The Melanated Experience
Title | The Melanated Experience PDF eBook |
Author | Junior Coggins |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Pages | 97 |
Release | 2006-12-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1430304596 |
We all view life from a different perspective. It is the engagement of different perspectives that mold us into who we become. "My intention with this book is to share my perspective of life with the reader and ask only that they be the true evaluator of themselves."
Black and Female
Title | Black and Female PDF eBook |
Author | Tsitsi Dangarembga |
Publisher | Graywolf Press |
Pages | 97 |
Release | 2023-01-17 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 164445212X |
The first wound for all of us who are classified as “black” is empire. In Black and Female, Tsitsi Dangarembga examines the legacy of imperialism on her own life and on every aspect of black embodied African life. This paradigm-shifting essay collection weaves the personal and political in an illuminating exploration of race and gender. Dangarembga recounts a painful separation from her parents as a toddler, connecting this experience to the ruptures caused in Africa by human trafficking and enslavement. She argues that, after independence, the ruling party in Zimbabwe only performed inclusion for women while silencing the work of self-actualized feminists. She describes her struggles to realize her ambitions in theater, film, and literature, laying out the long path to the publication of her novels. At once philosophical, intimate, and urgent, Black and Female is a powerful testimony of the pervasive and long-lasting effects of racism and patriarchy that provides an ultimately hopeful vision for change. Black feminists are “the status quo’s worst nightmare.” Dangarembga writes, “our conviction is deep, bolstered by a vivid imagination that reminds us that other realities are possible beyond the one that obtains.”
A Place to Belong
Title | A Place to Belong PDF eBook |
Author | Amber O'Neal Johnston |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2022-05-17 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 059342185X |
A guide for families of all backgrounds to celebrate cultural heritage and embrace inclusivity in the home and beyond. Gone are the days when socially conscious parents felt comfortable teaching their children to merely tolerate others. Instead, they are looking for a way to authentically embrace the fullness of their diverse communities. A Place to Belong offers a path forward for families to honor their cultural heritage and champion diversity in the context of daily family life by: • Fostering open dialogue around discrimination, race, gender, disability, and class • Teaching “hard history” in an age-appropriate way • Curating a diverse selection of books and media choices in which children see themselves and people who are different • Celebrating cultural heritage through art, music, and poetry • Modeling activism and engaging in community service projects as a family Amber O’Neal Johnston, a homeschooling mother of four, shows parents of all backgrounds how to create a home environment where children feel secure in their own personhood and culture, enabling them to better understand and appreciate people who are racially and culturally different. A Place to Belong gives parents the tools to empower children to embrace their unique identities while feeling beautifully tethered to their global community.
The Melanin Empath
Title | The Melanin Empath PDF eBook |
Author | Jade Asikiwe |
Publisher | |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2020-07-29 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 9781087903255 |
Routledge Handbook of Critical Studies in Whiteness
Title | Routledge Handbook of Critical Studies in Whiteness PDF eBook |
Author | Shona Hunter |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 2021-11-29 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1000486710 |
This handbook offers a unique decolonial take on the field of Critical Whiteness Studies by rehistoricising and re-spatialising the study of bodies and identities in the world system of coloniality. Situating the critical study of whiteness as a core intellectual pillar in a broadly based project for racial and social justice, the volume understands whiteness as elaborated in global coloniality through epistemology, ideology and governmentality at the intersections with heteropatriarchy and capitalism. The diverse contributions present Black and other racially diverse scholarship as crucial to the field. The focus of inquiry is expanded beyond Northern Anglophone contexts to challenge centre/margin relations, examining whiteness in the Caribbean, South Africa and the African continent, Asia, the Middle East as well as in the United States and parts of Europe. Providing a transdisciplinary approach and addressing debates about knowledges, black and white subjectivities and newly defensive forms of whiteness, as seen in the rise of the Radical Right, the handbook deepens our understanding of power, place, and culture in coloniality. This book will be an invaluable resource for researchers, advanced students, and scholars in the fields of Education, History, Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology, Political Sciences, Philosophy, Critical Race Theory, Feminist and Gender Studies, Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies, Security Studies, Migration Studies, Media Studies, Indigenous Studies, Cultural Studies, Critical Diversity Studies, and African, Latin American, Asian, American, British and European Studies.
The Half of It: Exploring the Mixed-Race Experience
Title | The Half of It: Exploring the Mixed-Race Experience PDF eBook |
Author | Emma Slade Edmondson |
Publisher | HarperCollins UK |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 2024-07-04 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0008481695 |
The world and its politics are becoming ever more polarised, leaving no room for the light and the shade. In The Half of It, Emma and Nicole will explore race and identity through the lens of the mixed race experience, creating a space for discussion and illuminating the true nuances of the mixed-race identity and what this really means.
Coronavirus and Vulnerable People
Title | Coronavirus and Vulnerable People PDF eBook |
Author | Laura L. Finley |
Publisher | IAP |
Pages | 373 |
Release | 2022-05-01 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
ISBN | 1648028853 |
Drawing from many disciplinary areas, this edited volume explores how the Coronavirus pandemic has disproportionately harmed vulnerable and marginalized people in the U.S. Chapters address harm to people of color that exacerbated structural racism and harm to low-wage workers that highlighted existing inequalities. In addition, the volume provides strategies that have been successful in mitigating these harms and recommendations for a post- pandemic more peaceful and just future.