If His Status Ain't Hood

If His Status Ain't Hood

Author: Quiana Nicole

Publisher: Sullivan Group Publishing

Published: 2015-10-08

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 1648403964

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** THIS IS A STANDALONE NOVEL! NO CLIFF-HANGERS!!! **** Londyn St. Claire is foolishly in love with Choppa and has been since high school. Loving him through thick and thin, she puts up with the physical altercations, pregnancy scares and all of the other unnecessary drama from all of the many other women he messed with on the side - all for the sake of being in love with a ruffneck. Meanwhile, Jay, who is the complete opposite of Choppa, is the person that Londyn least suspects to declare his love for her and vows to love her the way she deserves. Bed hopping from one to the next, Jabari Carter AKA Choppa, thinks he’s God’s gift to women. Getting in the panties is never the problem, that’s the easy part. But what he never seems to learn is anything that’s easily given to you comes with a price and may not be worth keeping. His “new booty, no strings attached” philosophy blows up in his face when he hits rock bottom. Once he finds out he might be looking at doing hard time, he soon realizes that he can’t depend on any of them. Locked up, broke and stuck - all of his females disappear when shit gets real. The only one left by his side is the one that he disrespected, cheated on and didn’t fully appreciate, Londyn. Kennedy Jones is on a mission, and that’s to be more than Choppa’s sidepiece. While focusing on being his main, she lusts after him with no shame or regard for Londyn or her position in Choppa’s life. Determined, nothing stands in her way not even her very own relationship with Raymond, which she carelessly tosses to the side like trash. Will Kennedy measure up to be the woman Choppa needs in his life when the chips fall? While Londyn and Kennedy chase after their ideal hood love, will they pass up real love from someone worthy just because they’re not from the streets? If their status ain’t hood, they’re not feelin’ em.


Posthuman Rap

Posthuman Rap

Author: Justin Adams Burton

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017-09-01

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 0190235470

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Posthuman Rap listens for the ways contemporary rap maps an existence outside the traditional boundaries of what it means to be human. Contemporary humanity is shaped in neoliberal terms, where being human means being viable in a capitalist marketplace that favors whiteness, masculinity, heterosexuality, and fixed gender identities. But musicians from Nicki Minaj to Future to Rae Sremmurd deploy queerness and sonic blackness as they imagine different ways of being human. Building on the work of Sylvia Wynter, Alexander Weheliye, Lester Spence, LH Stallings, and a broad swath of queer and critical race theory, Posthuman Rap turns an ear especially toward hip hop that is often read as apolitical in order to hear its posthuman possibilities, its construction of a humanity that is blacker, queerer, more feminine than the norm.


Ain't Gonna Lay My 'ligion Down

Ain't Gonna Lay My 'ligion Down

Author: Alonzo Johnson

Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9781570031090

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This text examines how African Americans have created distinctive forms of religious expression. Contributors explore the degree to which newly imported slaves preserved their African spiritual heritage whilst meshing it with Western symbols and theological claims.


Remembering Popular Musics Past

Remembering Popular Musics Past

Author: Lauren Istvandity

Publisher: Anthem Press

Published: 2019-06-15

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1783089709

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Remembering Popular Music’s Past capitalizes on the growing interest, globally, in the preservation of popular music’s material past and on scholarly explorations of the ways in which popular music, as heritage, is produced, legitimized and conferred cultural and historical significance. The chapters in this collection consider the spaces, practices and representations that constitute popular music heritage to elucidate how popular music’s past is lived in the present. Thus the focus is on the transformation of popular music into heritage, and the role of history and memory in this process. The cultural studies framework adopted in Remembering Popular Music’s Past encompasses unique approaches to popular music historiography, sociology, film analysis, and archival and museal work. Broadly, the collection deals with the precarious nature of popular music heritage, history and memory.


The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood

The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood

Author: William Michael Rossetti

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2020-07-17

Total Pages: 802

ISBN-13: 3752308826

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Reproduction of the original: The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by William Michael Rossetti


Reflections of Love

Reflections of Love

Author: Alan Hines

Publisher: Trafford Publishing

Published: 2020-03-12

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 1698700253

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Love poetry in abundance, the art of time, the art of loving.


Captured By the Heart of a Thug

Captured By the Heart of a Thug

Author: T'Nesha Sims

Publisher: Sullivan Group Publishing

Published: 2018-12-18

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 164840300X

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"Your sentence has already been decided before this court, and all parties involved. You have been found guilty of love in the 1st degree." Can a case of love be found within a thug? Follow the sisterhood of three young women who finds love within the court of love. Keyana Milton AKA Yana always had an easy going life, she only had one parent in her life which was her father. Her mother and brother died in a car accident leaving her and her father alone with just the two of them, although it was sudden, her father and her continued being there for one another. Her father continued to work hard giving Yana the best life he could. All he wanted was for her to focus on school, and accomplishing all of her dreams. Yana had her fair share of heart breaks more than her father wanted to allow, but she was grown and attending college, a social life and love was nonsexist, until a weekend away from school back in her hometown change all of that. Never would she have thought a man could capture her eyes, putting her heart under arrest. Miece, Yana’s cousin attempts to be the independent hard working woman she is. Not wanting to be anything like her mother she proves to the world she doesn’t need a man to define her, until a night of pleasure sentenced her heart to a life time of love, or will it end with tragic pain? Whoever says the state of my heart demands the loyalty of a woman was right. Payton, AKA Diva has been holding down someone special, when he is release from prison she feels good knowing his heart is still sworn to her. So, she thought. The Love Diva and Shamir shared has been violated to the first degree. Will Shamir, testify his love and win her heart? Havier Fisher AKA Hood was a man of many talents. Not only did he had a solid empire he has businesses and stock that continued to grow his money. His only fear was dying and not being able to provide for his sister and mother. Although they were well off, Hood wanted to always be there to provide for them. A man of Hood’s caliber had more women then he knew what to do with. None of them meant anything to him, and he never found interest in a woman enough to bring her around more than twice. While visiting his hometown before he moves back permanently he ran into a woman that spark his interest. Once, you get the interest of Hood, you got his attention. Who is the woman that held his attention? Will she find him of importance to fit into her life or will he have to put a warrant out for her love? While Love finds its way to Hood, an unwelcome guest does as well, finding Hood to be a threat to his world. Can Hood handle all that is coming his way?


Who Got the Camera?

Who Got the Camera?

Author: Eric Harvey

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2021-10-05

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 1477323953

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Reality first appeared in the late 1980s—in the sense not of real life but rather of the TV entertainment genre inaugurated by shows such as Cops and America’s Most Wanted; the daytime gabfests of Geraldo, Oprah, and Donahue; and the tabloid news of A Current Affair. In a bracing work of cultural criticism, Eric Harvey argues that reality TV emerged in dialog with another kind of entertainment that served as its foil while borrowing its techniques: gangsta rap. Or, as legendary performers Ice Cube and Ice-T called it, “reality rap.” Reality rap and reality TV were components of a cultural revolution that redefined popular entertainment as a truth-telling medium. Reality entertainment borrowed journalistic tropes but was undiluted by the caveats and context that journalism demanded. While N.W.A.’s “Fuck tha Police” countered Cops’ vision of Black lives in America, the reality rappers who emerged in that group’s wake, such as Snoop Doggy Dogg and Tupac Shakur, embraced reality’s visceral tabloid sensationalism, using the media's obsession with Black criminality to collapse the distinction between image and truth. Reality TV and reality rap nurtured the world we live in now, where politics and basic facts don’t feel real until they have been translated into mass-mediated entertainment.


Ain't I a Woman

Ain't I a Woman

Author: bell hooks

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-12-17

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1317588614

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A classic work of feminist scholarship, Ain't I a Woman has become a must-read for all those interested in the nature of black womanhood. Examining the impact of sexism on black women during slavery, the devaluation of black womanhood, black male sexism, racism among feminists, and the black woman's involvement with feminism, hooks attempts to move us beyond racist and sexist assumptions. The result is nothing short of groundbreaking, giving this book a critical place on every feminist scholar's bookshelf.