Manchild In The Promised Land
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Author | : Claude Brown |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2012-01-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1451626673 |
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Manchild in the Promised Landis indeed one of the most remarkable autobiographies of our time. This thinly fictionalized account of Claude Brown's childhood as a hardened, streetwise criminal trying to survive the toughest streets of Harlem has been heralded as the definitive account of everyday life for the first generation of African Americans raised in the Northern ghettos of the 1940s and 1950s. When the book was first published in 1965, it was praised for its realistic portrayal of Harlem - the children, young people, hardworking parents; the hustlers, drug dealers, prostitutes, and numbers runners; the police; the violence, sex, and humour. The book continues to resonate generations later, not only because of its fierce and dignified anger, not only because the struggles of urban youth are as deeply felt today as they were in Brown's time, but also because the book is affirmative and inspiring. Here is the story about the one who "made it," the boy who kept landing on his feet and became a man.
Author | : Claude Brown |
Publisher | : Scarborough House |
Total Pages | : 654 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
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The children of Ham are a group of young people ranging in age from fourteen to twenty-two, who live in a condemned tenement in upper Harlem, a shell of a building owned by New York City. The children look out for themselves; they are a self-constituted family. They give to each other what they cannot get anywhere else: friendship and a sense of belonging. As you eavesdrop on their conversations, you learn about the families who abandoned -- or who abandoned them. Home for the children of Ham is this wreck of a house, the Harlem castle where they protect and sustain each other on hope as tenuous as life. It is their life that brims over in this book by Claude Brown. -- From publisher's description.
Author | : Michael Bennett |
Publisher | : Haymarket Books |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 2019-09-03 |
Genre | : Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1642590797 |
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Michael Bennett is a Super Bowl Champion, a three-time Pro Bowl defensive end, a fearless activist, a feminist, an organizer, and a change maker. He's also one of the most humorous athletes on the planet, and he wants to make you uncomfortable. Bennett adds his voice to discussions of racism and police violence, Black athletes and their relationship to powerful institutions like the NCAA and the NFL, the role of protest in history, and the responsibilities of athletes as role models to speak out against injustice. Following in the footsteps of activist-athletes from Muhammad Ali to Colin Kaepernick, Bennett demonstrates his outspoken leadership both on and off the field. Written with award-winning sportswriter and author Dave Zirin, Sitting Down to Stand Up is a sports book for young people who want to make a difference, a memoir, and a book as hilarious and engaging as it is illuminating.
Author | : William M. Washington |
Publisher | : Cliffs Notes |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1971-11-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780822008118 |
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Includes the life of Claude Brown, a list of characters, critical commentaries, character analyses, and more.
Author | : Marta E. Sánchez |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2009-07-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0292774788 |
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The second phase of the civil rights movement (1965-1973) was a pivotal period in the development of ethnic groups in the United States. In the years since then, new generations have asked new questions to cast light on this watershed era. No longer is it productive to consider only the differences between ethnic groups; we must also study them in relation to one another and to U.S. mainstream society. In "Shakin' Up" Race and Gender, Marta E. Sánchez creates an intercultural frame to study the historical and cultural connections among Puerto Ricans, African Americans, and Chicanos/as since the 1960s. Her frame opens up the black/white binary that dominated the 1960s and 1970s. It reveals the hidden yet real ties that connected ethnics of color and "white" ethnics in a shared intercultural history. By using key literary works published during this time, Sánchez reassesses and refutes the unflattering portrayals of ethnics by three leading intellectuals (Octavio Paz, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and Oscar Lewis) who wrote about Chicanos, African Americans, and Puerto Ricans. She links their implicit misogyny to the trope of La Malinche from Chicano culture and shows how specific characteristics of this trope—enslavement, alleged betrayal, and cultural negotiation—are also present in African American and Puerto Rican cultures. Sánchez employs the trope to restore the agency denied to these groups. Intercultural contact—encounters between peoples of distinct ethnic groups—is the theme of this book.
Author | : Marcia Kunstel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1992-06 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780517086353 |
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Author | : Sam Greenlee |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780814322468 |
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A classic in the black literary tradition, The Spook Who Sat by the Door is both a comment on the civil rights problems in the United States in the late 1960s and a serious attempt to focus on the issue of black militancy. Dan Freeman, the "spook who sat by the door," is enlisted in the CIA's elitist espionage program. Upon mastering agency tactics, however, he drops out to train young Chicago blacks as "Freedom Fighters" in this explosive, award-winning novel. As a story of one man's reaction to ruling-class hypocrisy, the book is autobiographical and personal. As a tale of a man's reaction to oppression, it is universal.
Author | : Nathan McCall |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2011-01-26 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0307787680 |
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • One of our most visceral and important memoirs on race in America, this is the story of Nathan McCall, who began life as a smart kid in a close, protective family in a black working-class neighborhood. Yet by the age of fifteen, McCall was packing a gun and embarking on a criminal career that five years later would land him in prison for armed robbery. In these pages, McCall chronicles his passage from the street to the prison yard—and, later, to the newsrooms of The Washington Post and ultimately to the faculty of Emory University. His story is at once devastating and inspiring, at once an indictment and an elegy. Makes Me Wanna Holler became an instant classic when it was first published in 1994 and it continues to bear witness to the great troubles—and the great hopes—of our nation. With a new afterword by the author
Author | : Viorel Bilauca |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015-05-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781504912693 |
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A true story. "Share the story." That is the feedback from many Romanians readers, short after this book was published in Romania. The unusual act of faith and courage to escape from atheist Romania, ten years before the revolution that took place in 1989. The story of taken final decision to escape from ideological slavery and from an administration were the terminology of Human Rights was pulled out from the Dictionary. The highest risk payed off. Leaving behind everything, including wife and children, likewise the people of Israel left Egypt after 400 years of slavery, and went to unknown... Promised Land. Now he lives in Scottsdale Arizona.
Author | : Colson Whitehead |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2009-04-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0385529392 |
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FINALIST • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys: a hilarious and supremely original novel set in the Hamptons in the 1980s, "a tenderhearted coming-of-age story fused with a sharp look at the intersections of race and class” (The New York Times). Benji Cooper is one of the few Black students at an elite prep school in Manhattan. But every summer, Benji escapes to the Hamptons, to Sag Harbor, where a small community of Black professionals have built a world of their own. The summer of ’85 won’t be without its usual trials and tribulations, of course. There will be complicated new handshakes to fumble through and state-of-the-art profanity to master. Benji will be tested by contests big and small, by his misshapen haircut (which seems to have a will of its own), by the New Coke Tragedy, and by his secret Lite FM addiction. But maybe, just maybe, this summer might be one for the ages. Look for Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Crook Manifesto, coming soon!