Author: Lisa Schelbe
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197568718
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
"At age 17, Plato disclosed that he had been certain his whole life that he would die-most likely by being shot on the street like other Black young men he knew-by the age of 18. As his 18th birthday approached, Plato planned to spend his birthday alone, reflecting on the reality that he might have a future. As he approached adulthood and the transition out of foster care, the many possibilities seemed miraculous to him"--
Some Type of Way
Author: Lisa Schelbe
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197568718
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
"At age 17, Plato disclosed that he had been certain his whole life that he would die-most likely by being shot on the street like other Black young men he knew-by the age of 18. As his 18th birthday approached, Plato planned to spend his birthday alone, reflecting on the reality that he might have a future. As he approached adulthood and the transition out of foster care, the many possibilities seemed miraculous to him"--
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197568718
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
"At age 17, Plato disclosed that he had been certain his whole life that he would die-most likely by being shot on the street like other Black young men he knew-by the age of 18. As his 18th birthday approached, Plato planned to spend his birthday alone, reflecting on the reality that he might have a future. As he approached adulthood and the transition out of foster care, the many possibilities seemed miraculous to him"--
Deadpan
Author: Tina Post
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479811211
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Explores expressionlessness, inscrutability, and emotional withholding in Black cultural production Arguing that inexpression is a gesture that acquires distinctive meanings in concert with blackness, Deadpan tracks instances and meanings of deadpan—a vaudeville term meaning “dead face”—across literature, theater, visual and performance art, and the performance of self in everyday life. Tina Post reveals that the performance of purposeful withholding is a critical tool in the work of black culture makers, intervening in the persistent framing of African American aesthetics as colorful, loud, humorous, and excessive. Beginning with the expressionless faces of mid-twentieth-century documentary photography and proceeding to early twenty-first-century drama, this project examines performances of blackness’s deadpan aesthetic within and beyond black embodiments, including Young Jean Lee’s The Shipment and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Neighbors, as well as Buster Keaton’s signature character and Steve McQueen’s restitution of the former’s legacy within the continuum of Black cultural production. Through this varied archive, Post reveals how deadpan aesthetics function in and between opacity and fugitivity, minimalism and saturation, excess and insensibility.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479811211
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Explores expressionlessness, inscrutability, and emotional withholding in Black cultural production Arguing that inexpression is a gesture that acquires distinctive meanings in concert with blackness, Deadpan tracks instances and meanings of deadpan—a vaudeville term meaning “dead face”—across literature, theater, visual and performance art, and the performance of self in everyday life. Tina Post reveals that the performance of purposeful withholding is a critical tool in the work of black culture makers, intervening in the persistent framing of African American aesthetics as colorful, loud, humorous, and excessive. Beginning with the expressionless faces of mid-twentieth-century documentary photography and proceeding to early twenty-first-century drama, this project examines performances of blackness’s deadpan aesthetic within and beyond black embodiments, including Young Jean Lee’s The Shipment and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Neighbors, as well as Buster Keaton’s signature character and Steve McQueen’s restitution of the former’s legacy within the continuum of Black cultural production. Through this varied archive, Post reveals how deadpan aesthetics function in and between opacity and fugitivity, minimalism and saturation, excess and insensibility.
Torn
Author: Latoya S. Madden
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1387121073
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
This book of poetry is a part of me Latoya S. Madden just a small account of life story. While reading I ask that you not judge me but consider yourself or someone else that may have gone thru or be going something similar and see the point of it all that I was going thru and that I did not give up. No I have not arrived yet but I am still pressing forward on my way towards greater. Although the journey may be long and have its ups and downs I can truly say that I am still blessed and have found an abundance of love in my life. I am rich already because I am surrounded by some many people who love me for who I am and not what I have to give. I thank God for allowing me to see the light while I still have breath in my body and strength in my bones.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1387121073
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
This book of poetry is a part of me Latoya S. Madden just a small account of life story. While reading I ask that you not judge me but consider yourself or someone else that may have gone thru or be going something similar and see the point of it all that I was going thru and that I did not give up. No I have not arrived yet but I am still pressing forward on my way towards greater. Although the journey may be long and have its ups and downs I can truly say that I am still blessed and have found an abundance of love in my life. I am rich already because I am surrounded by some many people who love me for who I am and not what I have to give. I thank God for allowing me to see the light while I still have breath in my body and strength in my bones.
KJLH-FM and the Los Angeles Riots of 1992
Author: Phylis Johnson
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786454660
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
As the only independently Black-owned radio station in South Central Los Angeles, KJLH-FM was thrust into the media spotlight in the aftermath of the Rodney King trial. During the ensuing riots, KJLH introduced the world to South Central Los Angeles as only those who lived and worked there could. Owned by musician Stevie Wonder since 1979, the station upheld his legacy of community commitment, earning a Peabody Award along the way. This book explores the social, political, and economic impact of KJLH, drawing heavily upon more than 200 pages of interviews and program transcripts from the 1992 radio coverage.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786454660
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
As the only independently Black-owned radio station in South Central Los Angeles, KJLH-FM was thrust into the media spotlight in the aftermath of the Rodney King trial. During the ensuing riots, KJLH introduced the world to South Central Los Angeles as only those who lived and worked there could. Owned by musician Stevie Wonder since 1979, the station upheld his legacy of community commitment, earning a Peabody Award along the way. This book explores the social, political, and economic impact of KJLH, drawing heavily upon more than 200 pages of interviews and program transcripts from the 1992 radio coverage.
Vibe
Author: Corey J. Miles
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496847296
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Where exactly does the South begin and end? Current maps are too rigid to account for the ways Black people have built the South while being simultaneously excluded from it. Drawing from the different ways Black artists in the 2-5-2 area code in North Carolina use "vibe" as a mode of knowing and communication, author Corey J. Miles illustrates how Black feeling and unfeeling offer entry points into the contemporary South that challenge static and monolithic notions of the region. Placing the local artists in conversation with other southern cultural creators such as 2 Chainz, Rod Wave, and Rapsody, these ethnographic narratives demonstrate that there are multiple Souths, with overlapping and distinct commitments to working through pain, sound, and belonging. In Vibe: The Sound and Feeling of Black Life in the American South, Miles narrates how southern Black sound, feeling, and being is constantly policed, surveilled, and criminalized. In doing so, he re-narrates the region as the "carceral South," to capture the ways people in the South and beyond can feel the emotional weight of the criminalization of Blackness. Pain music, a subgenre of trap music, is used to take the listener to moments of violence to allow them to hear the desires, anger, and silences that bind Black life in community. Through conceptions of ratchet, hood, and ghetto, Black artists turn away from respectable images and unmap the South. In trap music, they move the South to a space where multiple modes of being find respect and care.
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496847296
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Where exactly does the South begin and end? Current maps are too rigid to account for the ways Black people have built the South while being simultaneously excluded from it. Drawing from the different ways Black artists in the 2-5-2 area code in North Carolina use "vibe" as a mode of knowing and communication, author Corey J. Miles illustrates how Black feeling and unfeeling offer entry points into the contemporary South that challenge static and monolithic notions of the region. Placing the local artists in conversation with other southern cultural creators such as 2 Chainz, Rod Wave, and Rapsody, these ethnographic narratives demonstrate that there are multiple Souths, with overlapping and distinct commitments to working through pain, sound, and belonging. In Vibe: The Sound and Feeling of Black Life in the American South, Miles narrates how southern Black sound, feeling, and being is constantly policed, surveilled, and criminalized. In doing so, he re-narrates the region as the "carceral South," to capture the ways people in the South and beyond can feel the emotional weight of the criminalization of Blackness. Pain music, a subgenre of trap music, is used to take the listener to moments of violence to allow them to hear the desires, anger, and silences that bind Black life in community. Through conceptions of ratchet, hood, and ghetto, Black artists turn away from respectable images and unmap the South. In trap music, they move the South to a space where multiple modes of being find respect and care.
The Forsaken
Author: L. A. Banks
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312948603
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
"Banks spins a head-bendingly complex tale of passion, mythology, war, and love that lasts till the grave--and beyond . . . devoted fans should relish this new chapter in a promising series."
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312948603
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
"Banks spins a head-bendingly complex tale of passion, mythology, war, and love that lasts till the grave--and beyond . . . devoted fans should relish this new chapter in a promising series."
Life’s Scars & Wisdom
Author: Jaron Pierre
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 179602175X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
This story follows Jaron LaPierre on this crazy, unforgettable journey of his with this thing called life. As you all take a look into his crazy, mixed up world of some of the hardest things that he’s ever had to endure, which became this eye-opener not only for him but also the way that he views life challenges and situations that were thrown at him from all different angles in his past when being put in difficult situations that he didn’t know how to handle. All the trials and tribulations that he had to curve led him on this path to where he is right now.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 179602175X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
This story follows Jaron LaPierre on this crazy, unforgettable journey of his with this thing called life. As you all take a look into his crazy, mixed up world of some of the hardest things that he’s ever had to endure, which became this eye-opener not only for him but also the way that he views life challenges and situations that were thrown at him from all different angles in his past when being put in difficult situations that he didn’t know how to handle. All the trials and tribulations that he had to curve led him on this path to where he is right now.
Corpus Linguistics II
Author: Jan M. G. Aarts
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789062035199
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789062035199
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
ORIGINS - Volume 4 - The Future
Author: White Eagle
Publisher: White Eagle
ISBN:
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Have you ever Wondered....... About Aliens, Pole Shift, and the Future on Mother Earth? About Noah's Ark and the Great Flood? What the Creator's Plan is for the time when the Sun goes out and why He even let that be a possibility? What will become of Mother Earth if Beings do not change their ways? Have you considered what God's plan for the end of Life on Mother Earth is and Why? In this fourth and last volume of Origins, those questions are answered as are so very many, many more. The Great Adventure continues and concludes in Volume four. In this volume, Origins continues to share with the reader the Spiritual Odyssey of White Eagle as he ventures now both back in time as well as forward with Great Pop.
Publisher: White Eagle
ISBN:
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Have you ever Wondered....... About Aliens, Pole Shift, and the Future on Mother Earth? About Noah's Ark and the Great Flood? What the Creator's Plan is for the time when the Sun goes out and why He even let that be a possibility? What will become of Mother Earth if Beings do not change their ways? Have you considered what God's plan for the end of Life on Mother Earth is and Why? In this fourth and last volume of Origins, those questions are answered as are so very many, many more. The Great Adventure continues and concludes in Volume four. In this volume, Origins continues to share with the reader the Spiritual Odyssey of White Eagle as he ventures now both back in time as well as forward with Great Pop.
Romeo and Juliet of the Projects
Author: Krystal Armstead
Publisher: Urban Renaissance
ISBN: 164556391X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
These two lost souls find everything they wanted once they step outside of their comfort zones and into each other’s arms. However, some people are meant to fall in love but not meant to be together. Can two people with a painful past build a better future? Does love really conquer all? Bostyn “Easy” Reel has always felt like he didn’t belong. He is stuck between two worlds: in one world, he is being who he really wants to be, and in the other world, he is being only what his family allows him to be. He feels like he is drowning in darkness, haunted by his past. After finding out that he was adopted, Bostyn finds himself on a search to discover who he really is. When Meelah Summers meets Bostyn, it is as if the broken pieces of her heart fit together perfectly with the broken pieces of his. Meelah felt empty growing up without her mother, being raised by a father who was never there. Meeting Bostyn couldn’t have come at a better time. The only problem is Meelah’s father is a well-known drug distributor, and Bostyn’s adoptive father is the head of the Anne Arundel County Police Department—the same police department responsible for killing her mother.
Publisher: Urban Renaissance
ISBN: 164556391X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
These two lost souls find everything they wanted once they step outside of their comfort zones and into each other’s arms. However, some people are meant to fall in love but not meant to be together. Can two people with a painful past build a better future? Does love really conquer all? Bostyn “Easy” Reel has always felt like he didn’t belong. He is stuck between two worlds: in one world, he is being who he really wants to be, and in the other world, he is being only what his family allows him to be. He feels like he is drowning in darkness, haunted by his past. After finding out that he was adopted, Bostyn finds himself on a search to discover who he really is. When Meelah Summers meets Bostyn, it is as if the broken pieces of her heart fit together perfectly with the broken pieces of his. Meelah felt empty growing up without her mother, being raised by a father who was never there. Meeting Bostyn couldn’t have come at a better time. The only problem is Meelah’s father is a well-known drug distributor, and Bostyn’s adoptive father is the head of the Anne Arundel County Police Department—the same police department responsible for killing her mother.