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Books by
Larry Ukali Johnson-Redd
My Deepest Affections Are Yours /
Journey to the Motherland
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History
To Destiny Through Afrocentric Poetry /
Loving
Black Women
History
to Destiny Through Afrocentric Poetry
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BLACK
LOVE/SPOKEN WORD POETRY TOUR
featuring
-- Loretta LaRue Duncan Fowler, My Deepest Affections
Are Yours
and
Larry Ukali Johnson-Redd, History
to Destiny Through Afrocentric Poetry.
African
American Arts Culture Complex
762
Fulton Street in San Francisco,
Saturday June 26,
2004, beginning at 4:00pm
BLACK
LOVE/SPOKEN WORD POETRY TOUR
Comes to
African-American Arts and Culture Complex
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You are invited to the Black Love Poetry Tour featuring Loretta
LaRue Duncan Fowler (of Sacramento), Author of My Deepest
Affections Are Yours and Larry Ukali Johnson-Redd, Author of
Journey to the Motherland, From San Francisco to Benin
City and History to Destiny Through Afrocentric Poetry.
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The
Black Love/Spoken Word Poetry Reading
at
the African American Arts Culture Complex
762 Fulton
Street in San Francisco, Saturday June 26, 2004,
beginning at 4:00pm
My Deepest Affections Are Yours
Is a collection of spoken word and love poetry that looks at
male-female relationships in a very special way
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Journey to the Motherland
The book
provides an honest observation of Nigeria from a youthful social
activist who experiences the corporate glass ceiling in the
U.S., and a need to be treated with dignity as a person of
African descent. The novel is presented in a dream
sequence that starts in 1967 and ends in the 1980's with a clear
dedication to the advancement of human understanding and
consciousness. Author, Larry
Ukali Johnson-Redd, 160 paged perfect bound paperback. $14.95
(Include $5.00 shipping and handling); P.O. Box 181, Antioch,
California 94509.
These Powerful Books are available at Marcus Books in Oakland
and San Francisco-415 346-4222 and the Alkebu-Lan Bookstore in
Berkeley or 415 724-0825 for more information
History
To Destiny Through Afrocentric Poetry
This collection spans a thirty-year process of reflection and
critique on he condition of Black folks in the U.S. and around
the world, centered on a progressive African philosophical
context that balances politics, emotions and sensuality. Author, Larry
Ukali Johnson-Redd, 301-paged perfect paperback, $20.00 (Include
$5.00 shipping and handling); P.O. Box 181 Antioch, California
94509.
Send your name, address and phone number with your order. Order
both books for 30.00 and we will pay shipping, handling and
taxes.
Publisher; Amen-Ra Theological Seminary Press
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Salvage the Bones
A Novel by Jesmyn Ward
On one level, Salvage the Bones is a simple story about a poor black family that’s about to be trashed by one of the most deadly hurricanes in U.S. history. What makes the novel so powerful, though, is the way Ward winds private passions with that menace gathering force out in the Gulf of Mexico. Without a hint of pretension, in the simple lives of these poor people living among chickens and abandoned cars, she evokes the tenacious love and desperation of classical tragedy. The force that pushes back against Katrina’s inexorable winds is the voice of Ward’s narrator, a 14-year-old girl named Esch, the only daughter among four siblings. Precocious, passionate and sensitive, she speaks almost entirely in phrases soaked in her family’s raw land. Everything here is gritty, loamy and alive, as though the very soil were animated. Her brother’s “blood smells like wet hot earth after summer rain. . . . His scalp looks like fresh turned dirt.” Her father’s hands “are like gravel,” while her own hand “slides through his grip like a wet fish,” and a handsome boy’s “muscles jabbered like chickens.” Admittedly, Ward can push so hard on this simile-obsessed style that her paragraphs risk sounding like a compost heap, but this isn’t usually just metaphor for metaphor’s sake. She conveys something fundamental about Esch’s fluid state of mind: her figurative sense of the world in which all things correspond and connect. She and her brothers live in a ramshackle house steeped in grief since their mother died giving birth to her last child. . . . What remains, what’s salvaged, is something indomitable in these tough siblings, the strength of their love, the permanence of their devotion.— WashingtonPost
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The New Jim Crow
Mass Incarceration in the Age of
Colorblindness
By Michele Alexander
Contrary to the
rosy picture of race embodied in Barack
Obama's political success and Oprah
Winfrey's financial success, legal
scholar Alexander argues vigorously and
persuasively that [w]e have not ended
racial caste in America; we have merely
redesigned it. Jim Crow and legal racial
segregation has been replaced by mass
incarceration as a system of social
control (More African Americans are
under correctional control today... than
were enslaved in 1850). Alexander
reviews American racial history from the
colonies to the Clinton administration,
delineating its transformation into the
war on drugs. She offers an acute
analysis of the effect of this mass
incarceration upon former inmates who
will be discriminated against, legally,
for the rest of their lives, denied
employment, housing, education, and
public benefits. Most provocatively, she
reveals how both the move toward
colorblindness and affirmative action
may blur our vision of injustice: most
Americans know and don't know the truth
about mass incarceration—but her
carefully researched, deeply engaging,
and thoroughly readable book should
change that.—Publishers
Weekly |
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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Only a Pawn in Their Game
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