Black Antoinette

Black Antoinette

Author: Olaf Hajek

Publisher: Die Gestalten Verlag-DGV

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783899554526

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Recent work by one of the most internationally sought-after illustration artists.


Colonialism and Cultural Identity

Colonialism and Cultural Identity

Author: Patrick Colm Hogan

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 2000-02-03

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9780791444597

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Explores diverse cultural identities, both theoretically and through concrete, specific interpretations of selected major texts from former British colonies.


Flowerhead

Flowerhead

Author: Olaf Hajek

Publisher: Die Gestalten Verlag-DGV

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783899552812

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Hajek's painted illustrations take us on a visual tour de force of naively surreal juxtaposition, of fairytale fancies and rearranged realities, to explore a realm that is strangely off-kilter and out of perspective.


Double Down

Double Down

Author: Antoinette M. Clarke

Publisher: Crown Currency

Published: 2019-09-10

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0525574948

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Tricia and Antoinette Clarke—best friends, Power Twins, and Boss Ladies—show you how to take your work and life to the Next Level. “Aspiring Boss Ladies in any field should pay attention.”—Gabrielle Union-Wade, actress, activist, and New York Times bestselling author of We’re Going to Need More Wine As African American women who have climbed their way to the highest ranks of the media world, Tricia and Antoinette have learned that to win when the deck is stacked against you, you need to ditch the old Status Quo rules. Whether you’re starting your career, wondering why you’re not further along, or looking to pivot, you’ve got to double down on yourself, and you’ve got to cultivate a tribe of people who will double down on you, too. Now, they share their wisdom with the next generation of Boss Ladies looking to up their game. If you’re tired of getting second-class rewards for first-class work and you’re ready to be respected for who you are, Double Down will give you the tools and tactics to go all in on your dreams. Among the lessons you’ll learn: • Don’t emulate, originate: Identify your unique superpowers to start from a place of strength. • Don’t stay in place, move into white space: To stand out, use your superpowers to do something no one else does. • Don’t just compete, play the long game: Work backward from where you want to end up—aim high, go far. • Don’t inherit your tribe, build it: Actively cultivate a crew of people who will push you to go after your most audacious goals (and set new ones). Packed with strategies and solutions, as well as stories of other badass Boss Ladies including Ayesha Curry, Carly Cushnie, Anne Wojcicki, and many others, this remixed rulebook will help you see the power in yourself—and double down on it.


Married

Married

Author: Antoinette Smith

Publisher:

Published: 2011-02-15

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 9781930231399

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This has been some rollercoaster relationship. I was the young bitch in the hood who found the money man of my dreams. Spencer was a very wealthy man. I thought I had him wrapped around my finger until he did the unthinkable. Spencer was a man that got everything done just with the snap of his finger. However, he was sixty years old, and I was only twenty when we got married. The major problem was that he didn't satisfy me sexually, but Eric did! Eric was young, athletic, and good-looking. Eric fulfilled all of my sexual fantasies. I wished that there was something more that I could do. There were so many things I wanted to take back. All of this turmoil was my fault. It was a bed that I had made, and I had to lay in it.


The Sisters Are Alright

The Sisters Are Alright

Author: Tamara Winfrey Harris

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Published: 2015-07-06

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 1626563535

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GOLD MEDALIST OF FOREWORD REVIEWS' 2015 INDIEFAB AWARDS IN WOMEN'S STUDIES What's wrong with black women? Not a damned thing! The Sisters Are Alright exposes anti–black-woman propaganda and shows how real black women are pushing back against distorted cartoon versions of themselves. When African women arrived on American shores, the three-headed hydra—servile Mammy, angry Sapphire, and lascivious Jezebel—followed close behind. In the '60s, the Matriarch, the willfully unmarried baby machine leeching off the state, joined them. These stereotypes persist to this day through newspaper headlines, Sunday sermons, social media memes, cable punditry, government policies, and hit song lyrics. Emancipation may have happened more than 150 years ago, but America still won't let a sister be free from this coven of caricatures. Tamara Winfrey Harris delves into marriage, motherhood, health, sexuality, beauty, and more, taking sharp aim at pervasive stereotypes about black women. She counters warped prejudices with the straight-up truth about being a black woman in America. “We have facets like diamonds,” she writes. “The trouble is the people who refuse to see us sparkling.”


I Can't Date Jesus

I Can't Date Jesus

Author: Michael Arceneaux

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2018-07-24

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1501178865

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Featured as One of Summer’s most anticipated reads by the Los Angeles Times, Vogue, Vulture, Entertainment Weekly, ELLE, Buzzfeed, and Bitch Media. From the author of I Don’t Want to Die Poor and in the style of New York Times bestsellers You Can’t Touch My Hair, Bad Feminist, and I'm Judging You, a timely collection of alternately hysterical and soul‑searching essays about what it is like to grow up as a creative, sensitive black man in a world that constantly tries to deride and diminish your humanity. It hasn’t been easy being Michael Arceneaux. Equality for LGBTQ people has come a long way and all, but voices of persons of color within the community are still often silenced, and being Black in America is…well, have you watched the news? With the characteristic wit and candor that have made him one of today’s boldest writers on social issues, I Can’t Date Jesus is Michael Arceneaux’s impassioned, forthright, and refreshing look at minority life in today’s America. Leaving no bigoted or ignorant stone unturned, he describes his journey in learning to embrace his identity when the world told him to do the opposite. He eloquently writes about coming out to his mother; growing up in Houston, Texas; being approached for the priesthood; his obstacles in embracing intimacy that occasionally led to unfortunate fights with fire ants and maybe fleas; and the persistent challenges of young people who feel marginalized and denied the chance to pursue their dreams. Perfect for fans of David Sedaris, Samantha Irby, and Phoebe Robinson, I Can’t Date Jesus tells us—without apologies—what it’s like to be outspoken and brave in a divisive world.


Imagination, Emblems, and Expressions

Imagination, Emblems, and Expressions

Author: Helen Ryan-Ranson

Publisher: Popular Press

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 9780879725815

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Twenty-four essays take diverse approaches (thematic, feminist, historicist, cultural materialist, etc.) to the theme of culture (including its expression in literature, art, mass media, etc.) and identity (self, regional, or national) in Latin America (five essays), the Caribbean (ten essays) and Europe (nine essays). Paper edition (unseen), $16.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


Moth to a Flame

Moth to a Flame

Author: Ashley Antoinette

Publisher: Urban Books

Published: 2012-01-01

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 1599832577

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In the little city of Flint, MI, the good die young and the people left standing are the grimiest of characters. With reign over the city's drug trade, Benjamin Atkins made sure that his precious daughter, Raven, was secluded from the grit that the city had to offer. But when Raven's young heart gets claimed by Mizan, a stick-up kid in search of a come-up, there's nothing Benjamin can do about losing her to the streets. She chooses love over loyalty and runs off with Mizan, but her new role as wifey soon proves to be more than she can handle. Puppy love always feels right, but things turn stale, and she soon finds that everyone she loves has disappeared. All she has is Mizan, but when hugs and kisses turn to bloody lips and black eyes, she realizes that Mizan is not who she thought he was. Raven becomes desperate for a way out, but this time, Daddy can't save her. Every time she finds the courage to leave, fear convinces her to stay. Like a moth to a flame, Raven is drawn to Mizan, even though she knows he'll be the death of her. When the hood life she chose becomes unbearable and the only way out is in a coffin, what will she do?