Jamerican


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Jamerican: The Gift of Poverty is the inspirational true-life story of Sherwin P. Brown, a poor Jamaican boy who grew up barefoot in the jungle to become a top stockbroker in America. Brown's life is an improbable true-life roller coaster of ups and downs-often humorous, sometimes sad-that cannot be put down. Inspired by his mother's intellect and his father's never-say-die work ethic, Brown's journey is an inspiration to Jamaicans, Americans . . . to anybody who seeks success. Not only did Mr. Brown's journey start in poverty, it also started in a third-world country. Unlike many other successful immigrants to America, Brown's success came from sheer hard work-no special tax breaks or other governmental favors. His life is a blueprint for happiness. Jamerican will entertain, inspire, and make you laugh and think. Mr. Brown tells a story that takes place over decades, and he does so in a very easy-to-read and breezy style that's a pure joy to read! Once you start reading, you cannot put this story down.




Jet


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The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.




Tilling Sacred Grounds


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Tilling Sacred Grounds examines Black women’s interiority and negotiation of race, gender, and sexuality in religious spaces and religious practices. Phillis Isabella Sheppard argues for the importance of the exchange between interiority and public spaces, and examines religion in cyberspace, art, ritual, and street ministry. She refigures the location of religious experience by retrieving Black women’s interiority as religious space. Often excluded from Black religious studies, interiority is necessary for understanding Black women’s complex and even unconscious relationship with religion. The book weaves a thread by stressing that interiority has subjective, intersubjective, conscious, unconscious, and relational dimensions formed in historical, and social contexts.







Biological Abstracts


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Jamaican Mi Seh Mi ABC's


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So if you think Jamaica is simply coconuts, palm trees, dreadlocks, Drake's dance song, "Controlla" and Rhianna's "Work"... THEN you'll be in for a pleasant treat and so much more! This ABC book is the voice and heart of eleven-year-old Carradice. Though Midwest made and straight out of East Chicago, don't get it twisted.This young gyal was very much born a Jamerican! You are cordially invited to a JamRock lyrical, patois rhythmic adventure. Join in as Carradice and Deejay Rewind schools you from A to Z on her father's culture, foods, heroes, traditions, customs, music... Everyting Mon! These two promise that by the time you can say, The End, you will love "Yard" like cooked food and have a greater appreciation for the land of wood and water! Nuff Respect!!!




The Public Face of African New Religious Movements in Diaspora


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This book provides new theoretical and methodological insights for understanding and interpreting ANRMs and African-derived religions in diaspora. Contributors focus on groups and movements drawn from Christian, Islamic, Jewish and African-derived religious movements and explore their provenance and patterns of emergence, their belief systems and ritual practices. The book offers new insights into how ANRMs can be better defined, approached, and interpreted by scholars, policy makers and media practitioners alike.