Black and White Books

This book is very well written and insightful. It is evident that Mr. Tennant spent a great amount of research and time understanding the challenges and environments each one of these (8) students has overcome in their daily struggle to be both accepted and educated. This book also stresses the importance of our teachers. Teachers are one of the most important, yet underappreciated, professions in this country because of the daily access and influence they have on our children. However, despite this burden teachers must find a way to associate with their students and allow them to feel comfortable in a positive and rewarding educational environment. Our future and theirs depends on it.

This book has changed my perspective on how we as Blacks relate to each other. It not only enhances self esteem, it also relates on a profound spiritual, psychological and emotional plane. This author pulls no punches when it comes down to being truthful and honest. I guarantee all who read this one will be changed for the better. I highly recommend it for everyone's home or school library!

I have found this book to be not only educational, but highly entertaining and pertient toward my life. It address issues that affect every woman, but pinpoints Afro-American women specifically by tackling issues from sexual abuse to homosexuality, and the way these issues play themselves out in the black community as a whole. The editor Evelyn C. White has done a great job of empowering women to not be afraid of being black in today's America. By choosing to include viewpoints from authors like Zora Neale Hurston and Beverly Smith,it becomes evident that black women have always found a way to take care of themselves; even when professional medicial care was not an option, their resolution stood tall in the face of adversity. One of the best stories was by a young woman as she recounted her concerns about going to a predominantly white, male medical school in Philadelphia. She had to deal with multiple demons. Not only did she have blantant racism staring her in the face from classmates not so professionally "neutral" in their views of what roles a black woman should hold in society, but the inner doubt that she was betraying the community that she came from, who weren't always treated fairly. This anthology talks about how black women face obstacles few other ethnic groups encounter on a daily basis. Most important of these being the disapproval of the black community within in this country, that doesn't always realize that we do have a voice, and intend to use it for the greater good of women everywhere, but most importantly ourselves.

Myers's narrative examines the story of the US Army's Fort Jackson as the first military instillation in the South to actively desegregate its base after President Harry Truman's groundbreaking decision to integrate the armed forces in 1947. This study, however, explores the broader context of how the fort's experiment with integration influenced the wider civilian community outside its gates: Columbia, SC, which ironically was the capital of one of the nation's most racially divided states. Using previously unutilized sources, including declassified military and government documents, Myers (Univ. of South Carolina Upstate) adeptly traces the institutional changes and challenges of this controversial community transformation, as well as attitudes of participants both black and white. He also smartly carries the story beyond the contentious early struggles in the late 1940s into the end of the Vietnam era to demonstrate the long-term political and social effects of the integration process on the city and the army. Although this case study's context could benefit from comparisons to other military bases of the period, this is a tightly written, well-researched account that will prove useful to both military and social historians.
Summing Up: Recommended. Most levels/libraries.
General Readers; Lower-division Undergraduates; Upper-division Undergraduates; Graduate Students; Researchers/Faculty; Professionals/Practitioners.
Reviewed by B. A. Wineman.
From: Syndetics Solutions, Inc. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

Employing an exhaustive amount of first-rate materials and interviews into his research, Andrew DeRoche, an up and coming scholar of diplomatic history, has provided a splendid account of the complexities - setbacks, victories, racism, pain, pleasure and other elements that were a part of the relationship between the United Staes and Rhodesia(eventually Zimbabwe) from the Eisenhower years to the latter years of the Clinton Administration. DeRoche uses outstanding research to provide his arguments. His analysis (often cutting edge) of the more than 4 decade relationship (45 years to be precise) is nothing short of splendid. The book was enormously informative and it was a pleasure to read. I would reccomend it for anyone who is intersted in groundbreaking work in diplomatic history.

...of the distant locales where you'd really like to head, though due to the ignorance, fear-mongering, and overall nefariousness of the powers-that-be (read, the "are you with us, side") prevent more even-handed and fair-minded individuals from expanding their travelling horizons accordingly, to see the beautiful palaces of Esfahan and Tabriz. Weird, too, in that thousands of Iranians dwell in the Western part of the US.

I only wish this were before 1979...that must have been really jazzy, in those days. Being able to catch a film in the centre of Tehran, seeing (as it was the case in Afghanistan next door) women dressed in the latest in haute-couture fashions, curves jiggling all aplenty (how I admire Persian men for their admiration of the fleshy organ), whistling at them along the street, watching all the films of the French Nouvelle Vague-ists, peppering their Farsi with French, in that oh-so-cool mark of superchilldom which was early seventies Iran. Something like the Czechs do here. "Jsem busy." Liternally, "I am busy." Interesting... Back in the day when the people who resided in Tehran were free to travel wherever they wished. Am I the only person, or is there anyone else who's wondering what it was like to be in living in Tehran during 1943 when the Allies--Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin--were there, convening, conspiring, planning, rubbing their chubby little fingers together in their designs on chopping up the world into little fiefdoms, deciding in secret over goblets of whiskey what to do with the hydra-headed Nazi beast...wait, this is a review for BLACK, Part 2 in Tom Maremaa's tri-coloured (or colored) three-play, isn't it? Sorry...

Let me get the questions out of the way, since I only had the one:

on p4--> So is that why the Shabanou married the Shah? Because he was older and had grey hair and was short and had cash? (ADM aside: and I remember watching that famous Babba-Wawa clip from the seventies in which the Shah called women "not as intelligent as men," at the height of the feminist movement, and the Shabanou just sat there, saying nothing, diligent as ever...what a wife!).

on p5--> peregrinations --> now that's what I call an ADM triple-word score. Maremaa for Congressman!

Okay, done with that...laugh with me please, not at me.

In a country half-a-world away, entirely different from the homecoming we'd witnessed in the thirty-three pages of BLUE (Part 1), Firoozeh Azadi goes through the motions of being an insider-outsider all at the same time in her parents' Iran.

She's an Iranian-American, a fugitive castaway of the complex Shah regime (notice how I didn't cast an opinion one way or the other...I wasn't there, so I can't comment, plus, anything that I ***would*** necessarily comment upon would be biased, considering I'd get be getting all of my information "third-hand" [unless you don't count the Shabanou's autobiography as the 'real deal']...I'm digressing again). Back to Azadi.

She's a taller woman in a society of not-so-tall people. She's smarter and more clever than her parents, at least in terms of the things she's been exposed to in her travels. What's more, she's the smartest women in the Azadi house overlooking the smog-infested metropolis of Tehran, primarily because she's gotten engaged to Peter Lund, our Magyver, our blue-eyed hero, our man who won't...I won't tell you what. Read it for yourself!

I'm a little miffed after finishing this piece. In shocking rendition of the film CRIMSON GOLD (Talaye sorkh), directed by Jafar Panahi and written by the legendary Abbas Kiarostami (check out the so-called "illict" party scene from the film, and what happens when the "Hussein" character is out delivering pizzas one sad and shocking night), Azadi is subjected to the biggest humiliation continued to be visited upon modern Iranian (why some people people still say, Persian, I'm unsure...does the place still exist?) women in this day and age.

The flog.

Not the frog, the whip.

It's atrocious. I won't tell you when it happens, but it's depicted in pathos-drenched inequitable detail in this particular Short. The HORR-or! The HORR-or! Shame, censure, ridicule, disappointment, letdown, dishonour...yep, read on.

Firoozeh is a darned good woman. She doesn't want Pedro to know something that Peter will for sure be incensed about. Peter is a darned good fiance. He doesn't get into the whole Q & A that most men might be inclined towards, those who stemm from more macho climes. He's cool as a legume. Rightfully so, since he's only just met Madmoiselle Azadi. Since he's not married to her, I'd like to know, is she still available for me? ::: don't answer that :::

Play it again, Sam.

Maremaa delivers up more of what we're accustomed to, only ramping things up one notch higher. His writing just flows. Maremaa writes flow-etry, not fiction. Don't waste your time looking for another cross-cultural diversion, m'kay? Because it's all here. When BLACK is at your disposal, you've gone searching quite long enough, thank you very much.

My only question is...when is WHITE coming out? I'm jonesing here.

Bad.

--ADM in Prague

Amos Wilson was one of the greatest free thinking "radicals" (read Afrikan) to grace the last half of the 20th Century with his lucid writing, deep thought, and lecture series. His impact on African Peoples "Conceptualizations" of Perceived realities and thinking modalities will be of immeasurable assistance guiding us into the next century. The first offering by this MHA (Most Honored Ancestor) deals with the nature of a Crimogenic Society and its implications in our communities. The book speaks of Black on Black crime but the true value is perceived when you apply the concepts to other areas of life as well. He is survived by numerous books, and audio/video tapes. If you would like to obtain a video or audio please feel free to email me. His other works are: "BluePrint for Black Power" (10), "The Falsification of African Consciousness", "Awakening the Geneous of the Black Child", "Understanding Adolescent Male Violence", "Developemental Psychology of the Black Child"

Hi,I never read your book. But I am interested in your name. My name is Cees Tishauser. My great grandfather was Swiss and he wrote his name as Tischauser.In Holland there are a few Tishauser's and there all family. Can you tell me more about your family. I hope you will answer.

I am a soon-to-be-teacher and have used this book for both art and life-science lessons. The striking illustrations really made Bold and Bright... a great choice for introducing contrast in an art lesson. And, although the information presented about each of the animals is minimal, I found the book to be a useful supplement to how creatures depend upon their visual appearance for survival. I especially liked how the book pointed out that not all black and white animals have those colorings for the same reasons. For instance, some use their color for camoflauge, while others use it to point out to preditors that they are poisonous. I'm really glad I have this book as part of my growing classroom library--the kid's loved it, and I'm sure I'll refer to it over and over again, for many different lessons.

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