Young, Black, and Determined
Young, Black, and Determined

Author: Pat McKissack

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13:

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A biography of the black playwright who received great recognition for her work at an early age.

Young Black Millionaire
Young Black Millionaire

Author: Ezedi Souvenir Isaac

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2024-01-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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BOOK DESCRIPTION "Young Black Millionaire: How To Rise Above The Limitations Of Age, Colour, And Race To Become Successful" is a remarkable journey of one individual who defied the odds and soared to unprecedented heights, transcending the limitations imposed by age, colour, and race. This transformative book serves as a guiding light for those determined to achieve their dreams in a world where barriers often seem insurmountable. Drawing from personal experiences and the wisdom of successful Black entrepreneurs and visionaries, this book is a beacon of hope for young individuals seeking a path to financial independence and influence. It's a testament to the power of determination, resilience, and innovation in the face of adversity. Inside the pages of this book, you'll find: The Power of Vision: Uncover the secrets to creating a clear vision and unwavering determination that can propel you towards your goals, regardless of your age or the colour of your skin. Overcoming Obstacles: Gain a deep understanding of the unique challenges that young Black entrepreneurs often face and learn practical strategies to overcome them. Wealth Building: Discover actionable tips and strategies for creating and managing wealth, irrespective of your background. Networking and Mentorship: Explore the pivotal role of building a supportive network and finding mentors who can guide you on your journey to success. Breaking Stereotypes: Challenge and shatter the stereotypes that may have held you back, embracing your unique qualities as assets on your path to success. "Young Black Millionaire" is a testament to the boundless potential within all of us. It's a blueprint for overcoming adversity and achieving greatness, offering practical advice, inspiring stories, and actionable steps to help you rise above the limitations of age, colour, and race. Whether you're a young entrepreneur with dreams of financial success, an individual looking to break free from societal constraints, or someone seeking to understand and support the journey of a young Black millionaire, this book is an essential read. It's time to rewrite the narrative and empower yourself to reach new heights, just as the author of this remarkable journey has done. Embrace your potential, break those barriers, and unlock your path to success with "Young Black Millionaire."

Negro with a Hat
Negro with a Hat

Author: Colin Grant

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2008-03-17

Total Pages: 559

ISBN-13: 0199839921

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New in paperback, this groundbreaking biography captures the full sweep and epic dimensions of Marcus Garvey's life, the dazzling triumphs and the dreary exile. As Grant shows, Garvey was a man of contradictions: a self-educated, poetry-writing aesthete and unabashed propagandist, an admirer of Lenin, and a dandy given to elaborate public displays. Above all, he was a shrewd promoter whose use of pageantry evoked a lost African civilization and fired the imagination of his followers. Negro With a Hat restores Garvey to his place as one of the founders of black nationalism and a key figure of the 20th century. "A searching, vivid, and (as the title suggests) complex account of Garvey's short but consequential life." --Steve Hahn, The New Republic "The story of Marcus Garvey, the charismatic and tireless black leader who had a meteoric rise and fall in the late 1910s and early '20s, makes for enthralling reading, and Garvey has found an engaging and objective biographer in Colin Grant.... Grant's book is not all politics, ideology, money and lawsuits. It is also an engrossing social history.... Negro With a Hat is an achievement on a scale Garvey might have appreciated." --New York Times Book Review "Dazzling, definitive biography of the controversial activist who led the 1920s 'Back to Africa' movement.... Grant's learned passion for his subject shimmers on every page. A riveting and well-wrought volume that places Garvey solidly in the pantheon of important 20th-century black leaders." --Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) "This splendid book is certain to become the definitive biography. Garvey was a dreamer and a doer; Grant captures the fascination of both." --Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) "Grant's strength lies in his ability to re-create political moods and offer compelling sketches of colorful individuals and their organizations.... An engaging and readable introduction to a complicated and contentious historical actor who, in his time, possessed a unique capacity to inspire devotion and hatred, adulation and fear." --Chicago Tribune "A monumental, nuanced and broadly sympathetic portrait." --Financial Times

Garden Plots
Garden Plots

Author: Shelley Saguaro

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 9780754637530

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Focusing on a range of twentieth-century texts and including relevant twenty-first century writing, Garden Plots explores the ways in which gardens in fiction represent more than just a familiar theme. Bound up with wider aesthetic and ideological issues, gardens, like literary forms, are subject to transformations. The term 'plots' is a keyword in this approach. It refers to garden plots, literary plots, and more generally, the plotting that is political, polemical, and subversive. Each of the six chapters includes four texts that are familiar and representative. Authors include Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty, Carol Shields, J. M. Coetzee, Toni Morrison, Leslie Marmon Silko, Jamaica Kincaid, and Philip K. Dick.

The Pulitzer Prize Plays
The Pulitzer Prize Plays

Author: Paul A. Firestone

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 9780879103552

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"With this book, Paul Firestone, lifelong educator and theater aficionado, delivers one of the most comprehensive compendiums of essays on these vital works. Firestone's understanding of each play's substance is rich and impressive. His vast and ambitious examination takes into account many different elements-characters, plots, and symbolism, as well as the lives and psychology of the playwrights, the historical context in which the plays emerged, and their relevance on sociological, political, familial, psychological, and spiritual levels.".

Strike the Hammer
Strike the Hammer

Author: Laura Warren Hill

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2021-04-15

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 1501754416

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On July 24, 1964, chaos erupted in Rochester, New York. Strike the Hammer examines the unrest—rebellion by the city's Black community, rampant police brutality—that would radically change the trajectory of the Civil Rights movement. After overcoming a violent response by State Police, the fight for justice, in an upstate town rooted in black power movements, was reborn. That resurgence owed much to years of organizing and resistance in the community. Laura Warren Hill examines Rochester's long Civil Rights history and, drawing extensively on oral accounts of the northern, urban community, offers rich and detailed stories of the area's protest tradition. Augmenting oral testimonies with records from the NAACP, SCLC, and the local FIGHT, Strike the Hammer paints a compelling picture of the foundations for the movement. Now, especially, this story of struggle for justice and resistance to inequality resonates. Hill leads us to consider the social, political, and economic environment more than fifty years ago and how that founding generation of activists left its mark on present-day Rochester.

The Oxford Handbook of Language and Race
The Oxford Handbook of Language and Race

Author: H. Samy Alim

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2020-10-02

Total Pages: 600

ISBN-13: 0190846011

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Over the past two decades, the fields of linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics have complicated traditional understandings of the relationship between language and identity. But while research traditions that explore the linguistic complexities of gender and sexuality have long been established, the study of race as a linguistic issue has only emerged recently. The Oxford Handbook of Language and Race positions issues of race as central to language-based scholarship. In twenty-one chapters divided into four sections-Foundations and Formations; Coloniality and Migration; Embodiment and Intersectionality; and Racism and Representations-authors at the forefront of this rapidly expanding field present state-of-the-art research and establish future directions of research. Covering a range of sites from around the world, the handbook offers theoretical, reflexive takes on language and race, the larger histories and systems that influence these concepts, the bodies that enact and experience them, and the expressions and outcomes that emerge as a result. As the study of language and race continues to take on a growing importance across anthropology, communication studies, cultural studies, education, linguistics, literature, psychology, ethnic studies, sociology, and the academy as a whole, this volume represents a timely, much-needed effort to focus these fields on both the central role that language plays in racialization and on the enduring relevance of race and racism.