Books by Mona Lisa Saloy
Red Beans and Ricely Yours: Poems
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Mona Lisa Saloy, Author and Folklorist, is currently visiting
Associate Professor of English at the University of Washington in Seattle for
the 2005-06 year; for 2006-07 academic year. Since,
Katrina, she is on leave from Dillard University where she developed their
Creative Writing Program.
Her Ph.D. is in English from Louisiana State University in
Baton Rouge where she received the MFA in Creative Writing. Mona Lisa’s first
collection of verse,
Red Beans and Ricely Yours: Poems, won the T. S. Eliot Prize
in poetry for 2005, published by Truman State University Press. She is
also
Winner of
the PEN Oakland National Literary Award.
Dr. Saloy’s verse appears in the anthology:
Furious Flower: African American
Poetry from the Black Arts Movement to the Present. Joanne V. Gabbin,
editor. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004. Occasionally,
Mona Lisa writes and reads commentaries on the Black historical 7th Ward
neighborhood in New Orleans for Public Radio, WWNO, 89.9 fm. Some of Saloy’s
articles on Toasts, and the Lore of African American children are available on
the Web at the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Folklife site.
more bio
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Creative writing +
The Dillard Review /
Mona Lisa’s First Website
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Treme: Beyond Bourbon Street (HBO)
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Creative Writing at Dillard /
Dillard Faculty Focus /
English Faculty Focus Dillard /
Dillard Writing Successes /
Poems: Red Beans and Ricely Yours
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Mona
Lisa Saloy is associate professor of English and Founding Director of
Creative Writing at Dillard University, and Director of The
Daniel C. Thompson/Samuel Du Bois Honors Program. Dr.
Saloy's first collection of verse,
Red Beans and Ricely Yours: Poems, won the T. S. Eliot Prize
in poetry for 2005, published by Truman State University Press. She
has also won fellowship from the National Endowment for the
Humanities and from the United Negro College Fund/Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation. Her poems have appeared in anthologies,
magazines, journals, and film. She received her PhD in English
and MFA in creative writing from Louisiana State University and
her MA in creative writing and English from San Francisco State
University. Displaced by Hurricane Katrina, Saloy
was a
visiting associate professor of English and creative writing at
the University of Washington for the 2005/2006 academic
year.
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Malcolm X
A Life of Reinvention
By
Manning Marable
Years
in the making-the definitive biography of
the legendary black activist.
Of the great figure in twentieth-century
American history perhaps none is more
complex and controversial than Malcolm X.
Constantly rewriting his own story, he
became a criminal, a minister, a leader, and
an icon, all before being felled by
assassins' bullets at age thirty-nine.
Through his tireless work and countless
speeches he empowered hundreds of thousands
of black Americans to create better lives
and stronger communities while establishing
the template for the self-actualized,
independent African American man. In death
he became a broad symbol of both resistance
and reconciliation for millions around the
world. |
Manning Marable's
new biography of Malcolm is a stunning achievement.
Filled with new information and shocking revelations
that go beyond the Autobiography, Malcolm X unfolds a
sweeping story of race and class in America, from the
rise of Marcus Garvey and the Ku Klux Klan to the
struggles of the civil rights movement in the fifties
and sixties.
Reaching into
Malcolm's troubled youth, it traces a path from his
parents' activism through his own engagement with the
Nation of Islam, charting his astronomical rise in the
world of Black Nationalism and culminating in the
never-before-told true story of his assassination.
Malcolm X will stand as the definitive work on one of
the most singular forces for social change, capturing
with revelatory clarity a man who constantly strove, in
the great American tradition, to remake himself anew.
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Ratification
The People Debate the Constitution,
1787-1788
By Pauline Maier
A notable historian
of the early republic, Maier devoted a
decade to studying the immense
documentation of the ratification of the
Constitution. Scholars might approach
her book’s footnotes first, but history
fans who delve into her narrative will
meet delegates to the state conventions
whom most history books, absorbed with
the Founders, have relegated to
obscurity. Yet, prominent in their local
counties and towns, they influenced a
convention’s decision to accept or
reject the Constitution. Their
biographies and democratic credentials
emerge in Maier’s accounts of their
elections to a convention, the political
attitudes they carried to the conclave,
and their declamations from the floor.
The latter expressed opponents’
objections to provisions of the
Constitution, some of which seem
anachronistic (election regulation
raised hackles) and some of which are
thoroughly contemporary (the power to
tax individuals directly). Ripostes from
proponents, the Federalists, animate the
great detail Maier provides, as does her
recounting how one state convention’s
verdict affected another’s. Displaying
the grudging grassroots blessing the
Constitution originally received, Maier
eruditely yet accessibly revives a
neglected but critical passage in
American history.—Booklist |
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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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Ancient African Nations
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The Death of Emmett Till by Bob Dylan
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Only a Pawn in Their Game
Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson Thanks America for
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Haitian Declaration of Independence 1804
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January 1, 1804 -- The Founding of
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