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Book White Boyz Blues

Download or read book White Boyz Blues written by Kenneth Lincoln and published by Fulcrum Publishing. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of a father's pain, humor, and healing as he learns to embrace a new masculinity "down West."How does a white male, raised in the hardscrabble culture of the West, learn to raise a young daughter on his own? In this unconventional memoir, contemporary Native American scholar Kenneth Lincoln relates his struggle to embrace a new masculinity in the late twentieth century. Through a poignant combination of poems, letters, and his own unique voice, Lincoln shares the story of his life-the death of family and close friends, love, divorce, depression, and through it all, the headstrong daughter who becomes the center of his world.

Book Even White Boys Get the Blues

Download or read book Even White Boys Get the Blues written by Doug Marlette and published by . This book was released on 1994-05-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Piggy Boy s Blues

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nakhane Toure
  • Publisher : Blackbird Books
  • Release : 2015-09-25
  • ISBN : 1928337104
  • Pages : 115 pages

Download or read book Piggy Boy s Blues written by Nakhane Toure and published by Blackbird Books. This book was released on 2015-09-25 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nakhane Toure's debut novel, Piggy Boy's Blues, is for all intents and purposes a portrait of the M. family. Centred mostly on the protagonist, Davide M., and his return to Alice the town of his birth, the novel portrays a Xhosa royal family past its prime and glory. Davide's journey, from the city to pastoral Alice for peace and quiet, is not what he or the characters living in the forgotten and dilapidated house have bargained for. His return disturbs and troubles the silence and day-to-day practices that his uncle, Ndimphiwe, and the man he lives with have kept, resulting in a series of tragic events. Set mostly in the Eastern Cape (modern and historical) - in Alice and Port Elizabeth, Piggy Boy's Blues is a novel about boundaries, the intricacies of love and how the members of the M. family sometimes fail at navigating them.

Book Even White Boys Get the Blues

Download or read book Even White Boys Get the Blues written by Doug Marlette and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book B Boy Blues

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  • Author : James Earl Hardy
  • Publisher : Independently Published
  • Release : 2022-12-21
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book B Boy Blues written by James Earl Hardy and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-12-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1994. Years before "homo thug" and "down low" became infamous catchphrases, Omar Little put the "G" in Gangsta on HBO's The Wire, and Lil Nas X became a global pop star ... there was B-BOY BLUES. Revisit or experience for the first time the story that ushered in the Africentric gay fiction genre, and put Black-on-Black male love on both the map and the bestseller lists! SYNOPSIS: Mitchell Crawford always wished, hoped, and dreamed for a RUFFNECK - a hip-hop-lovin', street-struttin', cool posin', crazy crotch-grabbin' brotha. And he finally finds one in Raheim Rivers, who is a vision of lust: six feet tall and 215 pounds of mocha-chocolate muscle. Mitchell knows Raheim will take him for a walk on the wild side. But he doesn't count on getting behind Raheim's mask - and finding someone he can love. Praise for B-Boy Blues: "Hardy has successfully crafted the first gay hip hop love story. It sexily sizzles off the page." - E. Lynn Harris "Not since Terry McMillan's Disappearing Acts has it felt so good to be loved so bad. Grade: A-." - Entertainment Weekly "Hardy proves that Black love is just as dizzying and gratifying when boy meets boy." - Vibe "A masterpiece of both Black and gay literature." - Booklist Cover image: Alyxandria Fabrega @artbyalyx Cover models: Timothy Richardson & Thomas Mackie aka Mitchell & Raheim from @bboybluesthefilm (currently streaming on @betplus) Cover design: Tony Dobson @hallsongraphics

Book The Native American Renaissance

Download or read book The Native American Renaissance written by Alan R. Velie and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The outpouring of Native American literature that followed the publication of N. Scott Momaday’s Pulitzer Prize–winning House Made of Dawn in 1968 continues unabated. Fiction and poetry, autobiography and discursive writing from such writers as James Welch, Gerald Vizenor, and Leslie Marmon Silko constitute what critic Kenneth Lincoln in 1983 termed the Native American Renaissance. This collection of essays takes the measure of that efflorescence. The contributors scrutinize writers from Momaday to Sherman Alexie, analyzing works by Native women, First Nations Canadian writers, postmodernists, and such theorists as Robert Warrior, Jace Weaver, and Craig Womack. Weaver’s own examination of the development of Native literary criticism since 1968 focuses on Native American literary nationalism. Alan R. Velie turns to the achievement of Momaday to examine the ways Native novelists have influenced one another. Post-renaissance and postmodern writers are discussed in company with newer writers such as Gordon Henry, Jr., and D. L. Birchfield. Critical essays discuss the poetry of Simon Ortiz, Kimberly Blaeser, Diane Glancy, Luci Tapahonso, and Ray A. Young Bear, as well as the life writings of Janet Campbell Hale, Carter Revard, and Jim Barnes. An essay on Native drama examines the work of Hanay Geiogamah, the Native American Theater Ensemble, and Spider Woman Theatre. In the volume’s concluding essay, Kenneth Lincoln reflects on the history of the Native American Renaissance up to and beyond his seminal work, and discusses Native literature’s legacy and future. The essays collected here underscore the vitality of Native American literature and the need for debate on theory and ideology.

Book Cormac McCarthy

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  • Author : K. Lincoln
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2008-12-22
  • ISBN : 0230617840
  • Pages : 190 pages

Download or read book Cormac McCarthy written by K. Lincoln and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-12-22 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a guide to Cormac McCarthy's canon from The Road to All the Pretty Horses, delving into the dominant themes in his work, his influences from Faulkner to Dante, and the current cultural debates his books have figured into.

Book Out of the Red

Download or read book Out of the Red written by Christian L. Bolden and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-14 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank Tannenbaum Outstanding Book Award from the American Society of Criminology​ Faculty Senate Award for Research from Loyola University New Orleans​ Out of the Red is one man’s pathbreaking story of how social forces and personal choices combined to deliver an unfortunate fate. After a childhood of poverty, institutional discrimination, violence, and being thrown away by the public education system, Bolden's life took him through the treacherous landscape of street gangs at the age of fourteen. The Bloods offered a sense of family, protection, excitement, and power. Incarcerated during the Texas prison boom, the teenage former gangster was thrust into a fight for survival as he navigated the perils of adult prison. As mass incarceration and prison gangs swallowed up youth like him, survival meant finding hope in a hopeless situation and carving a path to his own rehabilitation. Despite all odds, he forged a new path through education, ultimately achieving the seemingly impossible for a formerly incarcerated ex-gangbanger.

Book The Blues Dream of Billy Boy Arnold

Download or read book The Blues Dream of Billy Boy Arnold written by Billy Boy Arnold and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-11-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Billy Boy Arnold, born in 1935, is one of the few native Chicagoans who both cultivated a career in the blues and stayed in Chicago. His perspective on Chicago's music, people, and places is rare and valuable. Arnold has worked with generations of musicians-from Tampa Red and Howlin' Wolf and to Muddy Waters and Paul Butterfield-on countless recordings, witnessing the decline of country blues, the dawn of electric blues, the onset of blues-inspired rock, and more. Here, with writer Kim Field, he gets it all down on paper-including the story of how he named Bo Diddley Bo Diddley"--

Book Kensington Blues

Download or read book Kensington Blues written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Barrelhouse Blues

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  • Author : Paul Oliver
  • Publisher : Basic Books
  • Release : 2009-08-25
  • ISBN : 0465019897
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Barrelhouse Blues written by Paul Oliver and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-08-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1920s, Southern record companies ventured to cities like Dallas, Atlanta, and New Orleans, where they set up primitive recording equipment in makeshift studios. They brought in street singers, medicine show performers, pianists from the juke joints and barrelhouses. The music that circulated through Southern work camps, prison farms, and vaudeville shows would be lost to us if it hadn't been captured on location by these performers and recorders. Eminent blues historian Paul Oliver uncovers these folk traditions and the circumstances under which they were recorded, rescuing the forefathers of the blues who were lost before they even had a chance to be heard. A careful excavation of the earliest recordings of the blues by one of its foremost experts, Barrelhouse Blues expands our definition of that most American style of music.

Book Reconciliation Blues

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  • Author : Edward Gilbreath
  • Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Release : 2010-06
  • ISBN : 1458753824
  • Pages : 298 pages

Download or read book Reconciliation Blues written by Edward Gilbreath and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the state of racial reconciliation in evangelical churches today? Are we truly united? In Reconciliation Blues journalist Edward Gilbreath gives an insightful, honest picture of both the history and the present state of racial reconciliation in evangelical churches. In his thoughtful overview he looks at a wide range of figures, such as ...

Book White Boy Blues

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book White Boy Blues written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Boy s Own Annual

Download or read book The Boy s Own Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Boy s Own Paper

Download or read book The Boy s Own Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Broadcasting the Blues

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  • Author : Paul Oliver
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2014-02-04
  • ISBN : 1135467161
  • Pages : 210 pages

Download or read book Broadcasting the Blues written by Paul Oliver and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broadcasting the Blues: Black Blues in the Segregation Era is based on Paul Oliver's award-winning radio broadcasts from the BBC that were created over several decades. It traces the social history of the blues in America, from its birth in the rural South through the heyday of sound recordings. Noted blues scholar Paul Oliver draws on decades of research and personal interviews with performers--some of whom he "discovered" and recorded for the first time--to draw a picture of how the blues aesthetic developed, giving new insights into the role blues played in American society before racial integration. The book begins by outlining the history of the blues from African music through country stomps, ragtime songs, and field hollers. From the heroic figures of black folksong--including the steel-driving railroad worker John Henry and the destructive Boll Weevil--to the content of the emerging blues, the author discusses the "meaning" behind the often coded words of the blues, evoking topics such as playful sexuality, magic and medicine, the stresses of segregation, and commentary on national events. Finally, the author traces the history of blues documentation, showing how our views of the early blues have been shaped through a complex interplay of social forces, and indicating possible lines for future research.

Book Letting Go

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jeanne C. DeFazio
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2024-02-08
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 40 pages

Download or read book Letting Go written by Jeanne C. DeFazio and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-02-08 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this small collection of poetry by Terry McDermott and collected by Jeanne C. DeFazio, McDermott’s poems tenderly speak to the hearts of women who suffer from post-abortion grief, encouraging them to let go of fear, regret, and anger and to thank God for covering the past, present, and future. Further reflection on Nelson Mandela’s poem, “Letting Go,” reminds us all of the importance of forgiveness and release.