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Bio-Sketch
Missionary Yvonne
Terry-Lewis is a Christian wife, mother and grandmother
who loves people. Her love for children led to a long
and fruitful career in education. Although she retired
as an Assistant Principal from Baltimore City Public
Schools in 2007, she has never lost her passion for
working with children and youth. She has written many
songs, poems, and skits for children during her career.
Yvonne has said the tragic loss of both her first
husband and son transformed her life and has given her a
deeper passion for counseling, reading, and writing.
She earned a
Masters Degree from St. Mary's Seminary in 2009 in
Church Ministries. She recently published
Sister Grief—Defined and Conquered in Jesus. It
can be purchased at Amazon.com. She wants those who are
hurting and lost to know that there is HOPE. If you
suffer from illness or grief, she can be reached at
ytvonne@aol.com
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Sister Grief: Defined and Conquered in Jesus
By
Yvonne
Terry-Lewis
"Sister Grief: Defined and Conquered in
Jesus" is an engaging book that confronts
the universal experience of living with
death and dying. The author personifies the
personal loss of loved ones as "Sister
Grief." The book, partly autobiographical,
provides a holistic plan for conquering
grief through faith, through a special
relationship with Jesus. This plan is
designed to help navigate one through the
grieving process. The book includes personal
stories, poetry, testimonials, letters,
practical suggestions, and strategies based
on a love for the divinity in one's life.
Although the circumstances that cause grief
may be sad, this book is filled with love,
encouragement, and hope that lead one
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Blacks in Hispanic Literature: Critical Essays
Edited by
Miriam DeCosta-Willis
Blacks in Hispanic Literature is a
collection of fourteen essays by scholars and
creative writers from Africa and the Americas.
Called one of two significant critical works on
Afro-Hispanic literature to appear in the late
1970s, it includes the pioneering studies of
Carter G. Woodson and
Valaurez B. Spratlin, published in the 1930s, as
well as the essays of scholars whose interpretations
were shaped by the Black aesthetic. The early
essays, primarily of the Black-as-subject in Spanish
medieval and Golden Age literature, provide an
historical context for understanding 20th-century
creative works by African-descended, Hispanophone
writers, such as Cuban
Nicolás Guillén and Ecuadorean poet, novelist,
and scholar
Adalberto Ortiz, whose essay analyzes the
significance of Negritude in Latin America. This
collaborative text set the tone for later
conferences in which writers and scholars worked
together to promote, disseminate, and critique the
literature of Spanish-speaking people of African
descent. . . .
Cited by a
literary critic in 2004 as "the seminal study in the
field of Afro-Hispanic Literature . . . on which
most scholars in the field 'cut their teeth'."
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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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The Ditchdigger’s Daughters
By
Yvonne Thornton
Dr.
Yvonne Thornton’s memoir
The Ditchdigger’s Daughters has
captured the hearts of readers everywhere
since it was first published in 1995.
Translated into 19 languages, featured on
Oprah, and made into a TV movie, this
heart-warming and inspiring story chronicles
Yvonne Thornton’s family; at its center is
her beloved, unschooled but wise father
Donald Thornton, who demanded that all five
of his daughters not only excel in school,
but go on to become doctors. Four of them
did; the other found her calling in law and
became a lawyer instead.—Dafina
Thornton's frank, relaxed manner makes it
accessible to general readers as well as
students of women's or African American
memoir. Worth considering also for those
looking for inspirational reads.—Library
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Freedom's Teacher: The Life of Septima
Clark
By Katherine Mellen Charron
Freedom's Teacher
traces Clark's life from her earliest
years as a student, teacher, and
community member in rural and urban
South Carolina to her increasing
radicalization as an activist following
World War II, highlighting how Clark
brought her life's work to bear on the
civil rights movement. Katherine Mellen
Charron's engaging portrait demonstrates
Clark's crucial role—and the role of
many black women teachers—in making
education a cornerstone of the
twentieth-century freedom struggle.
Drawing on autobiographies and memoirs
by fellow black educators, state
educational records, papers from civil
rights organizations, and oral
histories, Charron argues that the
schoolhouse served as an important
institutional base for the movement.
Clark's program also fostered
participation from grassroots southern
black women, affording them the
opportunity to link their personal
concerns to their political involvement
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update
3 February 2012
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