In light of the Coronavirus outbreak, I have decided to offer my book for free until this coming Saturday, March 21. So please feel free to take advantage of this!! All I ask is that you leave a review on Amazon or Goodreads.
With over 80 chapters containing unique poetic prose, Desert Stars tells the story of two Egyptian boys, Horus and Set, growing from friends with benefits to something more. It is a modern novella that shows the difficult way of claiming your own sexuality, coming out and stop shaming yourself. This story is meant as a love letter to people still growing, and not being ashamed of who they are.
Even while including a lot of symbolism and names from Egyptian mythology, this book is not a traditional modern retelling. Yet you’re free to read it as one.
This is the last free book in the 12 Books - 12 Months series, and it means a lot to me personally. The idea for this book started at the same time as I was writing Sunblind and can be seen as a direct counterpart to that one. Thank you all for joining me on this journey. I hope you’ll love this book as much as I loved writing it.
Sabotage is the last collection of poetry that I will ever write. Deeply personal, these 25 poems talk about love, hate, heartbreak, healing and more. All of the poems have a touch of everything that accompanied me and my poetry since I started writing: sexuality, doubt, depression, survival. With this book, I say farewell to poetry. Thank you, for accompanying me on my way to find myself.
TITLE:AND THEN THERE WAS VICTOR (on WATTPAD) AUTHOR: Isabelle Olmo YoungAdult/NewAdult, for cursing and adult themes
Set in the 1990s! Victor Manning has been infuriating Becka since she sat behind him in 7th grade English. He’s cocky, self-centered, obnoxious, and above all, he’s somehow discovered that she has a crush on Clem. His teasing of her crush has her climbing on his car and spelling ASSHOLE with her red lipstick on his windshield. But the end of High School has all of Becka’s friends moving away and she’s stuck going to the local university knowing only Victor.
BOOK 1 OF THE PATTY GIRL SERIES!
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“You’re welcome,” he said.
“Do me a favor, don’t lend me helping hands.”
“But you got to dance with dashing Clemente,” he glanced at the ballroom. “Cost me a pretty argument but you’re welcome.”
I studied him; he was completely sober, nothing like he was earlier, and I opened my mouth to question him, but he pursed his lips.
“I told you, find yourself someone who says fuck it all and goes after you,” he said. “Aren’t you tired of chasing after Clem?”
“I’m not -”
“Yeah, you are, you’re still chasing,” he smirked and sauntered back into the dancing fray.
||| Publisher’s blurb ||| “The Making of the New Negro examines black masculinity in the period of the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural movement that spanned the 1920s and 1930s in America and was marked by an outpouring of African American art, music, theater and literature.
Drawing on African American texts, archives, unpublished writings, and contemporaneous European discourses, this book highlights both the canonical figures of the New Negro Movement and African American culture such as W. E. B. Dubois, Booker T. Washington, Alain Locke, and Richard Wright, and other writers such as Wallace Thurman, who have not received as much scholarly attention despite their significant contributions to the movement.”
|||Contents||| Acknowledgements
Introduction: Chapter One: Prologue: The Question of Manhood in the Booker T. Washington-W. E. B. Du Bois Debate Part 1: Alain Locke and the New Negro Chapter Two: Midwifery and Camaraderie: Alain Locke’s Tropes of Gender and Sexuality Chapter Three: Arts, War, and the Brave New Negro: Gendering the Black Aesthetic Part 2: Wallace Thurman and Niggerati Manor Chapter Four: Gangsters and Bootblacks, Rent Parties and Railroad Flats: Wallace Thurman’s Guide to the Black Bourgeoisie Chapter Five: Discontents of the Black Dandy Chapter Six: Epilogue: Richard Wright’s Interrogations of the New Negro Conclusion: Black Male Authorship, Sexuality, and the Transatlantic Connection
Gerzina has written a fascinating account of London blacks, focusing on the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Because of a paucity of sources from blacks themselves, Gerzina had to rely primarily on glimpses through white eyes, especially those of antislavery advocate Granville Sharp. Gerzina is quite adept at culling evidence of a rich, complex black life, with significant interaction (and intermarriage) with the white community.
Illustrations Acknowledgements 1. Paupers and Princes: Repainting the Picture of Eighteenth-Century England 2. High Life below Stairs 3. What about Women? 4. Sharp and Mansfield: Slavery in the Courts 5. The Black Poor 6. The End of English Slavery Notes Bibliography Index
||| Publisher’s Blurb ||| Invisible No More is a timely examination of how Black women, Indigenous women, and women of color experience racial profiling, police brutality, and immigration enforcement. Placing stories of individual women—such as Sandra Bland, Rekia Boyd, Dajerria Becton, Monica Jones, and Mya Hall—in the broader context of the twin epidemics of police violence and mass incarceration, it documents the evolution of movements centering women’s experiences of policing and demands a radical rethinking of our visions of safety—and the means we devote to achieving it.
An archive of audio and video tapes, ephemera, books and exhibition catalogues on the practice of black artists was established at Chelsea College of Art in 1985 and its holdings are now published in this bibliography.
Aiming to reflect the diversity of black British visual arts practice, it provides an invaluable resource for historical documentation and research worldwide.
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Preface: Stephen Bury, Chelsea College of Art Recordings: An introduction, Melanie Keen Chronology Individual Artists General Texts Index: Author, Title, Subject, Gallery
On #WomanCrushWednesday, we’re sharing this 1945 bulletin by the U. S. Department of Labor. It reminds us that popular culture’s conceptualization of Rosie the Riveter neglects the contributions of women of color.
From the Foreword:
What this report tells is a story of ways in which Negro women have helped to bridge the manpower gap. Working together with men and women of every other national origin, their contribution is one which this Nation would be unwise to forget or to evaluate falsely. They are an integral part of America’s prospect. Not only have they helped to produce the weapons of war, but their labor has been a large factor in preventing a major break-down of essential consumer services.
This bulletin, written by Kathryn Blood, is Pamphlet 2000.826, in Hagley’s Published Collections. We don’t yet have it scanned and on our Digital Archives, but you can find a full copy at the Internet Archive.
||| Publisher’s Blurb||| Ruth Finnegan’s Oral Literature in Africa was first published in 1970, and since then has been widely praised as one of the most important books in its field. Based on years of fieldwork, the study traces the history of storytelling across the continent of Africa. This revised edition makes Finnegan’s ground-breaking research available to the next generation of scholars. It includes a new introduction, additional images and an updated bibliography, as well as its original chapters on poetry, prose, “drum language” and drama, and an overview of the social, linguistic and historical background of oral literature in Africa. Oral Literature in Africa has been accessed by hundreds of readers in over 60 different countries, including Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda and numerous other African countries.
|||Contents||| List of Illustrations Forward by Mark Turin Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Second Edition Acknowledgements Acknowledgements: Addendum 2012 Abbreviations Note on Sources and References
I • INTRODUCTION 1. The ‘oral’ nature of African unwritten literature 2. The perception of African oral literature 3. The social, linguistic, and literary background
II • POETRY 4. Poetry and patronage 5. Panegyric 6. Elegiac poetry 7. Religious poetry 8. Special purpose poetry — war, hunting, and work 9. Lyric 10. Topical and political songs 11. Children’s songs and rhymes
III • PROSE 12. Prose narratives I. Problems and theories 13. Prose narratives II. Content and form. 14. Proverbs 15. Riddles 16. Oratory, formal speaking, and other stylized forms
IV • SOME SPECIAL FORMS 17. Drum language and literature 18. Drama
||| Publisher’s Blurb||| Black people have been living and working in Britain since the 1550s. After the Second World War, mass migration from the Caribbean helped build the multi-cultural Britain we know today. This publication has been produced to celebrate the presence of the Black community in Hammersmith and Fulham over the past 100 years and the 50th anniversary of the arrival of the Empire Windrush. It is supported and funded by the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. Its publication also commemorates the tenth anniversary of the Ethnic Communities Oral History Project’s (ECOHP) first African Caribbean publication, The Motherland Calls, in 1989. A Ship and a Prayer draws on interviews published by ECOHP during the past ten years.
Among the interviewees featured in A Ship and a Prayer are Randolph Beresford, a former Mayor of Hammersmith and Fulham who was made an MBE; Esther Bruce, whose autobiography received the Raymond Williams Prize for Community Publishing; and Connie Mark, who was awarded the British Empire Medal.
|||Contents||| Before World War Two: Black Edwardians in Hammersmith and Fulham The War Years (1939 - 45) Empire Windrush After Windrush A Second Generation Perspective
||| Publisher’s Blurb||| The rise of the British Empire during the eighteenth century, fueled by enslaved labor on plantations in the North Atlantic world, contributed to a period of economic and cultural growth in Britain. It also brought unprecedented numbers of Africans and people of African and African-Caribbean descent, both enslaved and free, to the British mainland. Figures of Empire explored the impact of these developments on the most ubiquitous artistic genre of the time: the portrait.
This booklet accompanied the exhibition Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain in 2014. The exhibition featured more than sixty paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and decorative objects.
|||Contents||| What is a portrait? A note on terminology Slavery,empire and portraiture Portraits and conversations America and British abolitionism Reynolds’ models Staging indentities Portraits in books, books as portraits Timeline Further reading
||| Contents ||| The British Caribbean Region Colonies Populations and Class Structure Franchise, Political Control and Labour Representation Common Causes of Working Class Unrest The Early Warnings Sugar Workers Rebel in St Kitts in 1935 The Labour Rebellion in St Vincent Unrest and Intimidation in St Lucia The Labour Rebellion in Barbados The Labour Rebellion in Trinidad & Tobago The Labour Rebellion in Jamaica The Labour Rebellion Renewed in Guyana Islands Without Rebellions in the 1930s The West India Royal Commission Conclusion Endnotes
||| Summary ||| Afro Solo UK is the result of two years research of the African diaspora of Greater Manchester. Each life story is an act of remembrance, a celebration and in some cases a reconciliation. They provide a legacy and are a declaration that this community will never again be overlooked.
||| Contents ||| Part One: Foreword: Dr Hakim Adi Intro: SuAndi Life Stories
Part Two: From ‘Slavepool’ by Eugene Lange Aka Muhammad Khalil Afro Ville in conversation with Steve Cottier Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre and Education Trust Imperial War Museum North Mix-D Museum Remembering Africans of Manchester, Tutu Foundation Memorial Service Research Appendix Partners Information
||| Publisher’s Blurb||| This booklet about black history in Devonshire is short because the work is only just beginning, not because there is no evidence to uncover… To move towards a more accurate, inclusive view of history, we need to separate out the different elements, which have been ignored previously. The evidence is available. The history waits to be written. Black history is not only for black people. It is not only to be found in the history of big cities and ports. Looking at black history in Devon, and similar parts of Britain, helps us to understand the links between local, national and world history. There are stories about black people to be discovered in all walks of life and in all areas. I hope to show that there is more to discover and that we need this information to get a balanced view of our country, and our country’s past. This is the ‘missing part of our history’.
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Foreword by Sam Walker, Director, AMBH
1. Why black history in Devon 2. Black Romans in Devon? 3. Saint Maurice 4. Devon’s connection with the slave trade and slavery 5. Gravestones illustrating the links between Devon and black history 6. Black people and the sea; The London 7. The Swete Family in Modbury 8. Joe Green 9. Devon and the abolition of the slave trade 10. Compensation for slavery? 11. How to remember slavery and the slave trade? 12. Who is this man? 13. Olaudah Equiano 14. Moretonhampstead 15. Black soldiers and Devon 16. My Father, by Zena Burland 17. Jane, a black Devonian 18. How to take the study of black history forward 19. Conclusion - writing black history of the past and today
Resources for learning Notes for educators in schools, museums and libraries Notes on the text Picture sources and acknowledgements Photo credits Mapping the black presence in Devon
Book to accompany the 2012 exhibition Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe. It was the first exhibition to bring together a wide variety of works of art in diverse mediums that bear witness to the multiple aspects of the African presence in Europe in the Age of Exploration. The book includes European paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, books, and decorative objects, dating from around 1480 to around 1605, includes memorable images and riveting portraits of Africans, some of whose identities are known and others who remain anonymous.
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Director’s Foreword Introduction - Joaneath Spicer The Lives of African Slaves and People of African Descent in Renaissance Europe - Kate Lowe European Perceptions of Blackness as Reflected in the Visual Arts - Joaneath Spicer “Leo Africanus” Presents Africa to Europeans - Natalie Zemon Davis Free Men and Women of African Ancestry in Renaissance Europe - Joaneath Spicer Visual Representations of an Elite: African Ambassadors and Rulers in Renaissance Europe - Kate Lowe Afterword - Ben Vinson III List of Lenders Checklist for the Exhibition Selected Secondary Sources Curator’s Acknowledgments Contributors Photography Credits
This lively, innovative book explores the intellectual ideas which the West Indians brought with them to Britain. It shows that for more than a century West Indians living in Britain developed a dazzling intellectual critique of the codes of Imperial Britain. This is the first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to live in twentieth-century Britain. Chapters discuss the influence of, amongst others, C.L.R. James, Una Marson, George Lamming, Jean Rhys, Claude McKay and V.S. Naipaul.
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General editor’s introduction List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Crossing the seas - Bill Schwarz
1 What is a West Indian? - Catherine Hall 2 ‘To do something for the race’: Harold Moody and the League of Coloured Peoples - David Killingray 3 A race outcast from an outcast class: Claude McKay’s experience and analysis of Britain - Winston James 4 Jean Rhys: West Indian intellectual - Helen Carr 5 Una Marson: feminism, anti-colonialism and a forgotten fight for freedom - Alison Donnell 6 George Padmore - Bill Schwarz 7 C. L. R. James: visions of history, visions of Britain Stephen Howe 8 George Lamming - Mary Chamberlain 9 ‘This is London calling the West Indies’: the BBC’s Caribbean Voices - Glyne Griffith 10 The Caribbean Artists Movement - Louis James 11 V. S. Naipaul - Sue Thomas
Afterword: The predicament of history - Bill Schwarz Index
The British country house has long been regarded as the jewel in the nation’s heritage crown. But the country house is also an expression of wealth and power, and as scholars reconsider the nation’s colonial past, new questions are being posed about these great houses and their links to Atlantic slavery.
This book, authored by a range of academics and heritage professionals, grew out of a 2009 conference on ‘Slavery and the British Country house: mapping the current research’ organised by English Heritage in partnership with the University of the West of England, the National Trust and the Economic History Society. It asks what links might be established between the wealth derived from slavery and the British country house and what implications such links should have for the way such properties are represented to the public today.
In order to improve access to this research, a complete copy of the text is free to download from the left hand side of this page.
Foreword List of contributors Acknowledgements Notes on measurements Introduction 1. Slave ownership and the British country house: the records of the Slave Compensation Commission as evidence - Nicholas Draper 2. Slavery and West Country houses - Madge Dresser 3. Rural retreats: Liverpool slave traders and their country houses - Jane Longmore 4. Lodges, garden houses and villas: the urban periphery in the early modern Atlantic world - Roger H Leech 5. Slavery’s heritage footprint: links between British country houses and St Vincent, 1814-34 - Simon D Smith 6. An open elite? Colonial commerce, the country house and the case of Sir Gilbert Heathcote and Normanton Hall - Nuala Zahedieh 7. Property, power and authority: the implicit and explicit slavery connections of Bolsover Castle and Brodsworth Hall in the 18th century - Sheryllynne Haggerty and Susanne Seymour 8. Atlantic slavery and classical culture at Marble Hill and Northington Grange - Laurence Brown 9. Slavery and the sublime: the Atlantic trade, landscape aesthetics and tourism - Victoria Perry 10. West Indian echoes: Dodington House, the Codrington family and the Caribbean heritage - Natalie Zacek 11. Contesting the political legacy of slavery in England’s country houses: a case study of Kenwood House and Osborne House - Caroline Bressey 12. Representing the East and West India links to the British country house: the London borough of Bexley and the wider heritage picture - Cliff Pereira 13. Reinterpretation: the representation of perspectives on slave trade history using creative media - Rob Mitchell and Shawn Sobers Notes Index
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