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Book The J A F A  Joke Book

Download or read book The J A F A Joke Book written by Penguin Group New Zealand, Limited and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 100 jokes with an Auckland theme or reference. Question and answer jokes are included, along with short story type jokes, some illustrated with black and white line drawings. The soft cover is illustrated with a colour depiction of a very relaxed Sky Tower.

Book The J A F A  Joke Book  just Another F   ing Aucklander

Download or read book The J A F A Joke Book just Another F ing Aucklander written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Who s who in Asia and the Pacific Nations

Download or read book Who s who in Asia and the Pacific Nations written by Benjamin Kay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1999 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book The Joke Book

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  • Author : Max Edwards
  • Publisher :
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 9788172451868
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book The Joke Book written by Max Edwards and published by . This book was released on with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Way of the JAFA

Download or read book Way of the JAFA written by Lee Anthony Baker and published by . This book was released on 2004-08 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: JAFAS are the true Aucklanders. To live among them you must first become one. To become one you must first understand the JAFA and their ways. WAY OF THE JAFA is a comprehensive guide to being an Aucklander through the philosophy of the JAFA. It covers every aspect of JAFAdom from their historical beginnings to their mating habits, language, even dietary requirements. Learn how to: discover your inner JAFA, drive like a JAFA, dress like a JAFA, attract other JAFAs, raise little JAFAs and much, much more. WAY OF THE JAFA is the ultimate guide to surviving Auckland and Aucklanders.

Book Arthur Jafa  Magnumb

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-03-16
  • ISBN : 9788793659353
  • Pages : 204 pages

Download or read book Arthur Jafa Magnumb written by and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential overview of Jafa's sweeping, dynamic and disquieting video portraits of Black American life Though he has worked in film and music for decades, American video artist Arthur Jafa only garnered acclaim in the art world in 2016 for his video work Love is the Message, the Message is Death. Composed of found images and videos, his oeuvre revolves around Black American culture, the history of slavery, and ongoing structural and physical violence against Black Americans. As Jafa put it in his 2003 text "My Black Death": "The central conundrum of black being (the double bind of our ontological existence) lies in the fact that common misery both defines and limits who we are. Such that our efforts to eliminate those forces which constrain also function to dissipate much which gives us our specificity, our uniqueness, our flavor by destroying the binds that define we will cease to be, but this is the good death (boa morte) to be embraced." This essential overview presents Jafa's best-known works, such as Love is the Message, the Message is Deathand its 2018 follow-up piece The White Album, alongside never-before-seen projects and essays by notable scholars. Filmmaker and artist Arthur Jafa(born 1960) grew up in Mississippi, where his lifelong fascination with found imagery manifested in his childhood hobby of assembling binders of photographs culled from various sources. As a cinematographer and director of photography, Jafa has collaborated with Stanley Kubrick, Solange Knowles and Spike Lee, among many others. His work on Julie Dash's 1991 film Daughters of the Dustwon him the Best Cinematography award at Sundance. At the 2019 Venice Biennale, he was awarded the Golden Lion for The White Album. Jafa lives in Los Angeles.

Book Running the Light

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sam Tallent
  • Publisher : Independently Published
  • Release : 2020-02-26
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 290 pages

Download or read book Running the Light written by Sam Tallent and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-02-26 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debauched, divorced and courting death, Billy Ray Schafer is a comedian who has forgotten how to laugh. Over the course of seven spun-out days across the American Southwest, he travels from from hell gig to hell gig in search of a reason to keep living in this bleak and violent glimpse into the psyche of a thoroughly ruined man. Ex-inmate, ex-husband, ex-father - comedian is the only title Schafer has left. Trapped in the wreckage of his wasted career, Billy Ray knows the answer to the question: what happens when the opportunity doesn't come - or worse - it comes and goes?

Book Going There

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  • Author : Richard J. Powell
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2020-10-02
  • ISBN : 0300245742
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book Going There written by Richard J. Powell and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-02 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A kaleidoscopic survey of black satire in 20th- and 21st-century American art In this groundbreaking study, Richard J. Powell investigates the visual forms of satire produced by black artists in 20th- and 21st-century America. Underscoring the historical use of visual satire as antiracist dissent and introspective critique, Powell argues that it has a distinctly African American lineage. Taking on some of the most controversial works of the past century—in all their complexity, humor, and provocation—Powell raises important questions about the social power of art. Expansive in both historical reach and breadth of media presented, Going There interweaves discussions of such works as the midcentury cartoons of Ollie Harrington, the installations of Kara Walker, the paintings of Robert Colescott, and the movies of Spike Lee. Other artists featured in the book include David Hammons, Arthur Jafa, Beverly McIver, Howardena Pindell, Betye Saar, and Carrie Mae Weems. Thoroughly researched and rich in context, Going There is essential reading in the history of satire, racial politics, and contemporary art.

Book New Zealand Books in Print

Download or read book New Zealand Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Black Shield Maiden

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  • Author : Willow Smith
  • Publisher : Random House Large Print
  • Release : 2024-05-07
  • ISBN : 0593949021
  • Pages : 641 pages

Download or read book Black Shield Maiden written by Willow Smith and published by Random House Large Print. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Willow Smith and Jess Hendel comes a powerful and groundbreaking historical saga about an African warrior in the world of the Vikings. “Intimate, tender, and fiercely epic.”—Tomi Adeyemi, author of Children of Blood and Bone Lore, legend, and history tell us of the Vikings: warrior kings on epic journeys of conquest and plunder. But the stories we know are not the only stories to tell. There is another story, one that has been lost to the mists of time: the saga of the dark queen. This saga begins with Yafeu, a defiant yet fiercely compassionate young warrior who is stolen from her home in the flourishing Ghānaian empire and taken to a distant kingdom in the North. There she is thrust into a strange, cold world of savage shield maidens, tyrannical rulers, and mysterious gods. And there she also finds something unexpected: a kindred spirit. She comes to serve Freydis, a shy princess who couldn’t be more different from the confident and self-possessed Yafeu. But they both want the same thing: to forge their own fate. Yafeu inspires Freydis to dream of a future greater than the one that the king and queen have forced upon her. And with the princess at her side, Yafeu learns to navigate this new world and grows increasingly determined to become one of the legendary shield maidens—to fight not only for her freedom but for the freedom of others. Yafeu may have lost her home, but she still knows who she is, and she’s not afraid to be the flame that burns a city to the ground so a new world can rise from the ashes. She will alter the course of history—and become the revolutionary heroine of her own myth.

Book Daughters of the Dust

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  • Author : Julie Dash
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2021-06-22
  • ISBN : 0593185560
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Daughters of the Dust written by Julie Dash and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from the magical world of her iconic Sundance award-winning film, Julie Dash’s stand-alone novel tells another rich, historical tale of the Gullah-Geechee people: a multigenerational story about a Brooklyn College anthropology student who finds an unexpected homecoming when she heads to the South Carolina Sea Islands to study her ancestors. Set in the 1920s in the Sea Islands off the Carolina coast where the Gullah-Geechee people have preserved much of their African heritage and language, Daughters of the Dust chronicles the lives of the Peazants, a large, proud family who trace their origins to the Ibo, who were enslaved and brought to the islands more than one hundred years earlier. Native New Yorker and anthropology student Amelia Peazant has always known about her grandmother and mother’s homeland of Dawtuh Island, though she’s never understood why her family remains there, cut off from modern society. But when an opportunity arises for Amelia to head to the island to study her ancestry for her thesis, she is surprised by what she discovers. From her multigenerational clan she gathers colorful stories, learning about "the first man and woman," the slaves who walked across the water back home to Africa, the ways men and women need each other, and the intermingling of African and Native American cultures. The more she learns, the more Amelia comes to treasure her family and their traditions, discovering an especially strong kinship with her fiercely independent cousin, Elizabeth. Eyes opened to an entirely new world, Amelia must decide what’s next for her and find her role in the powerful legacy of her people. Daughters of the Dust is a vivid novel that blends folktales, history, and anthropology to tell a powerful and emotional story of homecoming, the reclamation of cultural heritage, and the enduring bonds of family.

Book Mugged  Drugged and Shrugged

Download or read book Mugged Drugged and Shrugged written by Bonnie Fournier and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bonnie Fournier was a psychiatric nurse who took loving care of many people on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. She patrolled the city's poorest postal code in her health van night after night, year after year. As well as cleaning wounds, she provided friendship, practical advice, and kindness. Before she started working on the Health Van, Bonnie did the medical assessments of people in cells in the Downtown Eastside's courthouse.

Book Indian Books in Print

Download or read book Indian Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 1136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book My Black Death

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  • Author : Arthur Jafa
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015-01-31
  • ISBN : 9781624620959
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book My Black Death written by Arthur Jafa and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Indian Book Industry

Download or read book Indian Book Industry written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Everything But the Burden

Download or read book Everything But the Burden written by Greg Tate and published by Crown. This book was released on 2003-01-14 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: White kids from the ’burbs are throwing up gang signs. The 2001 Grammy winner for best rap artist was as white as rice. And blond-haired sorority sisters are sporting FUBU gear. What is going on in American culture that’s giving our nation a racial-identity crisis? Following the trail blazed by Norman Mailer’s controversial essay “The White Negro,” Everything but the Burden brings together voices from music, popular culture, the literary world, and the media speaking about how from Brooklyn to the Badlands white people are co-opting black styles of music, dance, dress, and slang. In this collection, the essayists examine how whites seem to be taking on, as editor Greg Tate’s mother used to tell him, “everything but the burden”–from fetishizing black athletes to spinning the ghetto lifestyle into a glamorous commodity. Is this a way of shaking off the fear of the unknown? A flattering indicator of appreciation? Or is it a more complicated cultural exchange? The pieces in Everything but the Burden explore the line between hero-worship and paternalism. Among the book’s twelve essays are Vernon Reid’s “Steely Dan Understood as the Apotheosis of ‘The White Negro,’” Carl Hancock Rux’s “The Beats: America’s First ‘Wiggas,’” and Greg Tate’s own introductory essay “Nigs ’R Us.” Other contributors include: Hilton Als, Beth Coleman, Tony Green, Robin Kelley, Arthur Jafa, Gary Dauphin, Michaela Angela Davis, dream hampton, and Manthia diAwara.

Book Remember to Dream

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  • Author : Hans Ulrich Obrist
  • Publisher : HENI Publishing
  • Release : 2023-10-05
  • ISBN : 1912122073
  • Pages : 107 pages

Download or read book Remember to Dream written by Hans Ulrich Obrist and published by HENI Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-05 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hans Ulrich Obrist, the Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries in London, brings his curating expertise to the Instagram feeds of 380,000 followers, in an endeavour to revive the art of handwriting from within an ever-advancing digital age. The result is one of the most comprehensive looks at the art world from the inside; inclusive of artists, writers, designers, musicians, actors, architects and public figures. In his open-ended project, otherwise known as Post-it notes, Obrist collects an abundance of thoughts for the day, dreams, drawings, musings, jokes, quotations, questions, answers, poems, and puns from some of the world’s greatest contemporary artists, handwritten on everyday Post-it notes. From the reassuringly philosophical to the inspiringly straightforward, the ingeniously funny to the tenderly post-humous, Remember to Dream! (a note from American artist Carrie Mae Weems) paints a picture of the art world direct from many of the most celebrated artists of the twenty-first century. The book features an introduction by Hans Ulrich Obrist and is designed by Amsterdam-based award-winning book designer Irma Boom.