Author: Sally Smith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781798418000
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Use this journal to capture your thoughts during all the meaningful, moving, proud and funny moments in the early years of your son's life. This gives mothers a unique way to send love, support and advice and makes a perfect gift for their son to read when they have grown up.
Author: Son Daughter Letters Journals
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781659525656
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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Letters to Your Son as you watch him grow: A Thoughtful Gift For New Fathers, Mothers & Parents Write Memories now, Read them later & Treasure this lovely time capsule keepsake foreverLetters to Your Son is the perfect baby keepsake gift. Offers parents, especially mothers, a unique way to send love, support, and advice to a son of any age. Use this custom journal book to capture all of the moving, proud or funny moments throughout your son's childhood while they are still clear in your mind. One idea is to make writing a letter to your son an annual tradition where you write a letter every year on his birthday. Or write a personal letter to your son on a regular basis to share thoughts, memories, love, advices and words of wisdom. What messages would you want to remind your son of? A lovely way to write down dreams, thoughts and hopes for your child to read in the future! Give this book to your son when he turns eighteen, starts his career, gets married or when he goes through a difficult period in his life. Features: Lines on both sides durable matte black Soft cover with the name of your son 120 pages cream paper. Size is 6"x9" perfect for purses, bags or desks. Date line at the top to help organize your letters. This under eight dollar gift is a perfect to: show your love to your son Appreciation week gift. End of year gift, New year gift. Christmas gift, Birthday gift, Graduation gift, First anniversary gift, Thanks giving gift, new birth gift, Father's Day gift, Mother's Day gift. Men and Husband, Wife, Boys, Teen, Mom, Dad, Grandfather, Grandmother, Grandparents, Family members . Cheap, Under $8.
Author: Langston Hughes
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0385353561
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 482
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This is the first comprehensive selection from the correspondence of the iconic and beloved Langston Hughes. It offers a life in letters that showcases his many struggles as well as his memorable achievements. Arranged by decade and linked by expert commentary, the volume guides us through Hughes’s journey in all its aspects: personal, political, practical, and—above all—literary. His letters range from those written to family members, notably his father (who opposed Langston’s literary ambitions), and to friends, fellow artists, critics, and readers who sought him out by mail. These figures include personalities such as Carl Van Vechten, Blanche Knopf, Zora Neale Hurston, Arna Bontemps, Vachel Lindsay, Ezra Pound, Richard Wright, Kurt Weill, Carl Sandburg, Gwendolyn Brooks, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King, Jr., Alice Walker, Amiri Baraka, and Muhammad Ali. The letters tell the story of a determined poet precociously finding his mature voice; struggling to realize his literary goals in an environment generally hostile to blacks; reaching out bravely to the young and challenging them to aspire beyond the bonds of segregation; using his artistic prestige to serve the disenfranchised and the cause of social justice; irrepressibly laughing at the world despite its quirks and humiliations. Venturing bravely on what he called the “big sea” of life, Hughes made his way forward always aware that his only hope of self-fulfillment and a sense of personal integrity lay in diligently pursuing his literary vocation. Hughes’s voice in these pages, enhanced by photographs and quotations from his poetry, allows us to know him intimately and gives us an unusually rich picture of this generous, visionary, gratifyingly good man who was also a genius of modern American letters.
Author: Langston Hughes
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520285344
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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Langston Hughes, one of America's greatest writers, was an innovator of jazz poetry and a leader of the Harlem Renaissance whose poems and plays resonate widely today. Accessible, personal, and inspirational, Hughes’s poems portray the African American community in struggle in the context of a turbulent modern United States and a rising black freedom movement. This indispensable volume of letters between Hughes and four leftist confidants sheds vivid light on his life and politics. Letters from Langston begins in 1930 and ends shortly before his death in 1967, providing a window into a unique, self-created world where Hughes lived at ease. This distinctive volume collects the stories of Hughes and his friends in an era of uncertainty and reveals their visions of an idealized world—one without hunger, war, racism, and class oppression.
Author: Kevin Johnston
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781797904825
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Use this journal to capture your thoughts during all the meaningful, moving, proud and funny moments in the early years of your son's life. This gives mothers a unique way to send love, support and advice and makes a perfect gift for their son to read when they have grown up.
Author: Langston Hughes
Publisher: Anne Schwartz Books
ISBN: 0399550194
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 19
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“Dream Variation,” one of Langston Hughes's most celebrated poems, about the dream of a world free of discrimination and racial prejudice, is now a picture book stunningly illustrated by Daniel Miyares, the acclaimed creator of Float. To fling my arms wide In some place of the sun, To whirl and to dance Till the white day is done…. Langston Hughes's inspiring and timeless message of pride, joy, and the dream of a better life is brilliantly and beautifully interpreted in Daniel Miyares's gorgeous artwork. Follow one African-American boy through the course of his day as the harsh reality of segregation and racial prejudice comes into vivid focus. But the boy dreams of a different life—one full of freedom, hope, and wild possibility, where he can fling his arms wide in the face of the sun. Hughes's powerful vision, brought joyously to life by Daniel Miyares, is as relevant—and necessary—today as when it was first written.
Author: Sheryll Cashin
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807086150
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 177
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From a nationally recognized expert, a fresh and original argument for bettering affirmative action Race-based affirmative action had been declining as a factor in university admissions even before the recent spate of related cases arrived at the Supreme Court. Since Ward Connerly kickstarted a state-by-state political mobilization against affirmative action in the mid-1990s, the percentage of four-year public colleges that consider racial or ethnic status in admissions has fallen from 60 percent to 35 percent. Only 45 percent of private colleges still explicitly consider race, with elite schools more likely to do so, although they too have retreated. For law professor and civil rights activist Sheryll Cashin, this isn’t entirely bad news, because as she argues, affirmative action as currently practiced does little to help disadvantaged people. The truly disadvantaged—black and brown children trapped in high-poverty environs—are not getting the quality schooling they need in part because backlash and wedge politics undermine any possibility for common-sense public policies. Using place instead of race in diversity programming, she writes, will better amend the structural disadvantages endured by many children of color, while enhancing the possibility that we might one day move past the racial resentment that affirmative action engenders. In Place, Not Race, Cashin reimagines affirmative action and champions place-based policies, arguing that college applicants who have thrived despite exposure to neighborhood or school poverty are deserving of special consideration. Those blessed to have come of age in poverty-free havens are not. Sixty years since the historic decision, we’re undoubtedly far from meeting the promise of Brown v. Board of Education, but Cashin offers a new framework for true inclusion for the millions of children who live separate and unequal lives. Her proposals include making standardized tests optional, replacing merit-based financial aid with need-based financial aid, and recruiting high-achieving students from overlooked places, among other steps that encourage cross-racial alliances and social mobility. A call for action toward the long overdue promise of equality, Place, Not Race persuasively shows how the social costs of racial preferences actually outweigh any of the marginal benefits when effective race-neutral alternatives are available.
Author: Arnold Rampersad
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199882274
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 566
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February 1, 2002 marks the 100th birthday of Langston Hughes. To commemorate the centennial of his birth, Arnold Rampersad has contributed new Afterwords to both volumes of his highly-praised biography of this most extraordinary and prolific American writer. The second volume in this masterful biography finds Hughes rooting himself in Harlem, receiving stimulation from his rich cultural surroundings. Here he rethought his view of art and radicalism, and cultivated relationships with younger, more militant writers such as Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Amiri Bakara. Rampersad's Afterword to volume two looks further into his influence and how it expanded beyond the literary as a result of his love of jazz and blues, his opera and musical theater collaborations, and his participation in radio and television. In addition, Rempersad explores the controversial matter of Hughes's sexuality and the possibility that, despite a lack of clear evidence, Hughes was homosexual. Exhaustively researched in archival collections throughout the country, especially in the Langston Hughes papers at Yale University's Beinecke Library, and featuring fifty illustrations per volume, this anniversary edition will offer a new generation of readers entrance to the life and mind of one of the twentieth century's greatest artists.
Author: Sally Smith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781798225721
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Book Description
Use this journal to capture your thoughts during all the meaningful, moving, proud and funny moments in the early years of your son's life. This gives mothers a unique way to send love, support and advice and makes a perfect gift for their son to read when they have grown up.
Author: Sally Smith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781798486948
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Book Description
Use this journal to capture your thoughts during all the meaningful, moving, proud and funny moments in the early years of your son's life. This gives mothers a unique way to send love, support and advice and makes a perfect gift for their son to read when they have grown up.
