Poetry Books by Valerie Jarrett
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Published Date: 1993
Categories: Blacks
Unemployment is one of the curses of industrial society. In South Africa, unemployment is currently approaching forty per cent. In times of recession, the unemployed feature merely as economic statistics. For many South Africans, unemployment is an abstract concept: something remote from them and their existence. This study looks at the human faces behind the unemployment statistics. Its focus is on the black urban community which has suffered most from job loss in the recession. Township people share their own unique experiences of being unemployed, negative and positive, and present their views about their present and future situation.
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Published Date: 2011-05-01
Categories: Fiction
Healing Dr. Fortune by Jusy Duarte Healing people was Jeremy Fortune's specialty not coming to the rescue of a beautiful women with an infant in her arms! The California surgeon was in Texas to locate his missing father, but instead, he may have found the woman of his dreams. Kirsten Allen was only trying to look out for her brother's son. And now she was worried about holding onto her heart! The dedicated doc was filling her head with a sweet domestic fantasy. But only if he planned to stick around long enough to fulfil both their dreams With A Little Help by Valerie Parv Raised in a family of physicians, Emma Jarrett has no interest in being a medical spouse. Of course, that doesn't stop her mother from parading eligible doctors in front of her. The latest is Nathan Hale someone she shares a history with. It was hard enough fighting temptation the first time. Does she really want to do it a second time around?
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published Date: 2017-07-31
Categories: Literary Criticism
A History of the African American Novel offers an in-depth overview of the development of the novel and its major genres. In the first part of this book, Valerie Babb examines the evolution of the novel from the 1850s to the present, showing how the concept of black identity has transformed along with the art form. The second part of this History explores the prominent genres of African American novels, such as neoslave narratives, detective fiction, and speculative fiction, and considers how each one reflects changing understandings of blackness. This book builds on other literary histories by including early black print culture, African American graphic novels, pulp fiction, and the history of adaptation of black novels to film. By placing novels in conversation with other documents - early black newspapers and magazines, film, and authorial correspondence - A History of the African American Novel brings many voices to the table to broaden interpretations of the novel's development.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published Date: 2004-12-29
Categories: Literary Criticism
Home is a powerful metaphor guiding the literature of African Americans throughout the twentieth century. While scholars have given considerable attention to the Great Migration and the role of the northern city as well as to the place of the South in African American literature, few have given specific notice to the site of "home." And in the twenty years since Houston A. Baker Jr.'s Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature appeared, no one has offered a substantial challenge to his reading of the blues matrix. Burnin' Down the House creates new and sophisticated possibilities for a critical engagement with African American literature by presenting both a meaningful critique of the blues matrix and a careful examination of the place of home in five classic novels: Native Son by Richard Wright, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, The Bluest Eye and Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, and Corregidora by Gayl Jones.
Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Published Date: 2006-12-15
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Meet a girl who came to the US from Afghanistan.
Publisher: McFarland
Published Date: 2021-09-10
Categories: Performing Arts
This book uses a black/white interracial lens to examine the lives and careers of eight prominent American-born actresses from the silent age through the studio era, New Hollywood, and into the present century: Josephine Baker, Nina Mae McKinney, Fredi Washington, Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, Lonette McKee, Jennifer Beals and Halle Berry. Combining biography with detailed film readings, the author fleshes out the tragic mulatto stereotype, while at the same time exploring concepts and themes such as racial identity, the one-drop rule, passing, skin color, transracial adoption, interracial romance, and more. With a wealth of background information, this study also places these actresses in historical context, providing insight into the construction of race, both onscreen and off.
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Published Date: 1990
Categories: Biography
The basic set of this work consists of 1851-1974, v. 1-22. Supplements will periodically update information.
Publisher: ABDO Publishing Company
Published Date: 2010-09-01
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
This title examines the remarkable life of First Lady Michelle Obama. Readers will learn about her family background, childhood, education, and marriage to Barack Obama, as well as her community-based work and her role as First Lady. Color photos, detailed maps, and informative sidebars accompany easy-to-read, compelling text. Features include a timeline, facts, additional resources, web sites, a glossary, a bibliography, and an index. Essential Lives is a series in Essential Library, an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company. Grades 6-9.
Publisher: ABDO
Published Date: 2009-08-01
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
This title examines the remarkable life of First Lady Michelle Obama. Readers will learn about her family background, childhood, education, and marriage to Barack Obama, as well as her community-based work and her role as First Lady. Color photos, detailed maps, and informative sidebars accompany easy-to-read, compelling text. Features include a timeline, facts, additional resources, web sites, a glossary, a bibliography, and an index. Essential Lives is a series in Essential Library, an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company. Grades 6-9.
