Every Closed Eye Aint Sleep

Author : Teresa Hill
Publisher : R&L Education
ISBN 13 : 1610481062
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Every Closed Eye Ain't Sleep written by Teresa Hill and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2011-07-16 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every Closed Eye Ain't Sleep: African American Perspectives on the Achievement Gap examines the origins and perpetuation of the achievement gap from the perspective of the African American community. Instead of accepting the achievement gap as an inevitable matter of fact, Every Closed Eye Ain't Sleep questions the fundamental beliefs that perpetuate the gap. Drawing on dialogue with African American community members, Teresa Hill advances a framework for understanding a predominant African American view of the educational process. She then juxtaposes this framework with the norms perpetrated by the educational establishment to demonstrate how disagreements about the roles and responsibilities of parents, teachers and students affect community members' experiences in schools. Every Closed Eye Ain't Sleep opens a dialogue about the achievement gap on different terms, analyzes the gap as an issue of social justice, and provides educational leaders and policymakers with ways to engage in the productive dialogue necessary to improve education for African American children.

Author : MaRita Teague
Publisher : Urban Christian
ISBN 13 : 1622864379
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Every Closed Eye Ain't 'Sleep written by MaRita Teague and published by Urban Christian. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having lost her one true love, the mature but stunning Isabella marries the starchy but well-respected pediatrician Langley Morrison, hoping he will care for her and her young daughter, Desiree. For years, things look perfect from the outside for the Morrison women, but cracks in the surface appear when Desiree, now a thirty-something, single but sassy professional, holds secrets that affect her relationships with her parents and with men. Armed with the dismal marriage prospect statistics for African American women, Desiree decides that she needs to help God out by embarking upon a dangerous online dating escapade. Isabella wonders if her faith can withstand her own broken marriage, revelations from her daughter, and a devastating diagnosis. Desiree questions if God really will give her the desires of her heart. Through it all, the mother and daughter journey to find the strength to push beyond the pain of the past, into an uncertain future with an all-knowing God.

Author : Lisa Walker
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595390706
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Every Shut Eye Ain't Sleep written by Lisa Walker and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doll was a high-heel wearing, sophisticated, comilla of a woman who moved next door to the Kirby's. Without a thought, Louise fell for Doll's glitz and city ways. Unbeknowned to Louise, what she was falling for was a man's best friend.

Author : Michael S. Harper
Publisher : Little Brown & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780316347129
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep written by Michael S. Harper and published by Little Brown & Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of postwar African-American poetry showcases the works of such poets as Derek Walcott, Amiri Baraka, Ishmael Reed, Gwendolyn Brooks, Audre Lorde, and others.

Author : Itabari Njeri
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780679732426
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Every Good-bye Ain't Gone written by Itabari Njeri and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1991 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Brandon Massey
Publisher : Dafina
ISBN 13 : 0758264615
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ancestors: written by Brandon Massey and published by Dafina. This book was released on 2010-04-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dead. Some evils are so great that they transcend death. In Brandon Massey's "The Patriarch," a young writer travels to the hushed backwoods of Mississippi, where dangerous secrets surface as a generations-old feud comes to bone-chilling new life. . . Buried. The souls of the mistreated always find a way to be heard. In L.A. Banks's "Ev'ry Shut Eye Ain't Sleep," violent visions haunt a man--until he's handed an opportunity to right the wrongs of the past and prevent unspeakable acts from occurring once again. . . Forgotten. When horrors are covered up and lost, our ancestors must find a way--even in death--to tell their tales. In Tananarive Due's "Ghost Summer," ancestors haunt the nights of two children. And when a grisly discovery is made, these ancestors will make their mark on both the dead and the living. . . "Massey ventures into areas unexplored by most other black novelists. The result is artful and stunning." --Chicago Tribune "Tananarive Due is creating classics." --Tina McElroy Ansa "Banks's writing is lush and detailed, fully bringing her characters to life (or unlife), weaving a complex world of Good vs. Evil with its own intricate hierarchy." --Fangoria Magazine

Author : Bren Gandy-Wilson
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1490806830
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancing Through the Storms written by Bren Gandy-Wilson and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2013-09-15 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dancing through the Storm focuses on these concepts: You can recognize and resist abuse in relationships. Love can only be expressed properly through knowing God intimately and knowing yourself. A healthy relationship doesnt just happen. It is the fruit resulting from heeding the promptings of the Holy Spirit and applying Gods Word in every situation. Marriage is a God thing, created by God before sin entered the world. A blessed marriage is a synthesis of three not two because Christ is to be the head. Through Christ, you can fully recover from an abusive situation.

Author : Michael S. Harper
Publisher : Back Bay Books
ISBN 13 : 9780316347105
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep written by Michael S. Harper and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 1994-02-08 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep is a rich collection of the work of post-World War II African-American poets. It brings together the voices of the most important African-American poets of our time, beginning with the highly influential Robert Hayden and Gwendolyn Brooks, and covers an astonishing range of styles and techniques. This extraordinary body of poetry is the flowering of an artistic tradition established earlier in this century by Paul Laurence Dunbar, Countee Cullen, and Langston Hughes. The newer work comprises many different visions, ranging from the chiseled and layered modernism of Jay Wright to the plainspoken ferocity of Sonia Sanchez, from the dazzling witticisms of Ishmael Reed to the plangent lyricism of Rita Dove. Edited by the distinguished poet Michael Harper and his star student and colleague Anthony Walton, this notable collection of work will be the standard anthology in the field for years to come.

Author : Stanley Reginald Richard Allsopp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Book of Afric Caribbean Proverbs written by Stanley Reginald Richard Allsopp and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore
Publisher : Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 750 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore: Games and rhymes. Beliefs and customs. Riddles. Proverbs. Speech. Tales and legends written by Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore and published by Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press. This book was released on 1952 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: