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Author: Alice Childress
Publisher: Turtleback
Published: 1999-10-01
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9780881032543
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe life of a 13-year-old Harlem black boy, on his way to becoming a confirmed heroin addict, is seen from his viewpoint and from that of several people around him.
Author: John Donovan
Publisher: North Star Editions, Inc.
Published: 2010-09-08
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0738727172
DOWNLOAD EBOOKI’ll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip. is best known as the first teen novel to address homosexuality. Set in 1969, Donovan’s seminal tale centers on Davy Ross, a lonely thirteen-year-old who moves to Manhattan to live with his estranged mother. Then he meets a boy and experiences something that changes his life.
Author: Alice Childress
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Published: 2022-06-21
Total Pages: 82
ISBN-13: 1636700160
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“A masterpiece . . . Trouble in Mind still contains astonishing power; it could have been written yesterday.” —Vulture Ahead of its time, Trouble in Mind, written in 1955, follows the rehearsal process of an anti-lynching play preparing for its Broadway debut. When Wiletta, a Black actress and veteran of the stage, challenges the play’s stereotypical portrayal of the Black characters, unsettling biases come to the forefront and reveal the ways so-called progressive art can be used to uphold racist attitudes. Scheduled to open on Broadway in 1957, Childress objected to the requested changes in the script that would “sanitize” the play for mainstream audiences, and the production was canceled as a result. Childress’s final script is published here with an essay by playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, editor of TCG Illuminations.
Author: John Neufeld
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2016-03-22
Total Pages: 122
ISBN-13: 1504032985
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSelected as one of TheNew York Times Book Review’s Best Books of the Year and honored worldwide, Lisa, Bright and Dark was an immediate sensation when it was first published. Detailing how mental illness affects friends and family of the ill, Lisa, Bright and Dark has been in print for more than forty years. Its value has not diminished over time, and readers throughout the world contact the author regularly to discuss their reactions to it. A straight-through read, it is full of romance, excitement, suspense, and finally triumph.
Author: Alice Childress
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 58
ISBN-13: 9780573617690
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBlacks and whites during the summer of 1918 in Charleston, South Carolina.
Author: Alice Childress
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2017-01-24
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 0807050741
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecommended by Entertainment Weekly The hilarious, uncompromising novel about African American domestic workers—from a trailblazer in Black women’s literature and now featuring a foreword by Roxane Gay First published in Paul Robeson’s newspaper, Freedom, and composed of a series of conversations between Mildred, a black domestic, and her friend Marge, Like One of the Family is a wry, incisive portrait of working women in Harlem in the 1950s. Rippling with satire and humor, Mildred’s outspoken accounts vividly capture her white employers’ complacency and condescension—and their startled reactions to a maid who speaks her mind and refuses to exchange dignity for pay. Upon publication the book sparked a critique of working conditions, laying the groundwork for the contemporary domestic worker movement. Although she was critically praised, Childress’s uncompromising politics and unflinching depictions of racism, classism, and sexism relegated her to the fringe of American literature. Like One of the Family has been long overlooked, but this new edition, featuring a foreword by best-selling author Roxane Gay, will introduce Childress to a new generation.
Author: La Vinia Delois Jennings
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA founding member of the American Negro Theatre, Childress became in 1952 the first African-American woman to see her play (Gold through the Trees) professionally produced in New York and in 1956 the first to receive an Obie Award (for Trouble in Mind). She is perhaps best known today, for A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich, her 1973 novel for young adults about a 13-year-old black boy addicted to heroin. At the time of her death in 1994, Childress could lay claim to a writing career of more than 40 years in which she examined with honesty and passion the meaning of being black, and especially of being black and female, in a culture where being white and male was what counted. As Childress herself once said, "I concentrate on portraying have-nots in a have society".
Author: Alice Childress
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2011-04-19
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0810127512
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA selection of five plays by twentieth-century author and actress Alice Childress, including "Florence," "Gold through the Trees," "Trouble in Mind," "Wedding Band : A Love/Hate Story in Black and White," and "Wine in the Wilderness."
Author: Sharon M. Draper
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2013-07-23
Total Pages: 25
ISBN-13: 1442489138
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe death of high school basketball star Rob Washington in an automobile accident affects the lives of his close friend Andy, who was driving the car, and many others in the school.
Author: Felice Holman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1986-05-31
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 0689710666
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Artemis Slake, at the age of thirteen, took his fear and misfortune and hid them underground. The thing is, he had to go with them".
