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Book by
Jeannette Drake
Journey Within: A Healing
Playbook
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Deliverance
By Jeannette Drake At
first I want
the unnamed rapist
to die. "A five-month
old baby," Ricky M.
reports. Raw news.
A rich, young ruler
with somewhere to go.
A home in hell—
just what the rapist
needs, I pray
'til from a distance
a distant plane I hear
Mother say, Lord H'am
Mercy, give up the hate.
Sanctification needs
to be his fate.
Open heaven's gate.
Lord
H'am Mercy.
Christ Have Mercy.
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Jeannette Drake, a licensed clinical
social worker, specializes in Dream and Expressive work in
group settings. She has conducted individual and group
sessions with adults, adolescents and children in schools,
colleges, hospitals, prisons, churches, shelters, and art
galleries as case worker, counselor, psychotherapist, teacher,
tutor, and writer.
Her writings have been published in Honey
Hush! An Anthology of African American Writer's Humor, Callaloo:
A Journal of African American Arts & Letters, The
Southern Review, New Virginia Review, The Book
of Hope & The World Healing Books, The Sun: A
Magazine of Ideas, Richmond Free Press, Coloring
Book: An Eclectic Anthology of Fiction and Poetry by
Multicultural Writers, DisabilityWorld, a
bilingual international web-zine and other journals and
magazines. She has performed as a gospel soloist,
acted in James Baldwin's The Amen Corner and leads a
monthly book discussion and creative writing group at her
church. Her visual art has been exhibited at
Richmond City Hall, the Carillon at Byrd Park and the Richmond
Public Library (July 1-August 3, 2005). A graduate of Hampton University and
Virginia Commonwealth University, she lives in Richmond. |
May 2005
Journey Within: A Healing
Playbook
By Jeannette Drake
Journey Within: A Healing Playbook
is a fun tool for anyone interested in personal growth,
learning how to be more creative or gaining a deeper insight
into The Divine. Section One includes 13 original color
abstracts that invite the viewer to intentionally go on a
playful, inner journey. An optional guide of play instructions
is included.
In Section Two the author's
spiritual autobiography provides an inspirational explanation
for each drawing.
This Book Is for Someone
You Love!* * *
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Male Male-Intimacy in Early
America
Beyond Romantic Friendships
By
William Benemann
Previously hard-to-find information on
homosexuality in early America—now in a
convenient single volume! Few of us are
familiar with the gay men on General
Washington’s staff or among the leaders of
the new republic. Now, in the same way that
Alex Haley’s Roots provided a generation of
African Americans with an appreciation of
their history,
Male-Male Intimacy in Early America: Beyond
Romantic Friendships will give many
gay readers their first glimpse of
homosexuality as a theme in early American
history.
Male-Male Intimacy in Early America
is the first book to provide a comprehensive
overview of the role of homosexual activity
among American men in the early years of
American history.
Male-Male Intimacy in Early America is the
first book to provide a comprehensive
overview of the role of homosexual activity
among American men in the early years of
American history. |
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This single
source brings together information that has until
now been widely scattered in journals and distant
archives. The book draws on personal letters,
diaries, court records, and contemporary
publications to examine the role of homosexual
activity in the lives of American men in the
colonial period and in the early years of the new
republic. The author scoured research that was
published in contemporary journals and also
conducted his own research in over a dozen US
archives, ranging from the Library of Congress to
the Huntington Library, from the United Military
Academy Archives to the Missouri Historical
Society.—Routledge
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Sex at the Margins
Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry
By Laura María Agustín
This book explodes several myths: that selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work, that migrants who sell sex are passive victims and that the multitude of people out to save them are without self-interest. Laura Agustín makes a passionate case against these stereotypes, arguing that the label 'trafficked' does not accurately describe migrants' lives and that the 'rescue industry' serves to disempower them. Based on extensive research amongst both migrants who sell sex and social helpers, Sex at the Margins provides a radically different analysis. Frequently, says Agustin, migrants make rational choices to travel and work in the sex industry, and although they are treated like a marginalised group they form part of the dynamic global economy. Both powerful and controversial, this book is essential reading for all those who want to understand the increasingly important relationship between sex markets, migration and the desire for social justice. "Sex at the Margins rips apart distinctions between migrants, service work and sexual labour and reveals the utter complexity of the contemporary sex industry. This book is set to be a trailblazer in the study of sexuality."—Lisa Adkins, University of London |
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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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