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Book Release &
Signing for
One
Woman, One Hustle
By
Sheri Booker
Sunday
- June 8, 2003 3-6 pm
Eubie
Blake Jazz Institute /
847 North Howard Street /
Baltimore,
Maryland
The
Book Release & Signing
Baltimore native Sheri Booker is a powerful voice for
today’s youth and her highly anticipated book of poetry – One
Woman, One Hustle will be available
at the
Historic Eubie Blake Jazz Institute on Sunday - June 8, 2003 3-6
pm.
One
Woman, One Hustle is a culmination of all of
Sheri’s experiences in dealing with God, love found and lost,
and finding herself. On many levels, we all can relate to
these struggles for understanding our lives and our place in the
world. Sheri Booker
is more than one woman with one hustle; she is one woman with a
myriad of talents.
Sheri
Booker started writing at the tender age of 8
and now at only 20 years old, her new book,
One
Woman, One Hustle ; Short Stories and Poetry Written on Inspiration,
Identity and Love, shows depth and understanding of a woman
far beyond her years.
Currently, Sheri is a full-time junior at
the College of Notre Dame. As a founding member of the
Empowerment Temple AME Church, she developed and is the Director
of the Christian Poetry Ministry named L.Y.R.I.C. – L.iberating
Y.ourself
R.ythmically
I.n
C.hrist – bringing her love of the written and
spoken word into the Church to uplift and inspire its youth.
Recently seen performing her poem “Press
Release,” at a NAACP Student rally at South Carolina State
University empowering youth to get out and vote, Sheri’s
poetry spoke directly to and inspired the students.
As a finalist in the 92Q, DEF Poetry Slam
at Security Square Mall and constantly competing in Poetology
and Poetry For the People – Baltimore’s Poetry Slams and
Open Mics – Sheri is a dynamo that cannot be stopped.
Sheri’s book
One
Woman, One Hustle , officially
released on June 8th, 2003, is available
now at Everyone’s Place Bookstore and
Triangle Bookstore on the College of Notre Dame Campus.
Enter her world of the written word.
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Salvage the Bones
A Novel by Jesmyn Ward
On one level, Salvage the Bones is a simple story about a poor black family that’s about to be trashed by one of the most deadly hurricanes in U.S. history. What makes the novel so powerful, though, is the way Ward winds private passions with that menace gathering force out in the Gulf of Mexico. Without a hint of pretension, in the simple lives of these poor people living among chickens and abandoned cars, she evokes the tenacious love and desperation of classical tragedy. The force that pushes back against Katrina’s inexorable winds is the voice of Ward’s narrator, a 14-year-old girl named Esch, the only daughter among four siblings. Precocious, passionate and sensitive, she speaks almost entirely in phrases soaked in her family’s raw land. Everything here is gritty, loamy and alive, as though the very soil were animated. Her brother’s “blood smells like wet hot earth after summer rain. . . . His scalp looks like fresh turned dirt.” Her father’s hands “are like gravel,” while her own hand “slides through his grip like a wet fish,” and a handsome boy’s “muscles jabbered like chickens.” Admittedly, Ward can push so hard on this simile-obsessed style that her paragraphs risk sounding like a compost heap, but this isn’t usually just metaphor for metaphor’s sake. She conveys something fundamental about Esch’s fluid state of mind: her figurative sense of the world in which all things correspond and connect. She and her brothers live in a ramshackle house steeped in grief since their mother died giving birth to her last child. . . . What remains, what’s salvaged, is something indomitable in these tough siblings, the strength of their love, the permanence of their devotion.— WashingtonPost
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Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in
America
By Melissa V.
Harris-Perry
According to the
author, this society has historically exerted
considerable pressure on black females to fit into one
of a handful of stereotypes, primarily, the Mammy, the
Matriarch or the Jezebel. The selfless
Mammy’s behavior is marked by a slavish devotion to
white folks’ domestic concerns, often at the expense of
those of her own family’s needs. By contrast, the
relatively-hedonistic Jezebel is a sexually-insatiable
temptress. And the Matriarch is generally thought of as
an emasculating figure who denigrates black men, ala the
characters Sapphire and Aunt Esther on the television
shows Amos and Andy and Sanford and Son, respectively.
Professor Perry
points out how the propagation of these harmful myths
have served the mainstream culture well. For instance,
the Mammy suggests that it is almost second nature for
black females to feel a maternal instinct towards
Caucasian babies.
As for the source
of the Jezebel, black women had no control over their
own bodies during slavery given that they were being
auctioned off and bred to maximize profits. Nonetheless,
it was in the interest of plantation owners to propagate
the lie that sisters were sluts inclined to mate
indiscriminately.
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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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