People move to New York looking for magic and nothing w…
Slave Songbook : Origin of the negro Spiritual
Party Music by Rickey Vincent | East Bay Booksellers
Connecting the black music tradition with the black activist tradition, Party Music brings both into greater focus than ever before and reveals just how strongly the black power movement was felt on the streets of black America.
Not a genuine black man : my life as an outsider : [a true story] : Copeland, Brian
xviii, 245 pages ; 23 cm
Tales From Off-Peak City - Theme, by Cosmo D
Weekly Scroll: Eternal September
Plus: A little TPOT and a very good Christmas song
Jazz & Soulful House Mix Vol.4 | VIENE
Oakland rhapsody : the secret soul of an American downtown : Nagler, Richard
105 p. : 28 cm
No Sense of Place by Joshua Meyrowitz | Open Library
No sense of place by Joshua Meyrowitz, unknown edition,
Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir
A gripping tale of personal revolution by a man who wen…
What They Were Thinking - Tom Waits and Robert Frank - NYTimes.com
“I was trying to imagine myself as a real New Yorker.”
Native Land Pod
Beyond Afrofuturism: Sinners, the Great Migration, and Rust Belt Gothik - Reactor
"Sinners" is a particular kind of story about migration, spirituality, and Black speculative survival skills
Take Your Place: Rhetorical Healing and Black Womanhood in Tyler Perry’s Films
The unparalleled commercial sucessess that gospel-playwright-turned-screenwriter Tyler Perry has attained through converting his stage plays into films that depict black women overcoming personal crises raises questions about the intent behind his seemingly feminist-inspired representations of black womanhood. Through an analysis of the rhetoric of healing in Perry’s first two films, this essay reveals one of the suppressive pedagogical functions of Perry’s representation of black womanhood. Rhetorics of healing are a series of persuasive messages, performances, and literacy acts that writers deploy in order to convince readers that redressing or preventing crises requires them to follow the curriculum for ideological, communicative, and behavioral transformation that the writer considers essential to wellness. In Diary of a Mad Black Woman and Madea’s Family Reunion, Perry’s representation of rhetorical healing constructs black Christian women as students who must learn prescribed attitudes and behaviors to achieve, or remain in, states of wellness, and these lessons reinforce conservative gender ideologies and reify patriarchal constructions of the family and home. Given black women’s historically tenuous relationships with representations of themselves and their families in mainstream film, and given the ways in which their labor in the home is simultaneously desired and exploited, the popularity of Perry’s films does not suggest that his representations of healing foster black women’s self-empowerment. Rather, his popularity points to a moment where black women’s pain is a commodity and their instructive journeys to wellness are an exploited site where writers can carry out their own agendas.
Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley | East Bay Booksellers
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK • A dazzling novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its justice system.
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