Loving Day - Mat Johnson.epub
Author by: Stephanie Rose BirdLanguage: enPublisher by: Greenwood Publishing GroupFormat Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 34Total Download: 646File Size: 45,8 MbDescription: The election of America's first biracial president brings the question dramatically to the fore. What does it mean to be biracial or tri-racial in the United States today? Anthropologist Stephanie Bird takes us into a world where people are struggling tobe heard, recognized, and celebrated for the racial diversity one would think is the epitome of America's melting pot persona. But being biracial or tri-racial brings unique challenges-challenges including prejudice, racism and, from within racial groups, colorism.
Yet America is now experiencing a multiracial baby boom, with at least three states logging more multiracial baby births than any other race aside from Caucasians. As the Columbia Journalism Review reported, American demographics are no longer black and white. In truth, they are a blended, difficult-to-define shade of brown. Bird shows us the history of biracial and tri-racial people in the United States, and in European families and events. She presents the personal traumas and victories of those who struggle for recognition and acceptance in light of their racial backgrounds, including celebrities such as golf expert Tiger Woods, who eventually quit trying to describe himself as Cablanasin, a mix including Asian and African American. Bird examines current events, including the National Mixed Race Student Conference, and the push to dub this Generation MIX.
And she examines how American demographics, government, and society are changing overall as a result. This work includes a guide to tracing your own racial roots. This volume explores the history, challenges, and psychological issues for-as well as prejudice against-people who have a mixed ancestry leaving them at neither end of the polar spectrum, neither Black nor White, but biracial ortri-racial. Author by: Day Writing JournalsLanguage: enPublisher by: Independently PublishedFormat Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 43Total Download: 681File Size: 41,7 MbDescription: Day Writing Journals the Blank Lined Notebook Writing Journal is ideal Gifts who Love day to day writing Notebooks and Capture Thoughts, Or for everyone who wish to surprise their favorite relative on holidays or all year long, but have no time. Family life Journals provide gift ideas for your relatives or loved ones and lets you make your holiday as a memorable one.
Author by: Audrye S. ArbeLanguage: enPublisher by: Digital 1 PublishingFormat Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 21Total Download: 439File Size: 45,9 MbDescription: What propelled me to write this book? In addition to being nudged by Spirit and my own Inner Guidance, I took a look around. What is this fixation on race, sex, gender, religion, class that preoccupies so many of our species? Where is our plentiful joy and wonder at the magnificence of Creation? More importantly, what can we do about any lack of wonder? Who are we, anyway, and why are we here?
Personally, I am fascinated by the diversity and combinations in which we humans flourish — with our multitude of talents, looks and abilities. I love our creativity, our amazingly diverse yet similar energies and vibrations. To me, this variety is something to be honored and treasured, a reflection of the artistry and abundance of Creation. Despite the beauty that exists within diversity – racial, sexual, gender, and so on - some of us appear to feel, believe and act as if our variety is an issue, going so far as to behave inimically toward others who outwardly 'look or seem different.” From where do these attitudes stem and where do these perceptions lead?
Is separation along color/sex/gender/religious lines what an-yone truly desires in the core of his/her being? It is indicative of a culture with distorted ideas about race that people can even figure out what looking alike and looking different mean. How are these differences of coloration interpreted? In a culture that loved our multiplicity of being, we would have a different conception of alike and different, as well as different feelings and vibrations within ourselves. We are in a new millennium. We have the time-space-place-resonance to be the enlightened beings that we are.
The choice is open to each and every one of us. Author by: Angel B.Language: enPublisher by: Big Dreams ProductionFormat Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 92Total Download: 644File Size: 51,7 MbDescription: There’s nothing like trusting love to cleanse the souland the body.
Rainy has worked hard to build a respectable tutoring business and she would do everything in her power to keep it, and her family’s name, from embarrassment. But when the weather blows a handsome distraction at her, can she let down her guard and learn to trust him, or will she let her insecurities ruin a love that heats her very soul? Miki is an entertainment lawyer, turned knight in shining armor.
But will his heroism be enough to convince his beautiful neighbor to let him protect her forever? There’s no denying the passion that erupts between the two, and Miki is determined to slay all her enemies to share a lifetime beside her.
Author by: Adam SmyerLanguange: enPublisher by: Akashic BooksFormat Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 54Total Download: 317File Size: 53,6 MbDescription: 'By setting his novel in the '90s, Smyer, who lives in Oakland, has crafted some brutal deja vu. As protagonist Marcus reflects on Rodney King, the Million Man March and the Oklahoma City bombing, we think of Freddie Gray, Black Lives Matter and school shootings that have become a way of life. And when Marcus laments San Francisco's dwindling black population, here we are more than 20 years on, and it's only gotten worse. We should all be furious.'
-San Francisco Chronicle 'This book is bold in how it treats the reader as an insider to the reality of American blackness. It can be, in turns, lyrically poignant, cynical, hilarious, and infuriating.' -Foreword Reviews, Starred Review 'In this comic debut novel, lawyer Marcus Hayes careens through the racially divisive 1990s while trying to manage his compulsive anger, chaotic love life, and economic misfortunes.Smyer gives Marcus a sardonic and hilarious voice reminiscent of a Paul Beatty protagonist and endows him with a troubled psychology that plumbs the nuances of black male identity.' -Kirkus Reviews 'Marcus is an intelligent, acerbic, and often hilarious narrator, bringing a fresh, biting perspective to the social and racial tensions of the time that, as debut novelist Smyer makes clear, are not particularly different from today.'
-Library Journal 'While loss and loneliness are at its core, Knucklehead is a mordantly funny book.' -San Francisco Chronicle, Recommended Reading roundup 'While not strictly a crime novel, Smyer's debut Knucklehead does contain a whole lot of guns, violence, and rage, as well as plenty of love and sadness. A black lawyer in the late 80s through the mid-90s deals with micro and macro aggressions from a society determined to treat him as a criminal. Also, there are cats. Lots of cats.' -Literary Hub, included in the Most Anticipated Crime, Mystery, and Thriller Titles of 2018 'While the provocative subject material will take readers to a sometimes-uncomfortable place, this brilliant debut is also deeply, darkly funny.This is one of those books that simply has to be discussed, as it managed to tackle difficult topics with unexpected humor and pathos. While Marcus is a troubled character, his journey and the choices he makes will provide rich meat for discussion about race in America and how justifiable anger can turn toxic.'
-IndiePicks Magazine 'A masterpiece.In this, his debut narrative, Smyer dramatically encapsulates the ancestral trauma, the collective guilt and suffering of tens of millions of people. Indeed he has scored big. Real big.A must buy.' -Kaitur News (Guyana) 'Like Smyer, the book has a wicked sense of humor, even as it gives the reader a tour of the dystopian Clinton years. Comparisons to James Baldwin, Richard Wright, and Zora Neale Hurston are well earned, yet there are also strains of Anthony Burgess and Hubert Selby Jr. In Smyer's prose.'
-48 Hills 'From page one, Knucklehead is a literary punch in the face. Adam Smyer's exploration of rage is unflinching, brave, and absolutely brilliant. There's so much energy in this debut you could put it in your tank and drive on it.' -Mat Johnson, author of Loving Day In Knucklehead we meet Marcus Hayes, a black law student who struggles, sometimes unsuccessfully, with the impulse to confront everyday bad behavior with swift and antisocial action. The cause of this impulse is unknown to him. When Marcus unexpectedly becomes involved with the brilliant and kind Amalia Stewart, her love and acceptance pacify his demons. But when his demons return, he is no longer inclined to contain them.
Author by: Greg FieldLanguange: enPublisher by: Motorbooks InternationalFormat Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 25Total Download: 627File Size: 40,5 MbDescription: Celebrate the 80th anniversary of the engine that changed the motorcycle world. Motorcycle technology lagged far behind automotive technology since the earliest days of the internal-combustion engine.
All that changed in 1936 when Harley-Davidson introduced the Model EL. For the first time ever, a company was manufacturing a high-performance overhead-valve engine for the masses. And what an engine it was - in addition to bringing state-of-the-art technology to the motorcycling world - a work of art.
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Because of the shape of its rocker covers, the engine was given a nickname to match its looks: the Knucklehead. The technology used in this engine was so advanced that it laid the foundation for every future Harley-Davidson motorcycle, including the current models built in the 21st century. To this day every cruiser style motorcycle still adheres to the shape of that original Knucklehead. Harley-Davidson Knucklehead: Eighty Years tells the entire Knucklehead story, from the very first overhead-valve V-twin Harley produced for the public through the post-war models, continuing right up until today, when aftermarket manufacturers reproduce complete Knucklehead crate engines because of its continuing popularity. Author by: Peter GaultLanguange: enPublisher by:Format Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 58Total Download: 551File Size: 53,5 MbDescription: Fast, funny bristling with intelligence and philosophical insight.
Gault traces the antics of the protagonist, Billy Blowe, on a passage by water, stretching from Toronto through New York City, down the eastern seaboard to Miami before falling of the end of the earth. Billy Blowe escapes the suffocating miasma of the culture, goes beyond it, beyond death, to another side of reality. Knucklehead, written with uncompromising candor, is a whirlwind of cataclysmic revelations that keeps your head spinning. Author by: Amir WhitakerLanguange: enPublisher by:Format Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 42Total Download: 526File Size: 46,6 MbDescription: Follow Amir's life-changing journey through a trilogy of challenges, as they mold him into an agent of change and civil rights lawyer. In the first chronicle, he rebounds from incarceration and expulsion from school, while evading the systems devastating his community.
Next, he attends leading universities across the country for 12 years, while obtaining five college degrees. Finally, he visits 30 countries by his 30th birthday, while broadening his perspective and appreciation of the human spirit.
1) During the first 19 years of his life, Amir was engulfed in a war without realizing it. Poverty and the War on Drugs entrapped his neighborhood in a cycle of addiction, incarceration, and chaos. Dominating the drug trade as at age 15, brings the world to Amir fingertips-until a police raid results in him being arrested with his mother. Amir struggles through the remainder of his teenage years after being kicked out of school and lured back into the Trap.
Follow this hard-fought journey of a boy with an unrelenting desire to overcome the odds in a warzone. Street Traveler: As a 22-year-old college student, Amir becomes the first person from his neighborhood to obtain a passport. An opportunity to visit Africa unleashes an addiction to traveling, culture shock, and worldly experiences that changes him forever. He becomes obsessed with a goal to visit 30 countries before his 30th birthday, and embarks on an eye-opening quest throughout all corners of the globe. Amir relies on 'street smarts' to escape danger, explore forbidden places, and survive on a few dollars a day. Curiosity leads him to intriguing destinations across Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe, and the Caribbean.
Million: Miraculously completing high school after being expelled, Amir reluctantly enrolls in community college. After his thirst for knowledge is awakened, he doubles his high school GPA and plunges into a 12-year college career across the country. In the process, Amir graduates from the top public university in New Jersey, receives his law degree from Florida's leading university in Miami, and obtains a doctorate in Los Angeles from one of the nation's top 25 universities.