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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)
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Professor Eugene
Redmond Will Be Honored by SIUE
May 10 with an Honorary Doctor of
Humane Letters
(Edwardsville, Ill.) During its May 10 commencement
ceremonies, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE)
will honor one of its own, a nationally known poet who
founded a popular multicultural literary journal, and
also an Edwardsville resident who is known regionally as
an educator and volunteer.
The SIU Board of Trustees today approved the
Distinguished Service Award for Carol Wetzel, who has
made significant contributions as a teacher in
Collinsville and Edwardsville schools and as a dedicated
community volunteer, and an honorary Doctor of Humane
Letters for SIUE emeritus Professor Eugene Redmond, a
nationally known poet who founded Drumvoices Revue,
a multicultural literary journal that has featured some
of the most important literary voices of the 20th and
21st centuries.
The SIUE Honorary Degrees and Distinguished Service
Awards Committee actively solicits nominations from
members of the University community to obtain a diverse
pool of qualified candidates for these awards. A
candidate for an Honorary Degree may be any person who
has made significant contributions to cultural,
educational, scientific, economic, social, humanitarian
or other worthy fields of endeavor. Distinguished
Service Awards may be presented to any person who has
given outstanding or unusual service to the University,
the region or the state.
Redmond, an SIUE graduate who was named poet laureate of
East St. Louis in 1976, recently retired from the SIUE
Department of English Language and Literature after 19
years of service. His contributions as a guiding light
in the African-American literary pantheon have brought
him national and international acclaim. In addition, he
provided a national platform for hundreds of SIUE
students and emergent writers, including several from
the Eugene B. Redmond Writers Club founded in his name
in East St. Louis.
His passion for photography has produced thousands of
images that chronicle a generation of writers, civic
leaders, performers and families from around the world
and on the SIUE campus. He also created cultural events
on campus and around the region, providing a forum for
scores of renowned artists including Jayne Cortez, Joy
Harjo, Walter Mosley, Sonia Sanchez, Quincy Troupe and
the late renowned anthropologist and choreographer
Katherine Dunham, to name a few.
During his storied career, Redmond has won numerous
awards including fellowships, a lifetime achievement
award from Pan-African Movement USA, and American Book
Award for Excellence in Multicultural Literature,
Illinois Author of the Year for 1989-90 from the
Illinois Association of Teachers of English, and
induction into both the Illinois Senior Hall of Fame and
the National Hall of Fame for Writers of African
Descent.
Wetzel has been a steadfast supporter of the region's
educational systems for many years in her teaching
roles. A portion of her 15-year teaching career was
spent as a Homebound Teacher instructing children who
were too ill to attend school. She also taught special
education students and international students, some of
whom arrived with little or no English language skills.
She also has
devoted herself to volunteerism on behalf of SIUE
through service on the SIUE Foundation Board of
Directors, the Friends of Lovejoy Library, the Friends
of Music and as past president of the Friends of Art.
She and her husband, Bob, have endowed an SIUE
Chancellor's Scholarship in support of academic
excellence and have contributed to more than 30 funds
throughout the University including the Arts, the School
of Business, the Gardens, Intercollegiate Athletics and
Student Affairs, among others.
As a dedicated community resident, Wetzel champions the
Edwardsville Children's Museum, Riverbend Head Start &
Family Services and the Greater Edwardsville Area
Community Foundation. She has served as honorary
co-chair of Anderson Hospital's Fifth Annual Founders
Ball in 2001 and was the 2003 recipient of the
Edwardsville-Glen Carbon Chamber of Commerce Athena
Award given to "an exceptional individual who has
achieved excellence in (a) business or profession,
served the community in a meaningful way and assisted
women in reaching their full leadership potential."
For the past several years, Wetzel has been a leading
force in the fundraising and restoration of the historic
Benjamin Stephenson House in Edwardsville and currently
serves as president of the Friends of Stephenson House
Committee.
Source: SIUE News 1/17/08
posted 27 January 2008
Kwansabas for Maya Angelou
& Quincy Troupe’. Plus . . . Interviews with Angelou,
Troupe & Michael Datcher
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Super Rich: A Guide to Having it All
By Russell Simmons
Russell Simmons knows firsthand that
wealth is rooted in much more than the
stock
market. True wealth has more to do with
what's in your heart than what's in your
wallet. Using this knowledge, Simmons
became one of America's shrewdest
entrepreneurs, achieving a level of
success that most investors only dream
about. No matter how much material gain
he accumulated, he never stopped lending
a hand to those less fortunate. In
Super Rich, Simmons uses his rare
blend of spiritual savvy and
street-smart wisdom to offer a new
definition of wealth-and share timeless
principles for developing an unshakable
sense of self that can weather any
financial storm. As Simmons says, "Happy
can make you money, but money can't make
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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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Blacks in Hispanic Literature: Critical Essays
Edited by
Miriam DeCosta-Willis
Blacks in Hispanic Literature is a
collection of fourteen essays by scholars and
creative writers from Africa and the Americas.
Called one of two significant critical works on
Afro-Hispanic literature to appear in the late
1970s, it includes the pioneering studies of
Carter G. Woodson and
Valaurez B. Spratlin, published in the 1930s, as
well as the essays of scholars whose interpretations
were shaped by the Black aesthetic. The early
essays, primarily of the Black-as-subject in Spanish
medieval and Golden Age literature, provide an
historical context for understanding 20th-century
creative works by African-descended, Hispanophone
writers, such as Cuban
Nicolás Guillén and Ecuadorean poet, novelist,
and scholar
Adalberto Ortiz, whose essay analyzes the
significance of Negritude in Latin America. This
collaborative text set the tone for later
conferences in which writers and scholars worked
together to promote, disseminate, and critique the
literature of Spanish-speaking people of African
descent. . . .
Cited by a
literary critic in 2004 as "the seminal study in the
field of Afro-Hispanic Literature . . . on which
most scholars in the field 'cut their teeth'."
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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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