Author : Oneka LaBennett
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,16 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0814765289
This work challenges the believe that West Indian American girls are but assert agency in defining race through strategic consumption of popular culture.
Author : Oneka LaBennett
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 31,55 MB
Release : 2011-07-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0814753124
Overwhelmingly, Black teenage girls are negatively represented in national and global popular discourses, either as being “at risk” for teenage pregnancy, obesity, or sexually transmitted diseases, or as helpless victims of inner city poverty and violence. Such popular representations are pervasive and often portray Black adolescents’ consumer and leisure culture as corruptive, uncivilized, and pathological. In She’s Mad Real, Oneka LaBennett draws on over a decade of researching teenage West Indian girls in the Flatbush and Crown Heights sections of Brooklyn to argue that Black youth are in fact strategic consumers of popular culture and through this consumption they assert far more agency in defining race, ethnicity, and gender than academic and popular discourses tend to acknowledge. Importantly, LaBennett also studies West Indian girls’ consumer and leisure culture within public spaces in order to analyze how teens like China are marginalized and policed as they attempt to carve out places for themselves within New York’s contested terrains.
Author : P.J. Night
Publisher : Simon Spotlight
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 34,3 MB
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1534440364
After moving to a strange town, Bethany must discover if a haunting legend is real in this frighteningly fun addition to the You’re Invited to a Creepover series. Can history repeat itself? When Bethany Warren moves from New York City to the small town of Warwick, she’s surprised at how quickly everything in her life seems to fall into place. She finds a great group of friends, and even has a new boyfriend, Nate Carlson, who lives next door and gives her a beautiful old ruby ring. Everyone in Warwick is a little obsessed with the Legend of Lady Warwick, the town’s namesake, who, according to the rumors, was mistakenly buried alive and now haunts the people of Warwick. Bethany thinks it’s just silly old town folklore, but then she starts acting strangely. Her new friends start to wonder: Is she for real? Will Bethany snap out of it, or is real life imitating legend a little too closely? This tale is a level 5 on the Creep-o-Meter. Super scary!
Author : Bea Koch
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,15 MB
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1538701022
Discover a feminist pop history that looks beyond the Ton and Jane Austen to highlight the Regency women who succeeded on their own terms and were largely lost to history -- until now. Regency England is a world immortalized by Jane Austen and Lord Byron in their beloved novels and poems. The popular image of the Regency continues to be mythologized by the hundreds of romance novels set in the period, which focus almost exclusively on wealthy, white, Christian members of the upper classes. But there are hundreds of fascinating women who don't fit history books limited perception of what was historically accurate for early 19th century England. Women like Dido Elizabeth Belle, whose mother was a slave but was raised by her white father's family in England, Caroline Herschel, who acted as her brother's assistant as he hunted the heavens for comets, and ended up discovering eight on her own, Anne Lister, who lived on her own terms with her common-law wife at Shibden Hall, and Judith Montefiore, a Jewish woman who wrote the first English language Kosher cookbook. As one of the owners of the successful romance-only bookstore The Ripped Bodice, Bea Koch has had a front row seat to controversies surrounding what is accepted as "historically accurate" for the wildly popular Regency period. Following in the popular footsteps of books like Ann Shen's Bad Girls Throughout History, Koch takes the Regency, one of the most loved and idealized historical time periods and a huge inspiration for American pop culture, and reveals the independent-minded, standard-breaking real historical women who lived life on their terms. She also examines broader questions of culture in chapters that focus on the LGBTQ and Jewish communities, the lives of women of color in the Regency, and women who broke barriers in fields like astronomy and paleontology. In Mad and Bad, we look beyond popular perception of the Regency into the even more vibrant, diverse, and fascinating historical truth.
Author : Joseph Geren
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 23,16 MB
Release : 2001-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0595206905
Mike Marcus thinks life is great now that he's retired from the private investigation business. He has a new wife, his long-lost daughter returns, and he spends his days fishing in the Mississippi River. But when he and his wife Annie take a moonlight stroll along the riverbank, they find the body of a fourteen-year-old girl. The next day, another teen girl is slashed. Somebody is bathing in the blood of virgins. Mike's former flame, Lisa Werner, is charged with murder and he gives up the quiet life to clear her name. The only clues are a bloody article of clothing found in his client's basement and a red hair, and Lisa Werner's alibi seems to incriminate her even more. While Mike sorts through the evidence and the lies, the answer to the puzzle resides in his wife's mind. He doesn't take time to listen and Annie's feelings are hurt. Their lives take separate paths and both lead to Erzebet.
Author : Colleen Hoover
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 40,59 MB
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 153872474X
Whose truth is the lie? Stay up all night reading the sensational psychological thriller that has readers obsessed, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Too Late and It Ends With Us. #1 New York Times Bestseller · USA Today Bestseller · Globe and Mail Bestseller · Publishers Weekly Bestseller Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his injured wife is unable to finish. Lowen arrives at the Crawford home, ready to sort through years of Verity’s notes and outlines, hoping to find enough material to get her started. What Lowen doesn’t expect to uncover in the chaotic office is an unfinished autobiography Verity never intended for anyone to read. Page after page of bone-chilling admissions, including Verity's recollection of the night her family was forever altered. Lowen decides to keep the manuscript hidden from Jeremy, knowing its contents could devastate the already grieving father. But as Lowen’s feelings for Jeremy begin to intensify, she recognizes all the ways she could benefit if he were to read his wife’s words. After all, no matter how devoted Jeremy is to his injured wife, a truth this horrifying would make it impossible for him to continue loving her.
Author : Patricia Wentworth
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 48,6 MB
Release : 2016-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1504033477
A WWI veteran searches for a woman he once knew—and stumbles into a mystery—in a novel by the author of the Miss Silver series. In 1917, after he’s released from the hospital, John Waveney is headed back to the trenches in France when he decides to visit the land of his ancestors dating back to the Crusades. There, he meets a young girl who, upon learning he’s all alone in the world, tells him she’d be sorry if anything happened to him at the front. Nine years later, John returns to Waveney Hall to claim his legacy—and encounters an extended family of relatives he never knew about. But Anne Belinda, a distant cousin—the mysterious young girl he never forgot—has disappeared. No one at his ancestral estate will discuss her or explain why her father altered his will, leaving his entire estate to her twin sister, Jenny. Feeling a debt of loyalty to the girl who sent him off to battle with a kind word, John embarks on a search for Anne—but does the missing woman want to be found? This 1928 novel from one of Britain’s most beloved crime authors tells a shocking story of crime and sacrifice that can destroy lives—or redeem them.
Author : Nancy M. Casey
Publisher : New Leaf Distribution
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 35,19 MB
Release : 2017-08
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0692856390
Are you feeling overcome by excessive or unexpected change? Do you desire to release fear and grow through adversity to discover your own strength and wisdom? Nancy Casey’s heart-centered book, Self-Transformation, offers strategies for transforming depression, stress, illness, aging, and difficult life transitions into emotional and spiritual growth. Guided by some of the world’s greatest teachers, you will explore how to create positive change, step-by-step, through personal stories and interactive exercises. These demonstrate how to shift from feeling stuck into uncovering hidden opportunities.
Author : Black Rose
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 25,7 MB
Release : 2018-01-19
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 153203704X
Cheyenne Ayers is in the process of growing up in Michigan, near Detroit. In 1989, shes eleven years old and moving fast toward adulthood, but shes happy, living with her mother and older brother and sister. Then a series of events and tragedies shakes her world down to its core, leaving her wondering who she really is. One of her siblings disappears, and from that moment on, everything changes forever. As Cheyenne begins to realize hard truths about herself, her family, and her past, she comes to understand that the ups and downs of life yield lessons that cannot be unlearned. Through each dangerously dope day, she learns to appreciate all that has been and all that will be on her path to the future. In this novel, a young girl living near Detroit in the early 1990s deals with the aftermath of a disruption in her family and discovers facets of herself she never imagined.
Author : Antonio T. Tiongson Jr.
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 11,15 MB
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816687846
The “Hip-hop Nation” has been scouted, staked out, and settled by journalists and scholars alike. Antonio T. Tiongson Jr. steps into this well-mapped territory with questions aimed at interrogating how nation is conceptualized within the context of hip-hop. What happens, Tiongson asks, to notions of authenticity based on hip-hop’s apparent blackness when Filipino youth make hip-hop their own? Tiongson draws on interviews with Bay Area–based Filipino American DJs to explore the authenticating strategies they rely on to carve out a niche within DJ culture. He shows how Filipino American youth involvement in DJing reconfigures the normal boundaries of Filipinoness predicated on nostalgia and cultural links with an idealized homeland. Filipinos Represent makes the case that while the engagement of Filipino youth with DJ culture speaks to the broadening racial scope of hip-hop—and of what it means to be Filipino—such involvement is also problematic in that it upholds deracialized accounts of hip-hop and renders difference benign. Looking at the ways in which Filipino DJs legitimize their place in an expressive form historically associated with African Americans, Tiongson examines what these complex forms of identification reveal about the contours and trajectory of contemporary U.S. racial formations and discourses in the post–civil rights era.
