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Press Release
Marvin X Kicks Off National Book Tour At
Geoffreys's
Contact: Marvin X, 510-472-9589
On Sunday, September 18, 3-6PM, the Oakland Post Newspaper
will host a book party for Marvin X at Geoffrey's, 410 14Th ST at
Franklin, downtown Oakland. Marvin X, who grew up in West
Oakland, will celebrate the release of two books, Wish I Could
Tell You The Truth, essays, 2005, and Land of My Daughters,
poems, 2005, Black Bird Press, Cherokee CA. The event is
sponsored by the Oakland Post Newspaper Group. Marvin X
published several essays in the Post that now appear in Wish I
Could Tell You the Truth. The reading/book party is the
start of the poet's national book tour that will take him
to the South and East.
September 27, University of
Arkansas, Fayette ville
October 1, Amiri Baraka's House,
Newark NJ
October 6, Medgar Evers College,
Brooklyn, NY
October 8, Freedom Theatre,
Philadelphia
October 10, New York University,
Manhattan
October 12, Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA
At Geoffrey's, the poet will read and sign his latest books.
The event is free with book purchase. Marvin X is
inviting his friends to read from his works: James Sweeney,
George Holland, Michael Lange, Ayodele Nzinga, Horace Wheatley,
Ben Travis, John Burris, Alona Clifton, Suzzette Celeste, Wanda
Sabir, Ptah Allah-El, Ice Lyfe, Colored Ink, Naru, Paradise,
Larry Ukali-Johnson, Opal Palmer, Al Young, Ishmael Reed, Julia
and Nathan Hare, Cecil Brown.
Comments
Marvin X has always been in the
forefront of Pan African writing. Indeed, he is one of the
founders and innovators of the revolutionary school of African
writing.
--Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)
When you listen to Tupac, E-40,
Too Short, Master P or any other rappers out of the Bay Area of
Cali, think of Marvin X. He laid the foundation and gave us the
language to express Black Male urban experience in a lyrical
way.
--James G. Spady, Philadelphia New Observer
Call 510-472-9589 for more information.
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus
Created
By Charles C. Mann
I’m
a big fan of Charles Mann’s previous
book
1491:
New Revelations of the Americas Before
Columbus, in which he
provides a sweeping and provocative
examination of North and South America
prior to the arrival of Christopher
Columbus. It’s exhaustively researched
but so wonderfully written that it’s
anything but exhausting to read. With
his follow-up,
1493, Mann has taken it to a
new, truly global level. Building on the
groundbreaking work of Alfred Crosby
(author of
The Columbian Exchange and, I’m
proud to say, a fellow Nantucketer),
Mann has written nothing less than the
story of our world: how a planet of what
were once several autonomous continents
is quickly becoming a single,
“globalized” entity.
Mann not only talked to countless
scientists and researchers; he visited
the places he writes about, and as a
consequence, the book has a marvelously
wide-ranging yet personal feel as we
follow Mann from one far-flung corner of
the world to the next. And always, the
prose is masterful. In telling the
improbable story of how Spanish and
Chinese cultures collided in the
Philippines in the sixteenth century, he
takes us to the island of Mindoro whose
“southern coast consists of a number of
small bays, one next to another like
tooth marks in an apple.” We learn how
the spread of malaria, the potato,
tobacco, guano, rubber plants, and sugar
cane have disrupted and convulsed the
planet and will continue to do so until
we are finally living on one integrated
or at least close-to-integrated Earth.
Whether or not the human instigators of
all this remarkable change will survive
the process they helped to initiate more
than five hundred years ago remains,
Mann suggests in this monumental and
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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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