a guidebook of survival and wonder."—The New York Times "Just brilliant."—Kirkus Reviews Heavily autobiographical and infused with magical realism, Black Girl Unlimited fearlessly explores the intersections of poverty, sexual violence, depression, racism, and sexism—all through the arc of a transcendent coming-of-age story for fans of Renee Watson's Piecing Me Together and Ibi Zoboi's American Street. Echo Brown is a wizard from the East Side, where apartments are small and parents suffer addictions to the white rocks. Yet there is magic . . . everywhere. New portals begin to open when Echo transfers to the rich school on the West Side, and an insightful teacher becomes a pivotal mentor. Each day, Echo travels between two worlds, leaving her brothers, her friends, and a piece of herself behind on the East Side. There are dangers to leaving behind the place that made you. Echo soon realizes there is pain flowing through everyone around her, and a black veil of depression threatens to undo everything she’s worked for. Christy Ottaviano Books

Author : Farah Jasmine Griffin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780393355789

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In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays by Farah Jasmine Griffin Pdf

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by The Millions Lively, insightful writings on Black music, feminism, literature, and events from a “masterful critic and master teacher” (Walton Muyumba, Boston Globe). In Search of a Beautiful Freedom brings together the best work from Farah Jasmine Griffin’s rich forays on music, Black feminism, literature, the crises of Hurricane Katrina and COVID-19, and the Black artists she esteems. She moves from evoking the haunting strength of Odetta and the rise of soprano popular singers in the 1970s to the forging of a Black women’s literary renaissance and the politics of Malcolm X through the lens of Black feminism. She reflects on pivotal moments in recent American history—including the banning of Toni Morrison’s Beloved—and celebrates the intellectuals, artists, and personal relationships that have shaped her identity and her work. Featuring new and unpublished essays along with ones first appearing in outlets such as the New York Times and NPR, In Search of a Beautiful Freedom is a captivating collection that celebrates the work of “one of the few great intellectuals in our time” (Cornel West).

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : IND:30000114374956

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Farmers' Guide by Anonim Pdf

Author : Surazeus Astarius
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781365807145

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My American Harp by Surazeus Astarius Pdf

"My American Harp" presents 1,169 poems written 2010-2014 by Surazeus that explore what it means to be an American in the modern world of an interconnected global civilization.

Author : Carmen Gillespie
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781611484915

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Toni Morrison by Carmen Gillespie Pdf

Toni Morrison, the only living American Nobel laureate in literature, published her first novel in 1970. In the ensuing forty plus years, Morrison's work has become synonymous with the most significant literary art and intellectual engagements of our time. The publication of Home (May 2012), as well as her 2011 play Desdemona affirm the range and acuity of Morrison's imagination. Toni Morrison: Forty Years in The Clearing enables audiences/readers, critics, and students to review Morrison's cultural and literary impacts and to consider the import, and influence of her legacies in her multiple roles as writer, editor, publisher, reader, scholar, artist, and teacher over the last four decades. Some of the highlights of the collection include contributions from many of the major scholars of Morrison's canon: as well as art pieces, music, photographs and commentary from poets, Nikki Giovanni and Sonia Sanchez; novelist, A.J. Verdelle; playwright, Lydia Diamond; composer, Richard Danielpour; photographer, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders; the first published interview with Morrison's friends from Howard University, Florence Ladd and Mary Wilburn; and commentary from President Barack Obama. What distinguishes this book from the many other publications that engage Morrison's work is that the collection is not exclusively a work of critical interpretation or reference. This is the first publication to contextualize and to consider the interdisciplinary, artistic, and intellectual impacts of Toni Morrison using the formal fluidity and dynamism that characterize her work. This book adopts Morrison's metaphor as articulated in her Pulitzer-Prize winning novel, Beloved. The narrative describes the clearing as "a wide-open place cut deep in the woods nobody knew for what. . . . In the heat of every Saturday afternoon, she sat in the clearing while the people waited among the trees." Morrison's Clearing is a complicated and dynamic space. Like the intricacies of Morrison's intellectual and artistic voyages, the Clearing is both verdant and deadly, a sanctuary and a prison. Morrison's vision invites consideration of these complexities and confronts these most basic human conundrums with courage, resolve and grace. This collection attempts to reproduce the character and spirit of this metaphorical terrain.

Author : Surazeus Astarius
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781387297337

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Solariad by Surazeus Astarius Pdf

Solariad of Surazeus - Guidance of Solaria presents 114,920 lines of verse in 1,660 poems, lyrics, ballads, sonnets, dramatic monologues, eulogies, hymns, and epigrams written by Surazeus 2006 to 2011.

Author : Toni Morrison
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307399779

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God Help the Child by Toni Morrison Pdf

The new novel from Nobel laureate Toni Morrison. Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child is a searing tale about the way childhood trauma shapes and misshapes the life of the adult. At the centre: a woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life; but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest forms of love until she told a lie that ruined the life of an innocent woman, a lie whose reverberations refuse to diminish.... Booker, the man Bride loves and loses, whose core of anger was born in the wake of the childhood murder of his beloved brother ... Rain, the mysterious white child, who finds in Bride the only person she can talk to about the abuse she's suffered at the hands of her prostitute mother ... and Sweetness, Bride's mother, who takes a lifetime to understand that "what you do to children matters. And they might never forget."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Home economics
ISBN : UOM:39015012341593

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The Ladies' Home Journal by Anonim Pdf