The miracle of the black family is that it has survived and grown stronger over the years. Eighteen case studies provide a window through which we see patterns of variation in the life-styles of affluent, middle-class, working-class, and poor black families. A new feature of this edition is the overview that compares the way of life of blacks in the three social classes. A comparative analysis of black and of white families is introduced.
In confronting discrimination, racism, rejection, and alienation, many people of color are turning toward a move spiritual approach to solving the problems that are unique to them. Here is a book of positive meditations that is sure to raise the consciousness of any reader.
This landmark work challenges every accepted notion about the nature of black women's lives. All progressive struggles are significant only when taking place within a feminist movement, which states that race class & sex are immutable facts of exist
About her life as an activist, in a book rich in belief in the world as savable, if only we will act on our beliefs. Here are a superb writer's thoughts on politics, culture, feminism, race, religion, raising a daughter, writing and living
It has all elements needed to become a classic in the field. The background which engenders the book's valuable presentation of specific techniques and it's true centribution.
Black Women, Feminism, And Black Liberation, methodically examines the historical relationship between women's issues and the Black liberation movement in terms of traditional coalition perspectives, economic inequality and the historic oppression of Black women.
Micheline R. Malson-
The University of Chicago-
1988
This is an extremely useful guide to both the history and current status of African American women. The majority of the entries are biographical; organizations, movements, and the place of black women in the arts, literature, and various professions are also thoroughly discussed.
Edwards and Polite focus on African American baby-boomers who have grown up possessing something no generation of African Americans has ever before experienced--entitlement. Surprising and often controversial, this groundbreaking book stands as vivid testimony to the increasingly complex world in which African Americans strive to succeed.
Feminist, educator, African American spokeswoman, and "Sister Prez" to thousands of alumnae of Spelman College, where she has been President for the last seven years--Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole tells young African American women how to take an active role in making their world a better place.
Arthur Ashe & Aronald Rampersad-
Ballantine Book, NY-
1993
A tireless crusader for racial and social justice, a triumphant star in the all-white world of professional tennis, an outspoken voice on AIDS issues--Arthur Ashe was all of these and more. Gone too soon, Ashe has left behind an eloquent testament to his deepest beliefs with this book.
Different & Wonderful: Raising Black Children in a Race-Conscious Society
Drs. Darlene Powell-Hopson & Derek S. Hopson-
Fireside, N.Y.-
1992
Renowned psychologists Darlene Powell Hopson and Derek S. Hopson explore the sometimes tough, sometimes unspoken, questions that face the Black middle-class today, particularly parents.
Twenty-five years ago, Essence magazine was founded as a forum for African-American women to address a full complement of lifestyle issues. This visually stunning book surveys more than two decades of changing times as reflected in the pages of this enormously popular and influential publication.
Richard Newman & Marcia Sawyer-
Plume/Penguin-
1996
Most Americans are woefully uninformed when it comes to their own history, and most standard history books provide little, if any, information on African Americans. Using a lively question-and-answer format, this book fills that void, bringing to life the tremendous impact African Americans have had on this country's history.
Eyewitness: A Living Documentry of the African Am. Contribution to American History
In this extraordinary selection of the writings, speeches, and reminiscences of African-Americans, Katz creates a chronicle that reflects the true experiences of a people often neglected or misrepresented in other histories. Contributors include Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Nat Turner, Martin Luther King, Jr., and many others.
Lorraine Elena Roses&
Ruth Elizabeth Randolph-
G.K. Hall & Co.-
1990
In this groundbreaking collection of literary biographies, many with pictures, the authors chronicle the lives and works of 100 black women novelists, including Zora Neale Hurston, Katherine Dunham, Angelina Weld Grimke, Mary Eliza Church Terrell, and Ida Bell Wells-Barnett. 25 halftones.
Lorenz Graham's years as a teacher in Liberia, his visits in other countries help him write effectively about problems, changes and developments in the life of Momolu
1st black woman to attend the University of Georgia. Recounts her transformation from a girl who grew up wanting to be Brenda Starr to a young woman who w/quiet confidence crosses America's racial divide.
Harriet A. Jacobs-
Harvard University Press, Cambridge-
1987
The true story of an individual's struggle for self-identity, Self-preservation, and freedom, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl remains among the few extant slave narratives written by a woman. Jacobs writes frankly of the horrors she suffered as a slave, her eventual escape after several unsuccessful attempts, and her seven years in self-imposed exile, hiding in a coffin-like "garret" attached to her grandmother's porch. A rare firsthand account of a courageous woman's determination and endurance, this inspirational story also represents a valuable historical record of the continuing battle for freedom and the preservation of family.
A biography of the controversial abolitionist who played a role in the Pottawatomie massacre, the northward movement of runaway slaves, and the raid on Harper's Ferry.
This book offers clarity, healing, and restoration to a generation of men- believers and non-believers confused about their God- given purpose and vision.
Paul L. Woods & Felix H. Liddell-
Harper Collins-
1993
Christmas in African-American communities is a rich and varied blend of traditions that reach back hundreds of years. And since 1966, Kwanzaa has given us a new opportunity to reaffirm our beliefs in sharing, thanksgiving, rejoicing and reuniting with family and friends.
"The only tired I was, was tired of giving in." These are the simple yet eloquent words of Rosa Parks, who on December 1, 1955, refused to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated bus, sparking the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott. Written in her own straightforward and moving language, this is her compelling story.
An urban artist running from her past becomes the unwitting catalyst that exposes an entire town’s legacy of guilt. Carole Rio arrives in a small Texas border town to paint Murals on the mission church- a church, she finds, that no longer exists. In discovering the history of the town’s cure, she faces the source of her own terrifying nightmares and her previous inability to love.
In this biography, Painter (history, Princeton Univ.) traces Truth's life and legacy, detailing her early life as Isabella, who was born a slave; her self-transformation to Sojourner Truth; and her strength and perseverance in pursuing her causes.
Diggs, puts her experience to work in this handy guide to help young blacks, and she does it by breaking the process down to basics: how to look for a job, how to act once you get the job, and how to improve your situation within the context of the job. Diggs also discusses black executives in white-owned businesses, and she encourages black entrepreneurship, explaining methods of getting started with one's own business
More than 40 years ago, three girls from the Detroit projects made the world 'Stop!' and take notice of their fresh harmonies and classy style. Cultivated by the Motown star machine, Mary Wilson, Diana Ross, and Florence Ballard popped onto the charts with hits like "Baby Love" and "Where Did Our Love Go" and made the Supremes not only a household name, but rock and roll legends. The story of their journey to fame is one that fairy tales are made of—complete with battles, tragedies, and triumphs. It's a story that only one of the founders of this talented trio is able or willing to share with the world. In "Dreamgirls & Supreme Faith: My Life as a Supreme", Supremes' co-founder Mary Wilson boldly brings to life all the intimate details of the group's struggle to top the charts. This is the first book to tell the complete story of Mary's courageous life from childhood through the height of the Supremes, to the turn of the century.
If there was any one man who articulated the anger, the struggle, and the beliefs of African American in the 1960’s, that man was Malcolm X. His autobiography is now an established classic of modern America, a book that expresses like none other the crucial truth about our violent times.
A companion volume to The Black Diaspora, this groundbreaking work tells the fascinating and horrifying story of the Islamic slave trade. Islam's Black Slaves documents a centuries-old institution that still survives, and traces the business of slavery and its repercussions from Islam's inception in the seventh century, through its history in China, India, Iran, Turkey, Egypt, Libya, and Spain, and on to Sudan and Mauritania, where, even today, slaves continue to be sold.
John Hope Franklin-
University of Missiouri Press-
1993
Distilling more than two centuries of history, John Hope Franklin reflects on the most tragic and persistent social problem in our nation's history - the color line - as it becomes our legacy for the next century. The Color Line originated as three lectures delivered at the University of Missouri-Columbia in April 1992, just one day after the "not guilty" verdict was returned in the trial of Los Angeles police officers in the beating of Rodney King. The violence that shook Los Angeles and soon erupted in other cities across the country provided a dramatic backdrop for Franklin's message: the color line holds fast - in education, in housing, in health care, and in the legal system. Franklin illuminates some of the key episodes in our nation's history that have brought us to the present day. He traces America's forward and backward steps on the path toward racial equality, from the Carter administration's record number of appointments of African Americans to the bench to the Reagan administration's effort to continue support for educational institutions that persisted in racial discrimination and segregation.
Born into poverty in jamaica, deserted when her parents emigrate, and raped by her uncle at age 9, Gwendolen is happy to move to London to care for siblings she 's never met. It's not until she's raped again when she decides to take control of her life.
In this fourth volume of her highly acclaimed autobiographical series, the esteemed poet and author continues the story of her remarkable and sometimes turbulent life, beginning with her days as a singer-dancer in New York City, When her love for writing blossomed at the Harlem Writers Guild. Then there were fiery times as the northern coordinator of Martin Luther King’s History-making quest and more impassioned moments when she promised her heart to one man only to have it stolen, virtually on her wedding day, by an African freedom fighter. Through her eloquent prose, Angelou shares her fondest dreams, her heartfelt disappointments, and her loving relationship with her teenaged son. Filled with unforgettable vignettes of famous figures, from Billie holiday top Malcolm x.
Stikoff’s book is a useful survey for struggle for racial equality and justice from the Brown decision to 1980. It should be particularly useful to students and teachers who need an enlightened understanding of these events and their significance in history, sociology, and political science courses. Sitkoff graphically portrays the drama of the era, the importance of the participants, and the real advancement of civil rights for all Americans, which was secured in this significant period of our history.
Up from Slavery chronicles the life and times of Booker T. Washington. In this captivating autobiography, Washington recounts his personal voyage from the shackles of slavery to the pinnacle of prominence. The Tuskegee Institute, later to become today's Tuskegee University, plays a large role in the book, so much so that the latter half of Up from Slavery is as much about Tuskegee as it is about Washington.
When and Where I Enter is an eloquent testimonial to the profound influence of African-American women on race and women's movements throughout American history. Drawing on speeches, diaries, letters, and other original documents, Paula Giddings powerfully portrays how black women have transcended racist and sexist attitudes—often confronting white feminists and black male leaders alike—to initiate social and political reform.
In Asian Americans: an interpretive history Sucheng Chan incisively examines the Asian American experience, weaving together the stories of Americans of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, and Asian Indian ancestry from the mid nineteenth century to the present. Chan includes an account of the influx of a million refugees and immigrants from Vietnam, Laos, and Kampuchea since 1975. Economic survival, community structure, resistance to oppression family formation, internment and military service during world war II, changing socioeconomic status, educational achievements, political activities, and cultural expressions are all deftly analyzed.
Herbert Barringer, Robert W. Gardiner, Michael J. Levin-
Russell Sage Foundation-
1995
The best demographic overview, it makes a strong case for Asian American success without overlooking genuine problems. The major question addressed in this book is : how well are the new Asian immigrants adapting to American society? The authors argue and convincingly demonstrate that the response to the question is much more complex than suggested by articles in the popular press and important book and its highly recommended.
A writer and visual artist preserves her father's memories of his coming-of-age in China in the 1930's and '40s during the Japanese occupation. This color-illustrated odyssey makes for a spellbinding tale which explores Baba's human and spiritual influences.
In this collection of essays, Asian American feminists unleash a searing critique of politics as usual to forge a radical political and cultural movement of their own. Contributors include:
From India to Sudan to England, and finally to the island of Manhattan, poet Meena Alexander traces her growth as a writer and a woman over borders, through decades, and across cultures. Memories of a privileged childhood in postcolonial India and Africa surface amid her present life in multicultural America
Lee, Marie G.-
HarperCollins Publishers Inc.-
2002
As she tries to enjoy her senior year and choose which college to attend, Korean American Ellen Sung must deal with the prejudice of some on her classmates and pressure from her parents to get good grades.
Halls of Jade Walls of Stone; Women in China today
in this important book, Chinese women speak out for the first time on issues crucial to their lives. On a 4,000-mile journey to eleven provinces, cities and villages in china, interviewed forty-five women, representing a cross section of Chinese society. They are a sampling of the older and younger generations – those who fought with Mao Tse-tung’s armies against chinag Kai-shek’s forces and the Japanese and those who cut their teeth on the cultural revolution.
This is particularly unfortunate in stories about self-discovery, such as "Rose Colored," in which the well-balanced Rose compares her life to her go-go dancing cousin
Nakano's work is the first historical survey of Japanese American women to appear in the United States. It sheds new light on the largely invisible lives of the Issei (first generation), Nisei (second generation), and Sansei (third generation) women . Drawing from a number of sources, Nakano recounts how Japanese cultural values shaped the pioneer women's responses to the hardships they faced, while their American-born daughters grappled with balancing traditional values with American norms.
Making More Waves: New Writing by Asian American Women
The work here is compelling and disturbing enough to stand on its own--particularly in its descriptions of destructive power imbalances between men and women who absorb the traditional South Asian beliefs about gender difference.
Agnes Smedley worked in and wrote about China from 1928 to 1941. These 18 pieces — all out of print and most unavailable even in public libraries — are based on interviews with revolutionary women. They include descriptions of the massacre of feminists in the Canton commune, of the silk workers of Canton whose solidarity earns them the charge of lesbianism, and of Mother Tsai, a 60-year-old peasant who leads village women in smashing an opium den. This book is a moving document of a people in the throes of revolution, with rare photographs taken by Smedley.
This is a fabulous collection of stories, old and new, that speak of the warrior spirit in every woman. From ancient tales of China, where women train in the skills of sword and sorcery, to more modern tales of women achieving power and realizing their inherent strength during the cultural reforms of communism. This book explores the tradition of the swordswoman in the far East, cultures more widely known for their subservient feminine roles.
Second Generation: Ethnic Identity Among Asian Americans
Wei analyzes the Asian American women’s movement, the alternative press, Asian American studies programs, community based organizations, Maoist sects, and Asian American involvement in electoral politics. Interviews with many key participants in the Movement and photographs of Asian American demonstrations and events enliven this portrayal of the Movement’s development, breadth, and conflicts.
A story about the author’s mother, whose spirit and courage enabled her to triumph over hardship, loneliness, and despair familiar to all immigrants. Her story is worthy of admiration, giving otherwise ordinary lives a dignity and purpose that enlarges them.
Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Fransisco
The crippling custon of footbinding is the thematic touchstone for this engrossing study of Chinese women in SF. Judy yung, a 2nd gen Chinese American, shows the stages of "unbinding" that occurred between the turn of the century to after WWII.
David Wong Louie, Bharati Mukherjee, Amy Tan, and Wakako Yamauchi), but most are emerging writers. All express the difficulties, ambiguities, vagaries, and joys of living in America as Asians. Particularly effective are Meena Alexander's "Manhattan Music," Kimiko Hahn's "Afterbirth," Louie's "Pangs of Love," Darrell Lum's "Fourscore and Seven Years Ago" in pidgin, and Shawn Wong's "Eye Contact." Recommended for public libraries.
Son Kim Vo, Ph.D-
Costline Community College-
1994
It helps with a series of objectives upon completion of this book. The participants will e able to: obtain basic personal information of ccc students such as name, age, address, telephone number, occupation and marital status, Ask questions related to academic background and goals, give geographical directions to the different college site locations., Provide basic information on some of the additional student services that the college provides (such as financial aid, health services). Understand pertinent aspects of behavior, attitudes and customs of Vietnamese.
In his exactly rendered, dramatic account of the lives of the children we fathered in Vietnam and left to the mercies of fortune, Thomas Bass lays bare the shoulders of two nations. His chronicle of unforeseen consequences is a troubling, unflinching, profoundly humane achievement, it will undoubtedly prove to be one of the essential documents about the war and by implication, all wars
Wives, Mistresses and Matriachs: Asian Women Today
Margery Wolf & Roxane
Witke-
Stanford University Press-
1975
Outstanding contribution to our understanding of Chinese society. Helps destroy many stereotypes about Chinese women. Grapples with important issues, topics ranging from changing attitudes towards women in the late Ming dynasty to fragments from the life story Chiang Ch’ing, wife of Mao Tse’tung.
Essays on the Chicano Homeland gathers articles published over a period of twenty years, offering in one volume the divergent ideological Interpertations engendered within Chicano studies in realtion to the legendary orgin of the Aztecs.
A study of Mexico - political, social, cultural, economic - by a journalist who was for the past 6 years the NYT bureau chief in Mexico City. With portraits of Mexico's top leaders, about a nation whose stability is vital to our national well being.
For the countless admirers of Frida Kahlo's bold and passionate art, here are 75 full-color paintings, numerous historical photographs, and authoritative text detailing significant episodes in the artist's life. Now available in an affordable, beautifully produced paperback edition.
A prismatic explorarion of the mother goddess, the Vigin of Guadalupe, patron saint of Mexico, protector of the downtrodden - a perfect fusion of the Aztec, indigenous , Catholic, and folkloric world traditions, who made her first miraculous appreance.
Continuing in the highly successful tradition of Growing Up Black here is a new anthology of autobiographical essays and stories about growing up in America. These stories celebrate the tremendous diversity of Chicana/o life through the universal themes of boundaries, family, education and rites of passage.
What will be the impact of the burgeoning numbers of Mexican immigrants on American society?Lies not so muxh on the socail & economical progress of Mexican American as with the politcal institutions within they define their interest.
One of the country's most powerful and entrancing novelists, Castillo began her literary career as a poet of uncompromising commitment. This collection brings back into print the best of her early work, including the entire text of her landmark 1988 collection, My Father Was a Toltec.
Drawing its title from the U.S. annexation of half of the Republic of Mexico in the early part of the 19th century, this study tells the story of Mexican-Americans in the U.S., although (of course) frequent references to developments in Mexico are included. As is indicated by the title, the focus of the narrative is on the resistance strategies (cultural, economic, and political) that Chicanos/as adopted against a colonial power. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
In her second novel, Castillo (the author of The Mixquiahuala Letters ) examines the obsessive struggle between a man and a woman, two natives of the metaphorical country of Sapogonia. In their battle for control over each other, the author subtly defines the struggle of all mestizos—the conflict of a mixed heritage of Conquistador and Conquered—which can never be resolved.
Tome is a small, outwardly sleepy hamlet in central New Mexico. In Ana Castillo's hands, though, it stands wondrously revealed as a place of marvels, teeming with life and with all manner of collisions: the past with the present, the real with the supernatural, the comic with the horrific, the Native American with the Hispano with the Anglo, the women with the men. With the talkative, intimate voice and the stylistic and narrative freedom of a Southwestern Cervantes, the author relates the story of two crowded decades in the life of a Chicana family.
In 1519 Hernan Cortes entered the Valley of Mexico were he found sophisticated, enigmatic society of the Aztecs, which has been called " the lost world-drenched both in blood and beauty."
Ana's idyllic childhood, romping among the dunes in a Mexican fishing village, is shattered when her mother dies in childbirth, and Ana must assume the duties of caring for the younger ones of the family. Not only must she assume adult responsibility, but also she must challenge her community's consensus about the role she has inherited as a female.
First book to combine the works of writers who developed revolutionary concepts of language and reality and the works of the more ‘pure’ writers beginning from before 1955.
A Man’s Place answers questions as it traces the development of the masculine image from 1830 to the present. Joe L. Dubbert explores the constantly changing sexual and emotional influences on men by which society determines, validates, and judges their masculinity.
All I Really Need to Know I Learned In Kindergarten
Changing Men assembles some of the most innovative and exciting research on men and masculinity. As such, it contributes to the demarcation of the new field of men's studies and to the examination of masculinity within traditional academic disciplines. The contributors deal with broad topical and methodological issues such as reformulating the male role, men in domestic settings, male//female relationships, sexuality, race and gender, and future directions for men's studies.
In the first comprehensive self-help book for black women by a black woman, a psychotherapist explores what it means to be black and female in a man's world and a white culture--and how to find sources of empowerment. A message of rebirth and renewal to every black woman who longs to discover her sense of worth.
"a fascinating examination of myth, literature, psychology, and anthropology" (Newsday), National Book Award-winning poet and translator Robert Bly offers nothing less than a new vision of what it is to be a man. "Important and timely."—New York Times Book Review.
Robert Moore & Douglas Gillette-
Harper Collins-
1990
Pioneering the men's movement. Arguing that mature masculinity is not abusive or domineering, but generative, creative,& empowering of the self & others. Provides a Jungian introduction to the psychological foundations of a mature, authentic & revitalized masculinity.
Through the biblical insight and clear illustrations brought by Josh McDowell, you'll learn a revolutionary way of fathering that will instill rock-solid values in your children and enable them to make right moral choices in life.
The best way to become a true spiritual champion is to see a champion in action. In The Meaning of a Man, Dr. Ronnie Floyd holds up vivid examples of victories and disappointments in the lives of champions from sports, business, and the Bible.
An intimate and candid account of what men's lives are really like today, revealing their doubts, their passions, their hunger for renewal. Given their increasingly unpredictable and elongated lives, men need to reinvent themselves and expand the ways they demonstrate their manliness. Sheehy makes the case that it is men in middle life who have the best chance to become masters of their fates. Hundreds of men have told her their stories. Featured here are confidences from both celebrities and everyday heroes, creating a mirror in which every man can locate his possibilities for growth and change. These bold, feisty, imaginative men recount how they have discovered what is missing and forged new directions to invigorate the second half of their lives.
For everyone who has attempted to understand the powerful pull of romantic love, here is a book that answers the most urgent questions from men and women struggling to have love in their lives. Nathaniel Branden, best-selling author of The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem, and E. Devers Branden, have pinpointed the most important issues facing those eager to have significant love relationships.
