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ChickenBones Best Book of 2009
Go, Tell Michelle
African American Women Write to the New First Lady
Edited
Barbara A. Seals Nevergold and Peggy Brooks-Bertram *
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Las Acciones
Simples se Pueden Desarmar
By Rudolph Lewis
A veces, en el
medio de las complejidades del mundo diario, las
acciones simples se pueden desarmar. Por ejemplo en
la obra
Lysistrata por Aristophanes, las mujeres
Atenienses retractaban finanzas y sexo para
establecer paz y salud para sus hijos y maridos
belicosos. Es una gran comedia y crítica de la mente
Greciana. El proyecto literario de Aristophanes fue
inmenso. Se puede decir que un proyecto literario
contemporáneo—Go, Tell Michelle—por Barbara
A. Seals Nevergold y Peggy Brooks-Bertram de
Buffalo, sin exageración, puede alcanzar más allá
que la obra imaginaria del dramaturgo Greco en su
impacto social inmediato y influencia perdurable en
una nación.
En el libro
Go, Tell Michelle, hay 100 autoras Africana-Americanas—incluyendo
Barbara A. Seals Nevergold y Peggy Brooks-Bertram—que
reflejan en la relevancia de la entrada (20 January
2009) de la señora Michelle Obama y su familia en La
Casa Blanca, que un poeta ya ha renombrado “La Casa
Arcoiris.” Sí, desde largo tiempo el mundo ha
conocido el poder de las mujeres Atenienses. Pero
todavía no hemos sentido o reconocido el impacto
completo que mujeres Africana-Americanas han tenido
en la vida política y cultural de los Estados Unidos.
Aquellas generaciones pasadas y vivientes (aquellas
reinas no coronadas) reunirán místicamente en este
momento: por la agencia de este libro,Go, Tell Michelle, yo creo que nosotros—mujeres Africana-Americanas
y sus maridos—salirán del túnel obscuro y encenderán
los cielos.
Esta obra muy
anticipada, fue construida en 34 días por Barbara y
Peggy y 98 otras obreras culturales Africana-Americanas,
con la ayuda de SUNY Press. Es de esperar que esta
semana se pueda conseguir
Go, Tell Michelle,
y estará en los estantes de las librerías por este
fin de semana. Este libro dará nueva forma de la
consciencia femenina de mujeres Africana-Americanas
(tanto como “Go, Tell it on the Mountain”) para
muchos más años. Invocada aquí es la influencia de
diez generaciones (y mas) de mujeres Africana-Americanas
y sus descendientes en la creación de lo que es el
mejor en la cultura y política Americana.
Americanos y
ciudadanos del mundo verán, en la persona de
Michelle Obama y en el trabajo de estas 100 mujeres
Africana-Americanas, una obra literaria que será
clásica tanto como
Lysistrata por Aristophanes.
Insisto que todos consigan su
copia de
Go, Tell Michelle. Está destinado a
ser un Bestseller de New York Times.
Translated by
Lillian Bertram
www.lillianbertramphotography.com
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The Simplest Acts
Are Disarming
By Rudolph Lewis
Sometimes in
the complexities of today's world the simplest acts
are disarming, as in Aristophanes
Lysistrata
when Athenian women by the withdrawal of finances
and sex seek and establish peace and health for
their war-like sons and husbands. It was grand
comedy and a critique of the Grecian mindset.
Aristophanes' literary project was stunning. One can
say that a current literary project—Go, Tell Michelle—by Barbara A. Seals Nevergold and Peggy
Brooks-Bertram of Buffalo, without exaggeration,
might indeed go far beyond the imaginative work of
the Greek dramatist in its social impact in the
short term and in its enduring influence on a
nation.
In
Go, Tell Michelle we have 100 African American
female writers—including Barbara A. Seals Nevergold
and Peggy Brooks-Bertram—reflecting on the
significance of the entry 20 January 2009 of Michele
Obama and her family into the White House, which one
poet has renamed the "Rainbow House." Yes, the world
has long heard of the power of Athenian women. But
we have yet to feel and recognize the full impact
that black women have had on the cultural and
political life of the United States. Those past and
living generations (those
Uncrowned Queens) will
gather mystically at this moment: through the agency
of this book
Go, Tell Michelle I believe
we—black women and their men—will come out of a dark
tunnel and light up the heavens.
This work pulled together in 34 days by Barbara and
Peggy and 98 other black female cultural workers,
with the help of SUNY Press, is greatly anticipated.
Hopefully
Go, Tell Michelle will be available
this week and on the shelves by this weekend. It
will reshape black female consciousness (as much as
“Go, Tell It on the Mountain”) for many years to
come. Invoked here is the influence of ten
generations (and more) of African women and their
descendants in the creation of that which is best in
American culture and politics.
Americans and citizens of the world will see it in
the person of Michele Obama and in the work of these
100 African American women in a literary work that
will become as much of a classic as Aristophanes
Lysistrata.
I urge you to get your copy of
Go, Tell Michelle.
It is destined to be a NYTimes Bestseller."
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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 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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World
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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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