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Where Do We Go from Here?

By: Derrick J. Johnson

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“And Leaves Shall Fall, And Orchids Will Wither ... But Is That All?” Written during his teenage years (1988-1999), Where Do We Go From Here? expands upon the emotional depths explored in Derrick J. Johnson’s 2001 debut, The Awakening of the Dreamer, while breaking new creative ground as well. This book features four distinctly themed collections of poems. Carnival is a light-hearted journey through the circus of life, which features poems such as “Holy Water” and “Harlequin.” The second collection, Heroes is themed around the concept of heroism and includes highlights like “Superman is Dead” and “JFK.” The overall tone shifts with the next collection, Grey, which focuses on the areas of light and dark within human nature. Highlights of this collection include “And Orchids Will Wither,” and “Road Kill.” The final collection, Acid, deals with the emotions that build up inside and destroy us from within. It features poems such as “Running Water” and the epic poem, “The Tides of Time.”

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1665538198

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All about Arthritis

By: Derrick Brewerton

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All about Arthritis

By: Derrick Brewerton

This book--intended to dispel the mystique and folklore surrounding arthritis--is the first to explain clearly the scientific aspects of arthritis research and treatment. Brewerton addresses such factors as age, gender, emotions, pain, and personality, and ends on a hopeful note by carefully explaining the prospects for prevention and treatment.

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Harvard University Press

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0674016165

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9780674016163

Stakes Is High

Trials, Lessons, and Triumphs in Young Black Men's Educational Journeys

By: Derrick R. Brooms

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Trials, Lessons, and Triumphs in Young Black Men's Educational Journeys

By: Derrick R. Brooms

Drawing on interviews that span over seven years, Derrick R. Brooms provides detailed accounts of a select group of Black young men's pathways from secondary school through college. As opposed to the same old stories about young Black men, Brooms offers new narratives that speak to Black boys' and young men's agency, aspirations, hopes, and possibilities. Even as they feel contested and constrained because they are Black and male, these young men anchor their educational desires within their families and communities. Critical to their journeys are the many challenges they face in public discourse and societal projections, in their home neighborhoods and schooling community, in educational environments, and in their health and well-being. In charting these challenges and the high stakes of the trials, lessons, and triumphs they experience, Brooms shows that we cannot understand the educational journeys of Black boys and young men without accounting for the full sociocultural contexts of their lives and how they make sense of those contexts.

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State University of New York Press

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1438486553

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9781438486550

The Practice of Citizenship

Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States

By: Derrick R. Spires

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The Practice of Citizenship

Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States

By: Derrick R. Spires

In the years between the American Revolution and the U.S. Civil War, as legal and cultural understandings of citizenship became more racially restrictive, black writers articulated an expansive, practice-based theory of citizenship. Grounded in political participation, mutual aid, critique and revolution, and the myriad daily interactions between people living in the same spaces, citizenship, they argued, is not defined by who one is but, rather, by what one does. In The Practice of Citizenship, Derrick R. Spires examines the parallel development of early black print culture and legal and cultural understandings of U.S. citizenship, beginning in 1787, with the framing of the federal Constitution and the founding of the Free African Society by Absalom Jones and Richard Allen, and ending in 1861, with the onset of the Civil War. Between these two points he recovers understudied figures such as William J. Wilson, whose 1859 "Afric-American Picture Gallery" appeared in seven installments in The Anglo-African Magazine, and the physician, abolitionist, and essayist James McCune Smith. He places texts such as the proceedings of black state conventions alongside considerations of canonical figures such as Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Frederick Douglass. Reading black print culture as a space where citizenship was both theorized and practiced, Spires reveals the degree to which concepts of black citizenship emerged through a highly creative and diverse community of letters, not easily reducible to representative figures or genres. From petitions to Congress to Frances Harper's parlor fiction, black writers framed citizenship both explicitly and implicitly, the book demonstrates, not simply as a response to white supremacy but as a matter of course in the shaping of their own communities and in meeting their own political, social, and cultural needs.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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081225080X

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9780812250800

Where Do We Go from Here?

By: Derrick J. Johnson

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Where Do We Go from Here?

By: Derrick J. Johnson

And Leaves Shall Fall, And Orchids Will Wither ... But Is That All?" Written during his teenage years (1988-1999), Where Do We Go From Here? expands upon the emotional depths explored in Derrick J. Johnson's 2001 debut, The Awakening of the Dreamer, while breaking new creative ground as well. This book features four distinctly themed collections of poems. Carnival is a light-hearted journey through the circus of life, which features poems such as "Holy Water" and "Harlequin." The second collection, Heroes is themed around the concept of heroism and includes highlights like "Superman is Dead" and "JFK." The overall tone shifts with the next collection, Grey, which focuses on the areas of light and dark within human nature. Highlights of this collection include "And Orchids Will Wither," and "Road Kill." The final collection, Acid, deals with the emotions that build up inside and destroy us from within. It features poems such as "Running Water" and the epic poem, "The Tides of Time.

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1665538023

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Book's by Derrick J. Johnson

Where Do We Go from Here?

Where Do We Go from Here?

All about Arthritis

All about Arthritis

Stakes Is High

Stakes Is High

The Practice of Citizenship

The Practice of Citizenship

Where Do We Go from Here?

Where Do We Go from Here?

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