Author : Harry Saffold
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 24,17 MB
Release : 2018-01-30
Category :
ISBN : 9781979416764
An autobiography that chronicles the trials and triumphs Harry Saffold Jr faced after having experienced childhood sexual abuse at age ten. Saffold wrestled with low self-esteem, being bullied, suicidal thoughts, and later embarked on a rambunctious path that eventually landed him in prison at age 19 for 12 1/2 years. Through spiritual development, Saffold went on to become a filmmaker, author, artist, and motivational speaker.
Author : Harry Saffold Jr
Publisher :
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 27,79 MB
Release : 2017-08-14
Category :
ISBN : 9781522071662
An autobiography that chronicles the trials and triumphs Harry Saffold Jr faced in his quest to enter the industry as a writer. After experiencing sexual abuse at age ten Saffold wrestled with self-esteem, being bullied, suicide and later embarked on a wild path that eventually landed him in prison for 12 1/2 years. Through spiritual development and persistence, Saffold went on to become a filmmaker, author, artist, and motivational speaker.
Author : Ryan Calais Cameron
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 18,63 MB
Release : 2023-04-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1350419400
Nominated for Best New Play at the 2023 Olivier Awards I found a king in me and now I love you I found a king in you and now I love me Father figures and fashion tips. Lost loves and jollof rice. African empires and illicit sex. Good days and bad days. Six young Black men meet for group therapy, and let their hearts - and imaginations - run wild. Inspired by Ntozake Shange's essential work For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf, For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy is a profound and playful work, co-commissioned by Boundless Theatre, from multi-award-winning company Nouveau Riche and playwright Ryan Calais Cameron. For Black Boys... gained critical acclaim for the world premiere in October 2021 at New Diorama Theatre, before successfully transferring to London's Royal Court Theatre in March 2022. This edition was published to coincide with the West End production at the Apollo Theatre in March 2023.
Author : Robin Gaby Fisher
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,44 MB
Release : 2010-08-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1429964685
A story that garnered national attention, this is the harrowing tale of two men who suffered abuses at a reform school in Florida in the 1950s and 60s, and who banded together fifty years later to confront their attackers. Michael O'McCarthy and Robert W. Straley were teens when they were termed "incorrigible youth" by authorities and ordered to attend the Florida School for Boys. They discovered in Marianna, the "City of Southern Charm," an immaculately groomed campus that looked more like an idyllic university than a reform school. But hidden behind the gates of the Florida School for Boys was a hell unlike any they could have imagined. The school's guards and administrators acted as their jailers and tormentors. The boys allegedly bore witness to assault, rape, and possibly even murder. For fifty years, both men---and countless others like them---carried their torment in silence. But a series of unlikely events brought O'McCarthy, now a successful rights activist, and Straley together, and they became determined to expose the Florida School for Boys for what they believed it to be: a youth prison with a century-long history of abuse. They embarked upon a campaign that would change their lives and inspire others. Robin Gaby Fisher, a Pulitzer Prize--winning journalist and author of the New York Times bestselling After the Fire, collaborates with Straley and O'McCarthy to offer a riveting account of their harrowing ordeal. The book goes beyond the story of the two men to expose the truth about a century-old institution and a town that adopted a Nuremberg-like code of secrecy and a government that failed to address its own wrongdoing. What emerges is a tale of strength, resolve, and vindication in the face of the kinds of terror few can imagine.
Author : Richard Wright
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 39,56 MB
Release : 2009-06-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0061935484
Richard Wright's powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. It is at once an unashamed confession and a profound indictment--a poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering. When Black Boy exploded onto the literary scene in 1945, it caused a sensation. Orville Prescott of the New York Times wrote that “if enough such books are written, if enough millions of people read them maybe, someday, in the fullness of time, there will be a greater understanding and a more true democracy.” Opposing forces felt compelled to comment: addressing Congress, Senator Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi argued that the purpose of this book “was to plant seeds of hate and devilment in the minds of every American.” From 1975 to 1978, Black Boy was banned in schools throughout the United States for “obscenity” and “instigating hatred between the races.” The once controversial, now classic American autobiography measures the brutality and rawness of the Jim Crow South against the sheer desperate will it took to survive. Richard Wright grew up in the woods of Mississippi, with poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those about him; at six he was a “drunkard,” hanging about in taverns. Surly, brutal, cold, suspicious, and self-pitying, he was surrounded on one side by whites who were either indifferent to him, pitying, or cruel, and on the other by blacks who resented anyone trying to rise above the common lot. At the end of Black Boy, Wright sits poised with pencil in hand, determined to "hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo."
Author : Tim A. Giago
Publisher : Clear Light Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,68 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Known as "residential schools" in Canada. Includes poems (poetry).
Author : Touré
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 33,88 MB
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1439177554
How do we make sense of what it means to be Black in a world with room for both Michelle Obama and Precious? Tour , an iconic commentator and journalist, defines and demystifies modern Blackness with wit, authority, and irreverent humor. In the age of Obama, racial attitudes have become more complicated and nuanced than ever before. Americans are searching for new ways of understanding Blackness, partly inspired by a President who is unlike any Black man ever seen on our national stage. This book aims to destroy the notion that there is a correct or even definable way of being Black. It’s a discussion mixing the personal and the intellectual. It gives us intimate and painful stories of how race and racial expectations have shaped Tour ’s life as well as a look at how the concept of Post-Blackness functions in politics, psychology, the Black visual arts world, Chappelle’s Show, and more. For research Tour has turned to some of the most important luminaries of our time for frank and thought-provoking opinions, including Rev. Jesse Jackson, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Cornel West, Michael Eric Dyson, Melissa Harris-Lacewell, Malcolm Gladwell, Harold Ford, Jr., Kara Walker, Kehinde Wiley, Chuck D, and many others. Their comments and disagreements with one another may come as a surprise to many readers. Of special interest is a personal racial memoir by the author in which he depicts defining moments in his life when he confronts the question of race head-on. In another chapter—sure to be controversial—he explains why he no longer uses the word “nigga.” Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness? is a complex conversation on modern America that aims to change how we perceive race in ways that are as nuanced and spirited as the nation itself.
Author : Lucy W. Peabody
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 11,93 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Children's periodicals
ISBN :
Author : J. V. Thomas
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 31,54 MB
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1480912247
The Day Nicholas Was Snatched by J.V. Thomas J. V. Thomas compiled The Day Nicholas Was Snatched for the general interest of the public to provide insight into government and the “Secret Court” of children and families, exposing the corruption that takes on a major role in ordinary family cases. The poorer classes in society are taken advantage of by social services with the illegal backing of police. Families are bullied and forced into abdicating their duties and legal rights to their children due to the illegal behavior in court law. Conspirators work closely to steal children, using racism, corruption, and other injustices. This institutional racism surmounts in the secret court. Cases that are supported by legal aid, end up penalized. The Day Nicholas Was Snatched holds social services accountable for stealing children from the poorer social classes through corruption and institutional racism. J. V. Thomas reveals the bullying practiced in the secret court.
Author : Lori L. Tharps
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 15,98 MB
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0807076791
Weaving together personal stories, history, and analysis, Same Family, Different Colors explores the myriad ways skin-color politics affect family dynamics in the United States. Colorism and color bias—the preference for or presumed superiority of people based on the color of their skin—is a pervasive and damaging but rarely openly discussed phenomenon. In this unprecedented book, Lori L. Tharps explores the issue in African American, Latino, Asian American, and mixed-race families and communities by weaving together personal stories, history, and analysis. The result is a compelling portrait of the myriad ways skin-color politics affect family dynamics in the United States. Tharps, the mother of three mixed-race children with three distinct skin colors, uses her own family as a starting point to investigate how skin-color difference is dealt with. Her journey takes her across the country and into the lives of dozens of diverse individuals, all of whom have grappled with skin-color politics and speak candidly about experiences that sometimes scarred them. From a Latina woman who was told she couldn’t be in her best friend’s wedding photos because her dark skin would “spoil” the pictures, to a light-skinned African American man who spent his entire childhood “trying to be Black,” Tharps illuminates the complex and multifaceted ways that colorism affects our self-esteem and shapes our lives and relationships. Along with intimate and revealing stories, Tharps adds a historical overview and a contemporary cultural critique to contextualize how various communities and individuals navigate skin-color politics. Groundbreaking and urgent, Same Family, Different Colors is a solution-seeking journey to the heart of identity politics, so that this more subtle “cousin to racism,” in the author’s words, will be exposed and confronted.
