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Author: Robert Young Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781508860587 Category : Languages : en Pages : 114
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In today's world, many young, gifted, and spiritual black men and boys face the everyday reality that "growing up black" in America can kill you. They have no guarantees from parents, friends, or family that life will last the next second, minute, or hour. B-Down Blaquemen grew up in a loving, caring family in an urban ghetto called Ridgetop. By the time he was a college student in the 1980s, he had learned the value of having someone looking out for you. Every day black men were being harassed by police, threatened and beat up by warring gangs, and exposed to the dangers of being black in a white world. B-Down got into a few scrapes himself when he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. In this story, you will read and feel the truth of the soul and spirituality of what this young author experienced as truth and lies of growing up black, gifted, and protected by his Ghetto Angels - angels who felt his pain, heard his cries, and knew how he wanted life to be what it was supposed to be - whatever that meant for him. One day, returning to his apartment in the projects from college classes, B-Down offers his help to a young girl who he believes has wandered into the wrong neighborhood. He rescues her from what he thinks is a life of prostitution. This is one of those wrong times in the wrong place, and he is arrested. How this angry young man becomes a Ghetto Angel himself is a challenging story for today's world. A ghetto is defined as "a section of a city occupied by a minority group who live there especially because of social, economic or legal pressure." In the Middle Ages in Europe, ghettos were walled off. The walls are different today, yet today's black ghettos still threaten young people. Read today's news. Read how B-Down found himself among the helpers who called themselves Ghetto Angels.
Author: Robert Young Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781508860587 Category : Languages : en Pages : 114
Book Description
In today's world, many young, gifted, and spiritual black men and boys face the everyday reality that "growing up black" in America can kill you. They have no guarantees from parents, friends, or family that life will last the next second, minute, or hour. B-Down Blaquemen grew up in a loving, caring family in an urban ghetto called Ridgetop. By the time he was a college student in the 1980s, he had learned the value of having someone looking out for you. Every day black men were being harassed by police, threatened and beat up by warring gangs, and exposed to the dangers of being black in a white world. B-Down got into a few scrapes himself when he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. In this story, you will read and feel the truth of the soul and spirituality of what this young author experienced as truth and lies of growing up black, gifted, and protected by his Ghetto Angels - angels who felt his pain, heard his cries, and knew how he wanted life to be what it was supposed to be - whatever that meant for him. One day, returning to his apartment in the projects from college classes, B-Down offers his help to a young girl who he believes has wandered into the wrong neighborhood. He rescues her from what he thinks is a life of prostitution. This is one of those wrong times in the wrong place, and he is arrested. How this angry young man becomes a Ghetto Angel himself is a challenging story for today's world. A ghetto is defined as "a section of a city occupied by a minority group who live there especially because of social, economic or legal pressure." In the Middle Ages in Europe, ghettos were walled off. The walls are different today, yet today's black ghettos still threaten young people. Read today's news. Read how B-Down found himself among the helpers who called themselves Ghetto Angels.
Author: Paven Virk Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 1408153998 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 106
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Aunti-ji - noun. a term sometimes used to address women older than oneself. Ji is traditionally used after someone's name to show respect, mainly by the communities of the Indian sub-continent. Somewhere in the city live three elderly, South Asian auntijies who have found themselves together in a refuge for abused women, empty of memories and bereft of their families and friends. Nearby, a new Indian bride has arrived in the country only to find herself in a place that she is utterly unprepared for. The Usual Auntijies is a bitter-sweet new comic-drama that visits the lives of four women as they embark on an inspiring, emotional and comic journey to overcome the past abuse and rediscover their sense of life, love and happiness. Exploring ideas of family and the cultural differences that exist between the East and West, the Auntijies struggle with popular Western culture and provide a hybrid cultural context which amusingly sits alongside the women's otherness and past pain. The Usual Auntijies is a celebration of all women of a particular age whose desires and struggles are too often forgotten.
Author: Cynthia Harris Casteel Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1463491352 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 272
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Frankies Angels will become the next Waiting to Exhale. This one comes with a Maze Concert. Cynthia Harris Casteel tells the story of five women who call themselves Frankies Angels. Their love for Frankie Beverly and Maze has helped them endure the joys and pains of life. They discovered their common denominator on the Maze website and now they are on their way to Washington D.C. to meet at the first Angel Convention and a Maze concert. Some are actually expecting a surprise visit by Mr. Beverly. Before they get to the convention and concert, their life stories are revealed. The reader gets to understand why a Maze Concert is a necessity for these ladies. Frankies Angels are deeply in need of a spiritual healing and only Maze featuring Frankie Beverly can be the fix. Although this work is fiction, Cynthia incorporates real facts about their favorite singer, Frankie Beverly. The reader gets a taste of facts mixed with a toss of fiction. Your imagination will take you along with them to a Maze concert. If you have never attended a Maze concert, this book will take you there and if you have had the fortune of attending a Maze concert, youll understand exactly what they feel. Though the name Frankies Angels gives the angels an angelic tone, youll be shocked to know the real deal about some of the angels from their past to the present. Come meet, Candice, Tish, Twana, Mozelle and Ernestine.divine messengers of light. Be prepared to laugh and cry as you travel on the wings of Frankies Angels. Happy Feelings!
Author: Akeem Nassor Marsh Publisher: Academic Press ISBN: 0128189517 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 674
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Not Just Bad Kids: The Adversity and Disruptive Behavior Link explores the theory that all behavior makes sense in context. If you understand a person’s frame of reference – their background, history and experience – you can imagine what might be driving their behavior. The book describes the social, cultural and environmental factors that shape the lives of many youths, including early childhood attachment which sets the foundation for how they interact with authority figures. The book also delves into an explanation of conduct disorder which is characterized by persistent, repetitive behaviors that violate the basic rights of other human beings and break rules. Studies have shown that conduct disorder affects 1-4% of adolescents in the United States and oppositional defiant disorder is estimated to develop in approximately 10.2% of children. The presence of DBD is also known to be more prevalent in boys than it is in girls. As there is a growing need to understand why children and adolescent exhibit signs of hostility, defiance and isolation, this book is an ideal resource for this timely topic. Encompasses both ODD and conduct disorder Introduces readers to the social, cultural and environmental factors that play a crucial part in disruptive behavior Demonstrates the interrelationship of attachment problems, chronic trauma and disruptive behavior Discusses current best practices for intervention and treatment in youth with disruptive behaviors Provides casework examples of patients with disruptive behavior disorder
Author: Kenneth McLeish Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1783192801 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 99
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A 21st Century interpretation of the ancient myth of Orpheus written in the lyrical style of Greek tragedy. Commissioned by the Actors Touring Company, Orpheus opened with shows Ireland and in Greece and was followed by a full UK tour in 1997.
Author: Alejandro Nava Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226819159 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 257
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This book explores an important aspect of hip-hop that is rarely considered: its deep entanglement with spiritual life. The world of hip-hop is saturated with religion, but rarely is that element given serious consideration. In Street Scriptures, Alejandro Nava focuses our attention on this aspect of the music and culture in a fresh way, combining his profound love of hip-hop, his passion for racial and social justice, and his deep theological knowledge. Street Scriptures offers a refreshingly earnest and beautifully written journey through hip-hop’s deep entanglement with the sacred. Nava reveals a largely unheard religious heartbeat in hip-hop, exploring crosscurrents of the sacred and profane in rap, reggaeton, and Latinx hip-hop today. Ranging from Kendrick Lamar, Chance the Rapper, Lauryn Hill, Cardi B, and Bad Bunny to St. Augustine and William James, Nava examines the ethical-political, mystical-prophetic, and theological qualities in hip-hop, probing the pure sonic and aesthetic signatures of music, while also diving deep into the voices that invoke the spirit of protest. The result is nothing short of a new liberation theology for our time, what Nava calls a “street theology.”
Author: Eduardo Cadava Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 0262376172 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 401
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How reading and writing are collective acts of political pedagogy, and why the struggle for change must begin at the level of the sentence. “Reading is class struggle,” writes Bertolt Brecht. Politically Red contextualizes contemporary demands for social and racial justice by exploring the shifting relations between politics and literacy. Through a series of creative readings of Karl Marx, Rosa Luxemburg, Walter Benjamin, W. E. B. Du Bois, Fredric Jameson, and others, it casts light on history as an accumulation of violence and, in doing so, suggests that it can become a crucial resource for confronting the present insurgence of inequality, racism, and fascism. Reading between the lines, as it were, and even behind them, Cadava and Nadal-Melsió engage in an inventive mode of activist writing to argue that reading and writing are never solitary tasks, but always collaborative and collective, and able to revitalize our shared political imagination. Drawing on what they call a “red common-wealth”—an archive of vast resources for doing political work and, in particular, anti-racist work—they demonstrate that sentences, as dynamic repositories of social relations, are historical and political events.
Author: Russell Nieli Publisher: Encounter Books ISBN: 1594035822 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 499
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Racial preference policies first came on the national scene as a response to black poverty and alienation in America as dramatically revealed in the destructive urban riots of the late 1960s. From the start, however, preference policies were controversial and were greeted by many, including many who had fought the good fight against segregation and Jim Crow to further a color-blind justice, with a sense of outrage and deep betrayal. In the more than forty years that preference policies have been with us little has changed in terms of public opinion, as polls indicate that a majority of Americans continue to oppose such policies, often with great intensity. In Wounds That Will Not Heal political theorist Russell K. Nieli surveys some of the more important social science research on racial preference policies over the past two decades, much of which, he shows, undermines the central claims of preference policy supporters. The mere fact that preference policies have to be referred to through an elaborate system of euphemisms and code words-- "affirmative action," "diversity," "goals and timetables," "race sensitive admissions"-- tells us something, Nieli argues, about their widespread unpopularity, their tendency to reinforce negative stereotypes about their intended beneficiaries, and their incompatibility with core principles of American justice. Nieli concludes with an impassioned plea to refocus our public attention on the "truly disadvantaged" African American population in our nation's urban centers--the people for whom affirmative action policies were initially instituted but whose interests, Nieli charges, were soon forgotten as the fruits of the policies were hijacked by members of the black and Hispanic middle class. Few will be able to read this book without at least questioning the wisdom of our current race-based preference regime, which Nieli analyses with a penetrating gaze and an eye for cant that will leave few unmoved.
Author: Ernie Paniccioli Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 006230691X Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 275
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Nearly thirty years ago, Ernie Paniccioli, considered by many to be the James Van Der Zee of the hiphop generation, began photographing graffiti art throughout New York City as well as the young people creating it. Armed with a 35-millimeter camera, Paniccioli literally recorded the beginning salvos of hiphop, today the most dominant youth culture on the planet. Be it Grandmaster Flash at the Roxy, a summer block party in the Bronx, the fresh faces of Jay-Z and Will Smith, the cocksure personas of Tupac Shakur, The Notorious B.I.G., and Eminem, or the regal grace of Lauryn Hill, Ernie Paniccioli has been there to showcase hiphop’s emerging talent. With more than 200 photographs that have been culled from a vast archive, Who Shot Ya? is the first major pictorial history of hiphop culture.
Author: Robert Young
Author: Robert Young
Author: Paven Virk
Author: Robert H. Young
Author: Cynthia Harris Casteel
Author: Akeem Nassor Marsh
Author: Kenneth McLeish
Author: Alejandro Nava
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Author: Russell Nieli
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