Author : Eric Sloane
Publisher :
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 13,8 MB
Release : 1978
Category :
ISBN : 9780308103474
Recollections in Black and White
Eric Sloane
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Recollections in Black and White
Eric Sloane
Author : Eric Sloane
Publisher : Dover Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,39 MB
Release : 2006
Category :
ISBN : 9780486447971
Nostalgic treasury of 74 early pen-and-ink sketches of snow-covered landscapes, sturdy stone barns and farmhouses, covered bridges, farming implements, spring houses, and more; plus autobiographical commentary on roads traveled and sights seen.
Recollections of My Nonexistence
Rebecca Solnit
Author : Rebecca Solnit
Publisher :
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 27,31 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0593083334
An electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent In Recollections of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a feminist in 1980s San Francisco, in an atmosphere of gender violence on the street and throughout society and the exclusion of women from cultural arenas. She tells of being poor, hopeful, and adrift in the city that became her great teacher; of the small apartment that, when she was nineteen, became the home in which she transformed herself; of how punk rock gave form and voice to her own fury and explosive energy. Solnit recounts how she came to recognize the epidemic of violence against women around her, the street harassment that unsettled her, the trauma that changed her, and the authority figures who routinely disdained and disbelieved girls and women, including her. Looking back, she sees all these as consequences of the voicelessness that was and still is the ordinary condition of women, and how she contended with that while becoming a writer and a public voice for women's rights. She explores the forces that liberated her as a person and as a writer--books themselves, the gay men around her who offered other visions of what gender, family, and joy could be, and her eventual arrival in the spacious landscapes and overlooked conflicts of the American West. These influences taught her how to write in the way she has ever since, and gave her a voice that has resonated with and empowered many others.
My Times in Black and White
Gerald M. Boyd
Author : Gerald M. Boyd
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 32,55 MB
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1569765588
“An inspiring and riveting tale.” —Patrik Henry Bass, Senior Editor, Essence After a career of many firsts, journalist Gerald Boyd became the first black managing editor of the New York Times. But the dream ended abruptly with Boyd's forced resignation in the wake of scandal over Jayson Blair, a reporter who had plagiarized and fabricated news stories. A rare inside view of power and behind-the-scenes politics at the nation's premier newspaper, My Times in Black and White is the inspirational tale of a man who rose from urban poverty to the top of his field, struggling against whitedominated media, tearing down racial barriers, and all the while documenting the most extraordinary events of the latter twentieth century.
Blackcreole
Maurice M. Martinez
Author : Maurice M. Martinez
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 44,82 MB
Release : 2017-08-16
Category : Creoles
ISBN : 9781974280575
Seen through the eyes of a native son: Maurice M. Martinez, Ph.D, in this firsthand account of survival on a deep-South landscape speaks to the elan vital of a multiethnic, multicultural American. Once upon a time in the Land of Epidermis, in a place called the 7th Ward in New Orleans, there lived a group of marginalized Americans known as gens de couleur libres (free persons of color.) Offspring of the cross-fertilization of European colonizers, Amerindians, and enslaved Africans, were systematically excluded from free access to the fruits of the American Dream. They were defined by the amount of melanin in their skin, relegated to a subordinate status of segregated outcasts, and labeled "Colored" and"Negro" for having as little as 1/32nd of so-called African "blood." Placed in an enclave of early Limbo, these gens de couleur libres created an enduring legacy of tenacity and resilience in their response to the illusion of inclusion.
Delta Fragments
John O. Hodges
Author : John O. Hodges
Publisher : Univ Tennessee Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,17 MB
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781621900863
The son of black sharecroppers, John Oliver Hodges attended segregated schools in Greenwood, Mississippi, in the 1950s and ’60s, worked in plantation cotton fields, and eventually left the region to earn multiple degrees and become a tenured university professor. Both poignant and thought provoking, Delta Fragments is Hodges’s autobiographical journey back to the land of his birth. Brimming with vivid memories of family life, childhood friendships, the quest for knowledge, and the often brutal injustices of the Jim Crow South, it also offers an insightful meditation on the present state of race relations in America. Hodges has structured the book as a series of brief but revealing vignettes grouped into two main sections. In part 1, “Learning,” he introduces us to the town of Greenwood and to his parents, sister, and myriad aunts, uncles, cousins, teachers, and schoolmates. He tells stories of growing up on a plantation, dancing in smoky juke joints, playing sandlot football and baseball, journeying to the West Coast as a nineteen-year-old to meet the biological father he never knew while growing up, and leaving family and friends to attend Morehouse College in Atlanta. In part 2, “Reflecting,” he connects his firsthand experience with broader themes: the civil rights movement, Delta blues, black folkways, gambling in Mississippi, the vital role of religion in the African American community, and the perplexing problems of poverty, crime, and an underfunded educational system that still challenge black and white citizens of the Delta. Whether recalling the assassination of Medgar Evers (whom he knew personally), the dynamism of an African American church service, or the joys of reconnecting with old friends at a biennial class reunion, Hodges writes with a rare combination of humor, compassion, and—when describing the injustices that were all too frequently inflicted on him and his contemporaries—righteous anger. But his ultimate goal, he contends, is not to close doors but to open them: to inspire dialogue, to start a conversation, “to be provocative without being insistent or definitive.”
At Reagan's Side
Stephen F. Knott
Author : Stephen F. Knott
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,59 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780742566255
Knott and Chidester show readers the life of the "Great Communicator" through the eyes of both famous and lesser-known administration insiders like James Baker, George Shultz, Edwin Meese, Peter Hannaford, and Caspar Weinberger. They provide thoughtful readers with a deeper understanding of Ronald Reagan and the times in which he lived."--Jacket.
Library Service in Black and White
Annie L. McPheeters
Author : Annie L. McPheeters
Publisher : Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,94 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Early Recollections
Harold H. Mosak
Author : Harold H. Mosak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 36,75 MB
Release : 2007-12-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1135440840
Our present and our past are manifestly intertwined. Memories are not identical simulations of the past, but are stories shaped by our current perspectives of others, the world, and ourselves. As a result, the gathering of early recollections can be used as a projective technique that indicates our strengths, goals, lines of movement, fears, and a host of other relevant psychological data. Early Recollections are a quick, accurate, and cost-effective personality assessment demonstrated to have similar reliability and validity to other personality measures. Both a comprehensive and accessible text, Early Recollections: Interpretative Method and Application presents a constructivist approach and systematic development of early recollection theory. Mosak and Di Pietro invite students to think and actively engage in problem solving rather than merely read for content. Supported by step-by-step examples, this book also offers a perspective suitable for application by Adlerian practitioners, non-Adlerian clinicians, and all other mental health professionals and students seeking a new framework for evaluating personality.
My Remembers
Eddie Stimpson
Author : Eddie Stimpson
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 14,53 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781574410679
An account of the author's life growing up on a dirt farm in Texas during the Great Depression, providing details of the ordinary life of rural African-American families during one of the most difficult periods in the country's history.