Download or read book Journey of a Cotton Blossom written by J. C. Villegas and published by BrownBooks.ORM. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical novel containing the interwoven stories of a father and son, each wrestling with his identity at a different time in a world full of hatred. Born amid the bigotry of the Deep South, mixed-race Joseph is a slave in all but name. Separated from his mother at birth, he yearns to run away from his loveless home and find her. It’s a journey that will take him from plantation to plantation and hardship to hardship, yielding joy, sorrow, and love along the way. Years later, Joseph’s son, Isaiah, faces his own journey: coming to terms with his homosexuality. But society is still slow to accept change, and Isaiah fears rejection from even those closest to his heart. From 1940s Mississippi to the civil rights era of the ’60s and the push for LGBT equality, the story follows three generations of a family fighting for liberation. J. C. Villegas paints an eye-opening story that will inspire readers to open their hearts to love. Though her characters face different types of discrimination, they all draw strength from love and from their faith in God. Can Joseph find the mother he has never met? Can Isaiah survive injustice and adversity? And can they each learn to love themselves in the face of a world that challenges their right to exist? “This Southern tale is filled with charm and is a beautiful journey . . . The reader constantly feels a connection to the main characters, who are fighting not only for their lives but, just as importantly, their dignity.” —Robin McGhee, co-founder and former co-director of GetEQUAL “A riveting tale of man’s struggle with identity and survival.” —PopSugar
Download or read book It s Cotton Blossom Time written by S. Earl Wilson III and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: S. Earl Wilson III is the author of eight books prior to this one. All his previous books, with the exception of two, have been fiction. In this book, this Mississippi writer, a Morehouse College graduate, pens a uniquely loveable and humorous recollection of the travels and adventures of the renowned Cotton Blossom Singers of the Piney Woods School of Piney Woods, Mississippi, during the fifties. Here, he invites you to travel along, sing, endure the hardships and pain, and rejoice in the success of these six special young girls as they pave the road for the benefit of others. This story is not a must-read––it is a should-read. You’ll be elated if you do and sorry if you don’t!
Download or read book Experiments in Democracy written by Cheryl Black and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2016-06-02 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first half of the twentieth century, a number of American theatres and theatre artists fostered interracial collaboration and socialization on stage, behind the scenes, and among audiences. In an era marked by entrenched racial segregation and inequality, these artists used performance to bridge America’s persistent racial divide and to bring African American, Latino/Latina, Asian American, Native American, and Jewish American communities and traditions into the nation’s broader cultural conversation. In Experiments in Democracy, edited by Cheryl Black and Jonathan Shandell, theatre historians examine a wide range of performances—from Broadway, folk plays and dance productions to scripted political rallies and radio dramas. Contributors look at such diverse groups as the Theatre Union, La Unión Martí-Maceo, and the American Negro Theatre, as well as individual playwrights and their works, including Theodore Browne’s folk opera Natural Man, Josefina Niggli’s Soldadera, and playwright Lynn Riggs’s Cherokee Night and Green Grow the Lilacs (the basis for the musical Oklahoma!). Exploring the ways progressive artists sought to connect isolated racial and cultural groups in pursuit of a more just and democratic society, contributors take into account the blind spots, compromised methods, and unacknowledged biases at play in their practices and strategies. Essays demonstrate how the gap between the ideal of American democracy and its practice—mired in entrenched systems of white privilege, economic inequality, and social prejudice—complicated the work of these artists. Focusing on questions of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality on the stage in the decades preceding the Civil Rights era, Experiments in Democracy fills an important gap in our understanding of the history of the American stage—and sheds light on these still-relevant questions in contemporary American society.
Download or read book The Dawn of Fury written by Ralph Compton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1995-12-01 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gunslinger gets bloody payback in this western from USA Today bestselling author Ralph Compton. Nathan Stone experienced the horror of Civil War battlefields. But the worst lies ahead. When he returns to Virginia, to the ruins of what was his home, he discovers his father butchered and his mother and sister stripped, ravished, and slain. The seven renegades who did it rode away to the West. Half-starved and afoot, he takes to their trail. Nathan Stone’s deadly oath—blood for blood—will cost him seven long years, as he rides the lawless trails of an untamed frontier. His skill with a Colt will match him with the likes of the Jameses and the Youngers, Wild Bill Hickok, John Wesley Hardin, and Ben Thompson. Nathan Stone will become the greatest gunfighter of them all, shooting his way along the most relentless vengeance trail a man has ever ridden to the savage end…and this is how it all begins. More Than Six Million Ralph Compton Books In Print!
Download or read book Down Under Shorts written by Gerry Burke and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-03-04 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the song says: I come from a land Down-Under. However, my short stories and opinion pieces are truly international and you are sure to be enthralled as I plunder the possibilities, probabilities and potential of all things relating to politics, entertainment, sport and travel; all the issues that you care about. •Share my bizarre lifestyle and amazing world wide adventures. Nothing will prepare you for this. •Discover what my crazy friends and acquaintances are doing. With and without their pants on! •This publication is more illuminating than a Chinese Fortune Cookie. And just as witty. There were celebrity revelations in my first book that were absolutely unbelievable. This mouth-watering sequel will give you all this and more. Come with me on my journey and discover what a funny world we live in.
Download or read book Correct English written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Show Boat written by Todd Decker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical draws on exhaustive archival research to tell the story of how Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II, and a host of directors, choreographers, producers, and performers -- among them Paul Robeson -- made and remade the most important musical in Broadway history.
Download or read book Astronauts of Cape Horn written by Nicholas Gray and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1969, the first two men landed on the moon. There were five other landings, leading to a total of twelve astronauts standing on the moon. A further six circled above while the world watched. Also in 1969, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston was the first man to sail solo non-stop around the world south of Cape Horn. He was the eighth of only eleven men who rounded the Horn alone before the final moon landing. Those eleven men had no-one watching them.This dramatic and exciting book, written so vividly you can feel the sea's spray on your face and taste the salt on your lips, tells the story of the lives of those eleven men and their sailing exploits, and compares and contrasts their voyages with what the twelve space astronauts achieved.'One famous astronaut spoke of "e;a small step for man, one great leap for mankind"e;. For those who go to sea, rather than into space, there's no greater step than rounding the Horn.'From the preface, written by Paul Heiney
Download or read book Crescent City Marine written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Harold Prince written by Carol Ilson and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2000 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The story of Prince's career is inseparable from the history of the American musical theatre for the past 40 years...In-depth accounts of musicals Fiddler on the Roof, West Side Story, Cabaret, Company, and Sweeney Todd will be of interest to any musical theatre buff." -American Theatre
Download or read book Show Boat An Edna Ferber Novel written by Edna Ferber and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2022-09-26 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the peaks and perils of the great Mississippi River as three generations of steamboat theatre performers tour their shows across North America in this tale of enduring love. Edna Ferber’s charming novel follows the Cotton Blossom showboat from the 1880s through to the glamorous Jazz Age of the 1920s. A family of performers dedicate their lives to bringing the magic of theatre to the small towns on the Mississippi River banks. The timeless tale is a story of love, hardship, racial prejudice, and the evolution of theatre. Experience the transition from the Reconstruction Era into the twentieth century as technology develops and war darkens the everyday lives of struggling actors. First published in 1926, Show Boat was adapted into the successful Broadway musical of the same name in 1927. Three film adaptations of the musical were released in 1929, 1936, and 1951. The tragically romantic novel is an ideal read for theatre fans and those interested in early 1900s America.
Download or read book Family Travel written by Laura Manske and published by Travelers' Tales. This book was released on 1999 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to have fun again--with your loved ones! No longer will family travel simply imply a family vacation. The heartwarming and lively stories collected here offer new perspectives on how travel can restore, revitalize, and reconnect family members of all ages. From Tanzania to China, Paris to Tijuana, Family Travel is the passport you and your loved ones need to set out and explore the world--and come home closer than you ever thought possible. Book jacket.
Download or read book In Search of Islamic Feminism written by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1998-11-10 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An acclaimed Arab Studies scholar and bestselling author offers a groundbreaking new interpretation of the status and vision of Muslim women—and challenges our own sense of the meaning of feminism. "Islamic feminism" would seem a contradiction in terms to most Westerners. We are taught to think of Islam as a culture wherein social code and religious law alike force women to accept male authority and surrender to the veil. How could feminism emerge under such a code, let alone flourish? Now, traveling throughout Central Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, as well as Islamic communities in the United States, acclaimed Arab Studies scholar and bestselling author Elizabeth Fernea sets out to answer that question. Fernea's dialogue with friends, colleagues, and acquaintances prompts a range of diverse and unpredictable responses, but in every country she visits, women demonstrate they are anything but passive. In Iraq, we see an 85 percent literacy rate among women; in Egypt, we see women owning their own farms; and in Israel, we see women at the very forefront of peacemaking efforts. Poor or rich, educated or illiterate, these women define their own needs, solve their own problems, and determine the boundaries of their own very real, very viable feminism.
Download or read book A Dictionary of Opera Characters written by Joyce Bourne Kennedy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique reference work containing over 2,500 A-Z entries on operatic characters. Includes synopses for over 200 operas and operettas, as well as feature articles written by well-known personalities from the world of opera, including Plácido Domingo and Dame Janet Baker. It is an essential book for anyone with an interest in opera.
Download or read book Fireflies in the Mist written by Qurratulain Hyder and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One woman's journey through the tumultuous and passionate birth of a new nation.
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Download or read book Cotton Indigo from Japan written by Teresa Duryea Wong and published by Schiffer Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 300 colorful photos and behind-the-scenes details reveal the fascinating story of Japan's cotton and indigo, and their enormous contribution to fiber arts worldwide. Learn how Japan and its top fabric designers, quilters, scientists, and artists combinetradition and high tech to weave the thread, fabrics, and stunningdesigns that are so coveted in today's fiber art world. Take a tour of Japan's elite textile printing mills to understand why Japan is considered the world's finest producer of quilting cotton. Learn where all this cotton comes from, and its close connection to another prized plant, indigo. Dozens of beautiful fabric designs and quilts by Shizuko Kuroha, Keiko Goke, Yoshiko Jinzenji, Yoko Saito, and others are featured, as well as cotton and indigo folk textiles through the ages. This journey gives a deeper understanding of the connection between contemporary textile art and Japan's cotton, indigo, and traditions.
