Download or read book White Folks Be Trippin written by and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spirit of Langston Hughes's the Ways of White Folks, Black Trans poet & educator, J Mase III takes us on a journey through the absurdities of whiteness. From MLK quotes out of context, to strange dance moves and circular conversations about justice that go nowhere, he guides us into accepting what we already know: White Folks Be Trippin'. More importantly, in an Instagram world he warns that not knowing the complexities of whiteness, white supremacy and its impacts can be downright dangerous for us all.
Download or read book Memoirs of a Hoodstar written by D. Durand Hall and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2008, the United States Supreme Court ruled Californias prison system as unconstitutionally cruel and overcrowded. The decision mandated the downsizing of a prison system that had risen to become the largest in America. How did California become the king of imprisonment, and what prompted the mass incarceration of a generation of minority males? Memoirs of a Hoodstar is a real look at one mans life as he goes from a serious hustler to prison inmate. Jamal ends up behind bars after living a life of crime, and although he deserves some punishment, he soon begins to realize the huge number of African American males behind bars is more than punishment: its a political game and hes just one of the pawns paying a priceless price. Greedy men like Big Al make loads of dough on the California penal system, and nobodys stopping them. Jamal hopes that the madness will stop, but who will stand up for prison inmates? D.Durand Hall provides the uncut truth behind the barbaric imprisonment of Californias notorious department of Corrections but also reveals how ex-cons can turn their lives around.
Download or read book Brother Status written by Shadrach Linscomb and published by View House Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timothy Smith is a teenager who lives in a high-crime neighborhood. Fortunately, he meets an older man who teaches him how to survive.
Download or read book White Guys on Campus written by Nolan L Cabrera and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: White Guys on Campus is a critical examination of the role of race in higher education, centering Whiteness, in an effort to unveil the frequently unconscious habits of racism among white male students. It details many of the contours of contemporary, systemic racism, while continually engaging the possibility of White students to engage in anti-racism.
Download or read book Working While Black written by Michelle T. Johnson and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a black employee's guide to success when working in a white workplace, and focuses on getting hired, pursuing legal support, and using one's own style, history, and goals.
Download or read book Tar Baby written by Tammy Campbell Brooks and published by Paradeyez Books. This book was released on 2018-11-19 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tianna Thompson is an adolescence trying to find her way in a world where her skin complexion is the center of attention. She's ridiculed by classmates and even her own family because of her dark chocolate skin. The name calling starts in elementary school and gets worse in high school. Tasha is Tianna's best friend and has had her back since elementary school fighting against the bullies. Tianna and Tasha have a lot in common such as, they both are known as Tar Babies. Tasha has an older brother, Jackson that's secretly in love with Tianna. But Jackson isn't the only guy that wants Tianna. Her male friend, Jamal who is on his way to the NBA will stop at nothing to convince Tianna that he's the man for her present and future. Tianna loves both Jackson and Jamal, but she loves one as a friend and the other as a lover. Will Tasha end her twelve-year friendship with Tianna if she finds that her best friend is in love with her brother? Will Tianna chose between her heart or friendship? This is the first book of a two-part series.
Download or read book I Ain t Scared of You written by Bernie Mac and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002-02-17 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A laugh-out-loud humor book from one of the most celebrated comedians, Bernie Mac, the star of Fox's The Bernie Mac Show, winner of the prestigious Peabody Award. The Chicago-bred performer and royal king of the Original Kings of Comedy, Bernie Mac, has won over countless fans of cutting comedy and family humor with an edgy show that tells it like it is but never loses heart. No surprise, Mac has earned a reputation as perhaps the truest voice of modern humor. Here, in his debut book, Mac brilliantly captures the R-rated side of his comedic genius in print. Touring through a wide range of topics with equal parts insight and irreverence, Bernie presents a way of looking at the world guaranteed to make you laugh. Tackling superstar athletes, the movie business, his fellow comedians, his marriage, and, of course, his friends and family, Mac offers side-splitting riffs on sex, religion, hygiene, money, and more. Nobody is safe; nothing is sacred. Not even Bernie himself. Throughout I Ain't Scared of You, Mac turns his humor inward, firing off hilarious self-deprecating salvos about his golf game and his own hypocrisies. Bernie Mac's hit show and his vital live performances have earned him critical acclaim and international popularity. Now, I Ain't Scared of You reveals his humor whole—unpretentious, unafraid, and unbelievably funny and raw.
Download or read book Misguided Love written by Kevin L. Sanders and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our children are the most precious gifts in this world. They are our joy. They are our future. They are our very lives. But who is to guide them? How do they learn what to do with what they have? So many people are abused from early age. Some carry that for the remainder of their lives and they pass the affliction from generation to generation. Many are not physically abused, and yet they still suffer from the lack of knowledge. Eric was a beautiful boy on his way to manhood. He never learned about the responsibilities of love and sex. Come along on this journey of a young, charismatic teenager whose charm and naivety lead him into a world of which he never knew existed. He, like many children are misguided into believing that there is no consequence to their actions. This story is a testimony to the survival of a global epidemic that continues to deteriorate the very fabric of our societies. Protect our children. Remember it is not always what we teach them that directs their paths in life; inevitably it is what we don't. Love must be guided. Misguided love will undoubtedly fail.
Download or read book THE BAY AREA S BROOKLYN BRIDGE written by Chris The Fifth and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Question: What do you call a team of teenagers with the tendencies of modern mobsters? If you haven’t a clue, the pages of The Bay Area’s Brooklyn Bridge will enlighten you. In this fast-paced urban thriller you will witness four, flat broke, Brooklyn bandits rise from a damn shame... to champagne. After a successful heist, they catapult from boys to men in a matter of minutes. However, the marijuana they make off with belongs to a cartel of Jamaicans whose tentacles stretch from Jamaica to Brooklyn and abroad. But the stakes reach its apex when the conviction thirsty, head of the D.E.A.’s most fierce drug reconnaissance unit, “The Shadows”, gets involved. See, when the young bandits knock off the marijuana stash it ruins Agent Anthony Anderson 2 1⁄2 year investigation. Furious, Agent Anderson sets his sights on the young bandits instead of his primary target, the Jamaicans. Through a strange turn of events, it becomes obvious that Agent Anderson has ulterior motives. But why? Is he on the Jamaicans payroll? Are they friends? Business partners? In the process of all this treachery, the Jamaicans start kidnapping people, demanding what’s rightfully theirs. After a couple action packed engagements, the boys are forced to flee their beloved Brooklyn and drop anchor in the heart of Oakland, California in a notorious neighborhood called, “The Murder Dubbs!” With the federal government in pursuit, a couple dead relatives left behind in Brooklyn and nothing to lose, The young bandits, once again, attempt to take what doesn’t belong to them. Last time it was some marijuana, this time it is an entire marijuana market! But when they are met with heavy resistance, they realize their eyes may have been a bit too big for their stomachs and they may have bitten off more than they can swallow. So buckle up folks, grab your popcorn and put on your reading glasses, you’re about to cross a bridge that spans from Brooklyn to the Bay area... “The Bay area’s Brooklyn Bridge!”
Download or read book Tap That written by Tyffany Howard JD and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Tyffany Howard writes a thought-provoking, humorous, healing, inspirational, and honest book about African American experiences. tap that! is smooth rap with words that flow like a passionate conversation. You wont find a how-to guide to tapping like this anywhere! So if you have the heart to stop trippin and make mo money, then get ready to tap this and tap that.
Download or read book We Are Everywhere written by Matthew Riemer and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have pride in history. A rich and sweeping photographic history of the Queer Liberation Movement, from the creators and curators of the massively popular Instagram account LGBT History. “If you think the fight for justice and equality only began in the streets outside Stonewall, with brave patrons of a bar fighting back, you need to read We Are Everywhere right now.”—Anderson Cooper Through the lenses of protest, power, and pride, We Are Everywhere is an essential and empowering introduction to the history of the fight for queer liberation. Combining exhaustively researched narrative with meticulously curated photographs, the book traces queer activism from its roots in late-nineteenth-century Europe—long before the pivotal Stonewall Riots of 1969—to the gender warriors leading the charge today. Featuring more than 300 images from more than seventy photographers and twenty archives, this inclusive and intersectional book enables us to truly see queer history unlike anything before, with glimpses of activism in the decades preceding and following Stonewall, family life, marches, protests, celebrations, mourning, and Pride. By challenging many of the assumptions that dominate mainstream LGBTQ+ history, We Are Everywhere shows readers how they can—and must—honor the queer past in order to shape our liberated future.
Download or read book Living at the Intersections written by Terrell Strayhorn and published by IAP. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living at the Intersections: Social Identities and Black Collegians brings together 21 diverse authors from 14 different institutions, including our nation’s most prestigious public and private universities, to advance the use of intersectionality and intersectional approaches in studying Black students in higher education. Chapters cover a diversity of topics, ranging from spirituality to sexuality and masculinity, from Black students at HBCUs to those in STEM majors, and a host of issues related to race, class, gender, and other identities. Authors draw upon a wealth of data including national surveys, interviews, focus groups, narratives, and even historical research. A smooth blend of anthropology, historiography, psychology, sociology, and intersectional approaches from multiple disciplines, this book breaks new ground on the “who, what, when, where, and how” of intersectionality applied to social problems affecting Black collegians. The authors go beyond merely stating the importance of intersectionality in research, but they also provide countless examples, recommended strategies, and tools for doing so. This book is an important resource for higher education and student affairs professionals, scholars, and graduate students interested in intersectionality and Black collegians.
Download or read book Heaven s Devil written by Craytonia Saunders and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-05-12 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AOD and the fellas were hanging at the minipark, gambling and watching the girls. One of the crew members got enough money to feed the group. They decided to head to Gabe's for sloppy bags. But things didn't go as planned. The BWGs were already there, and things got out of hand quickly. AOD saw the gun and picked it up, aimed it into the crowd, and fired off one shot. The bullet hit Mike-G in the face. He stood still and then dropped to the pavement. Hearing sirens, the CC Live boys ran toward the MLK school field, where they split up and ran their own ways. AOD hid under a car for a while. When he decided to come out, he threw the gun on the roof of the elementary school and started walking as if nothing happened. Once on the streets, he heard, "Get down before I shoot your little ass." While riding to the police station, the officer kept saying, "So you like to shoot people, huh?" AOD knew enough to keep his mouth closed. Because that was the CC Live's way of doing things.
Download or read book DisIngenuous written by Douglas Walker and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-04-17 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A strange sojourn by an innocent girl.
Download or read book Best Black Plays written by Chuck Smith and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-27 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three winners of the nation's most distinguished award for African American playwriting.
Download or read book And Then I Got Fired One Transqueer s Reflections on Grief Unemployment Inappropriate Jokes About Death written by J Mase III and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feel free to scream directly into this book if you need to. It won't judge you, promise! This book gets grief. The good, the bad and the snotty noses. Through a healthy mix of poems, personal testimony, bad jokes and choose-your-own-journey workbook style, ""And Then I Got Fired: One Transqueer's Reflections on Grief, Unemployment & Inappropriate Jokes About Death"", is an unexpected and lively conversation between the author and reader on grief, Black Trans survival and the arts. Whether you are currently moving through grief mode, love a good poem, or just want some tools to deal with painful experiences, this book is for you. More importantly, this book is for all of us who deserve a place to be honest when things get hard.
Download or read book Confessions and Declarations of Multicolored Men written by Frederick Douglass Alcorn and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a culturally situated study of the experiences and perspective garnered from of a group of post-secondary Black African American, bi-multi-racial male students aged 19-37. The undergirding interest was to see if there was an awareness of the group's manly inclinations, tendencies and predispositions and understand how such awareness projects and influences their quest and discipline for learning and to academically achieve. The sociological construct of "habitus", as conveyor of dispositions, inclinations, and tendencies, provides an analytical framework permitting an appreciation of interactions between personal identity, social belonging and approaches to learning and education. The result is an original and powerful account of the ways in which unspoken dominant mainstream intergroup cultural relationships, involving social-political attitudes, decision making, and behavioral reactions and responses, interact with internalized self-in-group or in ascription with group, oppression, repression, intellectual-cognitive-physical strategies, determination, and work, that have brought men of Black African American, bi-multi-racial descent, in the U.S., to their current social position. Unlike some public discourse in U.S. society, this is not a blame game, nor is it one of relinquishing self or group responsibility, but one based upon and motivated by a deeper understanding of complex facts. The prose can be best described as an ethnographical narrative, synthesizing a wealth of original observations with insights from scholarly and popular literature and media. Its original and engaging style may appeal to a broad audience including postsecondary educators and students, researchers studying the sociology of gender, African American identity, intercultural relational communications, student services, social work, and social psychology as well as mental and physical healthcare practitioners.
