Download or read book Jiva Telling Rites written by Estella Conwill Majozo and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of poems in verse and short prose that tells the story of a woman's anguish and growth in a hostile environment.
Download or read book Ringshout written by Estella Conwill Majozo, Ph.D. and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book should be in the hands of every member of this new and promised generation! It is just that powerful! Parents can share it with their children! Teachers with their students! Mentors with their mentees! And friends with each other! It presents the history of America through the African American perspective and prepares young people everywhere to begin to take their rightful place as conscious, committed leaders in the new world.
Download or read book An Exaltation of Forms written by Annie Finch and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty poets examine the architecture of poems--from the haiku to rap music--and trace their history
Download or read book The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia written by Gerald L. Smith and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2015-08-28 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of African Americans in Kentucky is as diverse and vibrant as the state's general history. The work of more than 150 writers, The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia is an essential guide to the black experience in the Commonwealth. The encyclopedia includes biographical sketches of politicians and community leaders as well as pioneers in art, science, and industry. Kentucky's impact on the national scene is registered in an array of notable figures, such as writers William Wells Brown and bell hooks, reformers Bessie Lucas Allen and Shelby Lanier Jr., sports icons Muhammad Ali and Isaac Murphy, civil rights leaders Whitney Young Jr. and Georgia Powers, and entertainers Ernest Hogan, Helen Humes, and the Nappy Roots. Featuring entries on the individuals, events, places, organizations, movements, and institutions that have shaped the state's history since its origins, the volume also includes topical essays on the civil rights movement, Eastern Kentucky coalfields, business, education, and women. For researchers, students, and all who cherish local history, The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia is an indispensable reference that highlights the diversity of the state's culture and history.
Download or read book Enhancing the Dream with Knowledge written by Melanin Incorporated and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Black Eyed Peas for the Soul written by Donna Marie Williams and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1997-11-14 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To tell a story well, you have to live a story well -- with courage, persistence, and faith that everything's going to turn out all right. Black-Eyed Peas for the Soul is a collection of stories that reveals universal themes, as well as the unique perspectives of African Americans. The first collection of its kind, Black-Eyed Peas for the Soul boldly dispels the myth of a homogeneous Black culture. Diverse voices -- including those of Zora Neale Hurston, Dawn Turner Trice, and Frederick Douglass -- tell our stories of beginnings, wisdom, patience, hard work, excellence, joy, and miracles. Stories about love, healing, and atonement are told with insight, humor, and gritty honesty. Arising from these distinct voices is the call for hope. Enjoy these stories and let them guide your soul to a place where you can find solace and draw nourishment, a place that can warm and soothe you, like a bowl of black-eyed peas.
Download or read book Focusing written by Delores P. Aldridge and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterful examination of the myths and socio-political causes of discord between Black men and women. The author suggests that male/female relationships among Black Americans which fails to place the interpersonal within the broad institutional context falls short of providing a broad or macroanalytical modelany attempt to study.
Download or read book Selected Acquisitions List written by Indiana University. Libraries. Afro-American Studies Collection and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Future written by Ralph Cheo Thurmon and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fascinating volume of short stories dealing with the supernatural and fantasy based upon African American traditions.
Download or read book IFA Newsletter written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Libation written by Estella Conwill Majozo and published by Writers & Readers Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Libation explains how the cakewalk reaffirms connections with the past among African Americans; how its intricate patterns reflect the landscape of the American South and the pilgrimage of Black Americans from Phillis Wheatley and Harriet Tubman to Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, and how the cakewalk forms the basis for a communal language of self-definition, resistance and celebration. Combining travelog, essay and a beautiful poetic system, illustrated with diagrams and photos, and all ultimately related to the symbol of the African American cakewalk, Ms. Majozo has produced a work of great richness and complexity.
Download or read book Mapping the Terrain written by Suzanne Lacy and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this wonderfully bold and speculative anthology of writings, artists and critics offer a highly persuasive set of argument and pleas for imaginative, socially responsible, and socially responsive public art.... "--Amazon.
Download or read book The Writers Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 1862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Studies in the Literary Imagination written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Writing for the Ethnic Markets written by Meera Lester and published by Writers & Readers Publishing. This book was released on 1991 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Middle Passage written by Estella Conwill Majozo and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Estella Conwill Majozo returns after her award-winning autobiography, Come Out the Wilderness, to delve into the awesome voyage of her captured ancestors. In this poetic narrative, Majozo communes with her ancestors to conjure up a memorable primal cadence that conveys the anguish, sorrow, suffering and triumph of the people despite the oppressive conditions of the Middle Passage. Robert Douglas's drawings illustrate the narrative imagery, offering sensitive and passionate portrayals of Majozo's poetic expressions.
