Dont Knock The Hustle

Author : Craig S. Watkins
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807035319
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Don't Knock the Hustle written by Craig S. Watkins and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a timely analysis of the sheer ingenuity and persistence of young people who cobble together the resources they need to pursue the lives and careers they want. Young adults are coming of age at a time when work is temporary, underpaid, incommensurate with their education, or downright unsatisfying. Despite these challenges, media scholar S. Craig Watkins argues that this moment of precarity is rife with opportunities for innovation, and that young adults are leading the charge in turning that into an inventive and surprisingly sustainable future. As a result, society is expanding its understanding of who we think of as innovators and what qualifies as innovation, while wealth is spreading beyond traditional corridors of powerful tech companies, venture capitalism, and well-endowed universities. Drawing on over ten years of interviews and data, Watkins reveals the radical ways in which this community of ambitious young creatives is transforming businesses from the outside in. Diverse perspectives that are often ignored or silenced by major corporations are garnering public attention as women and people of color are redefining industries across the globe—all from their computer screens. We meet people like Prince Harvey, a New York–based hip-hop artist who recorded his album entirely on an Apple showroom laptop; screenwriter, producer, and actor Issa Rae, who first used YouTube and Kickstarter to develop the web series that became her hit HBO show Insecure; the Empowerment Plan, a nonprofit organization created by product design student Veronika Scott in Detroit; and start-up companies like Qeyno Group in San Francisco and Juegos Rancheros in Austin that help make tech more accessible to people of color. Forward-thinking and dynamic, Don’t Knock the Hustle shows the diversity and complexity of a generation on the rise. UNIQUE APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING MILLENNIALS that looks beyond stereotypes about their relationships with tech and labor, based on two years of MacArthur Grant–funded research. DIVERSE AUDIENCE APPEAL that will reach millennials, educators, people seeking to hire millennials, and scholars of technology, media, and labor.

Author : Stacy Nelson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780976141723
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Don't Knock the Hustle written by Stacy Nelson and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are some of the costs of street fame and fortune? Should anyone's hustle ever be knocked, can it?

Author : Randy Kearse
Publisher : Randy Kearse
ISBN 13 : 0980097479
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Street Talk written by Randy Kearse and published by Randy Kearse. This book was released on 2013-09-11 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Street Talk: Da Official Guide to Hip-Hop & Urban Slanguage is the most authentic slang language lexicon that interprets the hip-hop and urban slang dialect. Over 10,000+ enteries, you will find the word, term or metaphor followed by information from it's origin to contextual examples. Randy "Mo Betta" Kearse proves that he has his finger on hip-hop urban street culture with the Street Talk's 700+ pages, 10,000+ entries. This unique dictionary simplifies the complex hip-hop slang vernacular. What makes this dictionary so unique is, though gritty, it doesn't have entries that disrespect woman by referring to them as &itches nor does it have entries that include the N-word. Randy Kearse should be comended for the job he has done. Street Talk documents the intricate way that people communicate throughtout the hip-hop and urban culture. Street Talk should be called Webster's cool cousin.

Author : Carolyn Hall
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387169246
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book THE B.O.S.S.CHICKS DEVOTIONAL written by Carolyn Hall and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-08-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE B.O.S.S. CHICKS Devotional is a book of 40 daily meditations explaining how God can give you a Bolder, Outstanding, Savvier, and Successful life. Each day is designed to cause you to study, grow, and examine every area of your life according to God's word. It provides practical advice for your career, friendships, situationships and so on; it also is a push for you to grow closer to God and understand His word during your process. In other words, this book empowers, educates, and engages you to be a successful woman in the modern world without losing yourself or your God given authority. Each daily devotional is accompanied with a scriptural reference, journal question for further study, and a prayer.

Author : Pearl Ludidi
Publisher : Pearl Ludidi
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Dandelion written by Pearl Ludidi and published by Pearl Ludidi. This book was released on with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you believe in Destiny? Once upon a time in Cape Town, little old me met the perfect guy. Then I lost him. Then he came back And I found out he isn’t so perfect after all. Zinzi is on the verge of qualifying to be a doctor, a noble and prestigious career she’s never wanted. When she first meets handsome Zwelethu Khumalo, Zinzi has no idea how her life’s about to change. Zwelethu fails to mention he’s the country’s most eligible divorcé. Leaving Zinzi ill-prepared for his extravagant lifestyle, his scheming exes and over-involved family. Nothing could prepare her for the terrible secrets that lie behind her charming love interest. Neither does she expect her romance to reveal devastating secrets in her own family. Zinzi’s troubles mount as her best friend displays increasingly unpredictable behaviour. Caught between duty, loyalty and morality, Zinzi tries to forge her place in the world. Can she escape her enemies, both old and new? Discover Black Dandelion, a debut adult contemporary novel about young, rich people and their struggles to fulfil their purpose and dreams. It’s the story of many young people growing up in the new South Africa. Where they have all these opportunities their parents didn’t and the pressures and expectations that come with them. Pearl Ludidi’s critique on pop culture, mental health stigmatization, racism, and rich privilege is a witty page-turner that will make you question social norms. A contemporary novel on •Romance • Burgeoning Femininity •Unrequited love • Stilted Ambition • Sisterhood • Mental Illness • Jealousy • Family Secrets • Classism

Author : Joy
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312328795
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book If I Ruled the World written by Joy and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlem Jones is a twenty-six year old ... who owns her own home, her own car, and her own business. And no, some drug dealer didn't front her the money for any of it. Nor did she have to sell herself to get what she's got. Harlem came up the hard way. She had the perfect family until her mother fell prey to an addiction ... under circumstance she wishes never existed, she inherits a modest fortune and opens up her own business. Then into her life comes an unexpected and unlikely love, a street-bred charmer named York. Not your typical hood, York is out for Harlem's heart ... she must be the one to decide her own destiny. -- back cover.

Author : Matt Sullivan
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063036827
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Can't Knock the Hustle written by Matt Sullivan and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Sportswriter Sullivan takes readers on a propulsive ride in his tour-de-force debut. . . . Sullivan’s detailed account will intrigue anyone who cares about sports and the role it plays in social justice today.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review) "More than a basketball book, this helps explain race relations, celebrity power, and personal choice in a changed world." — Kirkus Reviews "A must-read for its in-depth look at the mental, economic, and political tribulations of NBA players." — Library Journal (starred review) "Only a brilliantly audacious book could begin to make sense of the weirdly brilliant audacity of the new Brooklyn Nets. One writer on Earth could have written this book this way — with the profundity of a sage baller and acuity of a seasoned journalist — and that writer is Matt Sullivan." — Kiese Laymon, New York Times best-selling author of Heavy “With Can't Knock The Hustle, Matt Sullivan correctly positions the basketball games we love as both a prism through which to understand our culture, and a battlefield on which to fight for the better angels of that culture. On the surface, it's a story about the unending march of 2020. But once you finish it, you understand that it's also an essential document about the decades that led us to this moment, and about the future decades yet unspooled." — Wright Thompson, ESPN senior writer and New York Times bestselling author of Pappyland and The Cost of These Dreams “In the dueling eras of unprecedented athlete empowerment and the coarse ugliness of 'shut up and dribble,' Matt Sullivan's Can't Knock the Hustle offers a can't-look-away sampling of not merely the NBA's most fascinating franchise, but a frozen period in time that will leave historians both horrified and riveted." — Jeff Pearlman, New York Times bestselling author of Three-Ring Circus and Showtime “Matt Sullivan is one helluva social anthropologist, and as a result, his Can't Knock the Hustle amounts to way more than a journey with the Brooklyn Nets, or an examination of the modern-day athlete. This is an astute, ambitious book about the glory and torment of talent itself. Basketball? That's just the starting point, and what a trip Sullivan's remarkable odyssey turns out to be.” — James Andrew Miller, New York Times bestselling author of Those Guys Have All the Fun, Live From New York, and Powerhouse “Can't Knock the Hustle is a terrific book because it gives us something in woefully short supply: real journalism. Matt Sullivan has discovered the ground zero of a player revolution—and it's in Brooklyn. Is anybody ready for it?" — Howard Bryant, ESPN senior writer and author of Full Dissidence: Notes from an Uneven Playing Field “The superstar-studded Brooklyn Nets are basketball's most captivating team, and Can't Knock the Hustle delivers a fascinating secret history of their journey to the pantheon of player activism and empowerment. With brilliant reporting and breakneck prose, this is our generation's Moneyball.” — Don Van Natta Jr., Pulitzer Prize-winning ESPN investigative reporter and New York Times bestselling author of First Off the Tee and Wonder Girl “No narrative has captured the dynamics of the ‘player empowerment’ movement quite like Can’t Knock the Hustle. Sullivan has written about as revealing a basketball book as there's been in a long time: an insider’s account with an outsider’s moxie.” — Dave Zirin, The Nation sports editor and author of The Kaepernick Effect

Author : K'wan
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1429904402
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Street Dreams written by K'wan and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love, Betrayal and Loyalty on the Streets of Harlem Daruis, a.k.a. Rio, the only child of a singer turned alcoholic, feels he has nothing to hold on to except the idea of escaping the ghetto. Years ago, he took a gun charge for a friend and did some prison time. Unable to find a job when he gets out, Rio turns to hustling as a way out. In the meantime, Rio finds escape in the arms of his soulmate, Trinity. When Trinity's mother died, her abusive father looks to her to play the role of house wife and bedmate. Trinity finds strength to endure in Rio's arms. Together they vow to do whatever it takes to make it out of the ghetto. But soon they find their backs against the wall when the streets come to claim their due.

Author : Lisa Williams; Deonte Burns
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 149906666X
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 75 Shadows written by Lisa Williams; Deonte Burns and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-12-12 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God will determine which side the coin lands on. You can’t say anything is as slick as an oil can. Whatever game you’re playing, it’s best to play it fair. Call it heads or tails. If you’ve never cheated on someone but been cheated on, what was the excuse they gave you? If you’re still with that person, how have they changed? Did you do anything to get even? Did you forget? Did you forgive? Who gambles to lose?

Author : Pete Honsberger
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480844764
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Don’T Burn Your Toast written by Pete Honsberger and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dont Burn Your Toast should from this day forward be a staple in the planning of every wedding, alongside the venue, photographer, cake and the wedding dress. - Vincent Pugliese, Elizabeth Vincent Photography Its an honor to be chosen as best man or maid of honor for a wedding. First comes planning for the big weekend, then preparing for the bachelor/bachelorette party, and finally delivering a toast at the reception. In front of everyone. Gulp. Like many of you, Pete Honsberger has seen the good, the bad, and the ugly when it comes to these toasts. And he thinks he can help. Along with plenty of pop culture references and a few life lessons, Pete provides the building blocks to an unforgettable story, helpful speech prompts, and a Dynamite Toast Checklist that will help turn a potentially dreaded obligation into a golden opportunity. Dont Burn Your Toast leads the charge against mediocre (or disastrous) wedding speeches with a simple, funny and chronological guide to a memorable toast.