Black And Blue
Black And Blue

Author: Anna Quindlen

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2011-05-10

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1409007413

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'The first time my husband hit me I was nineteen years old.' For eighteen years Fran Benedetto kept her secret, hid her bruises. She stayed with Bobby because she wanted her son to have a father, and because, in spite of everything, she loved him. Then one night, when she saw the look on her ten-year-old son's face, Fran finally made a choice - she ran for both their lives. Now she is starting over in a city far from home, far from Bobby. She uses a name that isn't hers, watches over her son, and tries to forget. For the woman who now calls herself Beth, every day is a chance to heal, to put together the pieces of her shattered self. And every day she waits for Bobby to catch up with her. Bobby always said he would never let her go, and Fran Benedetto is certain of one thing: it is only a matter of time.

Black and Blue
Black and Blue

Author: Paul Canoville

Publisher: Headline

Published: 2012-12-18

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0755364783

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Paul Canovilles story is one of extreme racist bigotry, shattering career-ending injury, a decline into drug abuse, battles against cancer, family tragedy and a determination to beat the odds. Canoville was Chelsea's first black first-team player, making his debut in 1982. But as he warmed up on the touchline, his own supporters began chanting 'We don't want the nigger!' The racist bile continued whenever he played, but within a year he had won over the terraces with his explosive pace and skill. Canoville fell out with the Chelsea board and moved to Reading in 1986, where injury suddenly ended his career at the age of 24. This started a downward spiral including the death of his baby in his arms, two bouts of life-threatening lymph cancer, drug abuse and homelessness. But Canoville fought back. In this explosive and shocking story, Paul finally explains why, despite everything, he is more positive than ever and has remained a fervent Chelsea fan all his life. This is a story of hope - eventually - overcoming adversity.

Playing Black and Blue
Playing Black and Blue

Author: Valerie R. Still

Publisher:

Published: 2018-03-31

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9781642551198

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Playing Black and Blue - Still I Rise, is a memoir by women's legendary basketball player turned author, Valerie R. Still. This memoir chronicles her time as a University of Kentucky stand out basketball player to her professional career oversees and her championship career in the American Basketball League. Still delves into her personal life and reflects on her career and family and what they have meant to her along the way.

Black and Blue
Black and Blue

Author: Carol Mavor

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2012-09-25

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 0822352710

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Audacious and genre-defying, Black and Blue is steeped in melancholy, in the feeling of being blue, or, rather, black and blue, with all the literality of bruised flesh. Roland Barthes and Marcel Proust are inspirations for and subjects of Carol Mavor's exquisite, image-filled rumination on efforts to capture fleeting moments and to comprehend the incomprehensible. At the book's heart are one book and three films—Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida, Chris Marker's La Jetée and Sans soleil, and Marguerite Duras's and Alain Resnais's Hiroshima mon amour—postwar French works that register disturbing truths about loss and regret, and violence and history, through aesthetic refinement. Personal recollections punctuate Mavor's dazzling interpretations of these and many other works of art and criticism. Childhood memories become Proust's "small-scale contrivances," tiny sensations that open onto panoramas. Mavor's mother lost her memory to Alzheimer's, and Black and Blue is framed by the author's memories of her mother and effort to understand what it means to not be recognized by one to whom you were once so known.

Black & Blue
Black & Blue

Author: Andra Douglas

Publisher:

Published: 2019-07-06

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9781733583503

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In the Deep South, football is a religion and even as a young girl, Christine dearly loved the game. Her passion to not only watch but play and excel, was apparent. However, by the time she reached her teens, the South's particular message that women are second-class citizens--had seeped in. 'Black & Blue' is a book about what happens during her poignant, hilarious, oftimes demoralizing but ultimately successful journey into a world few people know about -- the wild west of women's pro football. From her roots in the Deep South to the streets and boroughs of New York City this is a book about coming of age, and the vivid characters who impact Christine along the way. When the unexpected opportunity to finally play tackle football comes along, Christine must purchase the New York Sharks, a pro tackle franchise, to keep her dream alive. Christine and her teammates embark on a rollicking quest for the national title that is ostensibly about football, but when tragedy strikes, ultimately becomes a meditation on being different and requires Christine to re-examine herself, hermotives and the choices she's made.

Playing Black and Blue
Playing Black and Blue

Author: Valerie R. Still

Publisher:

Published: 2018-03-31

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9781642043488

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University of Kentucky all-time leading scorer and rebounder, Valerie Still has written her memoirs. It is a narrative of tragedy, struggle, survival, growth, triumph, self-awareness, self-discovery and empowerment. Hopefully, in between the lines and words of each page, the reader will connect with her in an organic, ethereal way; experiencing enlightenment and awakening while appreciating the uniqueness and sacredness of each human's earth journey. The journey of self-discovery can be an onerous one. The basis of our true essence is love, power, purity, happiness, wisdom, bliss and peace but often on our earth journey, we lose, forget, misplace or smother our true selves. This leads to a peace-less life of suffering and unhappiness. Valerie has taken this "hero's journey" and discovered timeless truth that regardless of the categories we are placed in ¿ so often dictated by our gender, religion, race, social class, age and sexuality ¿ what unites us and empowers us, gives our lives meaning is knowing that though we may be personally afraid, our true selves are peaceful, loving, powerful, blissful, pure and, of course, fearless. Basketball great, Valerie Still family¿s illustrious lineage begins during slavery through the secretive and dangerous network of the Underground Railroad. She connects this lineage, which include her great- great- granduncle, abolitionist William Still to her experiences as a 21st century woman. She is a pioneer in women¿s basketball at the collegiate and professional levels both nationally and internationally. Her magnificent career begins in the streets of Camden, New Jersey where she competed with her brothers. Still¿s memoir is an inspiration for all.

I'm Black When I'm Singing, I'm Blue When I Ain't and Other Plays
I'm Black When I'm Singing, I'm Blue When I Ain't and Other Plays

Author: Sonia Sanchez

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2010-09-17

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 0822393050

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Sonia Sanchez is a prolific, award-winning poet and one of the most prominent writers in the Black Arts movement. This collection brings her plays together in one volume for the first time. Like her poetry, Sanchez’s plays voice her critique of the racism and sexism that she encountered as a young female writer in the black militant community in the late 1960s and early 1970s, her ongoing concern with the well-being of the black community, and her commitment to social justice. In addition to The Bronx Is Next (1968), Sister Son/ji (1969), Dirty Hearts (1971), Malcolm/Man Don’t Live Here No Mo (1972), and Uh, Uh; But How Do It Free Us? (1974), this collection includes the never-before-published dramas I’m Black When I’m Singing, I’m Blue When I Ain’t (1982) and 2 X 2 (2009), as well as three essays in which Sanchez reflects on her art and activism. Jacqueline Wood’s introduction illuminates Sanchez’s stagecraft in relation to her poetry and advocacy for social change, and the feminist dramatic voice in black revolutionary art.

Black and Blue
Black and Blue

Author: J. Hoberman

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2012-04-03

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0520274016

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Black & Blue is the first systematic description of how American doctors think about racial differences and how this kind of thinking affects the treatment of their black patients. The standard studies of medical racism examine past medical abuses of black people and do not address the racially motivated thinking and behaviors of physicians practicing medicine today. Black & Blue penetrates the physician’s private sphere where racial fantasies and misinformation distort diagnoses and treatments. Doctors have always absorbed the racial stereotypes and folkloric beliefs about racial differences that permeate the general population. Within the world of medicine this racial folklore has infiltrated all of the medical sub-disciplines, from cardiology to gynecology to psychiatry. Doctors have thus imposed white or black racial identities upon every organ system of the human body, along with racial interpretations of black children, the black elderly, the black athlete, black musicality, black pain thresholds, and other aspects of black minds and bodies. The American medical establishment does not readily absorb either historical or current information about medical racism. For this reason, racial enlightenment will not reach medical schools until the current race-aversive curricula include new historical and sociological perspectives.

Black and Blue
Black and Blue

Author: Bob Berghaus

Publisher: Clerisy Press

Published: 2008-09

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1578603935

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Formed in 1967, the NFL's Central Division -- the Chicago Bears, Green Bay Packers, Detroit Lions, and Minnesota Vikings -- quickly earned the nickname "Black and Blue Division" due to the teams' fierce, physical play. This behind-the-scenes history recalls 40 years of great plays, gritty players, memorable seasons, and crucial games through first-rate photographs and first-hand interviews with players, coaches, and officials. Berghaus's All-Time Black and Blue team, where nastiness is just as important as greatness, provides plenty of fodder for discussion.

Black & Blue
Black & Blue

Author: James Patterson

Publisher: BookShots

Published: 2016-12-06

Total Pages: 141

ISBN-13: 0316399191

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Detective Harriet Blue is chasing down a violent killer on a university campus in a terrifying case that's far more sinister than she ever imagined. Harriet Blue, the most single-minded detective since Lindsay Boxer, won't rest until she stops a savage killer targeting female university students. But new clues point to a more chilling predator . . . a violent criminal far worse than she expected. BookShots Lightning-fast stories by James Patterson Novels you can devour in a few hours Impossible to stop reading All original content from James Patterson