Hood Living
Hood Living

Author: Sfg

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2018-01-28

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 148362997X

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HOOD LIVIN Ghetto Grace is about young black adults living in the hood from a realistic perspective. Its about pain, anger, and love. Hood Livin, touches on various aspects in which young adults are coming up in the so-called hood experience. Justice is twenty-four, and although its his last year of college, hes dealing with the problems of his ex-girlfriend leaving town with his young daughter and trying to come to terms with his mothers illness and his responsibility to his best friends little brother. At the same time, he falls in love with a young sister. Kisha is twenty-three and just broke up with her boyfriend when she caught him playing on her. Shes the third oldest of seven children. Her mothers early death forced her to become the woman of the house and to care for a drunkard father. Regg had his first year of college at eighteen. Hes trying to cope with his brothers death and being an adult teenager. He realizes its not all that easy, nor is it what he expected. Coco is Kishas best friend, and shes having her own issues. Her only brother is in prison, and shes caught up in a relationship that is not healthy for her. Her boyfriend is the leader of the local drug-selling gang who values the chase of that paper more than her life. Crime is the leader of the Bishops. He is all about that money and making sure he and his people eat. He doesnt care what he has to do to get it or who he has to kill in order to keep his spots up and flowing. As each deals with their own independent issues and drama, living in the hood, the streets of reality draw them together in one way or another. Ten years earlier, Justice witnessed the murder of his best friend and partner Rakim by a member of a rival gang. He took that as a wake-up call and reality check. Justice decided to get himself on the right track and try to avoid the calls of the streets. But when his late partners brother dies, the call can no longer be ignored.

Grace After Midnight
Grace After Midnight

Author: Felicia Pearson

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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Pearson, who plays Snoop on the HBO hit series "The Wire," reveals her incredible, hard-knock life story, one that dramatically parallels the life of her character on TV.

Sag Harbor
Sag Harbor

Author: Colson Whitehead

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2009-04-28

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0385529392

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FINALIST • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys: a hilarious and supremely original novel set in the Hamptons in the 1980s, "a tenderhearted coming-of-age story fused with a sharp look at the intersections of race and class” (The New York Times). Benji Cooper is one of the few Black students at an elite prep school in Manhattan. But every summer, Benji escapes to the Hamptons, to Sag Harbor, where a small community of Black professionals have built a world of their own. The summer of ’85 won’t be without its usual trials and tribulations, of course. There will be complicated new handshakes to fumble through and state-of-the-art profanity to master. Benji will be tested by contests big and small, by his misshapen haircut (which seems to have a will of its own), by the New Coke Tragedy, and by his secret Lite FM addiction. But maybe, just maybe, this summer might be one for the ages. Look for Colson Whitehead’s new novel, Crook Manifesto, coming soon!

Qualitative Research
Qualitative Research

Author: Sharon M. Ravitch

Publisher: SAGE Publications

Published: 2015-08-28

Total Pages: 601

ISBN-13: 1483351734

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Focused on developing the conceptual, theoretical, and methodological knowledge needed to engage in rigorous and valid research, this introductory text provides practical explanations, exercises, and advice for how to conduct qualitative research—from design through implementation, analysis, and writing up research. Qualitative Research presents the field in a unique and meaningful way, and helps readers understand what authors Sharon M. Ravitch and Nicole Mittenfelner Carl call “criticality” in qualitative research by communicating its foundations and processes with clarity and simplicity while still capturing complexity. Packed with real-life examples of questions, issues, and situations that stem from the authors’ and their students’ research, the book humanizes the qualitative research endeavor, illustrates the types of scenarios that arise, and emphasizes the importance of actively considering paradigmatic values throughout every stage of the research process. In every chapter, the authors illustrate the qualitative research process as decidedly ideological, political, and subjective using themes of criticality, reflexivity, collaboration, and rigor.

The Residue Years
The Residue Years

Author: Mitchell S. Jackson

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2013-08-20

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1620400308

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Winner Whiting Writers' Award Winner Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction Finalist for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize Finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Mitchell S. Jackson grew up black in a neglected neighborhood in America's whitest city, Portland, Oregon. In the '90s, those streets and beyond had fallen under the shadow of crack cocaine and its familiar mayhem. In his commanding autobiographical novel, Mitchell writes what it was to come of age in that time and place, with a break-out voice that's nothing less than extraordinary. The Residue Years switches between the perspectives of a young man, Champ, and his mother, Grace. Grace is just out of a drug treatment program, trying to stay clean and get her kids back. Champ is trying to do right by his mom and younger brothers, and dreams of reclaiming the only home he and his family have ever shared. But selling crack is the only sure way he knows to achieve his dream. In this world of few options and little opportunity, where love is your strength and your weakness, this family fights for family and against what tears one apart. Honest in its portrayal, with cadences that dazzle, The Residue Years signals the arrival of a writer set to awe.

From the Hood to the Hill
From the Hood to the Hill

Author: Barry C. Black

Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM

Published: 2006-08-20

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1418577286

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From the Hood to the Hill is Chaplain Black's story of overcoming unpromising beginnings in the ghettos of Baltimore. His travels through uncharted waters exemplify God's power for change. Read his story and discover how you, too, can move toward unprecedented satisfaction through a living faith in God. "With Barry Black, you don't just hear a sermon, you see the sermon. That sermon is captured vividly in this story of his life. A life shaped by love, humility, confidence, courage, strength, and hope." - from the Foreword, THOMAS R. CARPER, US Senator "Barry Black is a leader among leaders. Brilliant and articulate, yet humble and approachable, he is a force for integrity, goodness, and compassion on Capitol Hill . . . this narrative, From the Hood to the Hill, is a fascinating read." - DR. RICK WARREN, Best-Selling Author, The Purpose Driven Life, and Pastor, Saddleback Church, Lake Forest, CA "Chaplain Barry Black embodies the best of the American Spirit and the Christian tradition-a man of great erudition who has never forgotten his humble roots; a man of great faith who remains open to all the wisdom of all people; a man of great seriousness who knows how to laugh. The Senate and the country are grateful for his service." - BARRACK OBAMA, US Senator "From a wonderfully unique man comes a powerfully unique story. Barry Black is a testimony to God's faithfulness and grace." - MAX LUCADO, Pastor, Oak Hills Church, San Antonio, TX "This is an inspiring autobiography by an outstanding man of God, a great leader, a powerful preacher, and a true patriot . . . Barry Black is my cherished friend. I'm honored that he succeeded me as Chaplain of the United States Senate. From the Hood to the Hill is a stirring and power-packed book of the way God uses whom He chooses." - DR. LLOYD J. OGILVIE, Former US Senate Chaplain

GHETTO-LOGIK
GHETTO-LOGIK

Author: Jerome ?Guydance? Jewet

Publisher: Trafford Publishing

Published: 2013-07

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1466985704

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We live in a parallel universe. Therefore, wherever there s an upscale neighborhood, there must be a ghetto; and if there is a ghetto, then there is a need for my Ghetto-Logik. This book is the Brooklyn Bridge that connects da hood to lavish neighborhoods. We, as human beings, were designed with identical spiritual, mental, and physical features, along with the divine gift of free will. However, some of us do not fully understand the grandness of our divine privileges, so we subconsciously live our lives less abundant than our original intent or choose not to exercise our gifts, talents, and abilities awarded to us by God. "

From the Hood to the Church
From the Hood to the Church

Author: Demarcus Brewster

Publisher:

Published: 2019-08-29

Total Pages: 51

ISBN-13: 9781694342614

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This is a book inspired by true events I experienced in my life. It entails how God delivered me from situations I faced and how I became the person I am today.

Hard Times
Hard Times

Author: Ashondi Trotter

Publisher:

Published: 2018-04-03

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 9781681028712

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Follow Cocoa Mona Johnson on a journey through her life, as she survives growing up in the hard streets of Chicago, IL. Having to deal with the pressures of life, learning about love. And becoming caught up in a life full of sex, lust, drugs, and other demons. Cocoa quickly finds out that in order to change her life, she has to let go of her past hurts and move forward. Soon you will understand and some will relate as to why this non-fiction urban novel series based on true events is a must read!! So come take this walk as you experience the highs and lows of a young black girl from the ghetto. Who's only objective is to make it out the hood and hopefully find true love, only to find out she needs to find herself. She will go through many challenges that she finds herself asking, why did God put me here? You will also discover her strength to endure every mistake and life lesson she's faced with. Even in her lowest moments considering suicide, you will see how she picks herself up and bounces back. Cocoa is a forced to be reckoned with, A true Renegade.Because as Cocoa simply puts it "Everyone has skeletons in their closet, I'm just bold enough to speak on mine. Maybe it will help someone, maybe it won't. But your opinion of me is none of my business just live your life". Sincerely Cocoa M. Johnso