Download or read book Choices of a Black Woman written by Raymond Sturgis and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2011-11-06 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this life, love is hard to come by, and sharing love with someone should never go unrewarded. Many black women are not afraid to love someone, however they are afraid to love and have it taken for granted. The effects of love gone bad can be life changing because being in a relationship or marriage for years, and discover that the person receiving your love is cheating or abusing you can really change your heart. Once again, I bring you women that have loved the wrong man for all the right reasons. They will share with you, the beauty of their relationships or marriages and the problems that now imbrued their hearts and mind possibly forever. Some of these women would share with you, the signs of problems that were invisible however, through time they wind up embracing the hurt and reality of giving love and time to men that has destroyed their love and trust. In addition, I am bringing to you the poignant experiences of how love can change a person's life in ways that can become destructive or instructive to their self-esteem and confidence. These women lives are real, so are their problems loving and wasting time on men that wind up hurting them. Therefore, this book encourages them to continue to love, but in a cautious manner. While the time is changing where people are choosing to have sex, without the problem of commitment, my message I convey is that love should continue, and identifying the characteristics in men that will wind up hurting women is my overall agenda. Because I believe, that all women and men should find love, and although relationships and marriages end, another love wrapped in friendship should take over where intimate love fail and stabilize hearts with peace and reconciliation.
Download or read book Sweetwater written by Robin Boylorn and published by Black Studies and Critical Thinking. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A multi-generational story of growing up black and female in the rural South. This book captures the artistry, strength, hope, sound, language, and creativity shared by first-hand accounts of black women in a familial village community in North Carolina. Sweetwater is about the black female experience as it relates to friendship, family, spirituality, poverty, education, addiction, mental illness, romantic relationships, raising children, and everyday survival. Written from field notes and memory, the author combines narrative and autoethnography to weave her own experiences as a rural black girl into the story, revealing the complexities of black women's lived experiences and exposing the communicative and interpersonal choices black women make through storytelling. Narrative inquiry and black feminism are offered as creative educational tools for discussing how and why black women's singular interior lives are culturally and globally significant"--Publisher description.
Download or read book Black Men Vs White Men written by Cicely J and published by Crj Publishing, Incorporated. This book was released on 2011 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decades ago, when relationships developed between men and women, most often their associations were based upon mutual admiration, respect, similar interests and racial connection. As time passed and the elements of love, devotion, honor, trust and support became an integral part of those relationships, men and women proudly and sacredly vowed to lifetime commitments, and began building strong, loving family units that evolved from one generation to the next. Yet today, as persistent societal changes threaten, challenge and test family values, more men and women are finding that the cohesive foundations that held their family trees together, years ago, are now lying in shambles like fallen houses of cards. Sadly enough, for many men and women, family values have become insignificant, meaningless and to some, even a joke. As cheating, indiscriminate sex and one-night stands become the 'games' on any given day, and men and women fall in and out of love like adolescents going through stages of puppy love, it's no wonder relationships are receiving such a blistering black eye. And then, of course, by the time you throw in such elements as couples' low and degrading public displays, demeaning and dirt-slinging criticisms, or the all too common neglect and disregard of innocent children derived from tarnished and broken relationships, you have an up close and personal look at just a small sector of the underlying causes for the negative ways many men and women view and treat one another. And, to their detriment, it is not a pretty picture. To understand many of the various reasons why so many 'black" men and women tend to be at tremendous odds with one another in their relationships, one merely needs to read "black men vs. White Men... the Black Woman's Choice," by authors Cicely J and Marlon Green. It is a viewpoint from both sides of the coin that needs to be examined. "black men vs. White Men... the Black Woman's Choice," a no-holds barred reading, is certain to create a firestorm of controversy for its critical and razor-sharp assessment of the unraveling of Black America. This book is a "must-read" that will, undoubtedly, anger those who just might happen to see their own reflections in the authors' mirror that also exposes the issues that continue to broaden the gap between black men and women.
Download or read book Black Woman By Birth Champion By Choice written by Trevor Otts and published by Blackceo. This book was released on 2018-05-14 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The black woman has been through it all--the discrimination, the disrespect, the hatred, the shame, the pain, and everything that is unfair. Yet she rises, soaring on hard-won wings because that's what women do. Champions are not born, they are made. It is the black woman's hardships and tough experiences that make her strong, resilient, persistent, and wise. Black Woman By Birth, Champion By Choice is a testament to the fire and faith of black women everywhere. It features a stirring collection of true stories from black women from all walks of life--from impassioned, tenured educators to first-leap entrepreneurs, and every destiny in between. Each woman's insightful and inspiring voice pushes every one of us to persevere and learn to be defined by our triumphs and not our trials. Each message is deeply personal and aptly captures the resilience, courage, and grace of the storytellers.If you have lost your faith in miracles, this book will restore your belief in possibilities. If you've lost your drive to succeed, the stories will rekindle the fire within to pursue your passion. Most of all, it will remind you of the choice that you must make, every day, to step boldly into your divine calling as the champion you are.
Download or read book 10 Good Choices That Empower Black Women s Lives written by Grace Cornish, Ph.D. and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2010-03-31 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It's time to take back your power and your life--take it back from the bad relationships, bad careers, bad investments, bad company, and bad memories. It's time for you to live a fuller, happier, more productive, and wholesome life. This is your time to claim your blessings. God has given you a choice. Choose wisely, sis--choose to win, and enjoy every moment of it." With her national bestseller, 10 Bad Choices That Ruin Black Women's Lives, beloved television personality, lecturer, and author Dr. Grace Cornish wrote a self-help classic for black women who wanted to face and erase the relationship problems. Now, in her 10 Good Choices That Empower Black Women's Lives, Dr. Grace takes readers beyond healing just their romantic relationships--she's ready to show black women how to incorporate new, empowering, good choices into every aspect of their lives. Inspiring and insightful, this is Dr. Grace's tried-and-true prescription for finding the right balance between work, love, and spirituality. From "Trust Your Intuition" to "Taking Calculated Chances" and "Embracing the Skin You're In," Dr. Grace outlines ten positive choices that will help black women move onward and upward in their personal and professional lives. Full of first-person anecdotes from Dr. Grace's patients, friends, and fans, this is a real book about real people in tough situations and the choices they have made that led to renewed success, happiness, and peace of mind. With her trademark brand of smart, sympathetic, sister-to-sister counseling, Dr. Grace Cornish's 10 Good Choices That Empower Black Women's Lives is destined to become a classic of self-help for African-American women of all ages and backgrounds.
Download or read book 10 Bad Choices That Ruin Black Women s Lives written by Grace Cornish, Ph.D. and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 10 Bad Choices That Ruin Black Women's Lives, relationship expert Dr. Grace Cornish writes a lively, practical, provocative guide for black women everywhere who want to shed the duds and find the studs who will treat them with respect. According to Dr. Cornish, six out of every ten black women are either in bad relationships, share a man, or are celibate. The problem is not the women themselves but the bad choices they keep making. In her frank and refreshing new book, Dr. Cornish speaks to unique aspects of the African American female psyche by targeting ten of the most common and foolish choices black women make in their lives regarding men, and how they can correct these problems, including: Sisters Dissin' Sisters No Money, No Honey Exchanging "Sexual Dealings" for Loving Feelings Loving the "Married Bachelor" Emotional Dependency Plus Unplanned Pregnancy . . . and much more. Relying on case studies, interviews, and letters she has received, Dr. Cornish gets to the heart of the matter by illuminating why black women, no matter how smart, savvy, and successful, continue to lose at the dating game, and how they can face, erase, and replace the problems that have kept them from finding true love. Why are so many black women alone or in bad relationships? Why do sisters unconsciously use weight, fear, finance, status, skin color, and other barriers to keep themselves from getting the love they want? Why do black women think that there are no eligible black men left--that the good ones are married, dead, or not yet born, and the rest are gay, bisexual, or interested only in white women?
Download or read book 10 Bad Choices That Ruin Black Women s Lives written by Grace Cornish, Ph.D. and published by Harmony. This book was released on 1999-10-12 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her best-seller, 10 Bad Choices That Ruin Black Women's Lives, relationship expert Dr. Grace Cornish has written a lively, provocative guide for black women everywhere who want to shed the duds and find the studs who will treat them with respect. According to Dr. Cornish, six out of every ten black women are either in bad relationships, share a man, or are celibate. The problem is not the women themselves, she explains, but the bad choices they keep making. In this frank and refreshing book, Dr. Cornish speaks to unique aspects of the African-American female psyche by targeting ten of the most common and foolish choices black women make in their lives regarding men, and how they can correct these problems. Relying on case studies, interviews, and the letters she has received, Dr. Cornish gets to the heart of the matter by illuminating why black women, no matter how smart, savvy, and successful, continue to lose at the dating game, and how they can face, erase, and replace the problems that have kept them from finding true love.
Download or read book A Syllabus for Black Women written by Thaïs Bass-Moore and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a practical, real, how-to guide to help women in college make good choices, particularly outside of the classroom. Academically Black women are killin' it, but it's the more personal stuff that keeps us from maximizing our potential. It is impossible for someone to be completely successful academically if they consistently make poor choices in their personal life. Some of the 110 life lessons include, "Thirsty", "He Is Not Your Father", "Feeling Overlooked", "She is Not Your Competitor", and "You Are Loved." Based largely upon the author's experiences at UCLA, this book is a must-read for African-American women in college. However, all women can benefit from this book. Written in an easy to digest format, this book is designed to empower and transform.
Download or read book Black Women As Cultural Readers written by Jacqueline Bobo and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pathbreaking study of African-American women's responses to literature and film. . . . Bobo focuses on a small group of middle-class African-American women as they process literature (by Terry McMillan, Alice Walker) that addresses their own experiences. . . . This work should command the attention of all scholars of American popular culture. -- Choice How do black women react as an audience to representations of themselves, and how do their patterns of consumption differ from other groups? Interviews with ordinary black women from many backgrounds uses novels and films to reveal how black female audiences absorb works. -- Midwest Book Review
Download or read book The Black Woman Cross culturally written by Filomina Chioma Steady and published by Schenkman Books. This book was released on 1981 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Black Women in America written by Kim Marie Vaz and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 1994-11-02 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nominated for the 1995 Distinguished Publication Award of the Association for Women in Psychology A provocative, insightful volume, Black Women in America offers an interdisciplinary study of black women′s historic activism, representation in literature and popular media, self-constructed images, and current psychosocial challenges. This new work by outstanding scholars in the field of race and gender studies explores the ways in which black women have constantly reconstructed and transformed alien definitions of black womanhood. Black women have an image of themselves that differs from those others impose. Collectively, the contributors to this anthology demonstrate that such socially constructed images hide the complexities and ambiguities, the challenges, and the joys experienced in the real lives of black women. Multifaceted in its approach, Black Women in America is certain to stimulate debate, stretch minds, and spark future research. Black Women in America is a welcome resource for scholars and students in African American or Ethnic Studies, Women′s Studies, Sociology, and Psychology. "The volume can be helpful in stimulating questions and discussion for students in African American studies." --Choice "Black Women in America combines social history with contemporary analysis in one of the most thoughtful of scholarly compendia I have ever seen. It will be useful to scholars who teach history, sociology, African American studies, and women′s studies, but also to any American interested in a deeper and broader understanding of America′s past, present, and future." --Sarah Susannah Willie, Colby College, Maine "At a time when several anthologies of essays by and about black women are hitting the shelves, Kim Marie Vaz′s volume boasts an unusual and inventive mix of topics. It treats a range of historical eras and geographical locations. . . . The apt emphasis on resistance rather than victimization is apparent throughout the essays I read; it provides an excellent focal point. . . . In all, Vaz′s editorial contribution is admirable. She has collected an impressively wide-ranging group of essays on the history, sociology, and culture of black women. Interdisciplinary in its approach and sound in its scholarship, the volume will be welcomed by scholars and students in African American studies and women′s studies in particular, but also history, sociology, and political science." --Cheryl Ann Wall, Rutgers University
Download or read book The Best Kind of Loving written by Gwendolyn Goldsby Grant and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-04-25 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has often been said that "if white America has a case of the sniffles, Black America catches walking pneumonia." When this credo is applied to relationships, common problems such as inadequate communication, commitment fears, financial struggles and infidelity carry an even greater weight. Yet, with hundreds of relationship books on the market, virtually none has explored the specific circumstances impacting relationships between African-American men and women. In The Best Kind of Loving: A Black Woman's Guide to Finding Intimacy, renowned psychologist Dr. Gwendolyn Goldsby Grant addresses head-on the complex challenges in African-American relationships. "In addition to the social dynamics affecting male-female communications in general, as African-Americans, we carry the added burdens of myths and stereotypes that grow out of our real history of slavery, second-class citizenship and economic disenfranchisement," Grant explains. In writing The Best Kind of Loving, Grant has provided an invaluable resource for Black women searching to understand the choices they make, the men they love and how to make the most of their strength, intelligence and wit. Compulsively readable, The Best Kind of Loving is unique in its scope and vision; women of all races and backgrounds will laugh, sympathize and nod their heads in recognition as they read about others not unlike themselves. Giving both pragmatic and realistic advice, Grant serves both as an advisor and confidant; she knows which situations may not work out, but also gives women ways to make the best of less-than-ideal circumstances.
Download or read book Conference on the Educational and Occupational Needs of Black Women December 16 17 1975 written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Black Women s Experiences of Criminal Justice written by Ruth Chigwada-Bailey and published by Waterside Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal discourse on the multiple disadvantages of people who are black, women and from the margins of society.
Download or read book Pathways to Higher Education Administration for African American Women written by Tamara Bertrand Jones and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Black women faculty members and student affairs personnel, this book delineates the needed skills and the range of possible pathways for attaining administrative positions in higher education.This book uses a survey that identifies the skills and knowledge that Black women administrators report as most critical at different stages of their careers as a foundation for the personal narratives of individual administrators’ career progressions. The contributors address barriers, strategies, and considerations such as the comparative merits of starting a career at an HBCU or PWI, or at a public or private institution.Their stories shine light on how to develop the most effective leadership style, how to communicate, and the importance of leading with credibility. They dwell on the necessity of listening to one’s inner voice in guiding decisions, of maintaining integrity and having a clear sense of values, and of developing a realistic sense of personal limitations and abilities. They illustrate how to combine institutional and personal priorities with service to the community; share how the authors carved out their distinct and purposeful career paths; and demonstrate the importance of the mentoring they received and provided along the way. A theoretical chapter provides a frame for reflecting on the paths traveled. These accounts and reflections provide enlightenment, inspiration, and nuggets of wisdom for all Black women who want to advance their careers in higher education.
Download or read book Crime Reason a Black Choice written by Marques Lowery and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2022-09-25 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives vivid detail into the plight of blacks in America, and the struggle to become free in America. The writer delves into historic facts and points out institutional racism, and systematic racism associated with blacks. The purpose of this book is to give factual information that addresses racist laws, and legal proceedings that disenfranchised blacks for the past 100 years. The writer makes a point to explain the root cause of the issues in black America which is related to the split within the household caused by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X. religion was the forefront to black household, and when Malcolm and Martin began to quarrel publicly, it caused a split within the black families, furthermore destroying collectivism in black America.
Download or read book Black Theology in Britain written by Michael N. Jagessar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black theology as a discipline emerged in 1960s America, growing out of the experiences of Black people of the African Diaspora as they sought to re-interpret the central ideas of Christianity in light of struggle and oppression. However, a form of Black theology has been present in Britain since the time of slavery. 'Black Theology in Britain' offers the first comprehensive survey of Black theology, tracing its development in Britain from the eighteenth century to today. The essays cover a wide range of topics: Black Liberation; drama as a medium for Black theology; the perspective of Black women; Black theology in the pulpit and pastoral care; and the work of Robert Beckford and Anthony Reddie. 'Black Theology in Britain' is a key resource for students of British history, cultural studies, Black theology, and religious studies.
