Jokes My Father Never Taught Me

Author : Rain Pryor
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061745960
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jokes My Father Never Taught Me written by Rain Pryor and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The loving, witty, yet brutally honest memoir of the daughter of comedy legend Richard Pryor. Rain Pryor was born in the idealistic, free-love 1960s. Her mother was a Jewish go-go dancer who wanted a tribe of rainbow children. Rain’s father was Richard Pryor, perhaps the most compelling and brilliant comedian of his era, a man whose self-destructiveness was as legendary as his groundbreaking comedy. Jokes My Father Never Taught Me is an intimate, harrowing, poignant, and often hilarious memoir that explores the divided heritage and the forces that shaped a wildly schizophrenic childhood. It is the story of a girl who grew up adoring her father even as she feared him—and feared for him, as his drug problems got worse. Both lovingly told and painfully frank, it is an unprecedented look at the life of a comedy icon, told by a daughter who both understood the genius and knew the tortured man within. Praise for Jokes My Father Never Taught Me “Rain Pryor pulls no punches . . . Using the same profanity-laced wit her father perfected, she unspools darkly comic stories . . . but never devolves into self-pity or bitterness.” —Entertainment Weekly “Vital, entertaining and appalling, Pryor has fleshed out a familiar dysfunctional family refrain—”It was a lot easier to love him if you didn’t know him”—with bravery and wit.” —Publishers Weekly

Author : Cyril Wong
Publisher : Epigram Books
ISBN 13 : 9814615099
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ten Things My Father Never Taught Me and Other Stories written by Cyril Wong and published by Epigram Books. This book was released on 2016-09-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recommended by the National Library Board, Singapore and Ministry of Communications and Information A woman learns of a friend’s illness and wonders if she ever truly knew him. A boy who sees ghosts heeds the advice of a fortune-teller, with surprising consequences. A girl wakes up and realises everybody in her Bedok neighbourhood has vanished. From Cyril Wong, award-winning author of The Last Lesson of Mrs de Souza, comes another beautiful book about characters in crisis, with two stories crossing intriguingly into creative autobiography.

Author : David Henry
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1616204478
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Furious Cool written by David Henry and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a rare glimpse into the life of an outrageously human, fearlessly black, openly angry and profanely outspoken comedic genius whose humble beginnings as the child of a prostitute helped shaped him into one of the most influential and outstanding performers of our time.

Author : Dana Rubin
Publisher : Wellfleet
ISBN 13 : 1577154592
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewish Voices written by Dana Rubin and published by Wellfleet. This book was released on 2024-09-17 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the diverse diaspora of Jewish heritage and find wisdom in their experiences with this expansive volume of inspiring quotes from famous Jewish figures.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Crisis written by and published by . This book was released on 2007-01 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Crisis, founded by W.E.B. Du Bois as the official publication of the NAACP, is a journal of civil rights, history, politics, and culture and seeks to educate and challenge its readers about issues that continue to plague African Americans and other communities of color. For nearly 100 years, The Crisis has been the magazine of opinion and thought leaders, decision makers, peacemakers and justice seekers. It has chronicled, informed, educated, entertained and, in many instances, set the economic, political and social agenda for our nation and its multi-ethnic citizens.

Author : Annie Atura Bushnell
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814349846
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Matrilineal Dissent written by Annie Atura Bushnell and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Redefining Jewish American literature through expansive feminist frameworks.

Author : Sandra Winn Tutwiler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317693434
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mixed-Race Youth and Schooling written by Sandra Winn Tutwiler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely, in-depth examination of the educational experiences and needs of mixed-race children ("the fifth minority") focuses on the four contexts that primarily influence learning and development: the family, school, community, and society-at-large. The book provides foundational historical, social, political, and psychological information about mixed-race children and looks closely at their experiences in schools, their identity formation, and how schools can be made more supportive of their development and learning needs. Moving away from an essentialist discussion of mixed-race children, a wide variety of research is included. Life and schooling experiences of mixed-raced individuals are profiled throughout the text. Rather than pigeonholing children into a neat box of descriptions or providing readymade prescriptions for educators, Mixed-Race Youth and Schooling offers information and encourages teachers to critically reflect on how it is relevant to and helpful in their teaching/learning contexts.

Author : Elena Cherepanov
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429641672
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding the Transgenerational Legacy of Totalitarian Regimes written by Elena Cherepanov and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding the Transgenerational Legacy of Totalitarian Regimes examines the ways in which the cultural memory of surviving totalitarianism can continue to shape individual and collective vulnerabilities as well as build strength and resilience in subsequent generations. The author uses her personal experience of growing up in the former Soviet Union and professional expertise in global trauma to explore how the psychological legacy of totalitarian regimes influences later generations’ beliefs, behaviors, and social and political choices. The book offers interdisciplinary perspectives on the complex aftermath of societal victimization in different cultures and discusses survivors’ experiences. Readers will find practical tools that can be used in family therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and peace building to recognize and challenge preconceived assumptions stemming from cultural trauma. This book equips trauma-minded mental health professionals with an understanding of the transgenerational toxicity of totalitarianism and with strategies for becoming educated consumers of cultural legacy.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ebony written by and published by . This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.

Author : Mark Lester
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1300106379
Total Pages : 66 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Common Folk written by Mark Lester and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book is a literal "smorgasbord" of short stories written about everyday people. I have made a feeble attempt to share their stories. A portion of the book is devoted to the Asdell family, my maternal ancestors, who emigrated from Antrim County Ireland at the turn of the 19th century moving westward down the Ohio River and settling in the Greene and Daviess County areas in southern Indiana. This book shares the stories of the "ordinary common Americans" who perform "extraordinary deeds" outside the "limelight". These are life stories we can all identify with from our own histories.