History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)

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Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.

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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03

Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.

Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19

Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.

Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09

There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.

For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.

Very Interesting.......2007-03-07

It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.

History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10

Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.

I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.

Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.

Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.

I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.

This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.

Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America

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A Must-Read for Black Women Everywhere
A beginning...
Very informative
Every Black Woman Needs to Read This

Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America
Ayana Byrd , and Lori Tharps
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ASIN: 0312283229

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Two world wars, the Civil Rights movement, and a Jheri curl later, Blacks in America continue to have a complex and convoluted relationship with their hair.From the antebellum practice of shaving the head in an attempt to pass as a "free" person to the 1998 uproar over a White third-grade teacher's reading of the book Nappy Hair, the issues surrounding Black hair linger as we enter the twenty-first century.Tying the personal to the political and the popular, Hair Story takes a chronological look at the culture behind the ever-changing state of Black hair-from fifteenth century Africa to the present-day United States. Hair Story is the book that Black Americans can use as a benchmark for tracing a unique aspect of their history and that people of all races will celebrate as the reference guide for understanding Black hair.AUTHORBIO: Ayana D. Byrd holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Columbia University's Barnard College.She is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Vibe, Rolling Stone, Honey and InStyle magazine.She lives in Brooklyn, NY.Lori L. Tharps attended Smith College and received a master's degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.Currently, she is a correspondent at Entertainment Weekly magazine. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.

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Bravo.......2007-08-12

Excellent book about black hair and black culture. Would recommend it to anyone wanting to know more about both and how they relate to the "American" ideal.

A Must-Read for Black Women Everywhere.......2007-07-05

I've recently made the decision to go natural and as I did, I pondered, "Why do I have to 'decide' to be the way I naturally am?" It was then that I realized how unfortunate it was that black women, more than half, find their "naturalness" to be unattractive. I myself have gone through hair extensions, braids, and the dreaded relaxer that has damaged my hair and scalp for years. Now I wonder what it was all for. I wasn't being true to who I was.

This book helped be to know something that I should have already known: my hair. The history of black hair is one that is very interesting and telling. I learned more about my hair in this book than I have ever learned, even from members of my own family. There is also a sense of confidence one gets from reading books like these. I am letting all of my friends and family read it as well.

You will not be disappointed in your purchase.

A beginning..........2007-01-10

This book is great begining for people that are redescovering themselfes aftermaking the decision or are trying to decide wheter go natural or not. It helps you to understand how we got here , how black beauty is not well accepted and why. It make you wonder, questionning yourself and others, and in my case keep learning.

Very informative.......2006-11-19

If you don't already know, this book is definitely worth the time that it takes to read. The book goes into detail about the history of Black hair. Prior to slavery, Africans took pride in their hair. The intricate braid designs date back to that time. It wasn't until after the slave trade that hair straightening became common. Also, it's a little known black history fact that Annie Tumbo Malone was the first black woman entrepeneur to market black hair products. Madame CJ Walker actually worked for Malone before going into business for herself. This book chronicles so much history about Black hair. After reading this book, I was really encouraged to stop chemically processing my hair.

Every Black Woman Needs to Read This.......2005-10-07

I love this book so much. Ayana Byrd really did a thorough job in researching both the psycological and spiritual elements involved in this subject of "Black Hair".

We as African American women are so misguided sometimes about what's beautiful. We've been so scarred from distorted generational beliefs that we've allowed the insecurity of ourselves and the fear of loving who we are to become deeply rooted in our spirits. We listen to those beliefs, accept them, and then pass them down to our daughters to let the cycle of ignorance continue.

I personally had to read this book a few times while I was going through my own journey of growing out my naturally tight curls - just constantly trying to cleanse my spirit and renew my mind in what I considered beautiful. After reading this book, I realized that God wanted me (needed me) to stop relaxing my hair with chemicals, and to start embracing His wonderful creativity of me - to accept myself (including my hair) the way he designed so that I can love myself the way He loves me.

Every Black Woman needs to read this book.

When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost : My Life as A Hip Hop Feminist

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Ms. Morgan did fine job dissecting 'Chickenheads'!!!
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So That's a Chickenhead
When chickenheads come home to roost

When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost : My Life as A Hip Hop Feminist
Joan Morgan
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For a smart young black woman from the South Bronx carving a niche for herself as a writer, the f-word was feminism. Joan Morgan's book debut, When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost, is a passionate, funny--and occasionally self-indulgent--look at the contradictions inherent in being both a strong woman and an African American sister attempting to process the machismo of the hip-hop world through the perceptions of her own strongly feminine soul. "As post-Civil Rights, post-feminist, post-soul children of hip-hop," Morgan writes, "we have a dire need for the truth." Her book chronicles the quest to fulfill that need through a series of essays ranging from social issues like the blatant misogyny of rap music ("From Fly-girls to Bitches and Hos"), the mythic stereotype of the strong black woman ("Strongblackwomen"), and the epidemic of single motherhood in the black community ("Babymother") to wickedly witty takes on her own life ("Lovenotes," "Chickenhead Envy").

Morgan is gifted with that rarest of all talents: her own voice. Her language is vivid and imagistic, its rhythms dipping effortlessly between the beat of the street and the meter of pure poetry. In this look at hood versus womanhood, Morgan serves up many of the same conclusions that sociologists have offered in drier, more academic form--but brings them to life with the freshness of her literary talent. --Patrizia DiLucchio

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In this fresh, funky, and irreverent book, a new voice of the post-Civil Rights, post-feminist, post-soul generation has emerged in Joan Morgan: a groundbreaking and unflinching author who probes the complex issues facing African-American women today.

When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost is a decidedly intimate look into the life of the modern black woman: a complex world where feminists often have not-so-clandestine affairs with the most sexist of men; where women who treasure their independence often prefer men who pick up the tab; where the deluge of babymothers and babyfathers reminds black women, who long for marriage, that traditional nuclear families are a reality for less than 40 percent of the African-American population; and where black women are forced to make sense of a world where "truth is no longer black and white but subtle, intriguing shades of gray."

Morgan ushers in a voice that, like hip-hop -- the cultural movement that defines her generation -- samples and layers many voices, and injects its sensibilities into the old and flips it into something new, provocative, and powerful.

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Is she serious?.......2002-11-04

As a strong black woman and proud of it I didn't understand Ms.Morgan's definition of a strong black woman so I didn't see eye to eye with her on that point. Overall I struggled to read through this book I wasn't feeling a lot of what Ms.Morgan had to say and plus I thought the book would be written in a more story telling type of fashion. The book is written as just Ms.Morgan rambling on about her opinions and ideals. I give a sista props for her opinions and being able to share them with an audience but I didn't understand her hatin' on "chickenheads" in one breath then wanna talk about her bond with sistahood in the next. She sound hypocritical to me. Ms.Morgan went on and on putting the "chickenheads" on blast for their sopposed wrongdoing but didn't say a word about the brothers that fall for these type of women I don't get that! I personally couldn't hate on a sista for doing her thing I don't want to hate on another woman period I feel that's the reason why us women can't and won't get far because we want to tear each other down before anybody else. I'm sure Ms.Morgan is an educated,opinioned,strong,classy woman but in her book she just comes off as hateful and bitter.

Ms. Morgan did fine job dissecting 'Chickenheads'!!!.......2001-07-08

I have say that I was pleasantly surprised by Ms. Morgan's discussion of issues that have been rolling through my mind for the past couple of years. I could identify IMMENSELY with the STRONGBLACKWOMAN ideology. I guess you could say that I'm a STRONGBBLACKWOMAN type myself. I would say that I'm recovering, but it's really hard to do so when you're in college, holding an excellent GPA, and being a part of so many different ogranizations. It's just SO hard to say no!!! LOL

As far as the rest of this masterpiece of feminine literature goes, I have to say that there were certain parts that I disagreed with. I was kinda hurt when she down talked African-American peeps from middle class backgrounds...I mean, why did she work so hard to have a good income to take care of her son if middle class peeps "don't wanna be reminded of their kinky roots"? Just something to think about...maybe I took it the wrong way, but that's just the way I see things.

Secondly, I have to say that I in NO WAY envy Chickenheads...in fact, I'm glad that they're around to take all the weak men who fall for them off the market. One thing I can't stand is a man that's weak enough to fall for anything that has a big behind and a C cup!!! I want a strong, intelligent man that can appreciate a woman with class, home training, a solid head on her shoulders, and plenty of goals with the ambition to follow through on them like myself!!!

I guess this book was a wake up call for me to write my own view on things. I come from a middle class home, unlike most African-American feminists that come from very poor backgrounds. I feel my voice needs to be heard and you can believe that I WILL put the work into writing a novel that speaks from the standpoint of sistas like myself!!! Good work Ms. Morgan!!! Thanks for encouraging me to keep perfecting my craft!!!

Amen!.......2001-01-18

I could not put this book down. The book articulated thechallenges I felt in my own relationships and experiences. I certainly enjoyed the chapter "Love Notes". The author by no means male bashes but frankly puts out there the real deal.

The book just had me saying AMEN!

So That's a Chickenhead.......2000-06-13

Being caught at the tail end of the Baby Boom, I'd say that this book is really written from the viewpoint of young women a few years younger than I am. Still, it is reminiscent of Michelle Wallace's "Black Macho and The Myth of The Superwoman" which debuted some 20 odd years or so ago. Being a strong willed, independent Black woman is still as hard today as it was 20 years ago and I am glad that there are still fierce sistah's out there willing to address the issues at hand.

Great view on a never vanishing topic from a new voice and new perspective !

When chickenheads come home to roost.......2000-02-18

This is a must read for the black feminist who doens't quite get the "N.O.W." viewpoint on feminism. Joan Morgan puts into words the conflicting feeling and emotions of being black, female, and a feminist from the generation X-ers viewpoint, using language that is easily related to. She doesn't sink down into dense theory that could be exclusionary in language and nature. Theory that can leave one feeling as if they should have taken a beginners course before attempting to delve into the mind bogling, high handed concepts. She maintains her focus and is concise as well as insightful. Most feminist theory tends to be a turn off since a lot of such material is geared towards a limited, elitist audience who leaves black feminist and other of an outside group feeling even more like an outsider because they don't address the differning issues and concerns that pertain especially to woman of color. Moreover, this is a book that should not only be read by black woman but by latina's as well. As a black female of latin descent I fould myself relating to almost every word. A must have. A must read.

Separate Roads to Feminism: Black, Chicana, and White Feminist Movements in America's Second Wave

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Separate Roads to Feminism: Black, Chicana, and White Feminist Movements in America's Second Wave
Benita Roth
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ASIN: 0521529727

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This book is about the development of white women's liberation, black feminism and Chicana feminism in the 1960s and 1970s, the era known as the "second wave" of U.S. feminist protest. Benita Roth explores the ways that feminist movements emerged from the Civil Rights/Black Liberation movement, the Chicano movement, and the white left, and the processes that supported political organizing decisions made by feminists. She traces the effects that inequality had on the possibilities for feminist unity and explores how ideas common to the left influenced feminist organizing.

Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America

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Excellent
Provocative thesis, but a little long
Shifting: Excellent Work
Ladies, We Need This
We are still Shifting!

Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America
Charisse Jones , and Kumea Shorter-gooden
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
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ASIN: 0060090553
Release Date: 2004-07-27

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Based on the African American Women's Voices Project, Shifting reveals that a large number of African American women feel pressure to com-promise their true selves as they navigate America's racial and gender bigotry. Black women "shift" by altering the expectations they have for themselves or their outer appearance. They modify their speech. They shift "White" as they head to work in the morning and "Black" as they come back home each night. They shift inward, internalizing the searing pain of the negative stereotypes that they encounter daily. And sometimes they shift by fighting back.

With deeply moving interviews, poignantly revealed on each page, Shifting is a much-needed, clear, and comprehensive portrait of the reality of African American women's lives today.

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Excellent.......2006-07-15

This book was excellent and very thought-provoking. I borrowed a copy from the library, but feel compelled to purchase it & add it to my private collection

Provocative thesis, but a little long.......2006-06-29

Shifting provides an interesting take on the psycho-social demands on African American women, but the readers in my book club agree that it is too long and redundant-- the material of a magazine article extended to book length.

Shifting: Excellent Work.......2006-05-16

This book was one of my references for my Master's Thesis. This topic and the research was so relevant and so compelling and true. I am an African-American woman and I have worked inside Corporate America for the past 23 years and yes I shift. I also find myself shifting with Black men, shifting with middle and upper class blacks, and shifting with members of my family who live in the worst parts of the inner city. It is an emotionally and psychologically grueling process--and most of the world doesn't have a clue about the nature of it all. During the process of writing my thesis, my college advisors, who are White feminists, couldn't understand why I wouldn't jump on their bandwagon and give race the obligatory mention that they did. They wanted all women to unite and fight White, male hegemony--never recognizing the White, female hegemony that exists inside Women's Studies Departments. They couldn't understand that the sexism that I experience is totally different from the sexism that they experience because my sexism always has that element of race--even if it's a Black man dealing it. Black women are accustomed to shifting, it's almost a cellular memory for us now. We continue to strive and grow, although we are the most maligned segment of society. African American Studies departments are dominated by African American males and Women's Studies departments are dominated by White females, usually feminists. I found my ability to study topics relevant to Black women severely hampered by the censorship of White female academics--Shifting was a real gem for me. Books like this have a hard time passing academic muster because the academicians giving or withholding approval have no frame of reference for the experience--so of course they dismiss it as inconsequential. Isn't it amazing that in this day and age there are no African American Women's Studies departments in any university anywhere in the U.S. If that doesn't demonstrate our position in society--what does? Where is our unique and distinct voice? This wonderful book is a start. Hats off to a great piece of work.

Ladies, We Need This.......2006-01-04

I can't believe they covered as much ground in this one book as they did, but god bless them, because we sisters need this so much. This book is just absolute perfection and I commend the two women who wrote it.

I also want to draw your attention to Marita Golden's book "Don't Play In the Sun" and to anything written by the African (raised by Black Americans) writer Kola Boof, especially her black love story "Flesh and the Devil". These books are new masterpieces that empower and lift the black woman as well as the black man and the black family.

We need this new spirit that is starting.

We are still Shifting!.......2005-10-02

The "Shifting" authors, Charisse Jones, USA Today correspondent and Kumea Shorter-Gooden, Ph.D., psychologist, did an excellent job in taking research composed from the American Women's Vices Project and putting it into a book using an average reader's language. The book covers many aspects of an African American woman's life and the shifting she goes through to adapt to various professional and personnel situations. Through some of the information is dated it was still informative and in most cases some of the examples are relevant today.

Their writing style was very good and the book's information was grouped adequately with valid life examples to support concepts presented. However, I will say that the majority of the information was depressing. This should tell you something about the lives that African American women face every day.

Overall, I give the book a four rating based on its information, easy read, and real life stories. Except for some editing that was needed to remove some repetitive information, I would recommend this book to any African American woman who wants to know more about African American women work stories and to see how others have dealt with it. Buy this book for the African American woman in your life.

Black Working Wives: Pioneers of the American Family Revolution

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Black Working Wives: Pioneers of the American Family Revolution
Bart Landry
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Gender & Grace: Love Work & Parenting in a Changing World

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Long before the 1970s and the feminist revolution that shattered traditional notions of the family, black women in America had already accomplished their own revolution. Bart Landry's groundbreaking study adds immeasurably to our accepted concepts of "traditional" and "new" families: Landry argues that black middle-class women in two-parent families were practicing an egalitarian lifestyle that was envisioned by few of their white counterparts until many decades later.
The primary transformation of the American family, Landry says, took place when nineteenth-century industrialization brought about the separation of home and workplace. Only then did the family we call traditional, in which the husband goes out to work while the wife stays at home, become the centerpiece of white middle-class ideology. Black women, excluded from this model of respectability, embraced a threefold commitment to family, community, and career. They embodied the notion that employment outside the home was the route to more equality in the home, and that work was worth pursuing for reasons other than economic survival.
With a careful and convincing mix of biography, historical records, and demographic data, Landry shows how these black pioneers of the dual-career marriage created a paradigm for other women seeking to escape the cult of domesticity and thus foreshadowed the second great family transformation. If the two-parent nuclear family is to persist beyond the twentieth century, it may be because of what we can learn from these earlier women about an ideology of womanhood that combines the private and public spheres.

Good Hair: For Colored Girls Who've Considered Weaves When the Chemicals Became Too Ruff

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Good Hair: For Colored Girls Who've Considered Weaves When the Chemicals Became Too Ruff
Lonnice Brittenum Bonner
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ASIN: 0517881519
Release Date: 1994-05-17

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Good Hair is more than a guide to having good hair without relying on harsh treatments and chemicals; it is a funny, folksy, personal, and very wise reflection on the powerful role that hair can play in creating a positive self-image. 33 black-and-white photographs.

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Straight up - no chaser!.......2007-10-01

Lonnice is an excellent writer. The book is funny and down to earth while being honest and straight forward. Lonnice kept me laughing with stories from her own experiences from the straightening comb to the jheri curl. She provides tips on shampooing, conditioning, as well as daily maintenance. I would have liked to have seen newer twist styles but you can buy "Let's Talk Hair" by Pamela Ferrell or "Texured Tresses" by Diane Da Costa, which are both great for that.

Good for starters.......2006-09-21

This is great book for starters. Even though she advocates texturizers, it is a good alternative. I recommend it to anyone considering wearing their hair in its natural texture. THe styles and car instruction that she recommends can be done on texturized and natural hair so the texturizers is not really a big deal.

Great starter book!!

This was a great book back in the day.......2006-09-19

I bought this book years ago, after I had lost the majority of my hair to a relaxer (which had happened several times up to this point). I was fed up and knew that I couldn't continue to relax my hair and keep risking breakage, but had no idea what my options were. One day I was browsing my local bookstore and happened upon this book. It saved my hair and my sanity. Finally someone was talking to me, telling me that I didn't have to keeping doing insane things to myself in the name of beauty.

Are there better natural haircare books out there? Of course. For the negative viewers, you fail to realize that back when this book was written, there weren't many books on the market related to natural hair care. Folks weren't as receptive to letting go of the relaxer. It was good for what it offered back in the day. The author has since evolved in her own natural haircare.

Lonnice, you're alright with me gurl - you helped me love my real hair!

Knowledgable and funny.......2006-06-13

I find it truely amusing that some of the reviewers out there criticize grammer, but forget to look at their own. They criticize spelling, but they don't use the dictionary. They criticize any black woman who writes a book on black hair care based on their own experiences, swear they know more, but then don't prove it by writing a book on black hair care based on their own experience. This books is a quick and informative read. It speaks to any woman who has been through the straightening combs, the grease, the burns, the chemicals...all for the sake of not just beauty. Believe me, it's not just about beauty. It's about ease of doing your hair everyday of your lives that looks good. And for those who feel justified in the "holier then thou" attitude for women who use chemicals to straighten their hair...get over it. Not everyone wants to deal with their natural hair. That is their choice. Oh, and by the way, have you not noticed how much advertising is aimed at white women's hair? Surprise...we're not the only ones that want what we're not born with. Overall, this is an excellent book. No, it does not hold your hands when it comes to going natural, but it does give suggestions. Ms. Bonner does not tell you to get a chemical (texturizer or otherwise), but it is an option she presents (your choice). Most importantly, she lets you know she's been there too and how and why she changed. Sometimes, it really is about the journey.

no good hair.......2006-02-28

Sistas, watch out for this book. it sneakily pretends to advocate embracing your natural hair, while advising you to chemically distort it to create the styles in the book. As if we can't wear our hair "down" without putting *some* kind of chemical in it. She should see my hair; it sure as hell look better than hers!

The good hair she portrays in the book is always "texturized" to give the looser, closer to European curl that we were encouraged to lust after from an early age. I am currently doing a degree that partly involves formulating products that alter the chemical structure of the hair. My course, and some of the real hair stories you see everyday have taught me this much:

1) Texturizing your hair is still relaxing your hair, it's just a case of relaxing the curl less.

2)None of these processes can change your actual texture, despite the misleading name. If your hair was coarse when it was curly, it will be coarse when it's straight. Why do you think our hair still looks different from white people's even when it's mad straight?

3) Furthermore, every nap wasn't created the same. If your hair has more of a zig-zag pattern than a curl, or has a looser curl, then the "texturizer" might actually straighten your hair , even if you leave it in just a few minutes. Some people think their curl is tighter than it is 'cause it has lots of texture (the kind of "grip" you feel when you rub your fingers down a strand), so the curls are real separate and look like a 'fro. Imagine the shock they get when a "texturizer" leaves them bone-straight.

Brittenum Bonner might preach one thing, but what she practices belies it. Her message is tainted with calcium hydroxide & does nothing to stop women maligning their own hair. Ultimately, it ends up reinforcing that same destructive lie that drives so many sistas to the caustic chemical "fix" in the first place.

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Takes black relations to another level...
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do black women hate black men

Do Black Women Hate Black Men?
A.L. Reynolds III
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What's Love Got to Do With It?: Understanding and Healing the Rift Between Black Men and Women

ASIN: 0803893604

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Drawing on 300 interviews and hundreds of focus groups, the author, a psychologist, revelas why so many black women are furious at today's black men.

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Takes black relations to another level..........2007-10-07

Do Black Women Hate Black Men?
This book was very interesting in such a way that forces you to question your own beliefs about black relations in America. The problem isn't so much that Black women hate Black men but the fact that many of the issues that plague both parties stem from the foundations of slavery. Over all, this book was worth every hour of my time and effort.

A wake up read.......2005-09-15

This book throws a lot of rocks into the crowd, had a lot of my fraterity brothers talking and hit a lot of us and the black women that we know and date. Although it was writen sometime ago, it is certainly current and right on with many of our relationships today. It reads almost like a prophecy in terms of many black men and black women relationships today and what is going on in serious dating, especially Internet relationships. We,the frat brothers that I have talk with that read the book, were particularly impressed with the solutions that were outlined. I give it a big thumbs up.

Dark, Real but true........2004-10-06

After hearing about this book on several talk radio programs including Tom Joyer,I decided to take a look at it myself. I wasn't disappointed. It is an easy read, well written but most of all it is refreshing to see the truth examined and told on both sides for the black man and the black woman. The author from his interviews and focus groups, early on, make it clear that most black women don't hate black men but that both show destructive behavior and anomosity toward each. He turns the heat up in the kitchen on certain types of black women and men which will push your emtional buttons but then one has to admitt that we all know many who fit these and many who are in denial but act out these very roles in their relatioships. I found the book to be pragmatic and realistic but more importantly I found his predictions about our relationships becoming true today. Noticably absent and somewhat disappointing was any discussion about black men and white women but I gave him a paas on this since the book's primary focus was only on black men and black women. Although not as emotionally challenging I also like the second half of the book which focused on solutions and what can be done to better our relationships. He cites several programs and techiques that are beginning to be used to help the black male cope with the black female and vice versa. For understanding how black men and black women are disconnected, I think this book is a must read for a snapshop of our future.

Great Book.......2004-03-16

I loved this book....It first caught my eye because of the title...but it is truly a play on words. It does not bash men, and if that is all you get from it...it really is too bad. It talks about the short falls of men & women, both sexes receive the blame for their actions. What I also enjoyed was his suggestions on how we could learn from the past, heal and move forward in unity. Must read!

do black women hate black men.......2003-10-08

Mr. Reynolds gets one star for being able to get his book of trash published. I picked up this book hoping I would find some answers to the animosity between black men and women. I was disappointed to find that the book does not answer the title's question, nor is it actually about what the flyleaf purports it to be. Sadly it is a book that places the blame for the failure of black men to value black women flatly and firmly in the laps of black women. The author actually generalizes that white women are "better mates" because they are more nurturing, understanding and supportive of black men. He only barely mentions why blacks are so embattled and embittered against each other. Throughout the book, black male accountability, respect, and integrity are not mentioned as required attributes to build black families. Instead he endlessly discusses money grabbing, foul mouthed, out for themselves, black women who not only destroy the pysches of black boys but also break the hearts of all those poor,innocent,loving black men. Brother give me a break! If you're looking for an excuse to "get with" a white women, you need not do it on the necks and backs of black women.The author with all of his education and research could have written something constructive, instead he just picked a really hot title and then re-hashed a bunch of stereotypes. The type of stereotypes that irresponsible black men like to use when they don't want to be held accountable for their own deeds. I would like to hear both sides of the story for every "a black woman has done me wrong" story. I'd like to know how many times the brother got caught lying, cheating, stealing, staring, or creeping and how he really dealt with the truth being put in his face. Did he own up to it? Did he make excuses? Did he get angry? Did he try to make it right? Or did he just employ that irrational thought process that makes him "dare" a black women to question him when he has been of less than noble character? We are all responsible for how we conduct ourselves in relationships. Who knows where the hurt started? But black men and women have been hurting each other for a long time. We are not each others enemies. We must learn 2 people at a time how to love and respect or at least be kind to each other. The answer won't be found by finger pointing. There's good and bad in every group, I count A.L. Reynolds III amongst the bad.

Rosa Lee: A Mother and Her Family in Urban America

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The Real hard times of a citizen growing up in The projects.
Thought provoking
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Rosa Lee: A Mother and Her Family in Urban America
Leon Dash
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ASIN: 0452278961

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Drug-addled, welfare-using and AIDS-infected, Rosa Lee--a black woman living in the slums of Washington, D.C.--shines an enormous amount of light on the seemingly intractable problems of the underclass by allowing Leon Dash to tell her story. You won't find any diagrams or number-crunching in this book, just an absorbing tale of inner-city despair. Dash won the Pulitzer Prize for his series of articles on Rosa Lee for the Washington Post. The book is even better--easily the best of its type since Alex Kotlowitz's There Are No Children Here.

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The Real hard times of a citizen growing up in The projects........2006-06-07

Rosa Lee: A Mother and Her Family In Urban America shows what can really happen if an individual does not require a successful education. The problems of Rosa Lee were dropping out of school because her own mother says that education is a waste of time and gets her nowhere in life. Other problems were growing up in the projects selling and shooting heroin, tricking, and shoplifting her way through life. The biggest problem of Rosa Lee were knowing six out of your eight children are doing the same activities as herself. Her number one quote of getting through life, "To Survive", is the worst way to live through life as a poor individual. Leon Dash really shows what it's like growing up in one of poorest ghettos of Washington D.C. The Rosa Lee book is astonishing and I encourage everyone to read it so they are influenced. I give it two thumbs up!

Thought provoking.......2005-01-07

If the measure of a good book is that it exposes you to new information and makes you think, then this a great book! I enjoyed Mr Dash's even-handed writing style, it wasn't overly critical or sympathetic. Rosa Lee has made some very poor decisions in her lifetime, ones that will have far-reaching effects on the generations that come after her. The book gives you the insight as to why she made those decisions without excusing her actions. I came away from this book with more questions than I had when I started reading. It's almost a "which came first, the chicken or the egg?" scenario...it makes you wonder if Rosa Lee created her own problems or if her problems created her? As a Sociologist I have always been interested in urban blight and deviant behavior and try to read as much on the topic as possible, and I must say that this is one of the better books that I have read. I would also highly recommend "The Corner" as another book that explores the issues facing the urban underclass. Thank you Mr. Dash for daring to uncover an ugly part of America that some people wish would stay hidden!

Your Tax Dollars At Work.......2003-04-16

This book made me incredibly angry. In a nutshell, it is the horrifying story of one woman's life and legacy of ignorance, immorality, illegality, and vice. It's a very compelling read and well-written in terms of the subject matter, but there is a consistent theme throughout the book of "failure of the system," which I found insulting considering Rosa Lee and her family's grave manipulation, exploitation, and abuse of every helping hand extended.

Another World!!.......2002-08-06

I did'nt want to be judgmental, so I when into the book open mindedly. What I found out was Rosa Lee was Mentally abused by her mother and was loved by her father! When she has children, she overcompensates for everything they do. If you want Drugs, drama and reality you've got it. Three generations!! I found a silver lining in Rosa Lee's cloud, NOW YOU HAVE TO FIND IT!!

it's the system, man - but..........2001-09-04

Mr. Dashs treatment of Rosa Lees life course achieves a highly deserving goal by apparently paradoxical means: it exposes the traps of initial and subsequent living conditions by showing an individual's life shaped by it's decisions and choices. He never allows the reader to wallow in simple compassion or anger, and he never resorts to the true but useless explanation that the system is responsible for Rosa Lees miserable life. He always keeps your mind active and attentive.
A good example is his report on Rosa Lees trial for shoplifting: while the defence insists that Rosa Lee might be a thief but is a very unfortunate woman and had to steal in order to support her family and her addiction, Dash points out that Rosa Lee has been shoplifting already in her early childhood while none of her siblings did shoplift. This suggest that her behavior might have had a functionality within her relationship with her mother, not only in her relationship with the system. By never letting individual dynamics and decisions, however constraining their contexts and however dismal their consequences, be covered up by the overwhelming explanatory power of economic deprivation, he manages to show in a touching and revealing way how a person's place within a system translates into his or her behavior and behavior outcomes. Especially by never denying the individual Rosa Lee or any of her children their agency in shaping their lives, by never reducing them to inevitable victims unfortunate-but-now-beyond-redemption, by describing extensively how two of teh children escaped addiction and poverty, he exposes the systems' crushing cruelty.

I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women who Changed America

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I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women who Changed America

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ASIN: 1556708882

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First published in 1989, I Dream a World, a collection of 75 portraits, has become a landmark in publishing history. Now the 10th anniversary of this book is being celebrated with this completely revised and updated edition that charts the achievements of a remarkable group of African-American women and their continued impact on the world.

Many changes have occurred since Brian Lanker set out to capture the faces of both the prominent and unsung women who've made a difference. Sixteen of the original 76 women are no longer among us, including Septima Clark, Barbara Jordan, Clara McBride (Mother) Hale, and Betty Shabazz. But, as this new edition reveals, all of them have left behind an enduring legacy for future generations.

Most importantly, in revising and updating I Dream a World, we celebrate not only the event of its publication, but the continued achievements of an extraordinary group of women who remain vitally alive as role models for the next century.

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This is Great "Her"story.......2006-03-14

I was given this book when I was a freshman in architecture college. When I saw Ms Sklarek, I immediately wrote the publisher and got her addres and wrote her a letter. To my surprise she wrote back to me and her later inspired me to continue studying architecture. Now...17 years and three degrees later I came across her name again during a conversation and I decided to contact her again and again, she sent me her business card. Since our architectural firm has a committee that procures speakers, I plan to invite her to my firm to give a presentation on Women in Architecture. So, I said all that to say...not only should we find our mentors, but we should also communicate with them whenever we can.

The PERFECT hand-me-down.......2006-03-04

I was blessed to recieve this book in 1990 as a gift from a dear friend. Throughout the years this book has been a form of encouragement in my daily life through various things. Once my daughter turned ten we sat down together and read through I DREAM A WORLD, She was captivated. I have now passed this book on to my daughter and she proudly displays it in her room with trophies, clay art, pictures, and souviners.

Beautiful!.......2005-11-30

This is such a beautiful, respectable book! The portraits & stories of AA are profound & present fantastic role models for today's young AA girls. A hearty "thank you" to those responsible for compiling & publishing this book!

It encourages one's own dreams!.......2003-04-25

I Dream a World is inspiring in its beautiful photography and the brief stories it shares about the women in the pictures. While it touches on their life stories, this book shares these women's thoughts. That is what draws me closer to this book each time I open it. The women inside, and the book itself, will make you think about your dreams and encourage you to work towards them.

No matter what your race or gender, give this book to anyone who needs encouragement. I especially enjoy recommending this book to young women who can learn a lot from the women within its pages.

Most Excellent.......2000-11-19

I DREAM A WORLD is a most excellent book. The photographs of the women are like portraits of their souls. What makes this book so wonderful is that each woman's story is told in her own words. This is more of the real history. Everyone should read this book because it is not only black history or women's history, it is American history.

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