The Blacker The Berry

Author : Wallace Thurman
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 45,8 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 : Wallace Thurman
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780486461342

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The Blacker the Berry by Wallace Thurman Pdf

A source of controversy upon its 1929 publication, this novel was the first to openly address color prejudice among black Americans. The author, an active member of the Harlem Renaissance, offers insightful reflections of the era's mood and spirit in an enduringly relevant examination of racial, sexual, and cultural identity.

Author : Wallace Thurman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1996-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780684815800

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Blacker the Berry... by Wallace Thurman Pdf

This widely read, controversial work from the Harlem Renaissance was the first novel to openly explore prejudice within the black community. A young woman, whose dark complexion is a source of sorrow and humiliation not only to herself but to her lighter-skinned family and friends, travels from Boise, Idaho, to New York's Harlem, hoping to find a safe haven in the Black Mecca of the 1920s.

Author : Joyce Carol Thomas
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 46,7 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 : Cynthia Johnson-Smitherman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 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 : David L. Lewis,David Levering Lewis
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015032430426

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The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader by David L. Lewis,David Levering Lewis Pdf

The best literature that emerged from a flowering of African American culture centered in Harlem between the world wars.

Author : Shirlee Haizlip
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,7 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 : 49,6 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 : Wallace Thurman,Abraham Loew Furman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Medical fiction, American
ISBN : UOM:39015011911768

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The Interne by Wallace Thurman,Abraham Loew Furman Pdf

Author : Wallace Thurman
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486316215

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Infants of the Spring by Wallace Thurman Pdf

Minor classic of the Harlem Renaissance centers on the larger-than-life inhabitants of an uptown apartment building. The rollicking satire's characters include stand-ins for Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Alain Locke.

Author : James Baldwin
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780804149709

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Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone by James Baldwin Pdf

A major work of American literature from a major American writer that powerfully portrays the anguish of being Black in a society that at times seems poised on the brink of total racial war. "Baldwin is one of the few genuinely indispensable American writers." —Saturday Review At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, Baldwin shows the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. For between Leo's childhood on the streets of Harlem and his arrival into the intoxicating world of the theater lies a wilderness of desire and loss, shame and rage. An adored older brother vanishes into prison. There are love affairs with a white woman and a younger black man, each of whom will make irresistible claims on Leo's loyalty. Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone is overpowering in its vitality and extravagant in the intensity of its feeling.

Author : Langston Hughes
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486113906

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Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes Pdf

Poet Langston Hughes' only novel, a coming-of-age tale that unfolds amid an African American family in rural Kansas, explores the dilemmas of life in a racially divided society.

Author : George S. Schuyler
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486147741

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Black No More by George S. Schuyler Pdf

A satirical approach to debunking the myths of white supremacy and racial purity, this 1931 novel recounts the consequences of a mysterious scientific process that transforms black people into whites.

Author : Octavio R. González
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271087375

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Misfit Modernism by Octavio R. González Pdf

In this book, Octavio R. González revisits the theme of alienation in the twentieth-century novel, identifying an alternative aesthetic centered on the experience of double exile, or marginalization from both majority and home culture. This misfit modernist aesthetic decenters the mainstream narrative of modernism—which explores alienation from a universal and existential perspective—by showing how a group of authors leveraged modernist narrative to explore minoritarian experiences of cultural nonbelonging. Tying the biography of a particular author to a close reading of one of that author’s major works, González considers in turn Nella Larsen’s Quicksand, Wallace Thurman’s The Blacker the Berry, Jean Rhys’s Quartet, and Christopher Isherwood’s A Single Man. Each of these novels explores conditions of maladjustment within one of three burgeoning cultural movements that sought representation in the greater public sphere: the New Negro movement during the Harlem Renaissance, the 1920s Paris expatriate scene, and the queer expatriate scene in Los Angeles before Stonewall. Using a methodological approach that resists institutional taxonomies of knowledge, González shows that this double exile speaks profoundly through largely autobiographical narratives and that the novels’ protagonists challenge the compromises made by these minoritarian groups out of an urge to assimilate into dominant social norms and values. Original and innovative, Misfit Modernism is a vital contribution to conversations about modernism in the contexts of sexual identity, nationality, and race. Moving beyond the debates over the intellectual legacies of intersectionality and queer theory, González shows us new ways to think about exclusion.

Author : Marcus J. Moore
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982107598

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The Butterfly Effect by Marcus J. Moore Pdf

This “smart, confident, and necessary” (Shea Serrano, New York Times bestselling author) first cultural biography of rap superstar and “master of storytelling” (The New Yorker) Kendrick Lamar explores his meteoric rise to fame and his profound impact on a racially fraught America­—perfect for fans of Zack O’Malley Greenburg’s Empire State of Mind. Kendrick Lamar is at the top of his game. The thirteen-time Grammy Award­-winning rapper is just in his early thirties, but he’s already won the Pulitzer Prize for Music, produced and curated the soundtrack of the megahit film Black Panther, and has been named one of Time’s 100 Influential People. But what’s even more striking about the Compton-born lyricist and performer is how he’s established himself as a formidable adversary of oppression and force for change. Through his confessional poetics, his politically charged anthems, and his radical performances, Lamar has become a beacon of light for countless people. Written by veteran journalist and music critic Marcus J. Moore, this is much more than the first biography of Kendrick Lamar. “It’s an analytical deep dive into the life of that good kid whose m.A.A.d city raised him, and how it sparked a fire within Kendrick Lamar to change history” (Kathy Iandoli, author of Baby Girl) for the better.