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I DREAM FOR YOU A WORLD: A COVENANT FOR OUR CHILDREN (Brand Nu Words February 2007) takes the reader on a lyrical journey leading to a child'ss understanding of the fundamental principles set forth in the New York Times bestselling book, THE
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Putting it in Action.......2007-05-02
So often we hear of various theories behind the problems our communities and society face. Unfortunately, many of these theories never seem to make the leap from theory to practice. I DREAM FOR YOU A WORLD is a wonderful book that seeks to operationalize Tavis Smiley's Covenant with Black America for even the youngest members of our society. Author Charisse Carney-Nunes uses a poetic style to present the overall themes of the covenant and then follows up with general information about the Covenant with Black America. In addition, she provides easy to understand explanations of the various covenant issues as well as examples of how children and families can put the issues into action. For example, the "Covenant issue" Strengthening the family includes suggestions such as being honest, eating dinner as a family, and living the life you dream.
Mixed media illustrations really add to the depth of I DREAM FOR YOU A WORLD. By including artwork as well as photographs, the artwork catches the attention of readers and draws them in. The poetic language is fun, engaging, and easy to remember. The explanation of the covenant is done especially well and really breaks down complex concepts into language children can understand. Suggested activities at the end of each section not only help children understand the concepts in concrete terms, but also provide ideas for moving the theories into practice that can easily be accomplished. I DREAM FOR YOU A WORLD is a book that should be in every child's library, but especially in the libraries of African-merican children.
Reviewed by Stacey Seay
of The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers
An important lesson to parents.......2007-03-27
Like Carney-Nunes' previous book Nappy, I Dream a World for You is a beautifully illustrated, thoughtfully constructed book designed to teach African American children to love and value themselves. What I love most about this book, however, is its message to the parents. I Dream a World for You tells of the world parents have the right to dream for their children, and I hope inspires and empowers us to seek to create that world. Carney-Nunes continues to write what both children and their parents most need to hear.
Must be on every child's bookshelf.......2007-02-14
This is a wonderfully creative book, and a must read for all young children. Whether a pre-reader or a fluent early reader, children will love this book. It introduces a set of values to children that will hold them in good stead for a lifetime. Most important, my kid loves it!
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Using oral histories with African American activists and community leaders, Kim Lacy Rogers explores the civil rights movement in several Mississippi communities in the context of the region's history of white supremacy, racial oppression, and African American cultural vitality. Terrorism, black poverty, and economic exploitation led to a condition of collective trauma and social suffering for thousands of black Deltans in the twentieth century. This work reveals the impact of that oppression, and of African American traditions of community service and leadership in the lives of women and men who became activists. It also examines the disillusionment and anger that many Delta leaders feel about the changes that took place during the post-movement years.
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Exclusion and expulsion of black children from schools is endemic in the US and the UK. This book takes a long hard look at the two countries and uncovers what they can learn form each other in their approaches to tackling this problem. The material in the book is the result of extensive work with educators, researchers and scholars working in the area of exclusion in the US and the UK. Different approaches have met with varying degrees of success, but all can be learnt from. Gathering together the issues and looking at real-world approaches, this book does not simply advance the debate - it tables some serious solutions to serious problems.
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Talkin Black Talk: Language, Education, and Social Change: Language, Education, and Social Change (Multicultural Education (Paper))
Manufacturer: Teachers College Press, Teachers College, Columbia University
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This book captures an important moment in the history of language and literacy education and the continuing struggle for equal language rights. Published 50 years after the Brown decision, this volume revisits the difficult and enduring problem of public schools' failure to educate Black children, and revises our approaches to language and literacy learning in today's culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms. Bringing together some of the leading scholars in the study of Black language, culture, and education, this book presents creative, classroom-based, hands-on pedagogical approaches (from Hip Hop Culture to the art of teaching narrative reading comprehension) within the context of the broader, global concerns that impact schooling (from linguistic emancipation to the case of Mother Tongue Education in South Africa).
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Where's Jamela? (Jamela)
Niki Daly
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
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ASIN: 0374383243 |
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When Mama tells Jamela about her new job and a new place for them to live, Mama is excited but Jamela isn't. She likes so many things about the house they live in now -- the squeaky front gate she swings on, the view from her window, the neighborhood sounds and smells. But on moving day Jamela is ready to help -- although none of the grownups are prepared for the silly mixup caused by her "helping."
The ensuing fun helps smooth the transition from old to new in this colorful township tale about a little girl's moving-away woes that will comfort and encourage anyone who has had to learn to sleep in a new room.
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Discussed in this cross-disciplinary work is the theory of “Afrocentricity,” which mandates that Africans be viewed as subjects rather than objects and is driven by the question Is it in the best interest of African people? This book looks at how this philosophy, ethos, and world view gives Africans a better understanding of how to interpret issues affecting their communities. History, psychology, sociology, literature, economics, and education are explored, including discussions on Washingtonianism, Garveyism, Du Bois, Malcolm X, race and identity, Marxism, and breakthrough strategies. This replaces 0865430675.
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An excellent book.......2005-08-01
This revised and expanded edition of Afrocentricity: The Theory of Social Change by Pr Molefi Asante is an excellent and must-read book. We learn more on this mode of thought and action, which is against all forms of oppression, homophobia or racism. This book must be read by all who are interested in humanity in all its diversities. I give it five stars because it more than deserves it.
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An Analysis of Educational Challenges in the New South Africa
Zandile P. Nkabinde
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This book deals with current developments in black education in South Africa since the introduction of Bantu education in the beginning of the 1990s. During the period under discussion, improvements have been made in black education. These improvements are partly due to the significant political changes currently taking place in South Africa that are supposed to mark the end of apartheid. Despite these developments, much remains to be done in order to remedy the effects of Bantu education. In particular, providing quality education in black schools will require innovative solutions. Proper planning, developing new teaching strategies, establishing practical educational goals, and identifying and using available resources must be controlled and harnessed to a new social order. Collaboration and coordination of all professionals, particularly blacks, will be a necessity. The process of change requires black participation in finding solutions to their educational problems; this is one of the major challenges facing post-apartheid South Africa. It is evident that there are more challenges that the post-apartheid era will present. This book is aimed at providing tentative alternative solutions to black education.
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J. Phillip Thompson III, an insider in the Dinkins administration, provides the first in-depth look at how the black mayors of America's major cities achieve social change. Black constituents naturally look to black mayors to effect great change for the poor, but the reality of the situation is complicated. Thompson argues that African-American mayors, legislators, and political activists need to more effectively challenge opinions and public policies supported by the white public and encourage greater political inclusion and open political discourse within black communities. Only by unveiling painful internal oppresssions and exclusions within black politics will the black community's power increase, and compel similar unveilings in the broader interracial conversation about the problems of the urban poor. Tracing the historical development and contemporary practice of black mayoral politics, this is a fascinating study of the motivations of black politicians, competing ideologies in the black community and the inner dynamics of urban social change.
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Double Trouble: Excellent Book .......2006-06-12
Double Trouble should be required reading in any academic study of politics, as well as by anyone remotely involved in the political process (community/grassroots organizations, pastors, union leaders, candidates, campaign staff, etc).
The book gives a snapshot of what has been and a blueprint for what can be when a community and its elected leadership work together.
The conventional wisdom of the past was that if we (Blacks) had a seat at the table...or God forbid if we had the seat at the head of the table(the HNIC)...we could somehow right some of the injustices done in and to our communities almost at will.
Author, J. Phillip Thompson, presents an effective and compelling analysis of the realities of the "political game," especially the limitations on Black Mayors and in particular, Black Mayors who want to be re-elected (his analysis can also be applied to most, if not all, Black elected officials). The dilemna is "double trouble" because Black politicians get it from both sides- you're darned if you do and darned if you don't.
The author's call for "deep pluralism" is largely academic and seems more of an insertion into the larger debate of how Black Mayors can provide effective representation within the capitalist structure of politics.
I have already highly recommended the book to all of my political colleagues and friends.
Praise for Double Trouble.......2006-03-22
"It is, quite simply, impossible to understand the evolution of the racial foundations of urban politics--and, indeed, all of contemporary urban politics in America--without reading Double Trouble." -- David N. Dinkins, 106th Mayor of New York City
"Double Trouble's transformative and incisive critique challenges conventional wisdom from both the right and left: Forgo blind faith in identity politics, overcome the myth of expert racelessness and re-engage the urban poor in revitalizing not only our cities but also our democracy." -- Lani Guinier, co-author of The Miner's Canary
"J. Phillip Thompson's Double Trouble is an outstanding piece of scholarship that combines astute analysis of race and politics in America's cities with deep reflections on the theory and practice of democracy in the United States. It has much to offer not only students of American politics, but also those who are concerned about how deliberative democracy and pluralism works, or should work, in the nation's cities." -- Michael Dawson, author of Behind the Mule and Black Visions
"Thompson provides an original and compelling way to think about the possibilities inherent in urban politics. His call for deep democracy shows why broad civic engagement in the black community is a necessary first step in creating a genuinely new politics in America." -- Margaret Weir, Professor of Political Science and Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
"Double Trouble brilliantly and bravely dissects the central paradox facing black mayors: pushing too hard for racial justice will cost the support of white elites, while pushing too little will further alienate black voters. The compelling portrait of the Dinkins administration is the best description now available of this paradox in operation. This is a path-breaking book." -- John Mollenkopf, author of The Contested City
"This theoretically bold and analytically brilliant book is an immediate classic. Double Trouble simultaneously exposes the vacuity of the liberal retreat from race and the savagery of the conservative manipulation of race. Anyone concerned with what politics and public policy can do to reduce inequality and to heal racial frictions must consider Thompson's indictment of both routine party politics and of black politics and heed his hopeful prescription for moving beyond the current stalemate." -- Lawrence D. Bobo, Professor of Sociology, Stanford University
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A fair account of the politics of racial upheaval.......2003-01-29
Published only a decade ago, the tenor of Strom Thurmond & the Politics of Southern Change seems quaint in its occasional indignation. Yet it also gives context to the firestorm that erupted when then-Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott recently proclaimed that America would have been better off if Thurmond had defeated President Harry Truman in 1948. As author Nadine Cohodas' work shows, even Sen. Thurmond may not agree with Lott these days.
The Politics of Southern Change, it could be argued, does not devote enough attention to Thurmond's Dixiecrat presidential campaign. From a historic standpoint, Thurmond's most important political decision was to bolt the Democrats and run on a pro-segregationist platform; it is almost a given that in the future this will be the lead in Thurmond's obituary. Yet Cohodas attempts to give a complete picture of a man whose life almost is a metaphor for Southern politics as he evolves from a Yellow Dog Democrat to a Dixiecrat and finally becomes a conventional Republican. The author could not focus solely on the 1948 presidential campaign and tell the whole story of the man and the political and racial tumult of the times. Instead, Cohodas traces Thurmond's remarkable career from his stint as a humble school official, a progressive governor, and finally as a United States senator who transformed with the times. In the process, she avoids what easily could have been a one-dimensional account of the senator, who recently retired and turned 100 years old.
The Thurmond who emerges is a complex man who could be an opportunistic, hate-filled race baiter and at other times a truly courageous figure who put his principles first. Cohodas describes a politician better than many of his contemporaries, including the notorious racist governor "Pitchfork" Ben Tillman, but a leader who also appears unable to connect his words and actions to the violence committed against innocent black Southerners who simply wanted to vote and participate in society. Yet as blacks gain the franchise, Thurmond adjusts to court their votes in the two-party contemporary South.
Cohodas tries, with mixed results, to make the case that while most white Southern politicians embraced segregation and racist views until the civil rights movement triumphed, a schism always was below the surface between those who would now be considered "liberal" or "conservative." Thus, with the victory of the civil rights movement, arch-segregationists such as Senator William Fulbright come to represent conventional liberal Democrats, and former race-baiters like Thurmond become traditional Republican conservatives. The glue that held together the one-party South was segregation, and once it ended so did Democratic dominance in the region. Cohodas falls short in explaining these dynamics, which are subtle, difficult to understand, and a harsh reality for members of both major parties to admit. At times, she seems to give a pass to people who are now considered left-of-center Democrats like South Carolina Senator Fritz Hollings, who once held the very same racist beliefs as Thurmond did. The author also glosses over a reality that amused Thurmond and outraged the Rev. Martin Luther King: the rank hypocrisy that whites outside the South demonstrated when attempts were made and often failed to end de facto (and in some cases de jure) segregation in other regions of the country.
Cohodas avoids tabloid pursuit of Thurmond's alleged black child, but she also omits other personal details that leaves the reader with questions. Among these are the reasons that led to the senator's divorce from his second wife, Nancy.
Ultimately, though, this is the story of how a well-bred boy from rough-hewn upcountry Carolina became a national figure and symbolized the transformation of a region and the country as a whole. Thurmond's and the South's long journey into modernity make for a fascinating and important read.
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