A powerfully moving book that ';could make graspable why today's prisons are contemporary slave plantations' (Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple), giving voice to the poorest among us and laying bare the cruelty of a penal system that too often defines their lives.
William Evans, the award-winning poet and cofounder of the popular culture website Black Nerd Problems, offers an emotionally vulnerable poetry collection exploring the themes of inheritances, dreams, and injuries that are passed down from one generation to the next and delving into the lived experience of a black man in the American suburbs today.
An immersive account of a commercial fishing disaster at sea whose repercussions haunt its survivors to this day, lauded by New York Times bestselling author Ron Suskind as ';an honest and touching book, and a hell of a story.
This book is not an ethnologic study of the aborigines, but a compilation of experiences, of brief accounts, human and realistic, which allow knowing the different facets of the life of the people living there, their dreams and beliefs, and the consequences that the encounter of cultures and races has brought about.
Our Voices: Indigeneity and Architecture is an exciting advance in the field of architecture offering multiple Indigenous perspectives on architecture and design theory and practice.
"e;Primarily the struggle of the Texans for freedom did not form a part of our war with Mexico, yet this struggle led up directly to the greater war to follow, and it is probably a fact that, had the people of Texas not at first accomplished their freedom, there would have been no war between the two larger republics.
Black Box is a riveting, sobering memoir that chronicles one woman's struggle for justice, calling for changes to an industryand in society at largeto ensure that future victims if sexual assault can come forward without being silenced and humiliated.
Khristi Lauren Adams's faith was first shaped by her experiences as a Black girl--learning about Scripture from her grandmother, Mama Hattie; "playing church" with her seven cousins over summer vacation; and grieving the murder of her sixteen-year-old friend when she was just fifteen.
Optic Subwoof is a collection of talks that poet and National Book Award finalist Douglas Kearney presented for the Bagley Wright Lecture Series in 2020 and 2021.
"e;Green Card STEM Voices"e; is a collection of essays and digital narratives from twenty immigrants and refugees living in Minnesota and working in STEM.
TheNew York Timesbestselling author ofMy Grandmother's Handssurveys America's deterioratingdemocracy and offers embodied practices to help us protect ourselves and our country.
The expansion of Marvel and DC Comics characters such as Black Panther, Luke Cage, and Black Lightning in film and on television has created a proliferation of poetry in this genrereceiving wide literary and popular attention.
The Gullah culture, though borne of isolation and slavery, thrived on the US East Coast sea islands from pre-Civil War times until today, and nowhere more prominently than on Hilton Head Island, SC.
"e;An expansive spectrum of literary purpose and aesthetics that shine fiercely"e; -from the introduction by Jaki Shelton Green, North Carolina Poet LaureateThe Carolina African American Writers Collective celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary with All the Songs We Sing, an anthology of works by members of the Collective, edited by its founder, Lenard D.
When white nationalists and their supporters clashed with counter-demonstrators in the college town of Charlottesville over the removal of a Confederate statue, resulting in the death of one anti-racist activist and the wounding of thirty-five more, a signal moment in American history was reached.
A passionate and heartrending memoir of tragedy and perseverance from a former opioid addict in an opioid addicted community, and an up-close look at America's new health crisis.
In her fourth full-length book, White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia, Kiki Petrosino turns her gaze to Virginia, where she digs into her genealogical and intellectual roots, while contemplating the knotty legacies of slavery and discrimination in the Upper South.
Readers familiar with Lia Purpura's highly praised essay collections-Becoming, On Looking, and Rough Likeness-will know she's a master of observation, a writer obsessed with the interplay between humans and the things they see.
The poems of Witch Wife are spells, obsessive incantations to exorcise or celebrate memory, to mourn the beloved dead, to conjure children or keep them at bay, to faithfully inhabit ones given body.
Walter Johnson, Harvard historian and author of the acclaimed River of Dark Dreams, urges us to embrace a vision of justice attentive to the history of slaverynot through the lens of human rights, but instead through an honest accounting of how slavery was the foundation of capitalism, a legacy that continues to afflict people of color and the poor.
Summary of The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander | Includes Analysis Preview:The New Jim Crow argues that the ongoing War on Drugs and the resulting mass incarceration of African Americans is the moral equivalent of Jim Crow.
La configuración de nuevas identidades en la frontera sur de California resulta un tema urgente y relevante a causa de los numerosos conflictos sociales que presupone.
Included on BookBub's "e;The Most Exciting Memoirs Coming Out in 2018' list Krishan Bedi came to the United States in December of 1961 at the tender age of twenty.
The revelatory memoir of Lezley McSpaddenthe mother of Michael Brown, the African-American teenager killed by the police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri on August 9, 2014sheds light on one of the landmark events in recent history.
Perspectives in Curriculum Studies by Margaret Nalova Endeley and Martha Ashuntantang Zama is a comprehensive textbook for graduate students of Curriculum Studies and Instruction, and a guide for education practitioners wherein they articulate contemporary curriculum concepts, principles and applications in the field.
Finalist for the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for PoetryA landmark collection by National Book Award-winning poet Lucille Clifton, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980 includes the four poetry collections that launched Clifton's career—Good Times, Good News About the Earth, An Ordinary Woman, and Two-Headed Woman—as well as her haunting prose memoir, Generations.
A powerful elixir of hope and determination, Zapantera Negra provides a galvanizing presentation of interviews, militant artwork, and original documents from two movements' struggle for dignity and liberation.
