Author:
Publisher: Becslie Publisher
ISBN: 0974559512
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
A Heritage of Black Excellence BOOK 1 (1700's to 1960's) is an activity workbook that incorporates language arts, science, and social studies while presenting POSITIVE AFRICAN AMERICAN ROLE MODELS. The book consist of motivational reading passages with writing, comprehension,and vocabulary pages to enhance reading skills. Book includes: Jean Baptiste DuSable, Robert Abbott, Lorraine Hansberry, Daniel Hale Williams, Gwendolyn Brooks, Richard Wright and others ..... Recommended for all ages
A Heritage of Black Excellence in Chicago Book One
Author:
Publisher: Becslie Publisher
ISBN: 0974559512
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
A Heritage of Black Excellence BOOK 1 (1700's to 1960's) is an activity workbook that incorporates language arts, science, and social studies while presenting POSITIVE AFRICAN AMERICAN ROLE MODELS. The book consist of motivational reading passages with writing, comprehension,and vocabulary pages to enhance reading skills. Book includes: Jean Baptiste DuSable, Robert Abbott, Lorraine Hansberry, Daniel Hale Williams, Gwendolyn Brooks, Richard Wright and others ..... Recommended for all ages
Publisher: Becslie Publisher
ISBN: 0974559512
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
A Heritage of Black Excellence BOOK 1 (1700's to 1960's) is an activity workbook that incorporates language arts, science, and social studies while presenting POSITIVE AFRICAN AMERICAN ROLE MODELS. The book consist of motivational reading passages with writing, comprehension,and vocabulary pages to enhance reading skills. Book includes: Jean Baptiste DuSable, Robert Abbott, Lorraine Hansberry, Daniel Hale Williams, Gwendolyn Brooks, Richard Wright and others ..... Recommended for all ages
A Heritage of Black Excellence in Chicago
Author: Dr. Leslie K. Best
Publisher: Becslie Publisher
ISBN: 0974559520
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
A Heritage of Black Excellence Book Two is an activity workbook that incorporate language arts, science, and social studies while giving children POSITIVE AFRICAN AMERICAN ROLE MODELS from the 1700 s to 2000s. The book consist of motivational reading passages with writing, comprehension, and vocabulary pages to enhance reading skills. The activity book includes Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Dr.Daniel Hale Williams, John H. Johnson, Michael Jordan,Dr. Mae Jemison, Oprah Winfey, Jessie Owens and more. Recommended for all ages
Publisher: Becslie Publisher
ISBN: 0974559520
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
A Heritage of Black Excellence Book Two is an activity workbook that incorporate language arts, science, and social studies while giving children POSITIVE AFRICAN AMERICAN ROLE MODELS from the 1700 s to 2000s. The book consist of motivational reading passages with writing, comprehension, and vocabulary pages to enhance reading skills. The activity book includes Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Dr.Daniel Hale Williams, John H. Johnson, Michael Jordan,Dr. Mae Jemison, Oprah Winfey, Jessie Owens and more. Recommended for all ages
Zahrah the Windseeker
Author: Nnedi Okorafor
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780547020280
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Zahrah, a timid thirteen-year-old girl, undertakes a dangerous quest into the Forbidden Greeny Jungle to seek the antidote for her best friend after he is bitten by a snake, and finds knowledge, courage, and hidden powers along the way.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780547020280
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Zahrah, a timid thirteen-year-old girl, undertakes a dangerous quest into the Forbidden Greeny Jungle to seek the antidote for her best friend after he is bitten by a snake, and finds knowledge, courage, and hidden powers along the way.
A Heritage of Black Excellence in Chicago
Author: Leslie K. Best
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
Author: Marcia Chatelain
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 1631493957
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
WINNER • 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY Winner • 2022 James Beard Foundation Book Award [Writing] The “stunning” (David W. Blight) untold history of how fast food became one of the greatest generators of black wealth in America. Just as The Color of Law provided a vital understanding of redlining and racial segregation, Marcia Chatelain’s Franchise investigates the complex interrelationship between black communities and America’s largest, most popular fast food chain. Taking us from the first McDonald’s drive-in in San Bernardino to the franchise on Florissant Avenue in Ferguson, Missouri, in the summer of 2014, Chatelain shows how fast food is a source of both power—economic and political—and despair for African Americans. As she contends, fast food is, more than ever before, a key battlefield in the fight for racial justice.
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 1631493957
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
WINNER • 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY Winner • 2022 James Beard Foundation Book Award [Writing] The “stunning” (David W. Blight) untold history of how fast food became one of the greatest generators of black wealth in America. Just as The Color of Law provided a vital understanding of redlining and racial segregation, Marcia Chatelain’s Franchise investigates the complex interrelationship between black communities and America’s largest, most popular fast food chain. Taking us from the first McDonald’s drive-in in San Bernardino to the franchise on Florissant Avenue in Ferguson, Missouri, in the summer of 2014, Chatelain shows how fast food is a source of both power—economic and political—and despair for African Americans. As she contends, fast food is, more than ever before, a key battlefield in the fight for racial justice.
Opal's Greenwood Oasis
Author: Quraysh Ali Lansana
Publisher: Calliope Group
ISBN: 9781733647458
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
"A beautiful and poignant reminder of the industry, joy and resilience of Black people in America."-Trey Ellis, Peabody and Emmy winning producer of King in the Wilderness andTrue Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for Equality The year is 1921, and Opal Brown would like to show you around her beautiful neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Filled with busy stores and happy families, Opal also wants you to know that "everyone looks like me." In both words and illustrations, this carefully researched and historically accurate book allows children to experience the joys and success of Greenwood, one of the most prosperous Black communities of the early 20th Century, an area Booker T. Washington dubbed America's Black Wall Street. Soon after the day narrated by Opal, Greenwood would be lost in the Tulsa Race Massacre, the worst act of racial violence in American history. As we approach the centennial of that tragic event, children have the opportunity through this book to learn and celebrate all that was built in Greenwood.
Publisher: Calliope Group
ISBN: 9781733647458
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
"A beautiful and poignant reminder of the industry, joy and resilience of Black people in America."-Trey Ellis, Peabody and Emmy winning producer of King in the Wilderness andTrue Justice: Bryan Stevenson's Fight for Equality The year is 1921, and Opal Brown would like to show you around her beautiful neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Filled with busy stores and happy families, Opal also wants you to know that "everyone looks like me." In both words and illustrations, this carefully researched and historically accurate book allows children to experience the joys and success of Greenwood, one of the most prosperous Black communities of the early 20th Century, an area Booker T. Washington dubbed America's Black Wall Street. Soon after the day narrated by Opal, Greenwood would be lost in the Tulsa Race Massacre, the worst act of racial violence in American history. As we approach the centennial of that tragic event, children have the opportunity through this book to learn and celebrate all that was built in Greenwood.
Sun Ra's Chicago
Author: William Sites
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022673224X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
“Sites provides crucial context on how Chicago’s Afrocentrist philosophy, religion, and jazz scenes helped turn Blount into Sun Ra.” —Chicago Reader Sun Ra (1914–93) was one of the most wildly prolific and unfailingly eccentric figures in the history of music. Renowned for extravagant performances in which his Arkestra appeared in neo-Egyptian garb, the keyboardist and bandleader also espoused an interstellar cosmology that claimed the planet Saturn as his true home. In Sun Ra’s Chicago, William Sites brings this visionary musician back to earth—specifically to the city’s South Side, where from 1946 to 1961 he lived and relaunched his career. The postwar South Side was a hotbed of unorthodox religious and cultural activism: Afrocentric philosophies flourished, storefront prophets sold “dream-book bibles,” and Elijah Muhammad was building the Nation of Islam. It was also an unruly musical crossroads where the man then known as Sonny Blount drew from an array of intellectual and musical sources—from radical nationalism, revisionist Christianity, and science fiction to jazz, blues, Latin dance music, and pop exotica—to construct a philosophy and performance style that imagined a new identity and future for African Americans. Sun Ra’s Chicago shows that late twentieth-century Afrofuturism emerged from a deep, utopian engagement with the city—and that by excavating the postwar black experience of Sun Ra’s South Side milieu, we can come to see the possibilities of urban life in new ways. “Four stars . . . Sites makes the engaging argument that the idiosyncratic jazz legend’s penchant for interplanetary journeys and African American utopia was in fact inspired by urban life right on Earth.” —Spectrum Culture
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022673224X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
“Sites provides crucial context on how Chicago’s Afrocentrist philosophy, religion, and jazz scenes helped turn Blount into Sun Ra.” —Chicago Reader Sun Ra (1914–93) was one of the most wildly prolific and unfailingly eccentric figures in the history of music. Renowned for extravagant performances in which his Arkestra appeared in neo-Egyptian garb, the keyboardist and bandleader also espoused an interstellar cosmology that claimed the planet Saturn as his true home. In Sun Ra’s Chicago, William Sites brings this visionary musician back to earth—specifically to the city’s South Side, where from 1946 to 1961 he lived and relaunched his career. The postwar South Side was a hotbed of unorthodox religious and cultural activism: Afrocentric philosophies flourished, storefront prophets sold “dream-book bibles,” and Elijah Muhammad was building the Nation of Islam. It was also an unruly musical crossroads where the man then known as Sonny Blount drew from an array of intellectual and musical sources—from radical nationalism, revisionist Christianity, and science fiction to jazz, blues, Latin dance music, and pop exotica—to construct a philosophy and performance style that imagined a new identity and future for African Americans. Sun Ra’s Chicago shows that late twentieth-century Afrofuturism emerged from a deep, utopian engagement with the city—and that by excavating the postwar black experience of Sun Ra’s South Side milieu, we can come to see the possibilities of urban life in new ways. “Four stars . . . Sites makes the engaging argument that the idiosyncratic jazz legend’s penchant for interplanetary journeys and African American utopia was in fact inspired by urban life right on Earth.” —Spectrum Culture
Care for the Mental and Spiritual Health of Black Men
Author: Nicholas Grier
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498567134
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Black men need hope to survive and, ultimately, flourish. As mental health is a critical but often neglected issue, especially among Black men, Care for the Mental and Spiritual Health of Black Men examines that sensitive topic in conjunction with reflections on race, gender, sexuality, and class to offer a hopeful and constructive framework for care and counseling, particularly for Black men. These are not separate from spiritual health and growth, as well, but both are integral to holistic, dynamic wellbeing. In this, the author provides a careful and critical analysis of spiritual hope and healing as ingredient to individual and communal flourishing. As such, this volume will be a vital resource for health practitioners, spiritual caregivers, and providers in community care who serve to bolster the mental wellbeing of Black men.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498567134
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Black men need hope to survive and, ultimately, flourish. As mental health is a critical but often neglected issue, especially among Black men, Care for the Mental and Spiritual Health of Black Men examines that sensitive topic in conjunction with reflections on race, gender, sexuality, and class to offer a hopeful and constructive framework for care and counseling, particularly for Black men. These are not separate from spiritual health and growth, as well, but both are integral to holistic, dynamic wellbeing. In this, the author provides a careful and critical analysis of spiritual hope and healing as ingredient to individual and communal flourishing. As such, this volume will be a vital resource for health practitioners, spiritual caregivers, and providers in community care who serve to bolster the mental wellbeing of Black men.
Purlie
Author:
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573694790
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
An African American preacher returns to his hometown to open a church, outwitting a segregationist plantation owner to make it happen.
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573694790
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
An African American preacher returns to his hometown to open a church, outwitting a segregationist plantation owner to make it happen.
What a Woman Ought to Be and to Do
Author: Stephanie J. Shaw
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226751309
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Stephanie J. Shaw takes us into the inner world of American black professional women during the Jim Crow era. This is a story of struggle and empowerment, of the strength of a group of women who worked against daunting odds to improve the world for themselves and their people. Shaw's remarkable research into the lives of social workers, librarians, nurses, and teachers from the 1870s through the 1950s allows us to hear these women's voices for the first time. The women tell us, in their own words, about their families, their values, their expectations. We learn of the forces and factors that made them exceptional, and of the choices and commitments that made them leaders in their communities. What a Woman Ought to Be and to Do brings to life a world in which African-American families, communities, and schools worked to encourage the self-confidence, individual initiative, and social responsibility of girls. Shaw shows us how, in a society that denied black women full professional status, these girls embraced and in turn defined an ideal of "socially responsible individualism" that balanced private and public sphere responsibilities. A collective portrait of character shaped in the toughest circumstances, this book is more than a study of the socialization of these women as children and the organization of their work as adults. It is also a study of leadership—of how African American communities gave their daughters the power to succeed in and change a hostile world.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226751309
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Stephanie J. Shaw takes us into the inner world of American black professional women during the Jim Crow era. This is a story of struggle and empowerment, of the strength of a group of women who worked against daunting odds to improve the world for themselves and their people. Shaw's remarkable research into the lives of social workers, librarians, nurses, and teachers from the 1870s through the 1950s allows us to hear these women's voices for the first time. The women tell us, in their own words, about their families, their values, their expectations. We learn of the forces and factors that made them exceptional, and of the choices and commitments that made them leaders in their communities. What a Woman Ought to Be and to Do brings to life a world in which African-American families, communities, and schools worked to encourage the self-confidence, individual initiative, and social responsibility of girls. Shaw shows us how, in a society that denied black women full professional status, these girls embraced and in turn defined an ideal of "socially responsible individualism" that balanced private and public sphere responsibilities. A collective portrait of character shaped in the toughest circumstances, this book is more than a study of the socialization of these women as children and the organization of their work as adults. It is also a study of leadership—of how African American communities gave their daughters the power to succeed in and change a hostile world.