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Strange Land Songs
By Etta Mae Ladson
Strange Land Songs is a collection of 71 diversity sonnets
celebrating the leadership destiny of African Americans, and
women.
There probably is no
other volume like it on any shelf anywhere in America.
Strange Land Songs is 71 Ladsonian sonnets, differing from the
traditional art form in at least two respects for the purchaser.
The collection is unique in its celebration of the leadership
destiny of African Americans, and women. It is rightly
characterized as diversity literature. Second, unlike the
traditional sonnet, poems are written in 100 words or less, more
to be read than said.
The subject of each
sonnet is meant to be as profound as it is controversial. Few
have attempted to probe the beauty and mystery of the African
Americans' survival saga in a strange land.
Strange Land Songs
bespeaks their natural inclination towards excellence, and the
nature of the leadership destiny that is inexorably theirs.
The Ladsonian sonnets
celebrating women begin on page 43. In like manner, they happily
raise the reader's consciousness about the incalculable extent
to which women will change the nature of the world as a
determined Providence entrusts the earth to their equal
opportunity care.
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Etta May Ladson
is the holder of three degrees, B.A. & M.A. in English from
Hunter College of the City University of New York, and the M.P.S
degree in Religious Education from New York Theological
Seminary. She is the recipient of many awards, including
citations by the State and City governments of New York.
An
advocate for public education, she is a 30-year veteran of the
classroom, having served as Teacher of English, Chair of English
and Assistant Principal, English. She served in the National
Teacher Corp at the University of Southern Illinois and has
taught at Brooklyn College and Queens College of the City
University. She lectures widely on religious and educational
themes.
A community activist, she is the founder and director
of the African Christian Teachers, a nonprofit private
foundation servicing gifted youngsters in the public school,
General Partner in The Golden Bowl, an investment group
servicing minority seniors, and CEO at Jewelgate, the umbrella
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Super Rich: A Guide to Having it All
By Russell Simmons
Russell Simmons knows firsthand that
wealth is rooted in much more than the
stock
market. True wealth has more to do with
what's in your heart than what's in your
wallet. Using this knowledge, Simmons
became one of America's shrewdest
entrepreneurs, achieving a level of
success that most investors only dream
about. No matter how much material gain
he accumulated, he never stopped lending
a hand to those less fortunate. In
Super Rich, Simmons uses his rare
blend of spiritual savvy and
street-smart wisdom to offer a new
definition of wealth-and share timeless
principles for developing an unshakable
sense of self that can weather any
financial storm. As Simmons says, "Happy
can make you money, but money can't make
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The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration in the Age of
Colorblindness
By Michele Alexander
Contrary to the
rosy picture of race embodied in Barack
Obama's political success and Oprah
Winfrey's financial success, legal
scholar Alexander argues vigorously and
persuasively that [w]e have not ended
racial caste in America; we have merely
redesigned it. Jim Crow and legal racial
segregation has been replaced by mass
incarceration as a system of social
control (More African Americans are
under correctional control today... than
were enslaved in 1850). Alexander
reviews American racial history from the
colonies to the Clinton administration,
delineating its transformation into the
war on drugs. She offers an acute
analysis of the effect of this mass
incarceration upon former inmates who
will be discriminated against, legally,
for the rest of their lives, denied
employment, housing, education, and
public benefits. Most provocatively, she
reveals how both the move toward
colorblindness and affirmative action
may blur our vision of injustice: most
Americans know and don't know the truth
about mass incarceration—but her
carefully researched, deeply engaging,
and thoroughly readable book should
change that.—Publishers
Weekly |
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Blacks in Hispanic Literature: Critical Essays
Edited by
Miriam DeCosta-Willis
Blacks in Hispanic Literature is a
collection of fourteen essays by scholars and
creative writers from Africa and the Americas.
Called one of two significant critical works on
Afro-Hispanic literature to appear in the late
1970s, it includes the pioneering studies of
Carter G. Woodson and
Valaurez B. Spratlin, published in the 1930s, as
well as the essays of scholars whose interpretations
were shaped by the Black aesthetic. The early
essays, primarily of the Black-as-subject in Spanish
medieval and Golden Age literature, provide an
historical context for understanding 20th-century
creative works by African-descended, Hispanophone
writers, such as Cuban
Nicolás Guillén and Ecuadorean poet, novelist,
and scholar
Adalberto Ortiz, whose essay analyzes the
significance of Negritude in Latin America. This
collaborative text set the tone for later
conferences in which writers and scholars worked
together to promote, disseminate, and critique the
literature of Spanish-speaking people of African
descent. . . .
Cited by a
literary critic in 2004 as "the seminal study in the
field of Afro-Hispanic Literature . . . on which
most scholars in the field 'cut their teeth'."
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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