Sit Your Black Ass Down

Author : Roger D. Abrahams
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351523201
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deep Down in the Jungle... written by Roger D. Abrahams and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the growth of interest in folklore, it becomes increasingly evident that the presentation of a collection needs some rationale more than the fact that traditional materials have been collected and properly annotated. Much has been gathered and is now accessible through journals, archives, and lists. If a corpus of lore is not presented in some way, which bears new light on the process of word-of-mouth transmission, on traditional forms or expressions, or on the group among whom the lore was encountered, there is little reason to present it to the public. This work represents an attempt to present a body of folklore collected among one small group of Black Americans in a neighborhood in South Philadelphia. The author's approach toward collection and presentation has been intensive. He has tried to collect "in depth," and to recreate in his presentation the social background in which the lore was found, and to relate the lore with the life and the values of the group. Abraham's work is a departure from any past methods of analyzing folklore, and therefore a description of the author's point of view and his method will be given first. The majority of this work was written before his methodology was actually formulated. However throughout the project û the object was to illuminate as fully as possible the lore of one small group of African Americans from urban Philadelphia. The methodology, which developed, did so because of this objective more than anything else. Though the formulation of this theory may seem ex post facto, it is included because it clarified much during the rewritings of this book, and more importantly, because it will clarify many matters for the lay reader and for the professional folklorist.

Author : Artis Lee Howard
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1463420218
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Driven Into the Game written by Artis Lee Howard and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Novel would definitely carry you through a squall twister. As the Author writes with such passion, he introduce to you life living in the ghettoin any means necessary of survival! Witness four beautiful women who's the best of friends, more as sisters. Their stationary is located in the deepbloodly, rabid part of the ghetto. As Donna, Carla, Leslie, and Tasha struggles for survival, they were suddenly, " DRIVEN INTO THE GAME." However, business was sailing smoothly until the four came to ashore landing on the wrong territory that belongs to Fred bringing forth violent contentproducing death. Nevertheless, the massacre intercepted two Detectives attention, Norman and Vincent, which their journey is to cease the killingwithin the dark hearted area of the ghetto. Driven Into The Game, is certainly a tremendous ghetto story. Technically, the game is reality!

Author : S. D. Lewis
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 149079994X
Total Pages : 713 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vivian Must Die written by S. D. Lewis and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last time the Johnson family were together all hell broke loose. Willie Mae informed her family that she was no longer the old maid just hoping some man, any man would pay her some attention but she let everyone especially her mother Vivian know that she had found love, true love with Dr. Harrington Wilson and she was his wife. Of course her mother thought it was just Willie Mae’s way of once again trying to upstage her younger sister Angie to get attention. It never even crossed Vivian’s mind to congratulate her oldest daughter and instead she tore her a new one by accusing her of being so desperate she would do anything to shine but no one shines more than her favorite daughter Angie. It didn’t take very long for Vivian to realize that she was the only one in the room with such a low opinion of Willie Mae. Angie and Darryl were happy for her. Her father Michael was a little disappointed that his eldest daughter had eloped but he was happy she was happy. He welcomed his new son-in law into the family. He even helped pack Willie Mae’s things together. When that day ended Vivian was left alone in her mansion with just her servants. Losing Willie Mae was something she had never thought about because in her mind Angie is the only child that she truly cared about and Michael still wanting the divorce only hardened her heart more. Vivian Must Die is the continuation of the story of the Johnson family with Vivian fighting as hard as she knows how to stop the divorce but when she realized that some things are beyond her control there were no limits she would not go to make everyone know she would not go down without a fight. She knew as long as she was Vivian Marie Johnson and she had a breath in her body she knew Michael could not resist her, would want her back and couldn’t live without her. That is until another woman with just as much beauty and sass made an entrance and took Michael’s focus off of Vivian once and for all. Get comfortable and sit back and prepare to get lost in the lives of all the wonderful and not so wonderful characters from the novel The Maid of Honor. You will laugh, you will cry, you will get angry, you will shout for joy and some of you may even sympathize with your most hater characters when you take a walk in their shoes. Vivian Must Die will tie up a lot of loose ends but don’t get too comfortable because when you think you have figured everyone out another surprise is around the corner.

Author : Matthew Marchon
Publisher : Orange Rock Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood Type Infected 2 written by Matthew Marchon and published by Orange Rock Publishing. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They thought the first day of the zombie outbreak was bad. Tensions rise to an all time high when a new leader takes control of the bus, only to turn that power over to someone far more maniacal. Someone with an agenda that goes beyond survival, an agenda not meant for everyone to survive. And just when you think things can’t get any worse, Noah’s worst case scenario becomes reality. Only two more days until the evacuation center is operational, but will they even be able to last one? The undead masses have multiplied. Running is no longer an option. It’s time to find weapons and fight, not just the bloodthirsty hordes of walking corpses, but each other. Sometimes the destructive tendencies of mankind are too much to endure. Sometimes there’s nothing left to do but watch your last hope go up in flames. Sift through the ashes. Bury those you’ve lost. Mourn what will never be. And find a way to carry on. Alliances are made. Friendships forgotten. Families torn. Another day stolen in a world not meant for the living. But how long can you survive off nothing but adrenaline and hope?

Author : Val Johnson
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 059521889X
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diane Deception written by Val Johnson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-03 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diane Deception takes place in ghetto America. It's the ghetto way of life that's been bread in the minds of young women. When worlds collide and deception is involved, there's always a sad ending which leads to new beginnings.

Author : Stephan Joseph Clark
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595258670
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ladies and Gentlemen, the President of the United States written by Stephan Joseph Clark and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The small town of Stone, Virginia is about to get the show of its life. The president is coming for an appearance, and his aids have a surprise. When a staged assassination plot starts to unravel, Millicent Van Horn, tries to clear her brother's name, and is pulled deeper into a deadly web of presidential deceit. Police Detective Van Horn finds herself investigating incidences she'd rather let lie, but there are too many lives at stake. Never realizing the lengths that would be taken to protect the president's name, Millicent embarks on an adventure to save her own life.

Author : Lungile Lolo Lubuzo
Publisher : Europa Edizioni
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slum Heaven Gamblers written by Lungile Lolo Lubuzo and published by Europa Edizioni. This book was released on 2023-06-27 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slum Heaven Gamblers is an exaggerated portrayal of life in a poverty-stricken slum and township plagued with gang thrills and community uproars in which a teenage girl narrates her journey of self-discovery surrounded by her internal conflicts and unweaving faith in righteousness, condemnation of sin and belief which is tested and defied by experiences. In abusive relationships, she finds comfort and wonders off to psychologically battle the good that is done for and to her. During her journey, she loses her innocence, and she battles with herself as a teenager in prime puberty state in gang violence and young first-time love ecstasies. The story sheds light on religious beliefs, the struggle to survive growth through the demand for age maturity, moral deprivation, and faith in God and gods. Lungile Lubuzo was born in the townships of the city of Durban, South Africa on the 10th of May 1993. The only surviving child of late mother Duduzile Patience Mhongo and father Michael Lubuzo raised by stepmother Monica Thobeka Lubuzo. A heritage of Zulu and Xhosa dynasties is her cultural inheritance. Official records of her education began in 2001 at Nobuhle International Primary school which is where the excessive hoppy of writing descriptive poetry began and later on graduated in Bachelor of Social work in the summer of 2018 at the University of South Africa. Besides creative writing she also enjoys creative arts and farming. Slum Heaven Gamblers is her first published book.

Author : Juliana Goodman
Publisher : Feiwel & Friends
ISBN 13 : 1250793149
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Black Girls Left Standing written by Juliana Goodman and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Juliana Goodman's powerful young adult debut The Black Girls Left Standing, Beau Willet will stop at nothing to clear her sister's name. Sixteen-year-old Beau Willet has dreams of being an artist and one day leaving the Chicago projects she’s grown up in. But after her older sister, Katia, is killed by an off-duty police officer, Beau knows she has to clear her sister’s name by finding the only witness to the murder; Katia’s no-good boyfriend, Jordan, who has gone missing. If she doesn't find him and tell the world what really happened, Katia's death will be ignored, like the deaths of so many other Black women who are wrongfully killed. With the help of her friend, Sonnet, Beau sets up a Twitter account to gather anonymous tips. But the more that Beau finds out about her sister's death, the more danger she finds herself in. And with a new relationship developing with her childhood friend, Champion, and the struggle to keep her family together, Beau is soon in way over her head. How much is she willing to risk to clear her sister's name and make sure she's not forgotten?

Author : April Coles
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312866543
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Behind The Cross written by April Coles and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bayo Ojikutu
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307419622
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 47th Street Black written by Bayo Ojikutu and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prize-winning debut of an incendiary new voice in contemporary American fiction, 47th Street Black is the story of JC and Mookie, whose rise in the gangster-driven ghettos of Chicago is as swift as it is brutal. In the early sixties, 47th street is the heart of black Chicago, where recent migrants from the South come to move up in the world. JC and Mookie are high school dropouts, playing stickball in the street when they stumble upon the dead body of the area's black liaison to the mafia. Where others would run, Mookie sees opportunity, and in no time he and JC are working for Salvie, the local boss. Within a year, they are the most infamous figures on 47th Street, best friends and partners with flashy cars, clothes, and women. As they alternate telling their stories, the balance of power shifts: smooth, charismatic Mookie becomes the de facto leader and small, violent JC the enforcer—roles that send JC to jail for a murder they commit together. In the 15 years he's away, JC gains an education and a resentment he can't control, while Mookie gains power over the entire South Side. By the time JC is paroled, both the neighborhood and the two men's lives are on an inexorable path to an explosive confrontation with simmering injustice.