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Reply #90 - Aug 10^th, 2009, 11:31am

a really interesting review~peace Wink

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Hubert Harrison: Voice of Harlem Radicalism

Dr. Jeffrey B. Perry’s book, “Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism,” brings to life one of the most importantly influential, but forgotten figures in early 20 Century Black America.

In this first of a two-volume biography; Perry skillfully rescues, from the dark shadows of time, Harrison’s rise into one of the most brilliant Black intellectuals of his era. Dr. Perry points out that Harrison was “the first to struggle against both class and racial oppression though his articulate, radical Black working class voice and a bottom-up approach.”

This biography traces the first half of Harrison’s life from 1883 to 1918. The second part of the biography will focus on the last part of Harrison life, until his premature death in 1927, at age 44. The second part of this biography entitled: “Hubert Harrison: Race Consciousness and the Struggle for Democracy, 1818-1927,” will be published sometime around 2012.

Dr. Perry’s book illuminates Harrison’s impact on Black social movements like Marcus Garvey’s United Negro Improvement Association, UNIA, and his pioneering efforts of soapbox speaking, paving the way for latter-day radicals like Malcolm X. It also looks at his early mass-action blueprint, elements of which were later duplicated in the historic March on Washington, whose architect, A. Philip Randolph, called Harrison “the father of Harlem Radicalism.”

this article continues here

http://www.australia.to/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=133 57:hubert-harrison-voice-of-harlem-radicalism&catid=97:colin-benjamin&Itemid=122

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Re: Black Paperbacks - Shopping
Reply #91 - Aug 28^th, 2009, 10:01am

reviews- Helene Cooper's
the House at Sugar Beach ! ~peace

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review fr. the China Post
The House at Sugar Beach

For Helene Cooper, the White House correspondent for the New York Times and a former globe-trotting reporter with the Wall Street Journal, her childhood in the West African nation of Liberia was like a dream. This dream was to be abruptly ended, when a coup forced her and her family to leave the nation for the U.S., sending her on to a new life.
Liberia may be famous for its brutal civil war that raged during the 1990s and The early parts of this decade, until its president Charles Taylor, now on trial in the International Criminal Court for war crimes, was forced into exile. Preceding this civil war were coups and tensions, mainly between the “Congo people” and the “Country people.” The Congo people were the descendants of freed American slaves who returned to Africa with the help of Americans and formed the nation of Liberia in the early nineteenth century. Born into privilege as a member of the Congo people with illustrious ancestors, Cooper had a happy life which wasn't that far off from the average upper-middle class child in the U.S. And it was this privilege, as she later acknowledges, enjoyed by her and many other Congo people, which played a great role in fuelling resentments by the “native” Liberians.

continues here

http://www.chinapost.com.tw/art/books/2009/08/22/221632/The-House.htm

The House at Sugar Beach

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20222140,00.html

@ youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vbZI3fbTC8

event @ the smithsonian Sept.10th!

African Art Book Club: The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood
Author Helene Cooper will read from her memoir and lead discussion on Thursday, September 10 from 4:00 to 5:30pm in our lecture hall. Book signing to follow.

http://www.nmafa.si.edu/index2.html

about the author !

http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Helene-Cooper/18871279

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Re: Black Paperbacks - Shopping
Reply #92 - Aug 31^st, 2009, 9:40am

an interesting book review
revisited in the guardian to reflect on
at this time of Carnival ~peace Wink

nyao

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Race Protest

A 1959 protest in Whitehall against the outbreak of racist violence in Notting Hill Gate. Photograph: John Franks/Hulton Archive

Journey to an Illusion - Donald Hinds

Here to stay

Donald Hinds came from Jamaica to work on the buses in the 1950s. His groundbreaking book captured the plight of Commonwealth immigrants and foresaw the multicultural London of today. By Ian Thomson

Donald Hinds is a British-Jamaican author in his early 70s. His book Journey to an Illusion: The West Indian in Britain, a series of interviews interspersed with autobiography and social commentary, was published in 1966. It vividly conveys the plight of Commonwealth immigrants to the "mother country" in the postwar decades and with its implied protest against British colonialism, Journey to an Illusion remains an essential guide to the vagaries of our mixed-up, mixed-race world.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/aug/29/donald-hinds-journey-to-illusion

other similar links

TThe history of Nottingham carnival

An established festival since the 1970s, the carnival has experienced many ups and downs.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/content/articles/2009/06/12/nottingham_carnival_ history_feature.shtml

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The Notting Hill riot and a carnival of defiance
Protesters demonstrate in London after the outbreak of racist violence in Notting Hill in June 1959

Protesters demonstrate in London after the outbreak of racist violence in Notting Hill in June 1959.
Resistance to a vicious race riot in west London fifty years ago this week inspired the creation of the Notting Hill Carnival, writes Ken Olende
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=15764

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other info on nottingham carnival also linked down
in golo events & feedback

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Re: Black Paperbacks - Shopping
Reply #93 - Oct 1^st, 2009, 9:32am

a few books on black photography

- always a fascinating subject!
~peace nyao Wink

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great images!

King Greenleaf Recreation Center, Y.W.C.A. Camp for Girls, 1930 Highland Beach, Md.

The Scurlock Studio and Black Washington: Picturing the Promise

details here

http://www.amazon.com/Scurlock-Studio-Black-Washington-Picturing/dp/158834262X

article about the past exhibit on Scurlock's photography .

http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives/scurlock/index.html

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wow this looks like my parent's
beloved issac hayes album covers! <- nyao's comments]

Posing Beauty: Deborah Willis

Posing Beauty in African American Culture

the book

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Posing-Beauty/Deborah-Willis/e/9780393066968

more on the exhibit here

http://www.curatorial.com/exhib_posingBeauty.html

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a little Grace in your face on thursday morning!

Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture”Richard J. Powell

Examining portraits of black people over the past two centuries, Cutting a Figure argues that these images should be viewed as a distinct category of portraiture that differs significantly from depictions of people with other racial and ethnic backgrounds. The difference, Richard Powell contends, lies in the social capital that stems directly from the black subject’s power to subvert dominant racist representations by evincing such traits as self-composure, self-adornment, and self-imagining.

information on the book here

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&bookkey=2 79570

author's webpage here

http://www.richardjpowell.com/book-pages/cuttingafigure.html

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more information on the upcoming
free Black Photography
talk @ the smithsonian in DC here Smiley

http://www.golocaljamaica.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1195564328/135

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Re: Black Paperbacks - Shopping
Reply #94 - Oct 1^st, 2009, 1:07pm

for the " old school hip hop" heads out there!
- here's an
interesting article from the gleaner
~peace nyao

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Dalton Higgins, author of the book 'Hip Hop World', among others. - Contributed Photos

Hip hop book taps into Jamaican Roots!

he love of hip hop has taken Dalton Higgins, a music programmer, pop culture critic, author, broadcaster and journalist, around the world, but it was a visit to Germany that inspired him to write a new book, Hip Hop World.

The Canada-born writer of Jamaican parentage takes a uniquely intelligent look at the multiculturalism of hip hop, profiling the movement globally, and includes an examination of Canadian and Aboriginal communities.

"I was at a music conference in Germany, in a small town called Essen, and I checked into the hotel and there is this young guy at the check-in desk," Higgins recalled. "He couldn't speak English well, but he communicated to me by beat boxing, looking at me as a black, dreadlocked guy thinking I'm from the west." Higgins beat boxed back to him and then they started talking.

Political tool

In Hip Hop World, Higgins takes vivid snapshots of the hip hop scenes in Europe, North America, Asia, Africa and more. North American hip hop has gone through growing pains, and is questioned for being too commercialised to articulate the hopes, concerns and dreams of marginal youths and community members - what it was originally created for. Outside the US, hip hop culture is often just the opposite - a political tool to mobilise disenfranchised communities around hard issues, with little support from mainstream corporations or sponsors.

Being the son of a mother from Clarendon and a father from Kingston, and being born in Toronto, the most multicultural city in the world, Higgins is able to tell the story from a different prism about the origins of hip hop from the revisionist history that he hears from his counterparts in the US. For instance, he feels the Jamaican and Caribbean influence on the foundation of hip hop culture is under-reported by his American peers who, because of nationalism, see everything through pro-American lens.

article continues here

http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20091001/ent/ent1.html

on a side note, past golo link
to Feb 23rd, 2009,
:Caribbean Roots of HipHop !

thread (many jamaican pioneers)

http://www.golocaljamaica.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1195564328/92

other

from the bronx beat..

Photo: Laura Matthews
DJ Kool Herc, one of the pioneers of hip-hop, plays at a panel on the West Indian roots of hip-hop.

Hip-hop’s origins include links to Caribbean culture

http://128.59.96.140/bronxbeat09/www/story.asp?id=391

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The West Indian Roots of Hip-Hop

When discussing the origins of Hip Hop, most agree that it began in the Bronx. Many also agree that it is an African-American artform with many antecedents. It is a known fact that the trinity of Hip Hop DJ pioneers have roots in the West Indies including DJ Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa, and Grandmaster Flash. Other early artists who made significant contributions to the music include Kool DJ Red Alert, KRS-One, Doug E. Fresh, among others. The sound systems brought out into the parks by Jamaican DJs and the tradition of toasting are among the influences to be debated and discussed.

http://jamaicanmusictv.com/the-west-indian-roots-of-hip-hop/

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interview
with musician/actor/ ll cool j
(barbadian grandfather)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8rfFiZeiA8

zik ( a classic)
fea. doug e fresh (barbados)

let me clear my throat Cool

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54yIMKjG048

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Re: Black Paperbacks - Shopping
Reply #95 - Oct 13^th, 2009, 11:24am

fr. the news,
a follow up to hip hop music
book ~peace

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images & slideshow

HIP-HOP COMES OF AGE

Has hip-hop grown up?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8285383.stm

zik du jour

wait, wait wait
why the omission?
- gotta give this classic song a little credit
too! {a few of my Older Brothers
used DJ mixing & scatching & stuff! Grin

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yeah, yeah.. nyao, "crate digga"
bouncing. ....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwLCw8ud_AQ

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Re: Black Paperbacks - Shopping
Reply #96 - Oct 15^th, 2009, 10:14am

literary news for those who like Ms. Nottage's work like intimate apparel & ruined ~ peace Wink

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Lynn Nottage's Ruined Published by TCG

Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer Prize winning play Ruined is now available in print from Theatre Communications Group (TCG). The script has been published in both hardcover and paperback editions.

more details here

http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/news/09-2009/lynn-nottages-ruined-published -by-tcg_21657.html

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older info. on Lynn Nottage's here work here

03.05.09 & 04.21.09
Brooklyn writer/playright Lynn Nottage wins Pulitzer

http://www.golocaljamaica.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1236266665

& 06/08/09

on the play intimate apparel

http://www.golocaljamaica.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1201621393/15

site here

Official Website for Lynn Nottage

http://www.lynnnottage.net/

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Re: Black Paperbacks - Shopping
Reply #97 - Oct 26^th, 2009, 10:13am

an article on the latest literary work of
Professor Cornel West ~peace nyao Wink

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Cornel West is an American philosopher, author, critic, pastor, actor, and civil rights activist. Photo by Patti Sapone/The Star-Ledger
Princeton professor, author Cornel West is 'Living and Loving Out Loud'..

Cornel West talks a lot about truth — about the need for truth-telling and being true to oneself. For 30 years, the Princeton University professor, recognized as one of the leading intellectuals of his generation, has been on a mission to tell it as he sees it. And the best-selling author and cultural commentator has never been at a loss for subjects: love, justice, politics, race, history, religion.

Now West is telling the truth about himself in an autobiography, “Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud, A Memoir” (Smiley Books, $25.95). The book, co-written with David Ritz, a biographer and novelist who has collaborated with musicians Marvin Gaye, B.B. King and Etta James, provides an intimate look at the 56-year-old scholar.

more info. on this book here

http://www.nj.com/insidejersey/index.ssf/2009/10/professor_cornel_west.html

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jamaican science fiction
from the gleaner, I think it's interesting
a character is named "marasa/marassa" which are
the twins in Haitian & New Orleans folklore... anyway...here's
the book review ~peace nyao

Holgate - Ian Allen/Staff Photographer

'Night Of The Indigo': Breaking new literary ground

A Caribbean-based sci-fi novel may seem like a stretch of the imagination to most, but for dancer, choreographer, lecturer, singer, actor and now author, Michael Holgate, it has been a dream a long time in the making.

After years of reading the creative works of distinguished writers who have captured the hearts of readers, young and old, the young author hopes to do the same with his chilling tale titled, Night of the Indigo. Holgate has spent more than 15 years exploring the world of theatre, dance, music, film and writing. A lecturer in Caribbean folk and traditional dance, as well as edutainment theatre at the University of the West Indies, Holgate is perhaps better known for his work as the artistic director of the performing arts troupe, Ashe.

For a man that has tackled the world of the arts, Night of the Indigo is his first venture into the life of a writer. The novel follows the tale of a 15-year-old boy, Marassa, who is catapulted into a wondrous new world of natural mysticism by his need to save the life of his dying twin brother, Wico.

Originally taking place straight out of a rural Jamaican town, Marassa comes to accept his responsibility as the 'Marshal' or 'Warrior of the Light' to better be able to save the life of his brother.

review continues here

http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20091025/ent/ent2.html

on a side note

for interesting philosophy
of (divine twins) in some African folklore, art
culture & sculpture, check out "ibeji" in the Nigerian/
yoruba culture & the practice of spiritual spouses
/ [a spiritual soul mate/match?]
like the "blo bian" in some of the baule culture,

other twins to check out , the "marassa jumeaux"
also ref. in some of ms. danticat's work, like Breath, Eyes, Memory

& various caribbean dance class texts, if you've taken any that included antilles, & haitian dance...

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http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OwubijrsEvw/Sub2fhu-B-I/AAAAAAAABlQ/tUqlU4clVio/s1600- h/0+whoa+5.jpg
img. fr. april's blog

golo links to caribbean dance
& the late ms. dunham/ ms. derean
/ms.veve amasa clark., ms. dinizulu....
see 07.30.08
http://www.golocaljamaica.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1169842986/15

@ 12.01.08 ( ms. dunham)
http://www.golocaljamaica.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1169842986/30

....bouncing, ~peace nyao

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Re: Black Paperbacks - Shopping
Reply #98 - Oct 29^th, 2009, 10:36am

2 book selections ~ peace nyao

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The True Nanny Diaries
The True Nanny Diaries ...is a bird's eye view of immigrant women babysitters in New York City.

The True Nanny Diaries, a ground-breaking novel, told from the vantage point of black women babysitters in New York City, has been entered into the canon of Caribbean and American literature.

more details on this book here

http://www.breadforbrickpublishing.com/

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Spectacular Blackness:
The Cultural Politics of the Black Power Movement and the Search for a Black Aesthetic

Exploring the interface between the cultural politics of the Black Power and the Black Arts movements and the production of postwar African American popular culture, Amy Ongiri shows how the reliance of Black politics on an oppositional image of African Americans was the formative moment in the construction of "authentic blackness" as a cultural identity

more details here

http://www.upress.virginia.edu/books/ongiri.html

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