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Books by Eugene Redmond
Sides of the River (1969)
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Sentry of the
Four Golden Pillars (1970) /
River of Bones and Flesh and Blood
(1971) /
Songs
from an Afro/Phone (1972)
In
a Time of Rain & Desire (1973) /
Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas (2003) /
Drumvoices
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Eighty Moods of Maya
& Other Photo-Poetic Moments from the Eugene B. Redmond
Collection
Edited by Howard Rambsy II
(ISBN 978-1-880748-66-4) 102 pages
Published Summer 2008
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The 500-plus images in
this book were culled from thousands
produced over four decades. “Eighty” of
these, which enter the eye via a
near-38-year “brothering-sistering”
relationship between Maya Angelou and Eugene
B. Redmond, debuted in April, 2008, as an
exhibit at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach
(FL) during Maya’s 80th Birthday
Celebration.
Arranged “see”-matically
rather than chronologically, these
images—“moods”—include Maya’s 48th birthday
in Sonoma (CA), 1976, and Thanksgiving in
Winston-Salem (NC), 2007. The panorama of
“moods” covers various habitations in the
“Soular System” from galas (sponsored by
Oprah) to special dinners, ad hoc soirees,
on-the-road performances, awards ceremonies,
and a [Toni Morrison] “Nobel Party” with
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Settings range from the
West Coast to the East Coast. The remaining
400-plus images compliment Maya’s “eighty
moods” through single-page collages of a
memorial for Reginald Lockett; Alexandria,
Louisiana’s Arna Bontemps Museum and Kwanzaa
celebration; “Nigeria in Words & Images”;
“Paris 1992”; and “Gallery(s) of Writers . .
. Bluesicians . . . Filmmakers &
Photographers.” |
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Multi-page
photo-poetic-mosaics of Soular Systems in East Saint (“Arkansippi”)
Midwest include “Apropos Katherine Dunham”; “Gwen’s &
Haki’s Chicago”; and “The Miles Davis Legacy.” Then
there’s California (“West Coastin’ from San Francisco
Bay to World Stage L-A”) where Redmond spent more than a
decade (1970 to mid-80’s) as a teacher-writer-activist
at CSU-Sacramento.
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And, finally, the East
Coast (“jazz n pizza, beans n salsa”) for
“writers rites,” funeral rites (Max Roach’s,
St. Clair Bourne’s, Sekou Sundiata’s) and
Book Fair-based “Miami’s Asili Nights.” A
sampling of images in the "panorama"
includes: Chinua Achebe, Carol Adams, Opal
Palmer Adisa, Margaret Walker Alexander,
Debbie Allen, Molefi Asante, Nick Ashford,
Toni Cade/Bambara, Fontella Bass, Phoebe
Beasley, Ruth Beckford, Julie Belafonte,
Lerone Bennett Jr., Georgene Bess, Odessa
Bethea, Hamieet Bluiet, The Bosman Twins,
Avery Brooks, Gwendolyn Brooks, Cecil Brown,
James Brown, Ed Bullins, Charles Burnett,
Khephra Burns, Margaret Burroughs, Stokley
Carmichael, Michael Castro, Marie A.
Celestin, John Henrik Clarke, William Lacy
Clay, Pearl Cleage, Jerry Costello, Jayne
Cortez, David Covin, Roscoe Crenshaw, Julie
Dash . . . |
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Michael Datcher, Nia
Damali, Kamau Daaood, Angela Davis, Justin
Desmangles, Grace Douglas, Rita Dove,
Loretta Dumas, Mari Evans, George Faison,
Eddie Fisher, Roberta Flack, Joanne Gabbin,
William Gass, Haile Gerima, Nikki Giovanni,
Danny Glover, Brenda Greene, Russell Gunn,
Herbie Hancock, Joy Harjo, Isaac Hayes,
Eugene Haynes Jr., Roy Haynes, Dorothy
Height, David Henderson, Nona Hendryx, Gil
Scott-Heron, The Hudlin Brothers, Angela
Jackson, Clyde C. Jordan, Pam Kay, Jackie
Joyner-Kersee, John Oliver Killens, B.B.
King, Coretta Scott King, Walter Knicks,
Yusef Komunyakaa, Patti Labelle, Oliver
Lake, Aseneth Lakes, Eddie Levert, Richard
A. Long, Charlois Lumpkin, K.Curtis Lyle,
Haki R. Madhubuti, devorah major, Joseph
McNair, Tony Medina, Jose Montoya, Toni Morrison, Harryette Mullen,
Dahveed Nelson, Elizabeth Nunez, Barbara O,
Odetta, Tess Onwueme, Brenda Marie Osbey,
Ike Paggett, Gordon Parks, Raymond
Patterson, Reginald & Edna Patterson, Kevin
Powell, Robert Earl Price . . . |
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Remi Raji, Ishmael Reed,
Sam Rios, Cleo Parker Robinson, Danny
Romero, Darlene Roy, Kalamu ya Salaam, Sonia
Sanchez, Otis Scott, Wayne Shorter, Hortense
Simmons, Valerie Simpson, Amritjit Singh,
Wole Soyinka, Donald Suggs, Clyde Taylor,
Susan Taylor, Barbara Ann Teer, Clark Terry,
Leticia Del Toro, Eleanor Traylor, Quincy
Troupe, Vaughn Vandegrift, Derek Walcott,
Jerry Ward, Olga Wayne, Lena Weathers,
Richard Wesley, Treasure Williams, Bebe
Winans, Oprah Winfrey,
Ellen Wright,
JuliaWright, Al Young and others. |
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"Eighty Moods of
Maya" is part of the Drumvoices Revue
Supplement Series of catalogs,
monographs, chapbooks, pamphlets, and
special-focus projects published since
1991 by the English Department of SIUE
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Age of Silver: Encounters with Great
Photographers
By
John Loengard
Age of Silver is iconic American
photographer John Loengard’s ode to the art
form to which he dedicated his life.
Loengard, a longtime staff photographer and
editor for LIFE magazine and other
publications, spent years documenting modern
life for the benefit of the American public.
Over the years he trained his camera on
dignitaries, artists, athletes,
intellectuals, blue and whitecollar workers,
urban and natural landscapes, manmade
objects, and people of all types engaged in
the act of living. In
Age of Silver, Loengard gathers
his portraits of some of the most important
photographers of the last half-century,
including
Annie Leibovitz,
Ansel Adams,
Man Ray,
Richard Avedon,
Alfred Eisenstaedt,
Henri Cartier-Bresson, and many, many
others. Loengard caught them at home and in
the studio; posed portraits and candid shots
of the artists at work and at rest.
Complimenting these revealing, expertly
composed portraits are elegant photographs
of the artists holding their favorite or
most revered negatives. This extra dimension
to the project offers an inside peek at the
artistic process and is a stark reminder of
the physicality of the photographic practice
at a time before the current wave of digital
dominance. There is no more honest or
faithful reproduction of life existent in
the world of image making than original,
untouched silver negatives. Far from an
attempt to put forth a singular definition
of modern photographic practice, this
beautifully printed, duotone monograph
instead presents evidence of the unique
vision and extremely personal style of every
artist pictured. Annie Leibovitz is quoted
in her caption as once saying, “I am always
perplexed when people say that a photograph
has captured someone. A photograph is just a
piece of them in a moment. It seems
presumptuous to think you can get more than
that.” —PowerhouseBooks |
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Audio:
My Story, My Song (Featuring blues guitarist Walter Wolfman Washington)
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Greenback Planet: How the Dollar Conquered
the World and Threatened Civilization as We Know It
By H. W. Brands
In Greenback Planet, acclaimed historian H. W. Brands charts the dollar's astonishing rise to become the world's principal currency. Telling the story with the verve of a novelist, he recounts key episodes in U.S. monetary history, from the Civil War debate over fiat money (greenbacks) to the recent worldwide financial crisis. Brands explores the dollar's changing relations to gold and silver and to other currencies and cogently explains how America's economic might made the dollar the fundamental standard of value in world finance. He vividly describes the 1869 Black Friday attempt to corner the gold market, banker J. P. Morgan's bailout of the U.S. treasury, the creation of the Federal Reserve, and President Franklin Roosevelt's handling of the bank panic of 1933. Brands shows how lessons learned (and not learned) in the Great Depression have influenced subsequent U.S. monetary policy, and how the dollar's dominance helped transform economies in countries ranging from Germany and Japan after World War II to Russia and China today. He concludes with a sobering dissection of the 2008 world financial debacle, which exposed the power--and the enormous risks--of the dollar's worldwide reign. The Economy |
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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 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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