Author: Vershawn Ashanti Young Publisher: Wayne State University Press ISBN: 9780814332481 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 196
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An engrossing autobiographical exploration of black masculinity as a mode of racial and verbal performance.
Author: Randall Kennedy Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0307538915 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 210
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Randall Kennedy takes on not just a word, but our laws, attitudes, and culture with bracing courage and intelligence—with a range of reference that extends from the Jim Crow south to Chris Rock routines and the O. J. Simpson trial. It’s “the nuclear bomb of racial epithets,” a word that whites have employed to wound and degrade African Americans for three centuries. Paradoxically, among many Black people it has become a term of affection and even empowerment. The word, of course, is nigger, and in this candid, lucidly argued book the distinguished legal scholar Randall Kennedy traces its origins, maps its multifarious connotations, and explores the controversies that rage around it. Should Blacks be able to use nigger in ways forbidden to others? Should the law treat it as a provocation that reduces the culpability of those who respond to it violently? Should it cost a person his job, or a book like Huckleberry Finn its place on library shelves?
Author: James Whitaker Publisher: Page Publishing Inc ISBN: 1635681936 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 70
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A Message to My Black People: Stop Being the Nigga in America, first of all, is not meant to anger or disparage anyone. I wrote this book to help my people understand that we can do things a whole lot better as a people in order to earn and gain the respect as a people that we feel we deserve. Our slave ancestors endured too much for too long for us not to respect and reflect upon that and to make ourselves better. Our people and others devoted to the cause during the civil
Author: Maya Thomas Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 45
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MarieFromthe303's newest and revamped work, Abookaboutniggas Vol.1--Deluxe Edition, is a captivating potpourri of her heritage, revelations, and experiences that serve as illuminations of the soul to any reader brave enough to explore her world. Marie Thomas is a 24-year old graduate of Spelman College ℅ 2019 in Atlanta, GA currently residing in her hometown of Denver, CO. The Afro-Latina novelist puts forth the deluxe edition of her book to include stories from her blog, additional frustrations about her college experience that dually grant nirvanic life lessons, and more content to illuminate how the different aspects of her identity collide to work for a grander purpose. -- M. Valentino
Author: Vershawn Ashanti Young Publisher: Parlor Press LLC ISBN: 1643170449 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 202
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With a new Foreword by April Baker-Bell and a new Preface by Vershawn Ashanti Young and Y’Shanda Young-Rivera, Other People’s English: Code-Meshing, Code-Switching, and African American Literacy presents an empirically grounded argument for a new approach to teaching writing to diverse students in the English language arts classroom. Responding to advocates of the “code-switching” approach, four uniquely qualified authors make the case for “code-meshing”—allowing students to use standard English, African American English, and other Englishes in formal academic writing and classroom discussions. This practical resource translates theory into a concrete road map for pre- and inservice teachers who wish to use code-meshing in the classroom to extend students’ abilities as writers and thinkers and to foster inclusiveness and creativity. The text provides activities and examples from middle and high school as well as college and addresses the question of how to advocate for code-meshing with skeptical administrators, parents, and students. Other People’s English provides a rationale for the social and educational value of code-meshing, including answers to frequently asked questions about language variation. It also includes teaching tips and action plans for professional development workshops that address cultural prejudices.
Author: Louis M. Maraj Publisher: University Press of Colorado ISBN: 1646421477 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 209
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Black or Right: Anti/Racist Campus Rhetorics explores notions of Blackness in white institutional—particularly educational—spaces. In it, Louis M. Maraj theorizes how Black identity operates with/against ideas of difference in the age of #BlackLivesMatter. Centering Blackness in frameworks for antiracist agency through interdisciplinary Black feminist lenses, Black or Right asks how those racially signifying “diversity” in US higher education (and beyond) make meaning in the everyday. Offering four Black rhetorics as antiracist means for rhetorical reclamation—autoethnography, hashtagging, inter(con)textual reading, and reconceptualized disruption—the book uses Black feminist relationality via an African indigenous approach. Maraj examines fluid, quotidian ways Black folk engage anti/racism at historically white institutions in the United States in response to violent campus spaces, educational structures, protest movements, and policy practice. Black or Right’s experimental, creative style strives to undiscipline knowledge from academic confinement. Exercising different vantage points in each chapter—autoethnographer, digital media scholar/pedagogue, cultural rhetorician, and critical discourse analyst—Maraj challenges readers to ecologically understand shifting, multiple meanings of Blackness in knowledge-making. Black or Right’s expressive form, organization, narratives, and poetics intimately interweave with its argument that Black folk must continuously invent “otherwise” in reiterative escape from oppressive white spaces. In centering Black experiences, Black theory, and diasporic Blackness, Black or Right mobilizes generative approaches to destabilizing institutional whiteness, as opposed to reparative attempts to “fix racism,” which often paradoxically center whiteness. It will be of interest to both academic and general readers and significant for specialists in cultural rhetorics, Black studies, and critical theory.
Author: Hydiea Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781726259910 Category : Languages : en Pages : 188
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Description Mica's just a southside Chi Town girl who's never been shown true love. She's craving it from the man that knows her inside and out, a man that think he knows her, and the best friend who doesn't know her so well. Mica left a hectic lifestyle in hopes that the grass was greener on the other side, only to find out its just as dark. Mike is the first love of her life. Wes is the love of her life. What to do when you have two wrongs that both feel right? Both are south siders, but which one really has her heart? Will either of them change for her? Are they even worthy of her love? At the same time, she has a messed-up view of what love should really be. In this book of love, lies, and deceit, find out what Mica's next move will be! Maybe there's no hope for love on the southside of Chicago. Or will she ruin her only chance at love?
Author: Authoress Secret Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: 9781798753606 Category : Languages : en Pages : 152
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I am on some new shit and I know it sucks for my nigga Victor because I put his ass down and have never looked back. He was a bitch ass nigga and I don't want shit from his ass. The cost of my love has gone up. I am no longer associating myself with a broken down man that can't figure out a hundred ways to make a million dollars.Fuck that wifey shit. What does that really mean? When his ass dies a bitch isn't entitled to a damn thing. That wifey shit is counterfeit as fuck. If a nigga can't provide a mortgage, a wedding ring and his name then we can't even live as man and wife. I am not about to be a fuck nigga fake ass wife and I am on some real shit.If a nigga tells you that his funky ass is a PLAYER 4 LIFE, please run. Just leave that no-good buster by his motherfucking self. Trust me, in the end, you won't NEVER EVER regret.
Author: Vershawn Ashanti Young
Author: Vershawn Ashanti Young
Author: Vershawn Ashanti Young
Author: Randall Kennedy
Author: James Whitaker
Author: Maya Thomas
Author: Vershawn Ashanti Young
Author: Louis M. Maraj
Author: Hydiea
Author: Authoress Secret