Clinging

Author : Emilie Griffin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780971748330
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clinging written by Emilie Griffin and published by . This book was released on 2003-05-01 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The movement from isolated self-sufficiency to the "clinging" to God which is prayer is the subject of Emilie Griffin's sequel to Turning: Reflections on the Experience of Conversion. Through Scripture and her own interior struggle, she describes experiences such as yielding, darkness and transparency, which occur not in ordered sequence but as "moments" in the journey of prayer.

Author : Micki McElya
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674040791
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clinging to Mammy written by Micki McElya and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-31 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Aunt Jemima beamed at Americans from the pancake mix box on grocery shelves, many felt reassured by her broad smile that she and her product were dependable. She was everyone's mammy, the faithful slave who was content to cook and care for whites, no matter how grueling the labor, because she loved them. This far-reaching image of the nurturing black mother exercises a tenacious hold on the American imagination. Micki McElya examines why we cling to mammy. She argues that the figure of the loyal slave has played a powerful role in modern American politics and culture. Loving, hating, pitying, or pining for mammy became a way for Americans to make sense of shifting economic, social, and racial realities. Assertions of black people's contentment with servitude alleviated white fears while reinforcing racial hierarchy. African American resistance to this notion was varied but often placed new constraints on black women. McElya's stories of faithful slaves expose the power and reach of the myth, not only in popular advertising, films, and literature about the South, but also in national monument proposals, child custody cases, white women's minstrelsy, New Negro activism, anti-lynching campaigns, and the civil rights movement. The color line and the vision of interracial motherly affection that helped maintain it have persisted into the twenty-first century. If we are to reckon with the continuing legacy of slavery in the United States, McElya argues, we must confront the depths of our desire for mammy and recognize its full racial implications.

Author : Judith Jango-Cohen
Publisher : Lerner Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780822537649
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clinging Sea Horses written by Judith Jango-Cohen and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the sea horse by describing its habitat, behaviors, and physical characteristics including its prehensile tale.

Author : Judith Jango-Cohen
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780613588287
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clinging Sea Horses written by Judith Jango-Cohen and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in schools and libraries only. Introduces the sea horse by describing its habitat, behaviors, and physical characteristics including its prehensile tale.

Author : John Mortimer
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141959835
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book CLINGING TO THE WRECKAGE written by John Mortimer and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-11-04 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clinging to the Wreckage is the first part of John Mortimer's acclaimed autobiography. Here he recounts his solitary childhood in the English countryside, with affectionate portraits of his remote parents - an increasingly unconventional barrister father, whose blindness must never be mentioned, battling earwigs in the mutinous garden, and a vague and endlessly patient mother. As a boy dreaming of a tap-dancing career on the stage and forming a one-boy communist cell at boarding school, his father pushes him to pursue the law, where Mortimer embarks on the career that was to inspire his hilarious and immortal literary creations. Told with great humour and touching honesty, this is a magnificent achievement by one of Britain's best-loved writers.

Author : Priscilla Cogan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781929590193
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clinging to the Moon written by Priscilla Cogan and published by . This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three people are drawn together by their pain and loneliness.

Author : T. H. Janabi
Publisher : Alhoda UK
ISBN 13 : 9780892591091
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clinging to a Myth written by T. H. Janabi and published by Alhoda UK. This book was released on 1990 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Micki McElya
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674024335
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clinging to Mammy written by Micki McElya and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007-10-31 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Aunt Jemima beamed at Americans from the pancake mix box on grocery shelves, many felt reassured by her broad smile that she and her product were dependable. She was everyone's mammy, the faithful slave who was content to cook and care for whites, no matter how grueling the labor, because she loved them. This far-reaching image of the nurturing black mother exercises a tenacious hold on the American imagination. Micki McElya examines why we cling to mammy. She argues that the figure of the loyal slave has played a powerful role in modern American politics and culture. Loving, hating, pitying, or pining for mammy became a way for Americans to make sense of shifting economic, social, and racial realities. Assertions of black people's contentment with servitude alleviated white fears while reinforcing racial hierarchy. African American resistance to this notion was varied but often placed new constraints on black women. McElya's stories of faithful slaves expose the power and reach of the myth, not only in popular advertising, films, and literature about the South, but also in national monument proposals, child custody cases, white women's minstrelsy, New Negro activism, anti-lynching campaigns, and the civil rights movement. The color line and the vision of interracial motherly affection that helped maintain it have persisted into the twenty-first century. If we are to reckon with the continuing legacy of slavery in the United States, McElya argues, we must confront the depths of our desire for mammy and recognize its full racial implications.

Author : Kim Cash Tate
Publisher : Our Daily Bread Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1627076379
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cling written by Kim Cash Tate and published by Our Daily Bread Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By God's design, the desire to be wanted and loved runs deep inside everyone He created. In an engaging and down-to-earth way, author Kim Cash Tate encourages you to satisfy that desire by living in the fullness of God's love. Cling shares wisdom from biblical examples and the author's personal experiences to help you cultivate an ongoing closeness with the Lord through prayer and Bible study. Discover how to have an intimacy with God that will sustain you through the imperfect, the disappointing, and the trying times of life.

Author : Shechen Rabjam
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834824191
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Medicine That Conquers Clinging to the Notion of Reality written by Shechen Rabjam and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2007-06-12 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these inspiring teachings on how to open the heart, a contemporary Tibetan Buddhist master shows us how to change our self-centered attitude and develop concern for the well-being of others. He teaches that when we acknowledge our own wish for happiness, we realize that all beings wish for the same. With a broader perspective, we can develop the strength to extend gratitude and kindness first to those we love, and eventually to everyone. In his warm and informal style, Rabjam offers accessible Buddhist teachings that will appeal to anyone who would like to find more meaning in life. Based on classical Tibetan teachings, his commentary is fresh, humorous, and sharply insightful. Here is a modern Tibetan teacher who appreciates the challenges of living in today’s world. The Great Medicine will help contemporary readers draw on ancient teachings to find their way to wisdom, freedom, and joy amid the struggles of real life. For more information about the author, Shechen Rabjam, visit his website at www.shechen.org.