Mighty Real An Anthology Of African American Same Gender Loving Writings

Author : edited by R. Bryant Smith and Darius Omar Williams
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387578383
Total Pages : 740 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mighty Real: An Anthology of African American Same Gender Loving Writings written by edited by R. Bryant Smith and Darius Omar Williams and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 740 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Darius Omar Williams
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557584108
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Akhona written by Darius Omar Williams and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this wrenching and spiritual collection, Darius Omar Williams takes a closer look at the institution of the black church using a specific language to highlight the joy, pain, highs and lows of sexuality, disease, homophobia, spiritual elitism and pre-mature death. With titles including "Blessed Assurance," "Rapture" and "Look at Your Neighbor," these poems chart the sexual and spiritual terrain of black gay experience in a confessional, blunt and praise-filled voice. Blending southern black church tradition with contemporary black gay culture, Williams's poems are fresh, original and long overdue.

Author : Alice LaPlante
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393541851
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Write Yourself Out of a Corner: 100 Exercises to Unlock Creativity written by Alice LaPlante and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 100 imagination-stretching writing exercises inspired by the idea of creative constraints, from the author of The Making of a Story. When you are facing down a blank page (or screen), a constraint-based prompt—for example, “you must use the words ‘cloud’ and ‘green’” or “you must set the scene in a crowded grocery store”—can get your brain working in unexpected ways. In this creative writing guide, longtime teacher and novelist Alice LaPlante shares 100 original exercises that will simultaneously push you into a corner and give you the tools to write yourself out of it. LaPlante explains the purpose of each exercise—to sharpen your ear for dialogue, generate surprising images, or access intense emotions—and breaks down student examples to reveal how to achieve these goals. Whether you are looking to jumpstart new ideas or find a fresh angle on a work in progress, and whether you write fiction, creative nonfiction, or poetry, Write Yourself Out of a Corner will strengthen your imagination and your craft.

Author : Gil Robertson
Publisher : Agate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 157284714X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Where Did Our Love Go written by Gil Robertson and published by Agate Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-21 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where Did Our Love Go?, an anthology of essays written by many major public figures and celebrities, will explore the substantive issues related to marital problem in the African-American community. From the "my baby's mama" syndrome to the more serious implications of what a generation of single-parent households will mean to future generations, this comprehensive collection will provide an in-depth discourse on the trends and issues that have caused the problematic behaviors within African-American relationships to persist with little sign of relief. The book will consist of a total of 40 essays divided equally into 4 lifestyle categories (single, married, divorced, and widowed), to present a wide cross section of perspectives on this subject. Marriage plays an essential role in maintaining the vitality and character of a community, so it is deeply unsettling for many African Americans to find that the value of this institution has lost its allure. While marriage among African Americans has always fallen below the average of other population segments, the gap today has grown so pronounced that the subject has sparked an intense national dialogue. A 2006 Washington Post article, “Is Marriage for White People,” created waves of controversy on the issue. In 2010, Nightline dedicated an entire broadcast to this growing crisis. The marriage gap in Black America has become such an open secret that it’s now the source of endless bad jokes and prime time reality shows. The statistics even back this up, as according to the U.S. Census, 43.3% of black men and 41.9% of black women in America have never been married, and the rate of decline is nearly twice the national average. Marriage is a rite of passage that is fundamental to every culture, which underscores the tremendous need for an active dialogue to take place that will lay a foundation for discovery. With essays from 50 Cent, Viola Davis, Jabari Asim, Darnell Williams, Faith Evans, Mara Brock Akil, and more, Where Did Our Love Go? will ignite the fight for that conversation to begin.

Author : Stefanie K. Dunning
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queer in Black and White written by Stefanie K. Dunning and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How representations of interracial desire create authentic blackness

Author : H. L. Sudler
Publisher : Archer Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780984846078
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Return to Summerville written by H. L. Sudler and published by Archer Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: H.L. Sudler's sequel to his 2014 thriller Summerville, picks up to follow surviving characters on a crash course to harrowing, shocking destinies.

Author : Doug Cooper Spencer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692445396
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ella Pruitt written by Doug Cooper Spencer and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-29 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becoming pregnant at thirteen by a young man who comes to her hometown complicates Ella's life. Her mother passed away in her sleep by 'refusing to wake up', leaving Ella, her sister and her brother with a father who has no idea of what it means to be a father and who spends most of his days talking to his dead wife's ghost.Eventually Ella meets a young man, Damon, who is a mystery to the citizens of New Home, the town in which Ella lives, having seemingly arrived out of nowhere, and they fall in love. Within months of meeting the young man Ella becomes pregnant. She is only thirteen and Damon is eighteen. No one understands why Ella would have given herself to someone at so young an age, but she does. She and Damon are both lonely and in search of something more in life.However, Damon's view of life is much larger than Ella imagined and she finds she must figure out a way of holding onto him. As a result, the seemingly small act she commits to hold onto Damon spins out of control leading to something that haunts Ella for years to come and touches everyone around her.'Ella Pruitt', a story about memory, guilt and reckoning.

Author : Angelyn Mitchell
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822315445
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Within the Circle written by Angelyn Mitchell and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the Circle is the first anthology to present the entire spectrum of twentieth-century African American literary and cultural criticism. It begins with the Harlem Renaissance, continues through civil rights, the Black Arts Movement, and on into contemporary debates of poststructuralist and black feminist theory. Drawing on a quote from Frederick Douglass for the title of this book, Angelyn Mitchell explains in her introduction the importance for those "within the circle" of African American literature to examine their own works and to engage this critical canon. The essays in this collection--many of which are not widely available today--either initiated or gave critical definition to specific periods or movements of African American literature. They address issues such as integration, separatism, political action, black nationalism, Afrocentricity, black feminism, as well as the role of art, the artist, the critic, and the audience. With selections from Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, W. E. B. DuBois, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Barbara Smith, Alice Walker, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and many others, this definitive collection provides a dynamic model of the cultural, ideological, historical, and aesthetic considerations in African American literature and literary criticism. A major contribution to the study of African American literature, this volume will serve as a foundation for future work by students and scholars. Its importance will be recognized by all those interested in modern literary theory as well as general readers concerned with the African American experience. Selections by (partial list): Houston A. Baker, Jr., James Baldwin, Sterling Brown, Barbara Christian, W. E. B. DuBois, Ralph Ellison, LeRoi Jones, Sarah Webster Fabio, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W. Lawrence Hogue, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Alain Locke, Deborah E. McDowell, Toni Morrison, J. Saunders Redding, George Schuyler, Barbara Smith, Valerie Smith, Hortense J. Spillers, Robert B. Stepto, Alice Walker, Margaret Walker, Mary Helen Washington, Richard Wright

Author : Prof. Will Roscoe
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312302245
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living the Spirit written by Prof. Will Roscoe and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1988-08-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking collection of essays and stories by, about, and selected by gay American Indians from over twenty North American tribes. From the preface by Randy Burns (Northern Paiute): Gay American Indians are active members of both the American Indian and gay communities. But our voices have not been heard. To end this silence, GAI is publishing Living the Spirit: A Gay American Indian Anthology. Living the Spirit honors the past and present life of gay American Indians. This book is not just about gay American Indians, it is by gay Indians. Over twenty different American Indian writers, men and women, represent tribes from every part of North America. Living the Spirit tells our story---the story of our history and traditions, as well as the realities and challenges of the present. As Paula Gunn Allen writes, “Some like Indians endure.” The themes of change and continuity are a part of every contribution in this book---in the contemporary coyote tales by Daniel-Harry Steward and Beth Brant---in the reservation experiences of Jerry, a Hupa Indian---in the painful memories of cruelty and injustice that Beth Brant, Chrystos, and others evoke. Our pain, but also our joy, our love, and our sexuality, are all here, in these pages. M. Owlfeather writes, “If traditions have been lost, then new ones should be borrowed from other tribes,” and he uses the example of the Indian pow-wow---Indian, yet contemporary and pantribal. One of our traditional roles was that of the “go-between”---individuals who could help different groups communicate with each other. This is the role GAI hopes to play today. We are advocates for not only gay but American Indian concerns, as well. We are turning double oppression into double continuity---the chance to build bridges between communities, to create a place for gay Indians in both of the worlds we live in, to honor our past and secure our future. Published by Stonewall Inn Editions in partnership with St. Martin’s Press, 1988.

Author : Danielle J. Buhuro
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532648103
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spiritual Care in an Age of #BlackLivesMatter written by Danielle J. Buhuro and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wednesday, November 9, 2016 is the day that changed America. A Republican business mogul and reality television host who once proclaimed that if women didn't accept the intimate advancements of men, then men were could simply grab these women by a particularly sensitive extremity below their stomachs, snatched the electoral collegiate vote and since then has worked tirelessly on reversing President Barack Obama's progressive policies and pushing immigration legislation backwards. This vital resource guide incorporates the basic understandings of spiritual care with the current social, emotional, existential and spiritual needs of African Americans simply surviving in Trump's violent America. It's one-of-a-kind, offering specific spiritual care strategies and interventions for African Americans dealing with particular physical, social and emotional health challenges in the midst of rising statistics of racism, sexism, classism, and homophobia leading to violence in the United States. Intended for anyone in academia or the helping professions, this comprehensive work benefits those seeking to provide spiritual care to African American hospital patients, counseling clients, church congregants and parishioners, military veterans, or returning service members. The contributors to this anthology are experts in their respective fields who offer a new, refreshing, and energizing perspective on important issues impacting African Americans.