Urban communities

These lessons and stories of truths take root in Eli, and as he grows into a young adult, he begins to place his thoughts onto paper in the form of controversial poems and creative writings.

Have you ever, in your wildest dreams, imagined yourself being blind?

The Black man from birth until death has been saddled with systemic racism, discrimination, and police violence.

Seeing like a city means recognizing that cities are living things made up of a tangle of networks, built up from the agency of countless actors.

The purpose of my book, The Tip of the Arrow, A Study in Leadership, is to share with young people of today and tomorrow the story of young people like me at age sixteen as the blueprint of the Selma Student Nonviolent Civil Rights movement, a significant impacting factor in the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the dominating influence leading to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Un acontecimiento extraordinario que vivencio una familia de clase media, ahora se convierte en historia, gracias a la valentia de su madre, quien decidio compartir su aventura y hacer un libro de hechos que muchas veces no somos capaces de entender ni explicar.

Fifty years ago, urban waterfronts were industrial, polluted, and diseased.

This long-awaited book is the most detailed and up-to-date account of the complex history of Pueblo Indian land in New Mexico, beginning in the late seventeenth century and continuing to the present day.

Despite over four hundred years of slavery and intimidation, the Black man continues to be dehumanized, delegitimized, degraded, and destroyed.

In 1998, roughly 2 million visitors came to see what there was to see in Nashville.

The Corso: The Real Nuyorican Salsa Story is a must-read book not just because it's a fantastic and incredible story of success but also it's a historic legacy of how it was at the beginning of the salsa movement.

Just me because of Him.

Real conversations about racism need to start now Let's Talk Race confronts why white people struggle to talk about race, why we need to own this problem, and how we can learn to do the work ourselves and stop expecting Black people to do it for us.

This book is instructional guide on to become complete in the family of God.

Walk with Me is a story about the transformative power of friendship.

The book is about overcoming statistics that the world and people label you, according to where you live, your past, and the people you hang with.

Golden Nuggets is a collection of stories of the old South, stories of African American communities of the old South, and stories of successful African American youth of the old South.

Lewis Johnson is the episodic biography of an elderly African American looking back over his life as it nears its end.

This is the first book in Polity's new 'Urban Futures' series.

School Is a Joke: Ethnography of Inner City Public School Students' Perception and Sensemaking of School and Schooling explored minority and low-SES inner-city high school students' perception and sense-making of school, schooling, learning, academic behaviors, and academic achievement through an integrated theory of human development, learning, and achievement.

A spiritually driven book about a boy destined for 40 years of pain.

Least Likely to Succeed by Milton Ford Wright__________________________________

Living in a world of darkness caused Dionna to tailspin into self-harming behavior.

Imagine a time in the future when science has developed the means to allow the political socioeconomic playing field to level itself, giving everyone adequate food, shelter, clothing, health care, and sufficient education, and outlawing warfare.

“Essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary life in China, and highly recommended for memoir enthusiasts in general.

After landing a job in the auto plant in the Motor City, Detroit, it seemed inevitable that Michael would follow in his family's footsteps.

Our Successful Struggle by Kenneth Stewart__________________________________

The author attended university in Switzerland.

My Life and Times is the narrative of a life both ordinary and extraordinary.

From the roots of a spiritual theory, the major objective of this book is intended to prove no race is superior over another.

Struggles over land and water have determined much of New Mexico's long history.

Born in Japan from samurai lineage, Chica Tadakuma Sugino was raised by a wet nurse and brought to America as a young girl on the aspirations of a father chasing after the American dream.

A decade of crime, treachery, and adventures of the Medellin Cartel.

From the doorways of Hell to the gates of Heaven!

Nacido en las faldas del Yunque, Puerto Rico, en 1942, el autor emigro a la ciudad de Nueva York en 1959.

River-cane baskets woven by the Chitimachas of south Louisiana are universally admired for their beauty and workmanship.

1993 Choice Outstanding Academic Book, sponsored by Choice Magazine.

Welcome to Madison Park, a small community in Alabama founded by freed slaves in 1880.

Estimados lectores, les mando un saludo en donde quiera que esten, y tambien les hago saber que mi libro no habla de aventuras, ni tampoco de cosas extravagantes.

This book has taken many years and has caused a lot of sweat, blood, and tears.

All Cracked Up is a story of how, through prayer, God can bring anyone back from the addiction of crack cocaine!

Over the years, I have written several stories.

Bringing Up the Ones Left Behind: How Education Moved an African American Family from the Fields of Poverty to Living the American Dream will share the following:Good interpersonal family communication being the most important aspect when trying to reach agreements as to how to get the resources to fund college educationHow successful African American families who themselves have used the "e;bootstrap"e; philosophy to escape poverty are encouraged to reach back and provide assistance to struggling young studentsExamples and evidence that by earning a college education, one can overcome their poverty statusThe role and importance of the community church, in many ways, when considering college education

Hip-hop artist, documentary producer, and president of the largest independent record label in the country, J.

Camping with Geronimo is the intersection of the legend of Geronimo-the 1880s and 1890s Old West history, government, and technology, all set in family camping adventures.

The essays commissioned for this book analyze the impact of city living on health, focusing primarily on conditions in the United States.

The reader will find the book revealing with sporadic tragedy and humor.