Download or read book Celebrating my Blackness as an African American Citizen through Poetry and Prose written by Fran Wade and published by Fran Wade. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 28 Days of Poetry Celebrating Black History written by Latorial Faison and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 28 Days of Poetry: Volume 1 is an eclectic collection of poems celebrating the history and legacy of African-Americans. The book reflects on slavery and the civil rights movement and paints poetic pictures of the south during a time when America was a divided nation. Young readers will enjoy biographical poems that tell the history of black inventors and other notable leaders in American history. This is the first book of a series written by Faison celebrating Black History.
Download or read book 28 Days of Poetry Celebrating Black History written by Latorial Faison and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-03-24 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third volume of 28 Days of Poetry Celebrating Black History yields a poetic glimpse into the rich, important history of Africans in America. Here, Faison continues a verbally artistic exploration of African American history from slavery to the present. From the most famous poem in this collection, "What is Black History?" to every single other one included, you will reflect on Black History and feel renewed, inspired, and elated to know more about how African Americans helped to make America a great nation from the very beginning.This collection focuses on the realities of slavery, Jim Crow, and legendary icons in history. Faison writes in various forms using both rhyme and free verse in a way that is both teaching and telling. Poems for young readers are included in this volume. However, readers of all ages will find this book an honest tribute to the reflections and recollections of this history. Parents, educators, organizers, and poetry lovers will appreciate this volume of poetry. Each poem yields a topic of discussion that will bring the study of Black History full circle for individuals and groups. If you're wondering where to start or what to begin with as you study and research Black History, this is it.
Download or read book My Black Me written by Various and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 1995-11-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be black? What does it mean to be African-American? What is the black experience? The spirited voices of twenty-six African-American poets speak to these and other questions in fifty collected poems that explore the African-American world. The rich words of this treasury rang out for the first time over twenty years ago, and will continue to shout their message for years to come.
Download or read book 28 Days of Poetry Celebrating Black History written by Latorial Faison and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2008-01-07 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 28 Days of Poetry Celebrating Black History: Volume 2 is a profound collection of some of the most commemorative poetry you'll find on Black History. This author, for the second time, gives us 28 more poetic renditions celebrating the history of Africans in America. Volume 2 will give you a poetic glimpse into of the lives of late, great figures in history like Sojourner Truth and George Washington Carver as well as a poetic recollection of the struggle of both slavery and the Jim Crow era in America. This is an empowering collection for students, teachers, and thespians. Readers will learn as well as enjoy the sounds of poetry, the beats resonating from each line of Faison's poems. This is Volume 2 of a series of Black History poems penned by Faison. It is a Black History lesson at best, something for readers and historians of all ages.
Download or read book The Poetry of Black America written by Arnold Adoff and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1973 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncorrected bound galleys of the poems, lacking the introduction and other matter.
Download or read book Citizen written by Claudia Rankine and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry * * Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism * Winner of the NAACP Image Award * Winner of the L.A. Times Book Prize * Winner of the PEN Open Book Award * ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Boston Globe, The Atlantic, BuzzFeed, NPR. Los Angeles Times, Publishers Weekly, Slate, Time Out New York, Vulture, Refinery 29, and many more . . . A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking book Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric. Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are intentional offensives in the classroom, at the supermarket, at home, on the tennis court with Serena Williams and the soccer field with Zinedine Zidane, online, on TV-everywhere, all the time. The accumulative stresses come to bear on a person's ability to speak, perform, and stay alive. Our addressability is tied to the state of our belonging, Rankine argues, as are our assumptions and expectations of citizenship. In essay, image, and poetry, Citizen is a powerful testament to the individual and collective effects of racism in our contemporary, often named "post-race" society.
Download or read book Black and Blur written by Fred Moten and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Taken as a trilogy, consent not to be a single being is a monumental accomplishment: a brilliant theoretical intervention that might be best described as a powerful case for blackness as a category of analysis."—Brent Hayes Edwards, author of Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination In Black and Blur—the first volume in his sublime and compelling trilogy consent not to be a single being—Fred Moten engages in a capacious consideration of the place and force of blackness in African diaspora arts, politics, and life. In these interrelated essays, Moten attends to entanglement, the blurring of borders, and other practices that trouble notions of self-determination and sovereignty within political and aesthetic realms. Black and Blur is marked by unlikely juxtapositions: Althusser informs analyses of rappers Pras and Ol' Dirty Bastard; Shakespeare encounters Stokely Carmichael; thinkers like Kant, Adorno, and José Esteban Muñoz and artists and musicians including Thornton Dial and Cecil Taylor play off each other. Moten holds that blackness encompasses a range of social, aesthetic, and theoretical insurgencies that respond to a shared modernity founded upon the sociological catastrophe of the transatlantic slave trade and settler colonialism. In so doing, he unsettles normative ways of reading, hearing, and seeing, thereby reordering the senses to create new means of knowing.
Download or read book 28 Days of Poetry Celebrating Black History written by Latorial Faison and published by . This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book It s Hard to Be a Black Man in America and Other African American Poems written by Elroy Alister Esdaille and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-29 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's Hard to Be a Black Man in America and Other African American Poems By: Elroy Alister Esdaille This book examines the African-American experience from multiple perspectives and cannot be nailed down to any singular thematic presentation. By peering through the pages of time to current day, the book attempts to disclose the African-American experience in The United States, and it can be applied to other countries as well that once had former colonial designs and slave labor. Modern day America, for many Black people, can be said to be a sum total of its messy history of slavery and segregation, and the recalcitrant roots that still persist today. Life for many black men and women in America is extremely challenging for we have to negotiate systemic, and institutionalize racism on a daily basis, while simultaneously wrestling with issues of colorism and microaggressions that continue to pervade society. It’s difficult to understand the perspective of a black man or black woman in America without getting at least a glimpse into his or her insight about race relations and its impact on him or her. Many African Americans feel that the system is designed against them, but their racial concerns often fall on deaf ears. This book gives in-depth examinations about race in America and it asks questions about accountability through the stylist forms of the poems. As a Caribbean immigrant who migrated to The United States, Elroy Alister Esdaille’s experiences as a black man with race relations has at times been painful as he has experienced firsthand the ugliness of racism and how the system so often makes it extremely hard for many black men to strive and live with dignity and pride. He has watched how the stereotype of criminality has informed decisions made against black men like him, and how one must develop a will stronger than iron in order to survive. As he envisions his readers, it is his desire to speak to all truth seekers and world changers. Race is a messy topic that many people avoid, but it is his aim to confront the issues head-on and lay the foundation for honest and controversial conversations that could inspire meaningful change in society. He would not say he is attempting to enlighten anyone, but rather for people to find their true selves and push hard for the future that they want and deserve.
Download or read book I Am a Young Black Man written by Clyde Vall and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-21 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am a Young Black Man is a collection of poetry and prose that explores the joy, triumphs, and nuances of black adolescence. This compilation includes original poems written by students from Gentleman's Quest of Tampa Inc., a 501c3 nonprofit based in Tampa, Florida that is committed to helping youth become productive members of society. This collection of poetry is reflection of Gentleman's Quest's mission to provide teenage boys the opportunity to share their individual hopes and fears in a safe environment. These poems provide an intimate perspective into the lives of 29 young black men as they reflect on their aspirations, self-identities, and the beautiful complexity of their blackness. Meet The Authors Clyde St Vall Anthony Ezeanya Antonio Taylor Caileb Harris Chase Walker Damani Fisher Dayvin Fisher Dominic Cooper Donovan Terry Earl Knighten Ethan Eugene Jacob O. Jamari Harrison Jamari Mercy Jaron Williams Jayalan Moreau Jaylen Jackson Jordan Stabler Joshua Nina Keith Canady Kellen Wiley Ma'khi Nelson Marcus Jones Maurice Hargrow Maurice Watkins Miles Jones Nicolas Nina Robert Stone Ronnie Plummer Sharod Ford Thomas Miller Trashaun Cairo
Download or read book The 100 Best African American Poems written by Nikki Giovanni and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the voices of a culture from legendary New York Timesbestselling author Nikki Giovanni HEAR: Langston Hughes Gwendolyn Brooks Countee Cullen Paul Laurence Dunbar Robert Hayden Etheridge Knight READ: Rita Dove Sonia Sanchez Richard Wright Tupac Shukar Lucille Clifton Mari Evans Kevin Young Including one audio CD featuring many of the poems read by the poets themselves, 100 Best African-American Poems is at once strikingly original and a perfect fit for the original poetry anthologies from Sourcebooks, including Poetry Speaks, The Spoken Word Revolution, Poetry Speaks to Children, and the Nikki Giovanni-edited Hip Hop Speaks to Children. Award-winning poet and writer Nikki Giovanni takes on the difficult task of selecting the 100 best African-American works from classic and contemporary poets. This startlingly vibrant collection spans from historic to modern, from structured to free-form, and reflects the rich roots and visionary future of African-American verse in American culture. The resulting selections prove to be an exciting mix of most-loved chestnuts and daring new writing. Most of all, the voice of a culture comes through in this collection, one that is as talented, diverse, and varied as its people.
Download or read book In Black Skin written by Tanya Devonne and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In keeping with the tradition of Black American poets, In Black Skin is a reflective and heartfelt compilation of poems that captures the Black American experience from slavery to the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. Similar to black poetry throughout generations, this creative work expresses sentiments around the dream of freedom from injustice and inequality. Additionally, it provokes the reader to grasp why descendants of enslaved black people, who today suffer police brutality at disproportional rates, hold as their mantra, "Black Lives Matter." The compilation of more than fifty poems creatively takes the reader on a journey using photographs, prose, quotes from noted Black American poets, references to historical events in America, and actual encounters the author experienced when confronting racial matters.
Download or read book My Blackness written by Katina Horton and published by . This book was released on 2020-08 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of poems and short stories digs deep into the subject of blackness through the author's eyes, demonstrating how blackness is celebrated collectively. Areas of commonality include, but are not limited to slavery, racial injustice, music, literature, etc. We are also taken into an emotional journey of how blackness affects the author's community, family, and herself as a child. My Blackness is guaranteed to make you fall in love with what the word community truly means. You learn what it means to live in public housing projects on the South side of Chicago, and at the same time have a community built upon the pillar and foundation of a loving grandmother.
Download or read book A Press Release from the Color Black written by Ivy Newton-Gamble and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2009-01-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The influence of positive thinking in your everyday life will change your outlook and improve optimistic energy. Keeping a positive attitude will compel you and the people you are in contact with to perk up life and give you more joy and satisfaction. The first step to improving your attitude is to turn a negative into a positive. Have you heard the saying "Every cloud has a silver lining?" The book A Press Release from the Color Black turns the supposed negative color in the crayon box into a positive. A Press Release from the Color Black will enlighten its readers on black's optimistic positive side, creates a new way of rethinking thoughts, and gives you the chance to explore your feelings about the perception of skin tone, the world we live in, our place in the universe and beauty of nature. The goal of A Press Release from the Color Black is to reinvent the color black to the entire world. This is the end of the road for black's unofficial, official status of an evil gloomy Gus.
Download or read book My Story My Life written by Jeremy Sinclair and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Life, My Story is a collection of poems chronicling the views and feelings of one young man on being an African-American male growing up in urban America. This poetry collection includes the following: My life, My reality, My love, My Prose, My Emotions, and My Faith.
Download or read book Black Nature written by Camille T. Dungy and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Nature is the first anthology to focus on nature writing by African American poets, a genre that until now has not commonly been counted as one in which African American poets have participated. Black poets have a long tradition of incorporating treatments of the natural world into their work, but it is often read as political, historical, or protest poetry--anything but nature poetry. This is particularly true when the definition of what constitutes nature writing is limited to work about the pastoral or the wild. Camille T. Dungy has selected 180 poems from 93 poets that provide unique perspectives on American social and literary history to broaden our concept of nature poetry and African American poetics. This collection features major writers such as Phillis Wheatley, Rita Dove, Yusef Komunyakaa, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling Brown, Robert Hayden, Wanda Coleman, Natasha Trethewey, and Melvin B. Tolson as well as newer talents such as Douglas Kearney, Major Jackson, and Janice Harrington. Included are poets writing out of slavery, Reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, and late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century African American poetic movements. Black Nature brings to the fore a neglected and vital means of considering poetry by African Americans and nature-related poetry as a whole. A Friends Fund Publication.
