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Slo' Dance
Poems by Ted Wilson
with an Introduction by Amiri Baraka
Reviews
Who is Ted Wilson? The answer is a
poet who should be included in your morning rituals. His words
inform, infuse our lives with precision and politics and love.
Who is Ted Wilson. A Poet to be read agains and again and again.--Sonia Sanchez
This is an interesting collection
of poetry and prose that's long overdue. Ted Wilson's work is
the result of a forty-year search for a sense of understanding
the racial experience in urban America. This journey through
politics, love of life and changing cultures is a celebration of
survival in the heart of a real complaint. Ted Wilson boldly
slow dances across time.--Jayne Cortez
With Ted Wilson's poems, you can
play some Ma Rainey behind you, some Lester Young or Bird, 'Trane,
Sun Ra and Satch right alongside Sam Cooke soul-stirring Aretha,
or the Moonglows and Diablos mellowing out. (Your choice), but
it's all Ted, breathing the range of pain, tone and dance that
shape a renaissance still unfolding.--Louis Reyes Rivera
[His] poetry carries a specific
history, even its speech and reference characterize a path a
maintenance a reconfirmation of a certain social consciousness
that is easily related from the natural context of its author's
understanding. He is telling us, but initially re-telling
himself.--Amiri Baraka
Source:
Ted Wilson.
Slo' Dance.
Brooklyn, NY: Shamal Books, 2003 /
Contact: Shamal Books, GPO Box 16, NYC 10116
(718) 622 4426
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Wilson, formerly with Pride and
Liberator magazines, is a writer, producer, and promoter, most recently
with the Bread Is Rising poetry series in New York City.
A cultural worker since the 1960s Black Liberation/human rights
movements, Ted's writings have appeared in several journals: The
Black Nation; Black American Literature Forum; Callaloo;
NOBO: Journal of African American Thought; and
anthologies:
Amiri Baraka: The Kaleidoscopic Torch (ed.
J.E. Gwynne); In Defense of Mumia
(eds. S.E. Anderson, T.
Medina);
Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American
Writing (eds. L. Jones, L. Neal); New Rain #9: Our
Fathers/Ourselves (eds. G. Johnston, M. M'Buzi Moore)].
He also works as a Construction Manager Consultant and
Developer currently involved in an effort to develop a
Cultural/Arts district in Newark, New Jersey. |
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Let Loose on the
World
Celebrating Amiri Baraka at 75
Edited by Karen D.
Taylor and Louis Reyes Rivera
intro by Mumia Abu
Jamal |
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Greenback Planet: How the Dollar Conquered
the World and Threatened Civilization as We Know It
By H. W. Brands
In Greenback Planet, acclaimed historian H. W. Brands charts the dollar's astonishing rise to become the world's principal currency. Telling the story with the verve of a novelist, he recounts key episodes in U.S. monetary history, from the Civil War debate over fiat money (greenbacks) to the recent worldwide financial crisis. Brands explores the dollar's changing relations to gold and silver and to other currencies and cogently explains how America's economic might made the dollar the fundamental standard of value in world finance. He vividly describes the 1869 Black Friday attempt to corner the gold market, banker J. P. Morgan's bailout of the U.S. treasury, the creation of the Federal Reserve, and President Franklin Roosevelt's handling of the bank panic of 1933. Brands shows how lessons learned (and not learned) in the Great Depression have influenced subsequent U.S. monetary policy, and how the dollar's dominance helped transform economies in countries ranging from Germany and Japan after World War II to Russia and China today. He concludes with a sobering dissection of the 2008 world financial debacle, which exposed the power--and the enormous risks--of the dollar's worldwide reign. The Economy |
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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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