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Books by Marcus Bruce
Christian
Song of the Black Valiants: Marching Tempo
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High Ground: A Collection of Poems /
Negro soldiers in the Battle of New Orleans
I am New
Orleans: A Poem
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Negro Iron Workers of Louisiana: 1718-1900 /
The Liberty Monument
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Reflections
on
Lyle
Saxon, Irene Douglass, and the Wall of
Race
December
10, 1943
I
sat there thinking just how the fortunes of white people changed
so quickly for the better, but not so with the majority of
Negroes. Somewhere along the line bitter reactionary whites had
builded up a wall to exclude the Negro from all of the good
things of life. Thereafter a form of heartless exploitation went
on.
But
all white people were not satisfied with this. Some were
dissatisfied in a speechless, apologetic, defensive sort of way,
others wanted to do something about it. Especially so when they
found out at one time or another, that the people on the other
side of the wall were as nice and as human and as aspiring and
as normal as they. But the wall had been built so well and with
so much hate that it was impossible for these to break through
it without paying a penalty for it. Some did not care what the
penalty. Some found themselves in a sort of undertow in the
other directions and the sensation was so pleasant that they did
not worry to care what the price.
He
was thinking of Saxon who wanted to see him, and whom he could
not see unless he went up a freight elevator.
He
was thinking of Irene [Douglas] whom the wall of hate had shut
from his life, but who had come back, being unable to stay away
any longer, but found the chasm across which they must reach
each other now grown even wider than before.
Then
there was Eunice, and Gloria, and Elis, and Lena, and the poor
white man who asked him for carfare one day, and Silverman, and
Myron, and Lauglin, and nearly a score of others who had stood
dumb and silent at the wall, wishing to climb, but fearing the
penalty that one must eventually pay in the South for being
simply human.
He
poured the hot water into the Ovaltine and milk, went into the
bedroom to the fire and sat down and began to eat. As he walked
from the cold kitchen and went into the warmer bedroom, he cried
out like a man uttering a prophetic warning: "O beloved
Southland, you torture your black children, but your white
children too sink to the earth because of the terrible blows that you rain upon them!"
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Marcus Bruce
Christian
Selected Diary Notes
/ Selected Poems
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Selected Letters
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Memories of Marcus B. Christian
(Cains) Christian's
BioBibliographical Record Introduction to I AM NEW
ORLEANS
A
Theory of a Black Aesthetic Magpies,
Goddesses, & Black Male Identity
Activist Works on Next Level of Change
Intro to I Am New
Orleans
Letter from Dillard University
A
Labor of Genuine Love
Letter of Gift of
Photos
Letters from
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Negro Iron Workers of Louisiana: 1718-1900
By Marcus Bruce Christian
Study of the blacksmith
tradition and New Orleans famous lace balconies and
fences.
Acclaimed
during his life as the unofficial poet laureate of
the New Orleans African-American community, Marcus
Christian recorded a distinguished career as
historian, journalist, and literary scholar. He was
a contributor to Pelican's
Gumbo Ya Ya, and also wrote many articles
that appeared in numerous newspapers, journals, and
general-interest publications. |
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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
you happy." |
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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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