Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose, 1979-1985
8 best books like Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose, 1979-1985 (Adrienne Rich): Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, Women, Race, and Class, Black Skin, White Masks, Dreaming in Cuban, Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side, All About Love: New Visions, For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education, Astrology for the Soul
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Author | Audre Lorde |
ISBN | 0895941414 |
A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's literary and philosophical personae. These essays explore and illuminate the roots of Lorde's intellectual development and her deep-seated and longstanding concerns about ways of increasing empowerment...
Author | Angela Y. Davis |
ISBN | 0394713516 |
Incisive and concise, Women, Race, and Class charts the history of racial and gender oppression in America. In lucid prose Angela Davis breaks down how misogyny, racism, and classism have shaped the character of the nation’s social life from the Antebellum Era to the Sixties. She pays special attention...
Author | Frantz Fanon |
ISBN | 0802150845 |
Black Skins White Masks is a scary book. In it Fanon discusses the black man’s experience in a white world; he ironically, and justly, creates an image of the world through a black lens, so to speak.
“The N**** enslaved by his inferiority, the white man enslaved by his superiority alike...
Here is the dreamy and bittersweet story of a family divided by politics and geography by the Cuban revolution. It is the family story of Celia del Pino, and her husband, daughter and grandchildren, from the mid-1930s to 1980. Celia's story mirrors the magical realism of Cuba itself, a country of beauty...
Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side
“Failing schools. Underprivileged schools. Just plain bad schools.”
That’s how Eve L. Ewing opens Ghosts in the Schoolyard: describing Chicago Public Schools from the outside. The way politicians and pundits and parents of kids who attend other schools talk about them, with a...
All About Love: New Visions
Author | bell hooks |
ISBN | 0688168442 |
All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our private and public lives. In eleven concise chapters, hooks explains how our everyday notions of what it means to give and receive love often fail us, and how these ideals are established in early childhood....
For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education
Author | Christopher Emdin |
ISBN | 0807006408 |
Merging real stories with theory, research, and practice, a prominent scholar offers a new approach to teaching and learning for every stakeholder in urban education.
Drawing on his own experience of feeling undervalued and invisible in classrooms as a young man of color and merging his...
Author | Jan Spiller |
ISBN | 0553378384 |
For the first time ever, a famous spiritual astrologer shares the secrets, previously known only to professionals, that hold the key to your future.
Astrologer Jan Spiller shows you the key to discovering your hidden talents, your deepest desires, and the ways you can avoid negative influences...