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Book Ghetto Growing Pains

Download or read book Ghetto Growing Pains written by Sally Jane Sandoval and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Revelations of a Hood Chick  From Ghetto Fabulous to Fabulous

Download or read book Revelations of a Hood Chick From Ghetto Fabulous to Fabulous written by Kijana Letasha Harris and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry is an expression of one's perception of their life's experiences. Sometimes in life we have battles within ourselves. When we are growing and maturing, it can sometimes be painful. But growing pains are normal. We as young children experience the aches in our bones and muscles as we grow. Well, as adults, we experience that same kind of pain, but it's in our hearts and minds. The big picture is to embrace our pains because they're temporary. Once we have reached our maturity, we have an unfiltered wisdom. That is something only experience can bring. The harder we struggle, the stronger we have a chance to become. The choice is our own. In my life, I have struggled with love. It's easy for me to give yet hard to receive. Therefore, I have set out to conquer my inner self. I have started my journey by loving me and letting me love me back. I express my thoughts that are nontraditional because I'm not traditional. I have always been considered different or an outcast, but I learned I am supposed to be. These poems are a reflection of who only God can see, and I am ready to reveal myself.

Book Growing Pains  Wisdom From A Teenaged Sage

Download or read book Growing Pains Wisdom From A Teenaged Sage written by Jewel Massiah and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-30 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teenage-hood has to be the most troubling path with many twists and turns. To successfully undertake this journey, a person definitely needs illumination from God. His light, no matter how small makes a world of difference. Using rhythm and poetry, the author, though a teen has been able to catch a glimpse of this light to share with the world. With the hope of helping teens to not only find themselves, but to emerge as stars...to emerge with purpose beyond the pain..."Growing Pains."

Book Black Los Angeles

Download or read book Black Los Angeles written by Darnell M. Hunt and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2010-04-29 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naráyana’s best-seller gives its reader much more than “Friendly Advice.” In one handy collection—closely related to the world-famous Pañcatantra or Five Discourses on Worldly Wisdom —numerous animal fables are interwoven with human stories, all designed to instruct wayward princes. Tales of canny procuresses compete with those of cunning crows and tigers. An intrusive ass is simply thrashed by his master, but the meddlesome monkey ends up with his testicles crushed. One prince manages to enjoy himself with a merchant’s wife with her husband’s consent, while another is kicked out of paradise by a painted image. This volume also contains the compact version of King Víkrama’s Adventures, thirty-two popular tales about a generous emperor, told by thirty-two statuettes adorning his lion-throne. Co-published by New York University Press and the JJC Foundation For more on this title and other titles in the Clay Sanskrit series, please visit http://www.claysanskritlibrary.org

Book Good Times and Growing Pains

Download or read book Good Times and Growing Pains written by Carroll Dale Short and published by The Institute for Southern Studies. This book was released on with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue, which marks the beginning of our fifth year, combines a number of articles about the good times and growing pains of a South reaching national maturity. It seems appropriate for us to answer, at this time, some of our readers' questions about who we re and what Southern Exposure represents. Early observers thought we'd never make it this far with a regional journal so critical of the powers that be and so preoccupied with the lesser known people, with the struggles and heritage of a culture considered bankrupt by sophisticated America. But, like the South, we have attained a new stability, partly from the spin-off of the media search for Jimmy Carter's South (they have yet to find it) and partly from our appeal to the same hunger for connections to a past, a place, a people, that made Roots a meaningful event for so many.

Book Growing Pains

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  • Author : Shirquoia Padgett
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2018-02-25
  • ISBN : 1387624083
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book Growing Pains written by Shirquoia Padgett and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-02-25 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family secrets. Murder. Affairs. Betrayal. No one said that life would be easy, but it is definitely an adventure. A painful adventure. For headstrong Leilani, playboy Destin, golden-boy Jason, the seemingly perfect Racquel, lonely Summer, and trapboy Tyson finding solace and loyalty in each other is their only safe haven, but when secrets are revealed, will friendship be enough?

Book Black Arts West

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  • Author : Daniel Widener
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2010-03-08
  • ISBN : 0822392623
  • Pages : 385 pages

Download or read book Black Arts West written by Daniel Widener and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-08 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From postwar efforts to end discrimination in the motion-picture industry, recording studios, and musicians’ unions, through the development of community-based arts organizations, to the creation of searing films critiquing conditions in the black working class neighborhoods of a city touting its multiculturalism—Black Arts West documents the social and political significance of African American arts activity in Los Angeles between the Second World War and the riots of 1992. Focusing on the lives and work of black writers, visual artists, musicians, and filmmakers, Daniel Widener tells how black cultural politics changed over time, and how altered political realities generated new forms of artistic and cultural expression. His narrative is filled with figures invested in the politics of black art and culture in postwar Los Angeles, including not only African American artists but also black nationalists, affluent liberal whites, elected officials, and federal bureaucrats. Along with the politicization of black culture, Widener explores the rise of a distinctive regional Black Arts Movement. Originating in the efforts of wartime cultural activists, the movement was rooted in the black working class and characterized by struggles for artistic autonomy and improved living and working conditions for local black artists. As new ideas concerning art, racial identity, and the institutional position of African American artists emerged, dozens of new collectives appeared, from the Watts Writers Workshop, to the Inner City Cultural Center, to the New Art Jazz Ensemble. Spread across generations of artists, the Black Arts Movement in Southern California was more than the artistic affiliate of the local civil-rights or black-power efforts: it was a social movement itself. Illuminating the fundamental connections between expressive culture and political struggle, Black Arts West is a major contribution to the histories of Los Angeles, black radicalism, and avant-garde art.

Book Growing Pains

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  • Author : Paris Love
  • Publisher : iUniverse
  • Release : 2014-04-14
  • ISBN : 1491722061
  • Pages : 254 pages

Download or read book Growing Pains written by Paris Love and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-04-14 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though they are older and wiser, not all is as it seems in the lives of Darren, Kiki, and Myra. Best friends to the end, they still have some lessons to learn. In this second book in the Growing Pains series, the group struggles with betrayal, loss, and, most importantly, commitment. Through ups and downs, heartache and breakups, Darren, Kiki, and Myra find themselves in a quest for self-assurance, confidence, and good, old-fashioned love. But will history repeat itself? Darren has been known to have a wandering eye, and its possible hell cheat again. Will Kiki finally realize the world doesnt revolve around her? Myra has found the true love of her life, but is she happy? Will their children repeat the same mistakes they have? Providing a glimpse into the private lives of couples and relationships, Growing Pains: Sex, Lies, and Deception follows the family lives, careers, and love lives of these characters as they make mistakes and celebrate successes.

Book In Search of the Racial Frontier  African Americans in the American West 1528 1990

Download or read book In Search of the Racial Frontier African Americans in the American West 1528 1990 written by Quintard Taylor and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1999-05-17 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An enthralling work that will be essential reading for years to come." —David Nicholson, Washington Post A landmark history of African Americans in the West, In Search of the Racial Frontier rescues the collective American consciousness from thinking solely of European pioneers when considering the exploration, settling, and conquest of the territory west of the Mississippi. From its surprising discussions of groups of African American wholly absorbed into Native American culture to illustrating how the largely forgotten role of blacks in the West helped contribute to everything from the Brown vs. Board of Education desegregation ruling to the rise of the Black Panther Party, Quintard Taylor fills a major void in American history and reminds us that the African American experience is unlimited by region or social status.

Book Westside

Download or read book Westside written by William Shaw and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An acclaimed author explores the dreams and realities of seven young men trying to make it in South-central Los Angeles, the world capital of gangsta rap and West Coast hip hop.

Book Growing Pains

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  • Author : John P. De Cecco
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1974
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 278 pages

Download or read book Growing Pains written by John P. De Cecco and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Politics in Black and White

Download or read book Politics in Black and White written by Raphael J. Sonenshein and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reaches deep into the past of the city of Los Angeles and carries through to the dramatic events that have recently received global attention--the Rodney King beating and the uprising in South Central L.A. Tracing the evolution of an extraordinary biracial coalition in Los Angeles behind Mayor Tom Bradley, Raphael Sonenshein shows how "crossover" politics and racial violence coexist in urban America. While challenging the prevailing pessimism about biracial coalitions in general, he also compares their relative successes in Los Angeles to their disheartening failures in New York City. What emerges is a probing look at a crucial issue of politics in the United States: can whites and minorities find common ground?

Book Seeking El Dorado

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  • Author : Lawrence B. de Graaf
  • Publisher : University of Washington Press
  • Release : 2014-07-01
  • ISBN : 0295805315
  • Pages : 557 pages

Download or read book Seeking El Dorado written by Lawrence B. de Graaf and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 18th century, African Americans, like many others, have migrated to California to seek fortunes or, often, the more modest goals of being able to find work, own a home, and raise a family relatively free of discrimination. Not only their search but also its outcome is covered in Seeking El Dorado. Whether they settled in major cities or smaller towns, African Americans created institutions and organizations—churches, social clubs, literary societies, fraternal orders, civil rights organizations—that embodied the legacy of their past and the values they shared. Blacks came in search of the same jobs as other Americans, but the search often proved frustrating. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, African American leadership in the state consistently focused on achieving racial justice. The essays in this book speak of triumph and hardship, success, discrimination, and disappointment. Seeking El Dorado is a major contribution to black history and the history of the American West and will be of interest to both scholars and general readers.

Book Growing Pains

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  • Author : Priscilla Ferguson Clement
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Growing Pains written by Priscilla Ferguson Clement and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Growing Pains: Children in the Industrial Age, 1850-1890, the respected scholar Priscilla Ferguson Clement presents an unparalleled survey of the experience of American childhood during this turbulent era. Approaching her subject thematically, Clement chronicles the situation of American children in the spheres of home life, schooling, employment, and play. Detailed attention is given to distilling and clarifying the historical events shaping children's lives during this period, from the Civil War's impact on the children of freed slaves to urbanization's effect on the children of unskilled immigrant laborers; from the rise of the Boy and Girl Scouts and the American Federation of Labor to the grave economic downturns of the 1870s and 1880s; and from the child-rearing practices of Victorian times to the social institutions established to address child poverty and delinquency. Throughout, Clement imbues her text with crisp details and an arresting perspective on the ways in which race, sex, geography, and growing class distinctions influenced all facets of children's lives.

Book In the Name of Elijah Muhammad

Download or read book In the Name of Elijah Muhammad written by Mattias Gardell and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1996-10-07 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Name of Elijah Muhammad tells the story of the Nation of Islam—its rise in northern inner-city ghettos during the Great Depression through its decline following the death of Elijah Muhammad in 1975 to its rejuvenation under the leadership of Louis Farrakhan. Mattias Gardell sets this story within the context of African American social history, the legacy of black nationalism, and the long but hidden Islamic presence in North America. He presents with insight and balance a detailed view of one of the most controversial yet least explored organizations in the United States—and its current leader. Beginning with Master Farad Muhammad, believed to be God in Person, Gardell examines the origins of the Nation. His research on the period of Elijah Muhammad’s long leadership draws on previously unreleased FBI files that reveal a clear picture of the bureau’s attempts to neutralize the Nation of Islam. In addition, they shed new light on the circumstances surrounding the murder of Malcolm X. With the main part of the book focused on the fortunes of the Nation after Elijah Muhammad’s death, Gardell then turns to the figure of Minister Farrakhan. From his emergence as the dominant voice of the radical black Islamic community to his leadership of the Million Man March, Farrakhan has often been portrayed as a demagogue, bigot, racist, and anti-Semite. Gardell balances the media’s view of the Nation and Farrakhan with the Nation’s own views and with the perspectives of the black community in which the organization actively works. His investigation, based on field research, taped lectures, and interviews, leads to the fullest account yet of the Nation of Islam’s ideology and theology, and its complicated relations with mainstream Islam, the black church, the Jewish community, extremist white nationalists, and the urban culture of black American youth, particularly the hip-hop movement and gangs.

Book The Ghetto Solution

Download or read book The Ghetto Solution written by Roland Gilbert and published by WRS Group. This book was released on 1993 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the founding of Simba, the influential organization of successful African American men who attempt to provide role models and help for young boys.

Book Perseverance From the Heart

Download or read book Perseverance From the Heart written by Patrice Watley-Hall and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2004-09-03 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perseverance from the Heart/Poetic Mind Vibes-a book of poetry tells stories of life, love, death and inspirations. It includes photos to illustrate some of the writings. It has been said that Patrice’s writings capture you and touch your heart and soul. You can imagine what she is speaking of as if you she were telling a huge story summed up into few words. People tend to be able to put themselves in the picture and relate to what is being said. She quotes, “There are many stories to be told or read in poetry and spoken word through inner expressions being released through what she calls Poetic Mind Vibes.” Unlike some other poets, her poetry is simple to read with clear understanding but tells an abundance of different true to life situations. She wants readers to know that life is a great gift from God, and without life we would not have any experiences to write about or read about, in order to inspire a better tomorrow. She also wants readers to edify and take something from her words to manifest into their own life.