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Books by Mona Lisa Saloy
Red Beans and Ricely Yours: Poems
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Update on the Re Building of New
Orleans
A Report from Mona Lisa Saloy
7 December 2005
Hey now Rudy,
Thank you so much for the
lovely review you did on my book. Just a short update on the
Re-Building New Orleans Conference with the Tulane School of
Architecture and Xavier University. It was held at Loyola
University last week. I was there to deliver the fourth Keynote
Address.
The conference was
overwhelming with huge amounts of technical info regarding the
topography of New O. and the coast, bold possibilities for
infrastructure remakes. The overall news is that New
Orleans can be saved. The levee system was not built to a
substantial depth for holding back such waters but that it can
be. The time and cost to do it right is more than a notion
but possible.
After architects, urban
planners, policy makers spoke, it was my turn to address
"Social Networks," that is, the complexity of New
Orleans culture. Giving a historical overview, I explained
how the unique Crescent City culture evolved over the last
hundred-and-fifty years, especially why this culture is built
from the ground up, from working-class Blacks. They
actually listened to me on the complexity of the culture.
It was an honor to be a
part of this conference. Practical steps for now as well as
long-term needs were addressed.
Essentially, the lead
architect said that if we want to be safe, we needed first-floor
elevations: 12 feet off the ground! Timelines are
estimated at a minimum of 5 but probably 10-20 years to return
New Orleans to former glory, not what anyone wanted to hear.
Sigh. I'm hopeful, but guarded; how can we pay for all of
this?
In the meantime, there was
still no telephone service, no electricity, no mail service, no
gas so no hot water in the hard hit areas (80%) of the city.
At least UPS and FedEX in Metairie and Kenner, cities closest to
the west.
OK, must return to grading
and reading student work. Thanks again for your concern,
interest, and support.
Red Beans and Ricely
Thankful and Hopeful,
Mona Lisa
Mona Lisa Saloy, Ph.D.,
M.F.A.
Visiting Associate Professor of English
University of Washington
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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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Ancient African Nations
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Negro Digest /
Black World
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The Death of Emmett Till by Bob Dylan
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The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
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Only a Pawn in Their Game
Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson Thanks America for
Slavery /
George Jackson /
Hurricane Carter
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The Journal of Negro History issues at Project Gutenberg
The
Haitian Declaration of Independence 1804
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January 1, 1804 -- The Founding of
Haiti
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posted 15 December 2005 / update 11
December 2011
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